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Russia has formally charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with aiding terrorism, the latest move in what Durov himself calls "a sad spectacle of a state afraid of its own people." The case puts renewed pressure on encrypted messaging platforms and raises hard questions about where founder liability ends and state overreach begins.
Shifting from geopolitics to the living room, parents are pushing back against a peculiar new gift trend: AI-generated personalized bedtime books from well-meaning grandparents. The problem is the results are often garbled, strange, and built around actual photos of children fed into generative systems. Sweet intention, genuinely unsettling execution.
And on a different kind of frontier, NASA has released a three-dimensional model revealing that Earth is far from the smooth sphere we picture on classroom globes. By mapping the planet's gravitational field in fine detail, scientists have exposed a lumpy, uneven world shaped by the unequal distribution of mass beneath our feet. Beautiful, humbling, and a little disorienting.
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