Nostr 🛰️ Japan's SLIM Moon lander has produced another surprise by waking up after the two-week lunar night, the country's space agency said on Monday. The unmanned Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) touched down last month at a wonky angle that left its solar panels facing Coffee ☕ Feb 26, 2024, 2:01 PM
Nostr The world’s biggest EV seller has debuted its most expensive car: a 1.68 million yuan ($233,450) high-performance fully-electric supercar. BYD says the Yangwang U9 can hit 100 km/h (62 mph) in 2.36 seconds and reach a top speed of 309.19 km/h. Coffee ☕ Feb 26, 2024, 1:14 PM
Nostr A mysterious high-altitude balloon that U.S. officials were tracking over the Rocky Mountains on Friday was a “likely hobby balloon” that is no longer in U.S. airspace, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said Saturday. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr @NEW1… Coffee ☕ Feb 24, 2024, 10:20 PM
Nostr 🇮🇱 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled a plan for the Gaza’s future post-Hamas, which includes the “complete demilitarization” of the enclave, closing off the territory’s southern border with Egypt, as well as the overhaul of Gaza’s civil administration and education systems. CNN has obtained a copy… Coffee ☕ Feb 23, 2024, 3:45 PM
Nostr Nvidia became the third American company in history to score a $2 trillion valuation, riding its post-earnings euphoria to the remarkable feat as investors fawn over the artificial intelligence chip designer’s growth story. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr… Coffee ☕ Feb 23, 2024, 3:41 PM
Nostr 🇷🇺 President Vladimir Putin said that 95% of Russia's strategic nuclear forces had been modernized and that the Air Force had just taken delivery of four new supersonic nuclear-capable bombers #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr… Coffee ☕ Feb 23, 2024, 3:33 PM
Nostr 🇺🇲🇧🇷 The U.S. opposition to an immediate cease-fire in Gaza came under repeated criticism during a two-day meeting of the chief diplomats of the world’s 20 largest economies in the latest sign of Washington’s isolation on the issue. Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira, the host of… Coffee ☕ Feb 22, 2024, 10:11 PM
Nostr 🇪🇸 The pastel-hued village where Russian pilot Maksim Kuzminov settled on the coast of Spain must have seemed a world away from the war he thought he had escaped last year when he defected to Ukraine. But the discovery of his bullet-riddled body last week appeared to deliver a… Coffee ☕ Feb 22, 2024, 6:48 PM
Nostr The first F-16 fighter jets should be delivered to Ukraine's air force by this summer, Denmark's Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said. His comments came as Copenhagen approved a further €228 million military aid package to Ukraine. Read the full story: #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN Coffee ☕ Feb 22, 2024, 3:22 PM
Nostr 🇨🇳 A trove of leaked documents from a Chinese state-linked hacking group shows that Beijing’s intelligence and military groups are carrying out large-scale, systematic cyber intrusions against foreign governments, companies and infrastructure — exploiting what the hackers claim are vulnerabilities in software systems from companies including Microsoft, Apple and… Coffee ☕ Feb 22, 2024, 3:03 PM
Nostr 🇯🇵 A man identified by federal prosecutors as a leader of Japan’s Yakuza organized crime syndicate was charged on Wednesday with trafficking uranium and plutonium from Myanmar with the expectation that Iran would use the material to make nuclear weapons. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr… Coffee ☕ Feb 22, 2024, 2:44 AM
Nostr Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was once the toast of Washington as a key ally in the war on drugs. Now he is headed to trial in New York on allegations of helping move 500 tons of cocaine through his country. Prosecutors say Hernández provided cartel members with armed… Coffee ☕ Feb 21, 2024, 4:56 PM
Nostr Traders placed an unusually large number of bets on two obscure companies at the start of last week, days before a disclosure by chipmaker Nvidia triggered a furious rally in their shares. Nano-X Imaging, a small Israeli medical device maker, doubled after Nvidia detailed its position in the company… Coffee ☕ Feb 21, 2024, 3:12 PM
Nostr Sam Bankman-Fried, the jailed founder of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is due back in court on Wednesday for the first time since his November fraud conviction for a hearing in Manhattan over his new lawyer's possible conflict of interest. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr… Coffee ☕ Feb 21, 2024, 1:12 PM
Nostr 🔊 Today on Reuters World News daily podcast: Another US Gaza veto at the UN The hackers are hacked – cybergang Lockbit disrupted Chinese fast fashion snaps up space on cargo planes Listen now #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr… Coffee ☕ Feb 21, 2024, 12:49 PM
Nostr 🇮🇱 Israel kept up its deadly bombardment of war-torn Gaza as Washington vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that called for a ceasefire in the Palestinian territory. Global powers trying to navigate a way out of the spiralling crisis have so far come up short, and mediation efforts have so… Coffee ☕ Feb 21, 2024, 12:45 PM
Nostr Alexander Smirnov—who was arrested last week for allegedly making a false statement about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden—had contact with a number of Russian officials and admitted Russian intelligence officials were involved in passing him a story about Hunter Biden, according to a court document… Coffee ☕ Feb 21, 2024, 3:43 AM
Nostr Ten years ago Russia annexed Crimea, paving the way for war in Ukraine #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr… Coffee ☕ Feb 20, 2024, 5:13 PM
Nostr One of the cryptocurrency industry’s highest-profile hedge fund firms has been accused of ‘criminal’ mismanagement and raided by a Swiss prosecutor, in a dispute with an investor over losses suffered following the collapse of crypto exchange FTX. Get the full story here: #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr… Coffee ☕ Feb 20, 2024, 2:00 PM
Nostr 🌎 The UN Security Council will vote on a new draft resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, despite threat of a third US veto on such a text. The document, prepared by Algeria, "demands an immediate humanitarian ceasefire that must be respected by all parties." The vote Coffee ☕ Feb 20, 2024, 1:58 PM