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In Serbia, voters are heading to the polls in what analysts are calling the most contested parliamentary election in more than fourteen years. A student-led movement, born from two years of protests following a deadly infrastructure collapse that killed sixteen people, is now mounting a serious challenge to the decade-long political dominance of populist leader Aleksandar Vucic.
Meanwhile in the Middle East, Israel is preparing for its own general election on Tuesday, and in a move drawing sharp criticism, authorities have announced the closure of all land crossings into the occupied West Bank during the vote. The decision extends an ongoing lockdown in Hebron, raising serious questions about access and rights for Palestinians during the electoral period.
On the technology front, a piece worth pausing on comes from the Noahpinion newsletter, where a writer reflects on the internet's transformation from a sense of boundless wonder — remember Netscape Navigator — to something that feels increasingly broken and difficult to tame. It is a meditation on what we built, what we lost, and whether we ever really had control to begin with.
That is your briefing for today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
