The week culture got loud while the world got louder It has been a heavy few weeks. Wars, blockades, elections, emergency cabinets, oil prices, market swings. The news has been relentless and serious And then, in the middle of all of it, Karol G headlined Coachella.

Todays Top Stories from Daily Direct 🌏 World News Three babies born into Sudan war every minute, charity warns 🤖 Technology & AI Uber and Nuro begin testing premium robotaxi service in San Francisco

Viktor Orbán is gone. Here's why the whole world should pay attention. Viktor Orbán ruled Hungary for sixteen years. In that time he rewrote the constitution, packed the courts, captured the media, gerrymandered the electoral map, and built what he called an "illiberal democracy"

Todays Top Stories from Daily Direct 🌏 World News Millions of people in Sudan surviving on one meal a day as food crisis deepens, NGOs say 🤖 Technology & AI Kindle users in uproar re: latest update, old devices now unusable

Todays Top Stories from Daily Direct 🌏 World News Israeli military says Hezbollah launched missile at Israel, triggering sirens 🤖 Technology & AI ChatGPT has a new $100 per month Pro subscription

Todays Top Stories from Daily Direct 🌏 World News Trump says US military to stay around Iran; threatens action if Tehran fails to comply with deal 🤖 Technology & AI App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off

Todays Top Stories from Daily Direct 🌏 World News Trump threatens to take out Iran in 'one night' if no deal before deadline 🤖 Technology & AI Anthropic expands partnership w Google and Broadcom for multiple GW of compute

Todays Top Stories from Daily Direct 🌏 World News Israel estimates 1,000 Iranian missiles still threaten it as war grinds into second month 🤖 Technology & AI LLMs can't justify their answers–this CLI forces them to

For the first time in 53 years, humans are on their way to the moon At 6:35 pm EDT on Wednesday, a 98-metre rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center and began climbing toward the moon.

Todays Top Stories from Daily Direct 🌏 World News Outrage and condemnation over Israel’s death penalty law for Palestinians 🤖 Technology & AI Axios Compromised on NPM – Malicious Versions Drop Remote Access Trojan

Oil just crossed $115. Here's what that means for your money. In Thailand this weekend, an undertaker loaded a corpse into a hearse, drove it to a petrol station, and presented it to the attendant as proof that his bulk fuel purchase was for a legitimate cremation and not black market resale.

Todays Top Stories from Daily Direct 🌏 World News Australia to halve fuel tax as global energy crisis deepens 🤖 Technology & AI Coding Agents Could Make Free Software Matter Again

Todays Top Stories from Daily Direct 🌏 World News Israel hits Iran naval research site, fresh blasts rattle Tehran 🤖 Technology & AI Stanford study outlines dangers of asking AI chatbots for personal advice

Todays Top Stories from Daily Direct 🌏 World News Russia and Ukraine both say they capture frontline villages 🤖 Technology & AI Google is making it easier to import another AI’s memory into Gemini

An Israeli airstrike struck a displacement camp in Deir el-Balah, with footage capturing the moment of impact on a tent settlement housing Palestinians forced from their homes. The strike adds to mounting international concern over civilian casualties in densely populated refuge areas.

Britain is boarding Russian ships, defying its own government, and trying to fix your energy bill — all at once Three things happened in British politics this week that, taken separately, would each make a reasonable news story.

Todays Top Stories from Daily Direct 🌏 World News Video shows Israeli strike hitting displacement camp in Gaza 🤖 Technology & AI Convicted spyware chief hints that Greece’s government was behind dozens of phone hacks

A jury just found Meta guilty on every count. Here's why this one is different. Juries have found against tech companies before. Fines have been levied, settlements reached, apologies issued. The companies have paid, updated their terms of service, and continued operating largely as before.

Todays Top Stories from Daily Direct 🌏 World News Israeli military warns of inbound missiles from Iran, says anti-missile defences active 🤖 Technology & AI OpenAI announces plans to shut down its Sora video generator

Trump blinked. Iran noticed. Here's what that means. On Monday evening, Donald Trump issued his starkest ultimatum yet: open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours or face strikes on Iranian power plants.

Todays Top Stories from Daily Direct 🌏 World News Israel strikes south Beirut, claims it captured Hezbollah members 🤖 Technology & AI FCC adds "routers produced in foreign countries" to covered list 🇺🇸 US Politics Trump looks for the off-ramp on Iran

Why young workers are quitting tech careers before AI can take them Something quiet is happening among the generation that grew up with smartphones and were supposed to inherit the knowledge economy. They are leaving it.

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The Iran war has already emitted more carbon than 84 countries produce in a year Wars are measured in casualties, in territory, in economic damage. Almost never in carbon.

Todays Top Stories from Daily Direct 🌏 World News Netanyahu vows to retaliate ‘on all fronts’ after Iran missiles hit two south Israel towns 🤖 Technology & AI Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator 🇺🇸 US Politics Former FBI Director and special counsel Robert Mueller has died at 81

The Iran war's real victims aren't on a battlefield In Tehran this week, long queues formed outside banks. Iran has just introduced a 10 million rial banknote the largest denomination in its history as citizens rush to stockpile cash

Todays Top Stories from Daily Direct 🌏 World News Trump rules out ceasefire in Iran war, confident that Hormuz will reopen ‘itself’ 🤖 Technology & AI Widely used Trivy scanner compromised in ongoing supply-chain attack 🇺🇸 US Politics GOP braces for Trump to possibly deploy troops inside Iran

The day Australia and America broke their weather records at the same time On the same day, on opposite sides of the Pacific, the climate handed two countries records they did not want.

Todays Top Stories from Daily Direct 🌏 World News Teenager among first to be executed over Iran's anti-government protests 🤖 Technology & AI Jeff Bezos reportedly wants $100 billion to buy and transform old manufacturing firms with AI

The FBI is buying your location data and it doesn't need a warrant to do it There is a version of this story that sounds like a conspiracy theory. The federal government is purchasing detailed records of where Americans go — their movements, routines, patterns of life — from private data brokers.