🇺🇸 Wisconsin town revolts against a data center project

The vote in Port Washington appears to be the first time any U.S. municipality will go to the ballot to kneecap data center development. At least three other U.S. cities are gearing up for referendums of their own this year.

“None of us are specifically anti-development,”— said Carri Prom, co-founder of the nonprofit Great Lakes Neighbors United. “We’re not even really anti-tech. It’s just that we want responsible development, and we want responsible tech moving forward.”

The referendum won’t actually derail the proposed $15 billion, 1.3-gigawatt data center campus from OpenAI and Oracle, one of multiple “Stargate” AI infrastructure megaprojects. Rather, it would allow residents to potentially obstruct future projects by requiring city leaders to obtain voter approval before awarding developers lucrative tax incentives.

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💬 X is rolling out automatic translation and photo editing powered by Grok

X is now rolling out a new feature that automatically translates posts. The company is also launching a new photo editor with the ability to modify images through natural language posts. Both features are powered by xAI’s Grok models.

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🇪🇨 Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa says US troops could help confront drug gangs and address the security crisis in his nation, provided they follow the lead of local armed forces

“It’s not an invasion, it’s actually international collaboration against crime,” — Noboa said.

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🇭🇺🇷🇺 Hungary and Russia struck 12-point plan for closer ties and signed a secret deal

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko signed a 12-point plan laying out areas of cooperation after talks in Moscow in December. The documents, which haven't previously been made public, show how close Budapest and Moscow hope to become.

Key point — a commitment to “reverse the negative trend in bilateral trade” after the transfer of goods fell as a result of the EU’s sanctions on Russia. The agreement opens the door to Russian companies breaking ground on new electricity and hydrogen projects in Hungary and closer cooperation on oil, gas and nuclear fuel. The deal also sets out the cooperation in areas as education (opening up exchange programs for graduate students), sport, industry, health care, agriculture, construction.

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⚡️ Trump will discuss whether to leave NATO when he meets with the alliance’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, later Wednesday.

"It's something the President will be discussing in a couple of hours...Perhaps you'll hear directly from the President!" — Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

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♾ Meta debuts the Muse Spark model in a ‘ground-up overhaul’ of its AI

Meta released an AI model called Muse Spark — the first in the Muse family of models developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs. It's available today at meta.ai and the Meta AI app.

One major application is to help people learn about and improve their health. Muse Spark can generate interactive displays that unpack and explain health information such as the nutritional content of various foods or muscles activated during exercise. AI model also performs well with visual STEM questions which can lead to “interactive experiences like creating fun minigames or troubleshooting your home appliances.”

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🤝 Robotronic and Mitsubishi Electric launch high-speed pharma palletising system

Swiss-based Robotronic and Mitsubishi Electric’s Factory Automation are collaborating together on a new low-footprint cell to help the pharmaceutical industry overcome record-high shortages across Europe in recent years for medicines ranging from children’s cough syrups through to antibiotics and even cancer treatments. Faster production is required to shorten lead times and cope with the ever-increasing demand.

"It's a true technological partnership — a combination of deep pharmaceutical process expertise allied to best-in-class robotic technology. Together, we can develop machines that can shorten lead times and create a more robust pharmaceutical supply chain,” — said Mike Weber, founder of Robotronic.

The Robotronic choice is Mitsubishi Electric, specifically the FR series, a highly flexible robot with compact arm sizes that is equipped with SoftTouch technology, which allows to process fragile items without damage. Robots work in a confined space at high speed, processing up to 600 products a minute.

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🇯🇵 Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the ‘easiest country to develop AI’

Japan’s Minister for Digital Transformation Hisashi Matsumoto has declared the nation will become the easiest place in the world to develop AI apps, thanks to legal changes that mean organizations won’t need to secure consent to use some personal information.

“Сurrent laws represent a very big obstacle to the development, and utilization of AI in Japan. We must prevent this from happening,” — he said.

Japan’s government approved amendments to the nation’s Personal Information Protection Act that remove the requirement for opt-in consent before sharing personal data. The changes only apply to data that poses little risk of infringing individuals’ rights, and when developers use it to compile statistics for research purposes. Even health-related data comes under the amendments, if it can improve public health.

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🔥 This Is Why Everything Feels Wrong Right Now

What you’re seeing isn’t one event or one headline. It’s a process.
You start noticing patterns. And what looked random… starts to feel structured. 🧩
If it feels like something doesn’t add up — you’re not imagining it. The question is: ignore it… or start looking deeper?
We break down how these shifts actually work — and why they almost never look obvious in real time.

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🇺🇸 The CIA used a futuristic new tool called “Ghost Murmur” to find and rescue the second American airman who was shot down in southern Iran

The secret technology uses long-range quantum magnetometry to find the electromagnetic fingerprint of a human heartbeat and pairs the data with AI software to isolate the signature from background noise. It was the tool’s first use in the field by the spy agency — and was alluded by President Trump and CIA Director John Ratcliffe at a White House briefing.

“The name is deliberate,” — one source said. “‘Murmur’ is a clinical term for a heart rhythm. ‘Ghost’ refers to finding someone who, for all practical purposes, has disappeared.”

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🧑‍⚖️ Massachusetts House passes bill to ban kids from social media

The Massachusetts House of Representatives voted 129-25 to pass legislation that would ban all kids under age 14 from using social media in the state. The ban would impact all kids under age 14. Kids ages 14 and 15 would need parental consent to use social media.

The bill also calls for a statewide ban on cellphones in schools, which was passed by the Senate last summer. The Attorney General's office is tasked with implementing the social media ban starting October 1, 2026.

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🤑 Bitcoin gets its first working prototype of quantum-resistant wallet rescue tool

A top Bitcoin developer has built something the community has debated for years but never actually produced: a way to rescue ordinary wallets if the network is ever forced to defend itself against a quantum computer.

Olaoluwa "Roasbeef" Osuntokun, chief technology officer at Lightning Labs, unveiled the working prototype to the Bitcoin developer mailing list. The tool targets a specific and uncomfortable flaw in Bitcoin's long-term defense plan, a widely discussed "emergency brake" upgrade designed to protect the network from quantum attacks could also lock millions of users out of their own funds. Osuntokun's proposal is an escape hatch.

The system would let users of vulnerable Taproot and other modern wallets prove they created a wallet using its secret seed, without revealing that seed, providing a backup way to access funds if traditional digital signatures are disabled.

The prototype is already functional. Running on a high-end consumer MacBook, generating the proof took about 55 seconds, while verification took under two seconds. The resulting proof file was roughly 1.7 MB, about the size of a high-resolution image.

Osuntokun said the system was built as a side project and remains unoptimized. But the prototype closes a gap that had lingered in theory: how to protect Bitcoin from a future threat without the collateral damage of locking users out of their wallets.

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🇨🇳🇰🇵 Chinese foreign minister visits Pyongyang to advance relations, first since visit in 2019

Beijing stands ready to work with North Korea to further improve ties, after they cooled following the COVID pandemic, ​which froze exchanges, Chinese Foreign Minister ‌Wang Yi said.

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