Maxime Marquette
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Kim Jong-un, the Regime That Traded Gold for Stablecoins
Some reports slip by unnoticed. Others should wake up every foreign ministry in the West. The one published on June 29, 2026
23 ransomware attacks a day, China now in the crosshairs in 2026
The report published on July 2, 2026 by the cybersecurity firm Comparitech paints an unambiguous picture: during the first six months of
Michelin's green star fades just as sustainable France was shining
On March 16, 2026, in Monaco, the Michelin Guide unveiled its annual list of French tables, and amid the usual fireworks over
Mullin touts 3,200 deportations a day, the numbers don't hold up
U.S. Homeland SecuritySecretaryMarkwayne Mullin claimed, at a press conference held in New York on July 1, 2026, that his administration is now
Iron given to infants may cut aggression at age three
Researchers at Umeå University, in Sweden, report that healthy infants, mostly breastfed, who received an ironsupplement between 4 and 9 months showed
France Already Counts About Twenty Presumed Epstein Victims
ParisprosecutorLaure Beccuau revealed, on May 17, 2026 on RTL, that roughly ten new presumed victims of Jeffrey Epstein's network had come forward
The SharePoint Flaw Microsoft Patched, Then Forgot to Announce
The American cybersecurity agency CISA added, on July 1, 2026, a critical vulnerability affecting MicrosoftSharePoint Server to its catalog of actively exploited
Did GPT-5.5 and Claude Really Solve New Math Together
Researchers claimed, in a message posted directly on X on July 1, 2026, that a two-model system pairing OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Pro with
What Tehran Is Hiding Behind the Millions Mourning Khamenei
Dear reader, I am writing you this open letter as Iran orchestrates, since July 3, 2026, an interminable state funeral for its