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From Dial-Up’s Farewell to AI’s Nuclear Ambitions

Aug 11, 20256 minEp. 43
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Episode description

In this edition of Ohmbudsman, we cover thirty essential stories shaping tomorrow — from Google’s quirky Gemini glitch and Japan’s heat-threatened rice crop to the Paramount–Skydance mega-merger and the ethical storm over “digital resurrection” tech.


Highlights include:


  • AI vulnerabilities that let hackers control smart homes
  • The UK’s secret use of facial recognition on passport databases
  • Haiti’s leadership change amid escalating gang threats
  • Solved mystery of the mass sea star die-off
  • AOL’s final goodbye to dial-up internet
  • AI’s growing role in nuclear strategy between the U.S. and China


Your news, in six sharp batches — no filler, no wasted seconds.


Listen now and stay ahead of the curve.

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