Brain Chips, Burning Poles & Boeing Strikes

From China’s macaque-brained computer to Europe’s scorching Arctic, legal aid meltdowns, and digital phishing hidden inside trusted emails—this week delivers a tightly-packed global circuit.

🧠 Highlights:

• Turkey’s new Mastodon-based social app under fire

• AI-powered crowd control in Hong Kong

• Legal aid collapse post-cyberattack in the UK

• Boeing defense workers strike in St. Louis

• Earthquakes fueling life—and shaking New York

🌡 Climate:

• Nordic nations break records with 30°C Arctic heat

• UK seas bloom with jellyfish

🔐 Security & Privacy:

• ChatGPT’s self-doxing search shutdown

• Microsoft logins stolen via hijacked link-wrapping services

🧪 Tech Frontiers:

• China’s “Darwin Monkey” AI mimics brain neurons

• Super steel breakthrough for nuclear fusion magnets

🇨🇳 Culture & Commerce:

• Adult pacifiers trend in China as stress relief

• Barclays exits net-zero banking group

📌 PLUS:

Russia’s volcano reawakens, Ivory Coast’s election protests, Japan’s writing test woes, and Palantir’s deepening grip on German policing.

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