“The biggest value sits in its resource profile, specifically in hydro for electricity generation and a ‘free cooling’ proposition given the lower ambient temperature,” Noah Ramos, strategist at investment research firm Alpine Macro, told CNBC. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/23/g...

"The spying operation is alleged to have targeted close aides of Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak over the course of three years" www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

A 🇬🇧judge has ordered 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia to pay more than £3m in damages to a London-based dissident whose phones were targeted with Pegasus #spyware. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Italian Foreign Minister summons Israeli Ambassador to protest after two Carabinieri attached to the Italian Embassy are forced to kneel at gunpoint by an Israeli settler while travelling on the West Bank near Ramallah in preparation for a visit to the area by EU Ambassadors.

What is being done to the Washington Post by Jeff Bezos and Will Lewis is a devastating blow to American journalism.

A good rundown here of what could be behind Xi's military purge: "'This is potentially a seismic shift in Chinese politics under Xi, and how he governs – this really demonstrates nobody in that system is safe, truly,' said Jonathan Czin of the Brooking Institution." edition.cnn.com/2026/01/26/c...

The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Round and round it goes. As long as the chain of command in key places is being disrupted like this, I have serious doubts about effective PLA command enacting highly ambitious efforts such as a certain contingency. www.mod.gov.cn/gfbw/qwfb/16...

A producer in the London bureau is the *only* CBS person quoted in their story about Israel killing its longtime freelance cameramen in Gaza—someone who once filed dispatches for them from an ambulance, while wounded. Not quoted: The network’s editor in chief. www.cbsnews.com/news/journal...

Irish authorities are continuing to pay Cellebrite despite its long record of being used by repressive regimes and its extensive links to Israel's government and military. The Irish government also believes that same government and military has committed genocide in Gaza.

The director of the FBI: "I don't read." His staff (paraphrased): "he doesn’t like meetings in office settings. What he wants is social events." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

@dublincommuters.bsky.social Hi folks, I sent you an email at your info@ address if you have a moment - thanks.

Gomez has started five games in league and Europe this season. Four wins, one draw. Nine scored, one (deflected) goal conceded.

"Germany never stopped arming Israel’s genocide" – my latest, for @972mag.com www.972mag.com/germany-isra...

TODAY: Israeli authorities demolish the UNRWA headquarters in Jerusalem.

In Iraq, Martin Tamm Andersen sat beside a dying Danish soldier who had stepped on an IED fighting America's war. Now Trump threatens to take Greenland and Vance calls Denmark a bad ally. "You feel betrayed. It’s extremely uncomfortable." My story from Copenhagen www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Carney: "We stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark and fully support their unique right to determine Greenland's future. Our commitment to NATO's Article 5 is unwavering ... Canada strongly opposes tariffs over Greenland"

🚨My first @thefence.bsky.social investigation reveals how an enigmatic Greco-Russian billionaire is transporting billions of dollars’ worth of sanctioned Russian oil and gas to Europe and beyond.🚨 Read "Barrels of Black Gold" below! thefence.substack.com/p/off-the-fe...

Affirming that a U.S. cyberattack caused a large scale power outage in Caracas on Jan 3, while not even mentioning the intentional bombing of power infrastructure, is misleading. The NYT article is speculative and doesn't provide any technical evidence. 👉 arstechnica.com/security/202...

Roger Waters tells Piers Morgan the Iranian police is defending shop keepers from violent thugs. A new set of people are finding out Waters is a vile idiot who always apologizes for non-Western dictatorships and deserves nothing but contempt. No one should be asking him about his political opinions.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

‘This is what failure looks like’: Why Ireland is missing its military staffing targets www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

NEW: "Walsh called Good a 'lesbian agitator.' Ian Miles Cheong ... called her a 'rug munching leftist.' On Fox News, Jesse Watters noted that Good 'leaves behind a lesbian partner' and highlighted that she had 'pronouns in her bio.'" @parkermolloy.com reports: www.wired.com/story/the-ca...

Sources: the EU's cybersecurity proposal, to be presented on Jan. 20, is expected to phase out vendors such as Huawei from the bloc's critical infrastructure (Barbara Moens/Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

ICYMI: WIRED is hosting a livestream, Welcome to the Chinese Century, on Jan 21 that will explore China’s global influence on tech, culture, and the economy. Comment below or on the article with the questions you’d like answered!

The BBC is set to start producing video content for transmission first on Youtube, including news content, the FT reports www.ft.com/content/cdcf...

Breaking news: An employee of El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner said it is likely to classify the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at an ICE detention center as a homicide. A detainee says he witnessed Campos being choked to death by guards.

Palantir's ELITE equips ICE stormtroopers with real-time maps and complete dossiers (home address, identifiers, etc) on targets to snatch them off the street. www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

Holy hell, what an obituary

Excellent read - and you just know they're also thinking all that ice will be good for cooling their hyperscale AI data centres.

Sport Ireland reviewing use of X in light of Grok controversy

Bundeswehr will deploy to Greenland starting this week -- in mission coordinated by Denmark outside NATO framework, BILD reports.

Gardaí have said there will be no prosecution of a former member of GSOC who allegedly went to a party attended by Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch. jrnl.ie/6926364

Despite all the attempts of the government party to kill the story, one court case on the abuse of #Predator #Spyware against journalists and opponents is still running, and yielding important information. Today one of the key investigative journalists testified in court @etriantafillou.bsky.social

BREAKING: Hundreds of sensitive U.S. records obtained by WIRED undercut the Trump administration’s claims portraying Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua as a unified terrorist force invading the country. Intelligence agencies spent much of 2025 unsure TdA even functioned as an organization on U.S. soil.

A good time to revisit the history of Post CEO Sir William Lewis, and how News Corp sacrificed its reporters to save the business during the phone hacking scandal. Can Natanson rely on Lewis for support now? pressgazette.co.uk/news/how-new...

I don't know if you guys are history buffs or not...

Journalists often go on hand-fed ride-alongs with agents. Seldom, though, do they get into the cars of everyday people protecting their communities from those same agents. We just did exactly that, in ICE-occupied Minneapolis:

Iran’s authorities are committing large-scale killing of protesters while having shut down the internet, cutting off people in Iran from the rest of the world. Iranian authorities should immediately end the bloodshed and release everyone arrested for exercising their human rights.

The part of Reuters’ digital trends report I am really excited about is the hint newsrooms intend to focus more on original journalism and investigations. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/journalism-m...

#Ireland irish air corps C-295MPA seen on the flight radar 09JAN26 departing dublin and arriving at ramstein AB germany, aircraft then leaving and returning to QIW later in the evening. #IRL286 #4CA421

Looking forward to reading Niarchos' upcoming book. I covered some similar issues in my recent report on China's solar industry: youtu.be/IcjaaYm2M6I?...

🚨 AI Minister Niamh Smyth says it isn't appropriate for the Government to maintain a presence on X and will speak to the Taoiseach on the matter. Says the European Commission should immediately suspend Grok while investigations are continuing. More on @virginmedianews.bsky.social

Worth noting that X hasn't even made the Grok nudification feature available to paying users only. Any user, free or paid, can still use the tool on Grok's dedicated site; the bit that's behind the paywall is specifically being able to tweet @-grok to generate pics

just done a pre-rec for the BBC World Service (think it was for Newshour, which goes out at 2) on the response to Grok's appalling AI images. Feel really strongly that governments, institutions and businesses should come off X now: it's crossed a red line; there's no value there for them.

The law is clear: Ireland could prosecute Twitter/X for AI 'child porn' deepfakes. Professor Conor O'Mahony sets it out. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

#BREAKING The U.S. is carrying out an operation to seize the Venezuela-linked oil tanker formerly known as Bella-1, three U.S. officials tell @cbsnews.com - on Monday, CBS News broke the news that the U.S. was planning to seize the sanctioned oil tanker. www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-int...

“I do think this is complex when it comes to international law," said Harris.