The European Union is quietly constructing what may become one of the most sweeping digital identity systems ever attempted. Under new legislation, every EU member state must provide citizens with a government-approved “European Digital Identity Wallet” by 2026. This system will allow people to store official documents, verify identity, access government […]
[The third author of this article is David Shuldman.] Two hundred and seventy-one. That is the number of serious cardiovascular events reported among adolescents in Israel’s national surveillance system in just a few weeks during mid-2021. This is the core finding of our study, published this week in the International Journal of […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire “The question is no longer whether America can afford this war on Iran. It is whether America’s allies can afford America.” For three weeks, Washington and West Jerusalem have marketed the dubiously titled “Operation Epic Fury” as a limited, surgical campaign against Iranian nuclear and defence […]
Awide range of anonymous X (Twitter) users have reported that their real names are suddenly being Googled in Israel shortly after they began criticizing the country for its actions in Palestine. Some connected the phenomenon to Au10tix, the software X requires users (even anonymous ones) to use in order to […]
The Kansas City Fed may term this “Tier 3” access, but Kraken’s entry into the vaunted Fed payments system has riled bankers and raised crypto hopes. What to know: The crypto industry keeps knocking down the barriers into the core U.S. financial system, and digital assets exchange Kraken’s approval for […]
The Apocalypse is Here: You need to stop relaxing, quit drinking the beer, and turn off the “sportsball” bread and circuses. The next few years are going to be incredibly bumpy, and if you aren’t prepared physically, mentally, and spiritually, you’re going to have a really bad time. We are […]
In a wide-ranging conversation, journalist and former foreign correspondent Chris Hedges speaks with Palestinian journalist and media critic Ahmed Eldin about the role of Western media in shaping public understanding of the war in Gaza. Drawing on his experience inside major newsrooms—including time working at The New York Times—Eldin argues […]
Story at-a-glance Americans report high rates of chronic fatigue, but myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also called chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), represents a distinct, clinically defined disease that affects a small subset of the population rather than a diagnosis that explains widespread tiredness. Around 2 million people currently have ME/CFS, which is […]
A Reactionary Edict from a Panicked President The order came via a social media post from a commander-in-chief who has just set the Middle East ablaze. On March 3, 2026, President Donald Trump announced he had directed the U.S. Navy to begin escorting commercial oil tankers through the Strait of […]
It looks like AI can now unmask any anonymous account on the internet. That’s according to a new study by Simon Lermen (MATS), Daniel Paleka (ETH Zurich), Joshua Swanson (ETH Zurich), Michael Aerni (ETH Zurich), Nicholas Carlini (Anthropic), and Florian Tramèr (ETH Zurich), published on arXiv. In the paper, “Large-Scale […]