Share Why we disrupted Annalena Baerbock's award speech on social media When, in late August, the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation announced that former German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was its 2026 medallist, we were stunned. The cognitive dissonance was striking, even if we had become used to this after years of unabashed hypocrisy within the world's most powerful institutions. According to the foundation's homepage, the medal is given to a person who "contributes to a more just, peaceful and environmentally sustainable world through valuable achievements in politics or research". As this year's medallist, Baerbock was invited to visit Uppsala University and deliver a lecture. Here was an event claiming to celebrate " compassion, humanism and commitment to international solidarity " while honouring the foreign minister of a government that approved 94 million euros ($102m) in arms exports to Israel in the span of three months in 2024.

Can the Zelda remake capture the magic of the original? The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was finally released on Thursday, after years of rumours that Nintendo would remake the game - considered one of the best ever made. IGN called it the biggest game of the decade in their review, external when it launched in 1998 on the N64, and it set the standard for 3D games. A lot of the things we take for granted in modern games - such as riding a horse, fighting with a sword and shield, or locking on to enemies with the tap of a button - were pioneered or perfected in Ocarina of Time. It received an almost perfect score from critics and, decades on, remains the highest-rated game in history on Metacritic, which aggregates reviews.

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A tech stock rout that began overnight in the United States has persisted in Asian trading. Market authorities in South Korea paused trading on Friday as prices plunged across the region. Global markets have been rattled by a sharp fall in the trading price of tech stocks, which is driven by fears that the Democrats' victory in the US midterm elections will increase regulatory scrutiny of AI and slow the country's data centre build-out. Indices in South Korea and Taiwan plunged more than 8 percent after the opening bell, before cutting losses as authorities scrambled to stem the selling. Wall Street's volatility "fear gauge" soared overnight on Thursday and the tech-focused Nasdaq sank 5.5 percent, wiping $3 trillion off S&P 500 firms, as investors fretted that the Democrats could put the brakes on the AI boom being encouraged by President Donald Trump.

Palantir harvests battlefield data that Ukraine pays for'with blood' Share Palantir harvests battlefield data that Ukraine pays for'with blood' on social media Months into Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Palantir's CEO Alex Karp became the first chief of a major Western Big Tech company to personally visit Kyiv. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in June 2022 that he was "delighted" to receive the support of such a company in the fight against Russia "on the digital front line". Ukraine has since become the first nation in modern history to systematically collect battlefield data, a crucial asset for training military artificial intelligence (AI) to recognise patterns and make predictions. The trove of real-world combat data obtained from video and sensor feeds over four years of conflict is helping Ukraine monitor, predict and respond to Russian attacks with the help of Palantir's products. Yet observers say the data is also boosting the capabilities of the United States corporation whose technologies are implicated in human rights abuses, including in Israel's genocide in Gaza, raising questions about the growing leverage that private tech corporations are acquiring over sovereign states.

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Is the war entering a new phase? Three black naval drones resembling oversized plastic toys struck a freighter sluggishly navigating the Black Sea off the coast of Bulgaria on October 28. Aerial drones joined the attack, and explosions rocked the Liberian-flagged Contship Jet Monrovia, loaded with more than 400 terracotta-coloured containers. The vessel, travelling from the Israeli port of Haifa to Romania, listed and sank, but all 18 crew members were rescued, Bulgarian authorities said. The drones were Russian, Kyiv claimed, adding that the attack was designed to make the Black Sea unsafe for civilian ships, paralyse Ukraine's exports of grain and further hobble its war-ravaged economy.

Ryanair may freeze workers' pay and raise fares on higher fuel prices Ryanair is considering a temporary wage freeze for staff to pay for a sharp rise in its fuel costs which have surged following the US-Israel war with Iran. The carrier said it expects fuel prices to remain high well into 2027 unless there is a swift resolution to the conflict. Ryanair said its fuel bill is forecast to be €2bn (£1.6bn) higher in the short-term and said it expects European airfares to increase to help cover the cost. But it said that was unlikely to be enough and, among a number of measures, it is looking into temporary pay freezes. The BBC has contacted Unite, the union which represents Ryanair employees, for comment.

Kim Jong Un calls for North Korea's drone technology superiority Kim Jong Un calls for North Korea's drone technology superiority North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits a drone exhibition showcasing the country's latest military technology, calling for "absolute superiority" in drone capabilities and for measures to boost unmanned aircraft development. Share Kim Jong Un calls for North Korea's drone technology superiority on social media Senators briefed on Trump's'insane' plan to restart war on Iran Senators briefed on Trump's'insane' plan to restart war on Iran

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