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As UK regulator Ofcom launched a formal investigation into X on 12 January 2026 over Grok's generation of sexualised deepfakes, including images of children, the case exposed how everyday life runs on systems voters never designed.

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Foreign Groups Launch Multi-Front AI Attack Against France

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Starlink, Grok and the Price of Private Infrastructure

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Alps Without Snow: Winter Tourism Tries Reinvention

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Kawthoolei Republic: Italy’s CasaPound Export Radical Dreams to Myanmar

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Britain Navigates a Growing Trade Imbalance with China

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Winter Storm Research Rewrites a Witch Trial Tragedy

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Abu Dhabi Rebuffs British Universities Over Campus Radicalisation

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Cloudflare Pulls the Plug on the Italy’s Winter Games

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Starlink, Grok and the Price of Private Infrastructure

As UK regulator Ofcom launched a formal investigation into X on 12 January 2026 over Grok's generation of sexualised deepfakes, including images of children, the case exposed how everyday life runs on systems voters never designed.

Cloudflare Pulls the Plug on the Italy’s Winter Games

Cloudflare quits Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics security after Italy fine, sparking US-EU clash over piracy laws and censorship

Mudejar Ruins in Spain: Brickwork on the Edge

At 8:00 on Monday morning, a wall of the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Muriel de Zapardiel collapsed, sending 12th-century Romanesque-Mudejar brick crashing onto the ground and turning a quiet Valladolid village into the latest symbol of Spain's heritage crisis.

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