Nvidia and the Rope: How Beijing Turns Partners into Pawns Jensen Huang’s viral interview—where he dismissed “China hawks” as unpatriotic—has caused a stir. I have a few thoughts. First: Huang’s performance is a textbook example of Lenin’s old line: the capitalist will sell you

Google has determined that ICE agents are a vulnerable group and has used this designation as pretext to delete an app that helped communities determine where ICE raids were happening 404media.co/google-calls-i…

When freedom of the press is under attack, journalists vanish, lies become law, and the voice of the people is silenced. It’s not just how democracies die, it’s how countries falter. It’s how they fall. OCCRP fights back with facts — and we need you with us:

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Two views of Mount Yasur, Tanna, Vanuatu

VBTC is reporting that Vanuatu's patrol boat, the Takuare, has run aground on a reef near Epi island.

A fish hammer, for when you need to beat the carp out of something.

Latest from me . Palau President forms working group to reconsider Washington’s proposal to resettle asylum seekers pacificislandtimes.com/post/palau-con…

Timor-Leste's government has cancelled all online gambling licenses in response to the allegations, but many are calling for an independent investigation. Michael Rose Uni of Adelaide theconversation.com/organised-crim…

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BREAKING! 1/11 Joint investigation by Direkt36, Der Spiegel, Der Standard, and De Tijd uncovered that Orbán’s government built and ran a secret spy network in Brussels, using Hungary’s Information Office (IH) to infiltrate EU institutions.

Papua New Guinea suffers suspected cable break after earthquake - DCD datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/papua-…

“I had read Hemingway and Remarque for years. I thought they knew everything about war. But they didn’t know mine.” “When I came back from the front and saw my bookshelf, I felt like a fool,” wrote 25y old Ukrainian soldier and author Artur Dron in UP. 1/

Indonesia is negotiating with Chinese creditors to restructure $7.3B in Whoosh railway debt, mirroring Kenya’s recent yuan swap deal. tinyurl.com/8wnwv8y5

The Oct 11 Crypto Crash — What Really Happened TL;DR: Roughly $60–90M of $USDe was dumped on Binance, along with $wBETH and $BNSOL, exploiting a pricing flaw that valued collateral using Binance’s own order-book data instead of external oracles. That localized depeg triggered

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Striking photo of Fakaofo, Tokelau, from A. Perez Voyages. It speaks of a remarkable 500 or so people living on the edge of remote atoll, surrounded by the vast South Pacific. facebook.com/groups/Pacific…

A pioneering Pacific journalist, Pesi Siale Fonua, the publisher-editor of Tonga's leading news website, Matangi Tonga Online, has died at the age of 78. buff.ly/vr5Cx7H

David Adeang elected unopposed as Nauru’s President Pacific Islands Forum Republic of Nauru PACNEWS Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 🇦🇺 New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade The Pacific Newsroom

Bainimarama to be sentenced next Wednesday fijitimes.com.fj/bainimarama-to… #Fiji #FijiNews