🇪🇬 Egypt Eyes First Aerial Survey in 40 Years to Map Mineral Riches

Egypt will carry out its first comprehensive aerial mining survey in more than four decades, part of efforts to unlock mineral discoveries and attract foreign investment. Xcalibur Smart Mapping will work with Egypt’s Nuclear Materials Authority and local company Drone Tech, using advanced aircraft and geophysical technologies to map the North African country’s mineral wealth.

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🤖 Chinese humanoid robot stuns with ballet performance alongside human dancers

Chinese robotics company UBTECH unveiled its Walker C1 by making it perform ballet movements from Swan Lake alongside human dancers. The full-size humanoid demonstrated advanced balance, precise motion control, and coordinated body movement during the live presentation.

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🤖 Huawei Touts Chipmaking Breakthrough to Shorten Gap With TSMC

Huawei Technologies Co. said it has come up with a new pathway to shorten its gap with industry leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., potentially achieving a breakthrough in making advanced semiconductors without cutting-edge equipment.

Right now there is about a five-year gap between what TSMC is capable of and what Huawei together with its manufacturing partner Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. can produce. Huawei will start making 1.4-nanometer chips by 2031 with its own “LogicFolding” technology, Huawei’s semiconductor chief He Tingbo said on Monday, while TSMC has previously said that it will begin mass production of the same product in 2028.

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🇨🇳 Chinese Firms Speed Up Plans to Build New Coal Power Plants: GEM

Chinese firms are accelerating the pace at which they propose new coal-fired power plants, even as the government moves to rein in growth after the rapid expansion in recent years.

Companies requested approval for 51 gigawatts of new plants in the first quarter of the year, according to Global Energy Monitor, ahead of the record pace set in 2025 that saw 162 gigawatts of new proposals over the full year. Construction has boomed since a spate of power shortages in 2021 and 2022 as the government touts coal’s role as a reliable back-up to intermittent renewables.

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🤖 China’s photonic engine uses white light to move information, can support 6G networks

Scientists have claimed that their laser-powered engines may soon support “intelligent” 6G networks. The team demonstrated a laser-driven engine made from an easy-to-manufacture ceramic material that uses white light to move information over large distances.

“This is really a record with attractive performance beyond the traditional technology,” — says Zhiguo Xia of South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, China.

While conventional LED‑based visible light communication (VLC) systems typically operate over only a few meters, the novel photonic engine can move data over 1.2 kilometers. This is a key step toward developing next-generation, AI-enabled 6G wireless networks.

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🌐 Researchers identify people through ordinary Wi-Fi routers with 99.5% accuracy

Security researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have published a paper demonstrating that unencrypted beamforming data broadcast by Wi-Fi devices during normal operation can be used to identify individuals walking through a room with 99.5% accuracy, regardless of whether the individuals are carrying Wi-Fi devices. The tactic leverages the router's beamforming tech to identify individuals with up to 99.5% accuracy, and it works with existing routers, too.

The system, called BFId, requires no specialized hardware, no access to the target Wi-Fi network, and works even if the person being tracked isn't carrying a wireless device. The team tested the attack on 197 participants, the largest dataset ever used in Wi-Fi-based identification works, and plans to present its findings at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) in Taipei.

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🇷🇸🇨🇳 President Aleksandar Vucic visits China

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🤝 Greenland-based rare earth mining deal to strengthen US supply chains

Critical Metals Corp (CRML) has signed a 15-year binding offtake agreement with REAlloys Inc. for rare earth element (REE) concentrate from its Tanbreez Project in southern Greenland. The 15-year deal gives the US access to a long-term Greenland rare earth supply outside China.

As per the agreement, REalloys will purchase 15% of Tanbreez’s annual REE concentrate production, with priority rights in respect of concentrate volumes containing elevated concentrations of the HREE like Dysprosium and Terbium, together with a Right of First Refusal over additional volumes.

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💊 New Vitamin B12-Based Therapy Could Change How Brain Cancer Is Treated

For decades, one of the biggest problems in brain cancer treatment has had little to do with killing cancer cells and everything to do with reaching them. The brain’s protective blood-brain barrier (BBB) blocks toxins and pathogens from entering the brain, but it also prevents many cancer drugs from getting through.

That challenge has helped make glioblastoma one of the deadliest forms of cancer, with most patients surviving little more than a year after diagnosis despite aggressive treatment. Now, researchers report early evidence that a modified form of vitamin B12 may be able to slip through that barrier and deliver a cancer-fighting molecule directly into brain tumors.

The findings, published in Oncoscience, focus on nitrosylcobalamin (NO-Cbl), a nitric oxide-releasing vitamin B12 analog. The results showed that NO-Cbl produced antitumor effects across multiple cancer types. Central nervous system tumor cell lines showed moderate sensitivity to the treatment.

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🤑🇩🇪 Why Stellar (XLM) Is Quietly Becoming Germany’s Tokenization Backbone

the Stellar Development Foundation announced an investment in Cashlink, the German company behind some of Europe’s most high-profile tokenization issuances.

🟠The Cashlink Investment That Says It All

Germany’s Electronic Securities Act (eWpG) is unusual among major economies: it allows DLT-based issuances of “crypto securities” to use a registrar rather than a central securities depository (CSD). Cashlink is the country’s most prolific registrar, holding two licenses — including one as a crypto custodian.

🟠The numbers tell the story:

300+ tokenized issuances facilitated to date
€850M+ in transaction volume
Clients including tokenized funds for Metzler, multiple bond issuances for KFW, and bonds from Helaba Bank and NRW Bank — the state development bank of North Rhine-Westphalia

🟠The Euro Stablecoin from Europe’s Oldest Bank

Separately, Bankhaus von der Heydt — founded in 1754 and one of the oldest banks in Europe — partnered with Bitbond to issue the EURB stablecoin directly on Stellar. It was the first stablecoin ever issued by a banking institution on Stellar, and one of the first bank-issued stablecoins in the entire crypto market.

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⚡️🇺🇸 Vance to host state AGs at White House for fraud task force meeting

Vice President JD Vance is expected to host state attorneys general at the White House on Tuesday for a meeting of his task force on fraud. About 15 Republican attorneys general — including Derek Brown of Utah, Marty Jackley of South Dakota, Raúl Labrador of Idaho, Gentner Drummond of Oklahoma and Todd Rokita of Indiana — are expected to attend.

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🧑‍⚖️🇺🇸 California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages

California lawmakers may be backing away from a controversial age-verification requirement bill that alarmed Linux and open-source developers earlier this year, after a new amendment bill proposed exempting most open-source operating systems from the state’s upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.

❗️In practice, that would likely exempt most mainstream Linux distributions — including Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, and Mint — from compliance requirements scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2027.

Assembly Bill 1856 (AB 1856), currently moving through California’s legislature ahead of committee reviews in June, would amend the state’s earlier age-assurance law by excluding software distributed under licenses that allow users to “copy, redistribute, and modify the software.”

The proposed amendment specifically states: “Operating system provider” does not mean a person or entity that distributes an operating system or application under license terms that permit a recipient to copy, redistribute, and modify the software.

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⚡️ China Expands Travel Curbs to Top AI Talent at Private Firms

China is restricting overseas travel for top AI professionals in private firms such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and DeepSeek, suggesting an escalation in measures intended to safeguard its technology.

Government agencies have begun imposing restrictions on individuals involved in advanced AI work and considered strategically important to the country. That means they need approval from relevant authorities before embarking on overseas travel.

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🇮🇷 Iran Signals Potential Easing of Internet Blackout Amid US Talks

Iran’s government could soon roll back some restrictions on a months-long digital blackout that has cut off millions of its citizens from the internet, the official Islamic Republic News Agency said, as diplomatic talks between the US and Tehran gather pace.

The government’s new Special Task Force for the Regulation and Governance of Cyberspace voted Monday “in favor of returning internet access to its pre-January 2026 conditions”. The task force, set up by President Masoud Pezeshkian and chaired by First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref, oversees sensitive national policy in the digital space.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 Rubio says US-Iran peace deal could take ‘a few more days’

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that the United States and Iran may require “a few more days” to reach an agreement to end the war between the two countries.

“The president’s expressed his desire to make [a deal] — he’s either going to make a good deal or no deal,”— Rubio told. “But that may take a little while, I mean, a few more days.”

“The straits need to be open, unimpeded, without tolls,” — Rubio said. “And obviously that needs to happen immediately as soon as anything’s agreed to.”

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🇰🇷 S. Korea to Deploy Locally Built Nuclear Submarine by Late-2030s

South Korea unveiled a roadmap to develop nuclear-powered submarines and deploy the first vessel by the late 2030s, as President Lee Jae Myung convened a new defense strategy council Tuesday focused on strengthening the nation’s military autonomy.

The Ministry of Defense released what it described as the country’s first comprehensive basic plan for nuclear-powered submarines under a project dubbed “Jangbogo-N.”

❗️The plan calls for domestic construction, the use of low-enriched uranium fuel and coordination with the US and the International Atomic Energy Agency on non-proliferation safeguards.

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