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China imports no US soy in September
China has worked hard to curb its reliance on U.S. soy imports, especially after the trade conflict of Trump’s first term ended in 2020 when Beijing agreed to buy $200 billion in American products, including soybeans (although it bought far less than it promised.) Brazil arrivals last month jumped 29.9% year-on-year to 10.96 million tons,
Amazon AWS Outage
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform that powers much of the internet, went down for several hours Monday, making several major websites and apps inoperable.The latest outage serves as a reminder of how fragile the internet’s backbone can be, even if the disruption is brief, and how reliant the world has become on
Crude Oil prices drop
0721 GMT – Oil continues last week’s downwards trajectory as investors assess a looming supply glut and a challenging macroeconomic backdrop.Brent crude falls 0.8% to $60.78 a barrel and WTI slides 0.9% to $56.65 a barrel. Assessing the impact of the glut is complicated by the fluctuating trade tensions between the U.S. and China, they
Trump ends aid to Colombia
President Donald Trump said the US will no longer offer subsidies to Colombia, one of the country’s closest South American allies. The US president announced the decision in a Truth Social post on Sunday, labelling Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro as “an illegal drug leader” who has “strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big
Israel Strikes Lebanon after cease
As a tenuous ceasefire took hold in Gaza this month, Israel launched more airstrikes on southern Lebanon — 11 months into a ceasefire there. The bombardment of a construction equipment business killed a Syrian passerby, wounded seven people including two women, and destroyed millions of dollars worth of bulldozers and excavators.Some see a likely blueprint
US Government shutdown
The government shutdown hit Day 19 on Sunday, Oct. 19, with no end in sight, after senators failed for the 10th time to resolve the impasse in votes on Thursday.The shutdown is now the third-longest funding lapse in modern history, eclipsed only by the shutdowns of 1995 and 2018-19. Shutdowns are a relatively recent phenomenon,
Tesla Deploys Self-Driving Mode speed limit
Amid a slew of investigations into horrific accidents involving its Full Self-Driving software, Tesla has brought back its “Mad Max” mode that allows its self-driving cars to blow past the speed limit.It’s almost like the Elon Musk owned automaker is actively trying to accelerate toward its own doom, if not its passengers into an accident.
China’s tech supremacy ambitions ; A threat to nation
We are under cyber siege. The number of “highly significant” cyber-attacks – those affecting government, essential services and key sectors of the economy surged by half over the past year, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) revealed in its annual review this week. While large-scale cyber attacks attract news and media coverage, the everyday technology
Wikipedia AI-Generated Summaries are hurting the company’s traffic
After crunching the numbers to exclude armies of data-scraping AI bots, the Wikimedia Foundation says that between March and August this year, the number of Wikipedia page views coming from real humans declined by 8% year-on-year.Wikipedia warned against the potential implications of falling viewer numbers on the site, saying it could lead to fewer volunteers
OpenAI bans users from creating videos of Martin Luther King Jr
OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, launched Sora last month. The AI video tool quickly surged to the top of app store charts, with users creating clips featuring characters from history or from popular cartoons such as Pokémon and South Park. OpenAI has banned people from generating videos of Martin Luther King Jr after its artificial