Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has pledged to step up a crackdown on transnational online scam networks. Online scam centers have proliferated across Southeast Asia since the pandemic, turning Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos into hubs for criminal enterprises. More from his interview with @avrilhongTV:

Prime Minister Andy Burnham will hold an emergency government meeting on the UK’s latest heat wave as the country’s grapples with widespread drought and proliferating wildfires

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The Ministry of Commerce said on Monday that it has decided to include 20 Japanese entities, including the National Institute for Defense Studies, on the export control list, in order to safeguard national security and interests and fulfill international obligations such as non-proliferation. Export operators are prohibited from exporting dual-use items to the above-mentioned 20 entities. Overseas organizations and individuals are prohibited from transferring or providing dual-use items originating from #China# to the above-mentioned 20 entities. Any related ongoing activities shall be immediately terminated, the ministry said. #Japan#

The Ministry of Commerce said on Monday that it has decided to include 20 Japanese entities, including the National Institute for Defense Studies, on the export control list, in order to safeguard national security and interests and fulfill international obligations such as non-proliferation. Export operators are prohibited from exporting dual-use items to the above-mentioned 20 entities. Overseas organizations and individuals are prohibited from transferring or providing dual-use items originating from China to the above-mentioned 20 entities. Any related ongoing activities shall be immediately terminated, the ministry said.

This is: The criminal organization—USAID—the number one sponsor of terror, responsible for spreading chaos, inciting riots, promoting open borders, fueling terrorism, proliferating propaganda, and toppling governments abroad, including right here in the United States. DOGE CONFIRMS: — In 2022, USAID bribed Time magazine with $4 million for naming Volodymyr Zelenskyy “Person of the Year.” — In 2024, USAID bribed Politico with $8 million. — USAID was secretly bribing the BBC to run anti-Trump and anti-Musk reports—similar to the $300 million USAID paid Reuters to target @elonmusk. Reuters later won the Pulitzer Prize for its work on Elon Musk and misconduct at his businesses. — USAID secretly paid $4 billion to Bill Gates, plus an additional $880 million to the WHO, after President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the World Death Organization. — USAID was funding more than 6,200 journalists across 707 media outlets and 279 media NGOs. Without USAID, fake news would not have existed. Since Elon Musk toppled USAID: June 2023: Left wing: 10 Right wing: 3 June 2026: Right wing: 7 (+4) Left wing: 6 (-4) @realannapaulina @elonmusk

5 years of Pudgy Penguins. It's genuinely incredible to sit back and see how far this brand has come. I've been a holder for around 4 years now, and it's been one of the best decisions I've ever made. I still remember the depths of the bear market, everything was bleeding, NFTs were being written off completely and most people had checked out. Then there was Luca, going on space after space, podcast after podcast, preaching the same message to anyone who'd listen. The importance of proliferating IP because what's the point of having incredible IP if you can't actually leverage it? While everyone else was panicking, Luca was painting a picture of where this brand was going. Today, we have products in Walmart, Target, Amazon, and much much more. A penguin from crypto went from the timeline to every corner of the world. My own journey with this runs deep. I bought my penguin, started going to the IRL events, and met the team in person for the first time at NFT Paris back in 2023. Fast forward a bit and I ended up joining the team myself. Getting to actually contribute to where Pudgy Penguins is today has been a privilege I don't take lightly. Running activations and experiences across the world and onchain. Watching some of the brightest minds in this space get pulled into the Huddle, and even into the team. It's been a journey I'll never forget. And when you look at what's actually been built, the numbers speak for themselves. Billions of views across the world. Millions of social followers. Millions of toys sold globally. One of the largest airdrops the Solana ecosystem has ever seen. Partnerships with brands people outside of crypto know. Igloo Inc as a whole has grown into something most projects could only dream of. But at the heart of it all is this amazing community that refused to leave, the friendships built along the way, and everyone who believed in the penguin before the world caught on. 5 years in and it feels like we're just getting started. Here's to 5 more 🐧

In the Age of Artificial Intelligence, What Becomes of Human Need?Maslow’s hierarchy once traced an ascending arc of human aspiration: from the bare demand for survival, through the hunger for safety, the longing for connection, the craving for recognition, and finally to the luminous call of self-actualization.Yet the swift, almost vertiginous advance of AI promises a rupture in this ancient sequence. Robots of every form will proliferate; robots will design, assemble, and repair other robots, closing upon themselves in an autonomous loop of production. In principle, the entire chain of primary, secondary, and tertiary industry could be surrendered to these tireless agents. The material conditions of clothing, food, shelter, and movement would no longer require human labor. Humanity would at last stand outside the necessity of toiling for its own physical such a condition of radical material abundance, the lowest rung of Maslow’s ladder—the sheer demand for survival—would cease to be a problem at all. It would simply evaporate. What remains, however, lies beyond the reach of any algorithm or automaton: the need for safety, the need for genuine companionship, the need for esteem, and the need for in this new epoch, acquires a darker and more intimate face. It is no longer merely the threat of storm or predator, nor even the ordinary hazards of crime. It becomes the quiet dread that the instruments of governance—now armed with predictive surveillance, automated judgment, and total informational transparency—may be turned against the very citizens they claim to protect. The same intelligence that liberates matter may perfect the machinery of control.Nor can the social dimension of human life be outsourced. A humanoid robot, however perfectly mimetic, remains an artifact without interiority. It may simulate tenderness, but it cannot suffer with us, nor rejoice in our presence. Like the inflatable companion that answers only the most transient of appetites, it offers the appearance of relation while withholding its substance. We remain, irreducibly, creatures who require to be known by other minds that are themselves vulnerable, limited, and mortal.The need for esteem is equally intransigent. Respect is not a quantity that can be algorithmically dispensed; it is a recognition that must pass between beings who can, in principle, withhold it. A machine’s approval carries no moral weight, for it cannot choose otherwise. To be esteemed by silicon is to be esteemed by nothing at all.Finally, self-actualization—the highest and most mysterious demand—belongs to the order of spirit. It is the restless movement toward meaning, toward the integration of one’s existence into a larger horizon of significance. No system of optimization, however vast, can generate this movement from within itself. Meaning is not computed; it is lived, risked, and discovered in the fragile space between one finite consciousness and another.Thus, even as AI dissolves the ancient problem of material scarcity, it leaves untouched—and perhaps renders more urgent—the distinctly human questions that have always lain beyond the reach of tools: Who am I when I am no longer needed to produce? With whom do I stand when every transaction can be performed without another person? And what, finally, remains of me when the last material obstacle has been removed and only the soul is left to answer for itself?