Já mám jít do vězení a ti nahoře bohatnou? Pomocník kyberšmejdů si u soudu vyškemral podmínku ( 26.03.2026 10:36:26 novinky.cz)
Gangy útočící na lidi s různými historkami o napadení jejich účtů potřebují nejen dobré přesvědčovací schopnosti, ale také technické zázemí, které jim umožní volat z různých čísel. Jedno takové zařízení obsluhoval v Jihlavě mladík z Kazachstánu. Za pomoc při podvodu měl jít do vězení, odvolací soud mu ale nakonec vyměřil jen podmínku.
Izrael vyhověl žádosti Pákistánu. Neprovede prý atentát na nejvyšší íránské představitele ( 26.03.2026 10:25:25 novinky.cz)
Izrael na žádost Pákistánu souhlasil, že vyřadí íránského ministra zahraničí Abbáse Arakčího a předsedu parlamentu Mohammada-Bakra Kalíbáfa ze seznamu osob určených k likvidaci. Informovala o tom agentura Reuters. Oba představitelé patří mezi favority USA pro případná mírová jednání.
FOTO: Obří podzemní prostor pod Karlínem umí zabránit dalším povodním ( 26.03.2026 10:23:06 novinky.cz)
Od obrovských povodní, které poškodily a změnily pražský Karlín, uplynulo už víc než 20 let. Aby se něco takového už nemohlo opakovat, má zajistit obrovský podzemní systém, který pomáhá i při velkých deštích. Obrovská nádrž má kapacitu 6 tisíc metrů krychlových a v budoucnu bude ještě dvakrát větší. V případě povodně dokáže odčerpat vodu z centra a zabránit i jejímu vniknutí z Vltavy.
Rusové pošlou Íránu útočné drony ( 26.03.2026 10:11:33 novinky.cz)
Ruská federace pošle Íránu smrtící drony na pomoc ve válce proti Spojeným státům a Izraeli. S odkazem na západní zpravodajské služby o tom informuje deník The Financial Times, podle něhož k dodávce smrtících zbraní dojde ještě tento měsíc.
Za deště ticho a v létě k přežití aneb Jak se pozná kvalitně udělaná střecha s lehkou krytinou ( 26.03.2026 10:10:00 novinky.cz)
Plechové střechy bývají někdy považovány za problematické řešení – když prší, nedá se prý pod nimi spát, a v létě se mění v rozpálenou pec. Jenže realita je trochu jiná. Ve většině případů totiž za hluk ani přehřívání nemůže krytina jako taková, ale to, jak je střecha navržena a provedena jako celek.
Odešla z domova a nevrátila se. Po ženě pátrá na Strakonicku vrtulník i desítky policistů ( 26.03.2026 10:08:55 novinky.cz)
Rozsáhlá pátrací akce se v noci na čtvrtek uskutečňuje na Strakonicku. Vrtulník, desítky policistů i hasiči hledají 50letou Ivanu Lomovou z Předních Zborovic na Strakonicku.
,Regulace situaci zlepší‘, říká adiktolog. Prostějov chce zakázat konzumaci kratomu na veřejnosti ( 26.03.2026 10:08:00 irozhlas.cz)
Vedení prostějovské radnice plánuje na veřejném prostranství ve vybraných částech města zakázat užívání psychoaktivních látek a drog, mezi které patří například kratom, pomocí rozšíření obecně závazné vyhlášky upravující konzumaci alkoholu. Nově tak strážníci městské policie budou moci zkontrolovat lidi poblíž škol nebo například u zastávek. Podobně už v uplynulých měsících na problém zareagovala některá další města v Česku.
Meta a Google vytvářejí návykové platformy, nesou za to zodpovědnost, rozhodl soud ( 26.03.2026 10:01:00 novinky.cz)
V americkém Los Angeles padlo přelomové rozhodnutí, při kterém dal soud za pravdu ženě, která žalovala společnosti Meta a Google ohledně závislosti na jejich sítích v dětství, což u ní následně vyvolalo úzkost a sebevražedné myšlenky. Obě společnosti s verdiktem nesouhlasí.
V Karviné marně hledají svého primátora, který figuruje ve fotbalové korupční kauze ( 26.03.2026 09:57:18 novinky.cz)
Stále velká nejistota a obavy panují na karvinském magistrátu. Primátor města Jan Wolf (nestr.), který figuruje ve fotbalové korupční kauze, se od úterý pořád neozval a do úřadu nepřišel ani ve čtvrtek ráno. Zástupcům vedení města se dosud nepodařilo s primátorem se spojit.
Stíhačky NATO vzlétly kvůli útoku Moskvy. Ruský dron dopadl na území Rumunska ( 26.03.2026 09:54:35 novinky.cz)
Stíhačky Severoatlantické aliance musely v noci na čtvrtek do vzduchu poté, co Ruská federace zaútočila na civilní cíle na jihu Ukrajiny. Informuje o tom rumunské ministerstvo národní obrany, podle něhož trosky ruského dronu „odkloněného ukrajinskou protivzdušnou obranou“ dopadly nedaleko vesnice Parcheș do neobydlené oblasti.
ČEZ nekomunikuje s veřejností, usnesli se zastupitelé Ralska. O větrných elektrárnách nebudou dál jednat ( 26.03.2026 09:43:00 irozhlas.cz)
Zastupitelstvo Ralska na Českolipsku zamítlo další projednání záměru výstavby větrných elektráren. Ty chce v oblasti vystavět společnost ČEZ. Stalo se tak na mimořádném jednání na doporučení nově zřízeného výboru, který se plánem energetického podniku zabývá.
Vávrova neziskovka se po kritice v médiích zaregistrovala jako lobbista ( 26.03.2026 09:37:49 novinky.cz)
Společnost pro obranu svobody projevu (SOSP) už figuruje v registru lobbování jako lobbista. Neziskovka, za kterou stojí úspěšný vývojář videoher Daniel Vávra, se zapsala poté, co média upozornila na to, že v registru lobbování chybí. A to přesto, že se schází s politiky a prosazuje svá témata.
Havlíček k rušení koncesionářských poplatků: Dovedu si představit, že se to může od ledna nezvládnout ( 26.03.2026 09:33:53 novinky.cz)
Doposud jednoznačná tvrzení představitelů stran vládní koalice o tom, že od 1. ledna příštího roku dojde ke zrušení koncesionářských poplatků a změně financování České televize a Českého rozhlasu, narušilo ve středu prohlášení vicepremiéra a ministra průmyslu a obchodu Karla Havlíčka. Ten připustil, že tomu tak být nemusí.
Do pražského „Sherwoodu“ se po opravách vrátila část laviček. Dá se na nich hůře polehávat ( 26.03.2026 09:31:52 novinky.cz)
Do Vrchlického sadů u pražského hlavního nádraží se během března postupně vrátilo 30 laviček, což je necelá polovina z původního počtu. Jsou kompletně opravené a navíc mají novinku: jejich sedací prkna jsou předělená na tři části, aby se na nich nedalo dobře polehávat. Nádražní park přezdívaný „Sherwood“ se totiž dlouhodobě potýká s kriminalitou páchanou alkoholiky a narkomany, kteří jsou často bez domova.
V maastrichtském kostele možná našli kostru d'Artagnana ( 26.03.2026 09:28:26 novinky.cz)
Kostra nalezená při opravách kostela v Maastrichtu může patřit slavnému francouzskému mušketýrovi d'Artagnanovi, informovala ve středu agentura AFP s odkazem na místní média. Šlechtic, který se stal předobrazem pro román Tři mušketýři francouzského spisovatele Alexandra Dumase staršího, zemřel v nizozemském městě před více než 350 lety.
Na východě Česka napadlo přes 15 centimetrů sněhu ( 26.03.2026 09:28:06 novinky.cz)
Vyšší polohy v noci na čtvrtek zasypal sníh. V Jeseníkách napadlo přes 15 centimetrů a silnice jsou sjízdné jen se zvýšenou opatrností. Další sněžení může v následujících hodinách přinést i desítky centimetrů, zejména v Beskydech. Sníh se ale může na východě objevit už od výšky 400 metrů.
Obec na Pardubicku vyšachovala územním plánem vlastníka spalovny, rozhodne soud ( 26.03.2026 09:26:12 novinky.cz)
Důležité rozhodnutí má před sebou pardubický Krajský soud. Odpadová firma AVE CZ po něm požaduje, aby zrušil část územního plánu, jímž si obec Rybitví u Pardubic ve svém katastru nepřeje spalovnu nebezpečných odpadů. To totiž vystavuje stopku podnikatelskému plánu firmy, která v jejím katastru koupila roky nepoužívanou spalovnu, již chce obnovit.
Projekt společného auta Sony a Hondy náhle končí ( 26.03.2026 09:23:40 novinky.cz)
Projekt elektrických vozů Afeela, na kterých pracovaly společnosti Sony a Honda, končí nedlouho před začátkem prodejů. Zájemcům, kteří již zaplatili rezervaci, budou vráceny peníze. Důvodem je výrazný obrat ve směřování Hondy.
Zajíček na obalu zdraží čokoládu i o 80 korun na kilogram ( 26.03.2026 09:18:29 novinky.cz)
Zhruba týden před Velikonocemi pomrkávají z regálů v obchodech velikonoční zajíčci, kuřata či beránci. Jakmile se objeví na obalech sladkostí, jejich cena může vzrůst. Ukazuje to i porovnání bonboniéry Toffifee. Zatímco v některých prodejnách lze čtvrtkilové balení koupit za necelých 80 korun, jinde lidé zaplatí i 130 korun.
‚Nikdo nechce mít hlodavce za sousedy.‘ S jarní deratizací začali v Kněžpoli u Uherského Hradiště ( 26.03.2026 09:12:00 irozhlas.cz)
V Kněžpoli na Uherskohradišťsku začali s plošnou deratizací obce. Potkani se tam množí především v kanalizaci a také v opuštěných nebo neudržovaných domech. Otrávené návnady ale teď leží v několika městech a obcích napříč Zlínským krajem.
Policie obvinila muže z vraždy dítěte v Praze, hrozí mu i výjimečný trest ( 26.03.2026 09:11:55 novinky.cz)
Kriminalisté v Praze obvinili z vraždy dítěte muže zadrženého v souvislosti s případem, k němuž došlo v noci na středu. Mezi pachatelem a obětí činu byl příbuzenský vztah, další podrobnosti vzhledem k okolnostem a věku dítěte vyšetřovatelé nesdělili.
Muži zadrženému v Praze kvůli podezření z vraždy nezletilé hrozí výjimečný trest ( 26.03.2026 09:11:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Muž, kterého pražská policie zadržela v noci na středu kvůli podezření z násilí na nezletilé dívce, čelí obvinění z vraždy spáchané na dítěti. V případě odsouzení mu za to hrozí až výjimečný...
AI mu poradila, jak má zabít matku. Ubil ji kladivem ( 26.03.2026 09:08:58 novinky.cz)
Temný příběh z britského Walesu ukazuje, jak nebezpečně se mohou protnout psychické problémy, toxické on-line prostředí a moderní technologie. Teprve osmnáctiletý Tristan Roberts zavraždil svou matku po týdnech plánování, během nichž hledal inspiraci i u umělé inteligence (AI). Soud ho ve středu poslal za mříže na doživotí.
Fotbalová korupční kauza: žalobci chtějí vazbu pro 5 lidí. Měli podvádět, brát úplatky a prát špinavé peníze ( 26.03.2026 09:03:00 irozhlas.cz)
Ve fotbalové korupční kauze podali žalobci návrh na vazbu u pěti obviněných, tři jejich návrhy projedná Okresní soud ve Zlíně, další dva Městský soud v Brně. Ostatní zadržení byli propuštěni, řekl ve čtvrtek olomoucký vrchní žalobce Radim Dragoun.
Ukrajinci zaútočili na jednu z největších ropných rafinérií v Rusku ( 26.03.2026 09:01:31 novinky.cz)
Ukrajinská armáda v noci na čtvrtek drony zaútočila na jednu z největších ropných rafinérií v Rusku, která se nachází v Leningradské oblasti. Informují o tom ruská média. Kromě rafinérie Kyjev útočil také na Moskvu, tamní protivzdušné obraně se však podařilo drony zneškodnit, napsal na Telegramu starosta ruského hlavního města Sergej Sobjanin.
Prohledejte půdy, vyzývá muzeum. Hurvínek oslaví v Chebu stoleté výročí ( 26.03.2026 08:58:00 novinky.cz)
Hurvínkovi bude v květnu kulatých sto let a jeho narozeniny budou slavit i v Chebu. Proč právě tady? Stvořitel malého dřevěného rošťáka, řezbář a loutkář Gustav Nosek, tam totiž žil. K výročí chystá tamní muzeum výstavu i film.
Je to kluk, jmenuje se Bumi a v roce půjde do světa. Vzácný takin čínský se narodil v plzeňské zoo ( 26.03.2026 08:58:00 irozhlas.cz)
Plzeňská zoo ve středu pokřtila mládě vzácného takina čínského. Tomuto poddruhu se někdy říká kvůli barvě jeho dlouhé srsti i takin zlatý. Měsíc a půl starý samec dostal jméno Bumi, což v některých východoasijských jazycích znamená svět, půda nebo domovina.
Liberecký kraj se obává reorganizace Agentury pro sociální začleňování ( 26.03.2026 08:50:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Liberec - Liberecký kraj se obává reorganizace Agentury pro sociální začleňování (ASZ) na Ministerstvu pro místní rozvoj (MMR). Ohrožuje projekty z oblasti sociálního začleňování za stamiliony korun,...
Dva medvědi ze Slovenska se už zabydleli pod Černou horou ( 26.03.2026 08:46:00 novinky.cz)
Poslední medvěd hnědý byl v Krkonoších uloven roku 1726. Přesně po třech stoletích se sem tento druh vrací. Ze zoo ve slovenských Košicích už před čtrnácti dny dorazili Alica a Michal, aby se stali prvními obyvateli medvědího výběhu u Stezky v korunách stromů v Janských Lázních.
Vyšetřovatel bitcionové kauzy z NCOZ má na krku trestní oznámení, další měl ovlivňovat svědky ( 26.03.2026 08:43:58 novinky.cz)
Bitcoinová kauza způsobila nejen pád exministra spravedlnosti Pavla Blažka, ale má za následek i rozkol na státním zastupitelství včetně podání trestního oznámení na vysoce postaveného důstojníka NCOZ. Jak Novinky zjistily, na vyšetřovatele případu podali olomoučtí žalobci trestní oznámení kvůli mimořádně závažnému pochybení.
Při noční nehodě se na dálnici u Velkého Meziříčí převrátil kamion ( 26.03.2026 08:42:41 novinky.cz)
Noční nehoda kamionu u Velkého Meziříčí zastavila provoz na 142. kilometru dálnice D1 ve směru na Prahu. Nákladní auto se převrátilo na bok a zablokovalo část vozovky. Zraněný řidič skončil v nemocnici.
Šluknov měl slíbených 200 milionů na výkup domů ve vyloučené lokalitě, současná vláda je v rozpočtu nenašla ( 26.03.2026 08:31:00 irozhlas.cz)
Už rok se vedení Šluknova, Ústeckého kraje, sociální pracovníci a další organizace připravují na odkup problémového sídliště a pracují s tamními obyvateli. Předchozí vláda slíbila přispět 200 miliony na výkup 14 panelových domů, ta stávající ale v rozpočtu peníze nenašla.
Nejvyšší vůdce, prezident, diplomat nebo šéf parlamentu. S kým by se USA v Íránu mohly dohodnout? ( 26.03.2026 08:29:04 novinky.cz)
Americký prezident Donald Trump prohlásil, že USA v posledních dnech jednaly s „vysoce postaveným mužem“ v Íránu, a oznámil, že je odhodlán dosáhnout mírové dohody. List The Jerusalem Post uvedl, že íránská jednání vede předseda parlamentu Mohammad-Bakr Kalibáf. Americký web Axios tvrdí, že vyjednavači by mohli být také prezident Masúd Pezeškján, ministr zahraničí Abbás Arakčí či Mohammad-Bakr Zolkadr a spíše ze zdvořilosti přidává i jméno Modžtaby Chameneího.
KEMEL: Neprotestuji proti výsledkům voleb ( 26.03.2026 08:22:14 novinky.cz)
Rozhodně neprotestuji proti výsledkům voleb. Pokud ovšem jejich součástí není Turkova angličtina!
Řešení bytové situace v Příbrami? Soukromý investor chce vystavět 144 nových bytů ( 26.03.2026 08:16:00 irozhlas.cz)
Soukromý investor chce na jihu Příbrami postavit tři obytné domy se 144 byty. Součástí investice by mělo být i vybudování garážových a venkovních parkovacích míst a nového dopravního napojení. Plánovací smlouvu k záměru ve středu schválili zastupitelé. Město by mělo na jejím základě získat investiční příspěvek 8,4 milionu korun bez DPH.
Survivor 2026: Co se stalo v posledním díle a jak si vedou účastníci ( 26.03.2026 08:04:00 novinky.cz)
Oblíbená reality show Survivor se opět vrátila na televizní obrazovky. Premiéru měl pořad v pondělí 23. února na placené platformě Oneplay a s denním zpožděním jsou následně díly odvysílané také na TV Nova. Kdo jsou letošní účastníci, jaká jsou pravidla hry, co za odměnu čeká v pořadí pátého výherce drsné reality show a co se děje na ostrově?
Pražské arcibiskupství převzalo 57 nových bytů, výdělek má jít na platy kněží a charitativní činnost ( 26.03.2026 08:02:00 irozhlas.cz)
Pražské arcibiskupství kupuje a staví v hlavním městě i ve Středočeském kraji nové byty. Dalších 57 převzalo v pražské Ruzyni od stavební firmy. Do příštího roku jich chce vlastnit několik stovek a nabízet je lidem k pronájmu, z peněz pak plánuje financovat provoz církve.
S vlastními zákony vláda šetří. Místo toho obchází proces poslaneckými návrhy ( 26.03.2026 08:00:00 novinky.cz)
Do Sněmovny vláda doposud neposlala žádný zásadní návrh zákona, většinu nových norem tlačí koaliční poslanci přes poslanecké návrhy. Argumentují tím, že je to rychlejší. Jenže se tím vyhýbají standardnímu legislativnímu procesu, při kterém zákony procházejí připomínkovým řízením, kde je prostor upozornit na případné chyby.
Závislost na kratomu vzniká rychle a odvykací příznaky má jako heroin ( 26.03.2026 08:00:00 novinky.cz)
Minulý rok zemřelo sedmnáct mladých lidí na následky užívání kratomu. Tato novodobá droga se hojně užívá právě mezi mladými lidmi, kteří ji stále považují za přírodní doplněk stravy. V podcastu Neklepat jsme proto přivítali terapeutku a adiktoložku Moniku Plocovou, která ze svých zkušeností vypověděla, že závislých přibývá a odvykání není jednoduché. Odvykání z kratomu má prý stejný průběh jako odvykání ze závislosti na heroinu.
‚Nedělo se tam nic nestandardního.‘ V Dozimetru svědčí exšéf dopravního podniku Witowski ( 26.03.2026 08:00:00 irozhlas.cz)
Čtvrteční jednání v kauze Dozimetr patří bývalému šéfovi pražského dopravního podniku Petru Witowskému. Ten v hlavní větvi kauzy před soudem vypovídá v pozici svědka. V rozsáhlé obžalobě je zmiňován opakovaně v souvislosti se stíhaným ekonomickým exředitelem dopravního podniku Matejem Augustínem. Toho měla údajná Redlova skupina do městské firmy dosadit pod hrozbou možného odvolání právě generálního ředitele Witowského.
Eldorádo náborářů. Den, kdy se v Plzni sto firem přetahuje o tisíce studentů ( 26.03.2026 07:51:10 novinky.cz)
Připomíná to spíš tržiště a je tady docela frmol. Akorát místo brambor, rajčat nebo ředkviček zde nabízejí práci, stáže, brigády. Je středa 25. března a v kampusu plzeňské Západočeské univerzity se koná už jednatřicátý ročník Veletrhu pracovních příležitostí. O tisíce studentů se přetahuje více než stovka náborářů.
V Česku se ochladí, pak se o víkendu mírně oteplí. Napadnout může až 30 centimetrů sněhu ( 26.03.2026 07:46:00 irozhlas.cz)
O víkendu se po chladném pátku zřejmě mírně oteplí – až na 13 stupňů Celsia. Objeví se ale přeháňky a hlavně na horách může padat i sníh. Vyplývá to z předpovědi Českého hydrometeorologického ústavu. Sněžit asi začne už ve čtvrtek. Podle meteorologů může na východě Česka napadnout do pátečního rána na severním návětří hor až 30 centimetrů sněhu.
Sklárna v Karlově obnoví výrobu. Sehnat skláře byl problém, dvě generace se vypařily, říká majitel ( 26.03.2026 07:36:00 irozhlas.cz)
Sklárna v Karlově na Žďársku znovu zahájí výrobu. Po odchodu skláře Lukáše Vernera ke konci loňského roku si podnik převzal jeho zakladatel Jaroslav Svoboda. Teď zaměstnanci staví novou pec, aby bylo možné v areálu znovu vyrábět sklo a produkty z něj.
O víkendu se po chladném pátku mírně oteplí, ale na horách zasněží ( 26.03.2026 07:22:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - O víkendu se po chladném pátku zřejmě mírně oteplí až na 13 stupňů Celsia. Objeví se ale přeháňky a hlavně na horách může padat i sníh. Vyplývá to z předpovědi Českého hydrometeorologického...
Opravy kolonády v Bělovsi se chýlí ke konci, v srpnu se otevře expozice lázeňství na Náchodsku ( 26.03.2026 07:18:00 irozhlas.cz)
Oprava historické lázeňské kolonády z konce 19. století v Lázních Běloves v Náchodě pokračuje. Práce za 24 milionů korun začaly před více než rokem, skončit by podle smlouvy měly v létě. Součástí budovy bude pítko minerální vody a také výstavní prostory.
Menší splátky než u klasické hypotéky. Bílovec plánuje založení družstva a výstavbu bytových domů ( 26.03.2026 07:00:00 irozhlas.cz)
Ve městě Bílovec plánují založení bytového družstva a výstavbu bytových domů se 72 jednotkami. Vedení města se inspirovalo pilotním projektem družstevního bydlení v Hanušovicích na Šumpersku. Radnice chce místním poskytnout dostupné bydlení a třeba i nalákat nové obyvatele. Svůj plán představila na veřejném setkání.
Atlasy nevidomým usnadňují transport po Brně. Obsahují plány tramvají a jak je rozlišit po sluchu ( 26.03.2026 06:48:00 irozhlas.cz)
Takové atlasy nikde jinde nemají, radují se nevidomí lidé z Brna. Společně s vědci z Masarykovy univerzity a pracovníky dopravního podniku vyrobili speciální hmatové i sluchové katalogy brněnských tramvají. Usnadní jim rozeznat třináct různých typů vozů, ve kterých se lidé se zrakovým postižením složitě orientují.
Desetikilometrová kolona stála na D1 směrem na Prahu. U Velkého Meziříčí se převrátil kamion ( 26.03.2026 06:22:00 irozhlas.cz)
Převrácený kamion zablokoval v noci na čtvrtek na zhruba čtyři hodiny dálnici D1 na 142. kilometru u Velkého Meziříčí na Žďársku ve směru na Prahu. Na místě se vytvořila téměř desetikilometrová kolona aut. Vyplývá to z informací policie a Ředitelství silnic a dálnic ČR (ŘSD).
407 nových míst u nádraží. Parkovací dům Vápenka za 130 milionů by měl v Pardubicích stát za rok ( 26.03.2026 06:09:00 irozhlas.cz)
Nový parkovací dům dostal jméno Vápenka podle ulice, u které stojí. Radnice si od něj slibuje, že výrazně pomůže dopravě v této části města. Vybraná firma ho má postavit zhruba za rok a stát bude okolo 130 milionů korun.
V listopadu váhal. Teď se Podpůrný fond chystá vymáhat dotace po Agrofertu kvůli Babišovu střetu ( 26.03.2026 06:00:00 irozhlas.cz)
Ještě v listopadu kvůli nejednoznačným závěrům analýzy vedení Podpůrného a garančního rolnického a lesnického fondu nevědělo, jestli začne po firmách Agrofertu vymáhat podporu, která byla vyplacena v době první vlády Andreje Babiše (ANO). Postoj fondu se ale po dalších rozborech vyjasnil, jeho úředníci teď chystají „konkrétní kroky vůči jednotlivým společnostem“. Do konce dubna budou mít všechny podklady, s vymáháním pak začnou do konce června.
Finanční úřad vyjíždí do menších měst v Karlovarském kraji a pomáhá s daňovým přiznáním ( 26.03.2026 05:32:00 irozhlas.cz)
Blíží se termín pro podání papírového daňového přiznání. Pokud ho lidé nebudou odesílat elektronicky, musí ho odevzdat nejpozději 1. dubna. Pracovníci finančního úřadu proto jako každý rok vyjíždějí do vybraných měst, kde lidem pomáhají s vyplněním i odevzdáním přiznání. V Karlovarském kraji navštívili během března celkem sedm měst, třeba Ostrov na Karlovarsku.
Sedm a půl kila štěstí. „Klíčové bylo vyhrát cenu předtím,“ říká producent oscarového snímku ( 26.03.2026 05:30:00 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Je to pár dní, co se Alžběta Karásková a Radovan Síbrt vrátili z amerického Los Angeles, kde osobně převzali od Americké filmové akademie Oscara za nejlepší celovečerní dokument.
„Dechberoucí lež.“ Poslanec ANO napsal, že peníze na drony šly na výživné. Teď otočil ( 26.03.2026 05:30:00 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Z darů ve sbírce na drony pro Ukrajinu se hradilo i výživné bývalým partnerkám, napsal poslanec hnutí ANO Pavel Růžička. Tím chtěl poukázat na údajné vyvádění peněz ze sbírky. Spoluzakladatel Skupiny D Jan Veverka ale uvedl, že jde o „dechberoucí lež a absolutní bizár“. Když se pak redakce Aktuálně.cz zeptala Růžičky, z čeho jeho tvrzení vychází, uvedl, že šlo prý o „nadsázku, která se nabízela“.
Převrácený kamion blokoval několik hodin D1 na Žďársku ( 26.03.2026 05:24:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Velké Meziříčí (Žďársko) - Převrácený kamion zablokoval v noci na dnešek na zhruba čtyři hodiny dálnici D1 na 142. kilometru u Velkého Meziříčí na Žďársku ve směru na Prahu. Na místě se vytvořila až...
Alej k Helfštýnu u Týna nad Bečvou zmizí, staré a nemocné lípy v budoucnu nahradí duby ( 26.03.2026 05:05:00 irozhlas.cz)
Dřevorubci kácí historickou lipovou alej, která vede podél příjezdové cesty ke středověkému hradu Helfštýnu. Doporučil to dendrolog. Alej, která byla vyhlášená významným krajinným prvkem, je přestárlá a některé stromy nebezpečné. Alej i s cestou jsou majetkem obce Týn nad Bečvou. Ta proto povolala dělníky s motorovými pilami.
Špatná zpráva pro čínského agenta v Praze, soud ho nepustil z vazby. Žalobci už vyhlíží finále vyšetřování ( 26.03.2026 05:00:00 irozhlas.cz)
Příslušník čínské zpravodajské služby působící v Praze pod novinářským krytím se nedostal na svobodu. Redakci iROZHLAS.cz to potvrdil soud, který muže poslal do vazby a jehož rozhodnutí tento měsíc obstálo. Čínský občan je obviněný z neoprávněné činnosti pro cizí moc. Vyšetřování dozoruje Vrchní státní zastupitelství v Praze, které už má představu o termínu ukončení případu.
„Jste srab a nemáte koule,“ opřel se do Okamury překvapivý rival ( 25.03.2026 20:32:00 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Marian Jurečka, bývalý ministr práce za lidovce, se ve středu opřel do předsedy sněmovny a koaličního hnutí SPD Tomia Okamury. Mimo jiné ho nazval lhářem a srabem.
Sněmovna znovu nezvolila do správní rady VZP bývalé ministry Stanjuru a Válka ( 25.03.2026 20:10:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Sněmovna znovu nezvolila bývalé ministry financí Zbyňka Stanjuru (ODS) a zdravotnictví Vlastimila Válka (TOP 09) do správní rady Všeobecné zdravotní pojišťovny (VZP). Ve správní radě největší...
Poslanci nezvolili Rakušana místopředsedou Sněmovny ani na čtvrtý pokus ( 25.03.2026 19:55:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Poslanci nezvolili předsedu opozičního hnutí STAN Víta Rakušana ani na čtvrtý pokus místopředsedou Sněmovny. Poslední ze čtveřice místopředsednických pozic v dolní komoře tak zůstala i po dnešním...
Snížení výdajů na armádu je podle Senátu hazardem s obranyschopností státu ( 25.03.2026 19:27:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Snížení výdajů pro armádu ve prospěch dopravních staveb v letošním státním rozpočtu označil Senát za hazard vzhledem k rostoucím bezpečnostním hrozbám. Podle něj podobné postupy ohrožují obranyschopnost...
Čím Okamura rozčiluje Babiše. Používá taktiku, kterou mu může šéf ANO zarazit ( 25.03.2026 17:53:00 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Je to zdánlivě nenápadná taktika, která se zatím předsedovi SPD a Poslanecké sněmovny Tomiu Okamurovi vyplácela. Získával s ní důležitý náskok před předsedou ANO a premiérem Andrejem Babišem i dalšími politiky. Přitahoval tím pozornost svých voličů i novinářů a jen se spokojeně usmíval. Jenže, jak zjistilo Aktuálně.cz, Babišovi dochází trpělivost.
Do pražských ulic míří zametací roboti, test začne v Karlíně ( 25.03.2026 17:47:00 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Pražská městská firma Operátor ICT (OICT) plánuje v pražských ulicích zkušebně nasadit autonomní zametací roboty. Začít by měly letos v Karlíně, následně by se zkušební provoz mohl rozšířit i jinam. Uvedl to mluvčí OICT Vladimír Antonin Bláha.
Překvapivý tah Babišova ministra. "Oživil" odsouzeného experta, dal mu důležitý úkol ( 25.03.2026 16:03:00 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
„Je to neskutečný paradox.“ Přesně tak hodnotí zapojení někdejšího hlavního hygienika Michaela Víta do reformy hygienické služby část zdravotníků. Důvody mají dva. Vít se podle nich na rozklížení systému původně sám podílel. „Takže teď má vlastně zachraňovat něco, co sám před lety rozbil,“ zlobí se lékaři. Vadí jim také to, že byl Vít v minulosti pravomocně odsouzen za manipulaci se zakázkami.
Babiš jednal přes tři hodiny na ministerstvu obrany se Zůnou ( 25.03.2026 15:07:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Premiér Andrej Babiš (ANO) dnes přes tři hodiny jednal s ministrem obrany Jaromírem Zůnou (za SPD). Po schůzce na ministerstvu obrany s novináři nehovořil. Televizi CNN Prima NEWS později řekl,...
Kriminalisté v Praze zadrželi muže podezřelého z vraždy nezletilé dívky ( 25.03.2026 14:31:00 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Pražští kriminalisté v noci na středu zadrželi muže, kterého podezírají z násilného činu vůči nezletilé dívce. Případ řeší oddělení vražd, týká se osob, které měly rodinný vztah.
Hodnocení vlády je hlavně na voličích, uvedl Pavel ke 100 dnům kabinetu ( 25.03.2026 14:31:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Posuzovat činnost vlády a její kroky je především na voličích, uvedl pro ČTK prezident Petr Pavel ke 100 dnům od nástupu kabinetu Andreje Babiše (ANO). Řekl, že bude podporovat klidná politická...
Sněmovna schválila přerozdělení 7,9 mld. Kč mezi zdravotními pojišťovnami ( 25.03.2026 13:58:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Menší zdravotní pojišťovny si zřejmě přerozdělí asi 7,9 miliardy korun z peněz Všeobecné zdravotní pojišťovny (VZP). Návrh ministra zdravotnictví Adama Vojtěcha (za ANO) dnes schválila Sněmovna...
Odvody živnostníků na sociální pojistné klesnou, rozhodla sněmovna ( 25.03.2026 13:44:00 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Odvody živnostníků na sociální pojistné se zřejmě vrátí na loňskou úroveň. Sněmovna ve středu schválila předlohu koaličních politiků, která zastavuje zvýšení jejich měsíčního vyměřovacího základu a vrací ho na loňskou úroveň. Klesne na 35 procent průměrné hrubé mzdy. Živnostníci by tak mohli měsíčně ušetřit 715 korun.
Zastánci Palestiny po zadržení žhářů mlčí. Mají manuál, co smějí říkat policii ( 25.03.2026 13:28:00 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
I když údajná podzemní organizace, která se přihlásila k pátečnímu útoku na budovy firmy zbrojní firmy Archer-LPP, posuzovanému jako terorismus, vydala už dvě prohlášení, české propalestinské spolky stále mlčí. Lidé, které dosud policie obvinila, jsou přitom s těmito organizacemi nejspíš úzce propojení. A navíc na ně ukázal i Pavel Čižinský, advokát jednoho ze zadržených.
Jeden z obviněných z terorismu v Pardubicích podal stížnost proti vazbě ( 25.03.2026 13:06:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Pardubice - Jeden z obviněných, které poslal v úterý pardubický soud do vazby pro podezření z terorismu, si proti rozhodnutí podal stížnost. Druhý si ponechal lhůtu pro její podání. ČTK to sdělil soudce...
Prezidentův řidič pod vlivem alkoholu havaroval, dostal zákaz řízení a pokutu ( 25.03.2026 12:42:00 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Okresní soud v Náchodě ve středu potrestal řidiče prezidenta Petra Pavla za nehodu v opilosti zákazem řízení na 18 měsíců a peněžitým trestem 52 500 korun. Rozsudek není pravomocný, řidič Vojtěch Kopp se na místě odvolal. Člen policejní ochranné služby Kopp havaroval loni 8. února večer v České Čermné na Náchodsku, kde byl prezident na chalupě.
Soud dal prezidentovu řidiči za nehodu v opilosti zákaz řízení a pokutu ( 25.03.2026 12:30:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Náchod - Okresní soud v Náchodě dnes potrestal řidiče prezidenta Petra Pavla za nehodu v opilosti zákazem řízení na 18 měsíců a peněžitým trestem 52.500 korun. Rozsudek není pravomocný, řidič Vojtěch...
Sněmovna schválila vznik vyšetřovací komise ke korupční kauze Dozimetr ( 25.03.2026 11:38:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Sněmovna dnes schválila hlasy koalice vznik vyšetřovací komise ke korupční kauze Dozimetr. Komise by měla prověřit okolnosti, souvislosti a úřední fungování Dopravního podniku hlavního města...
Česká centra kvůli snížení příspěvku MZV zavřou tři pobočky v zahraničí ( 25.03.2026 11:23:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Česká centra v létě zavřou své pobočky ve Stockholmu, v Miláně a Tbilisi. Informaci serveru Seznam Zprávy dnes ČTK potvrdil mluvčí Českých center Jan Dlouhý. Důvodem je podle něj snížení příspěvku...
Jednání Sněmovny provázela slovní přestřelka mezi poslanci ( 25.03.2026 11:16:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Závěrečné kolo projednávání koaliční novely o snížení odvodů živnostníků provázela dnes ve Sněmovně slovní přestřelka mezi koaličními a opozičními poslanci. Vyvolalo ji vyjádření předsedy dolní...
Česká města v sobotu potemní na hodinu, připojí se ke kampani Hodina Země ( 25.03.2026 11:15:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Žižkovská věž v Praze, brněnský hrad Špilberk, věž ostravské Nové radnice a památky či veřejná osvětlení v dalších městech v ČR v sobotu večer potemní na jednu hodinu při celosvětové kampani...
Feministický aktivista a mladá studentka. Kdo jsou „teroristé“ z útoku na zbrojovku? ( 25.03.2026 11:13:00 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Policie v úterý zadržela tři osoby, které obvinila z účasti na žhářském útoku na halu zbrojovky v Pardubicích. Jednu osobu zatkli policisté na Slovensku, další dvě v Česku, kde je pardubický okresní soud poslal do vazby. Vinu nepřiznaly. Redakci Aktuálně.cz se ale na základě fotografií podařilo ztotožnit oba v Česku zadržené lidi.
Senát chce místo uzákonění Dne české vlajky změnit název svatováclavského svátku ( 25.03.2026 10:57:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Senát chce místo uzákonění Dne české vlajky jako významného dne upravit název svatováclavského svátku na Den české státnosti a státních symbolů. Prosadili to dnes senátoři především z klubu...
Zůna, Tejc a Metnar představili prezidentovi Pavlovi návrhy na nové generály ( 25.03.2026 10:56:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Ministři obrany Jaromír Zůna (za SPD), spravedlnosti Jeroným Tejc (za ANO) a vnitra Lubomír Metnar (ANO) představili dopoledne prezidentovi Petru Pavlovi návrhy na generály. Po schůzkách na...
Opozice v Karviné chce rezignaci primátora kvůli korupční kauze ve fotbale ( 25.03.2026 10:53:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Karviná - Primátor Karviné Jan Wolf (nestraník, dříve SOCDEM) by podle opozice měl rezignovat na svou funkci. Důvodem je korupční fotbalová kauza, v níž kvůli podezření z uplácení primátor figuruje....
Celníci našli v autě na Litoměřicku kilogram kokainu ukrytý v chlebníku ( 25.03.2026 10:28:00 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Kilogram kokainu ukrytý v chlebníku našli liberečtí celníci v osobním autě, které zastavili na dálnici D8 u Prackovic nad Labem na Litoměřicku. Droga byla údajně určená k další distribuci. Litoměřičtí kriminalisté obvinili řidiče, kterému hrozí až deset let za mřížemi. Obviněný je ve vazbě.
Celníci našli v autě na Litoměřicku kilogram kokainu ukrytý v chlebníku ( 25.03.2026 10:21:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Prackovice nad Labem (Litoměřicko) - Kilogram kokainu ukrytý v chlebníku našli liberečtí celníci v osobním autě, které zastavili na dálnici D8 u Prackovic nad Labem na Litoměřicku. Droga byla údajně...
Velitel ztrestal vojáka, který vytáhl nůž na generála. Ve hře je dlouhé vězení ( 25.03.2026 09:45:00 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Armádní skupina kybernetického boje musela suspendovat jednoho ze svých příslušníků. Toho, který loni v září v podzemí brněnského klubu Alterna v opilosti vytáhl nůž a pořezal generála Romana Hyťhu. Kromě toho, že byl mladší voják zproštěn výkonu služby, za krvavý útok na blízkého kolegu Karla Řehky mu hrozí až deset let vězení.
Zvrat v počasí přijde už dnes. Předpověď uvádí, kde do soboty nejvíc nasněží ( 25.03.2026 09:27:00 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Již během dneška očekáváme na území Česka výraznou změnu počasí, avizují meteorologové. Přes den totiž přes naše území přejde od severozápadu studená fronta a před ní k nám bude zpočátku ještě proudit teplý vzduch od jihu, vyplývá z předpovědi Českého hydrometeorologického ústavu (ČHMÚ).
Spor o Turka zvedl důvěru v prezidenta o třetinu, ukázal průzkum ( 25.03.2026 08:52:00 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Spor mezi prezidentem Petrem Pavlem a vládou Andreje Babiše (ANO) o jmenování poslance Motoristů Filipa Turka ministrem zvýšil důvěru třetiny Čechů v hlavu státu. Uvádí to únorový průzkum agentury Median. Důvěru ve vládu zvedl spor jen u devíti procent lidí, zatímco u 36 procent vedl k poklesu důvěry v Babišův kabinet. Důvěra v prezidenta po sporu o Turka klesla u 30 procent dotázaných.
Průzkum: Spor o Turka zvýšil důvěru třetiny lidí v prezidenta Pavla ( 25.03.2026 08:29:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Spor mezi prezidentem Petrem Pavlem a vládou Andreje Babiše (ANO) o jmenování poslance Motoristů Filipa Turka ministrem zvýšil důvěru třetiny Čechů v hlavu státu. Uvádí to únorový průzkum agentury...
Největší absentéři mezi poslanci? Turek ani Šichtařová to nejsou. Překvapí jiná jména ( 25.03.2026 05:30:00 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Někteří zákonodárci v Poslanecké sněmovně chyběli na více než polovině hlasování. Naopak jedenáct z nich nevynechalo ani jediné. A premiér Andrej Babiš (ANO) sedí ve „žvanírně“ častěji, než když byl šéfem opozice.
Napadnou vám dítě na ulici. Bývalý policista o tom, jaká je šance, že mu někdo pomůže ( 25.03.2026 05:30:00 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Instruktor první pomoci Martin Bartl a Lucie Laitlová, koordinátorka vzdělávání Centra současného umění DOX, v novém díle Spotlightu vysvětlují, proč je většina lidí při konfliktních situacích na veřejných místech pasivní a jak to zvrátit, aniž byste ohrozili sebe či druhé.
Zůna: Výroky o požadavcích na razantnější změny na obraně mají politický motiv ( 24.03.2026 19:25:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Výroky o tom, že by se na ministerstvu obrany měly dít razantnější změny, mají politický motiv. Ministr obrany Jaromír Zůna (za SPD) to uvedl ve vyjádření, které ČTK poskytl mluvčí ministerstva...
Pardubický soud poslal do vazby Češku a cizince za úmyslné zapálení zbrojovky LPP ( 24.03.2026 19:24:00 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Okresní soud v Pardubicích poslal do vazby dva obviněné z teroristického útoku a účasti na teroristické skupině v souvislosti s pátečním úmyslným zapálením haly zbrojovky LPP Holding v Pardubicích. Soudce shledal důvody vazby útěkové, koluzní i předstihové. Policie to v úterý večer uvedla na síti X. Před soudem stanuli podle zpravodaje ČTK muž a žena.
Soud poslal do vazby dva obviněné za úmyslné zapálení zbrojovky LPP ( 24.03.2026 19:06:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Pardubice - Okresní soud v Pardubicích poslal do vazby dva obviněné z teroristického útoku a účasti na teroristické skupině v souvislosti s pátečním úmyslným zapálením haly zbrojovky LPP Holding v...
Lidé z ČT se bojí úderu vlády, Klempíř je ignoruje. Použijeme odpor, zní z televize ( 24.03.2026 18:43:00 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Předseda televizních odborů Vlastimil Vojtěch reaguje na plány koalice, která chce prosadit, aby byly už od poloviny letošního roku od televizních a rozhlasových poplatků osvobozeny některé skupiny obyvatel. Podle Vojtěcha by byl v takovém případě provoz ČT neudržitelný – dostala by se do platební neschopnosti.
Obžaloba chce podmínku a zákaz řízení pro muže, který usmrtil matku s kočárkem ( 24.03.2026 16:37:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Státní zástupkyně žádá tříletý podmíněný trest a pětiletý zákaz řízení pro Adama Coubala, který v pražských Vysočanech ztratil kontrolu nad svým porsche a po vjetí na chodník smrtelně zranil...
ČT by po zrušení části poplatků hrozil kolaps, pro ČRo by šlo o mimořádný zásah do hospodaření ( 24.03.2026 15:57:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Česká televize (ČT) a Český rozhlas (ČRo) by zrušením části televizních a rozhlasových poplatků, které plánuje vládní koalice, přišly zhruba o třetinu svých příjmů. V případě ČT by to byly...
Metnar: Policie přijme kvůli Velikonocům a dalším svátkům bezpečnostní opatření ( 24.03.2026 15:45:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Policie v Česku přijme s ohledem na páteční požár v Pardubicích a na situaci na Blízkém východě kvůli Velikonocům a dalším svátkům bezpečnostní opatření. Týkat se budou ochrany například kulturních,...
Odvolací soud potvrdil, že policistka při nehodě nespáchala trestný čin ( 24.03.2026 14:24:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Policistka Lucie Vavrochová, která v září 2024 nabourala v Praze policejním autem do jiného vozu, nespáchala trestný čin. Odvolací senát potvrdil rozhodnutí Obvodního soudu pro Prahu 2 postoupit...
MŽP vyhlásilo výběrové řízení na ředitele Správy Krkonošského národního parku ( 24.03.2026 13:43:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Ministerstvo životního prostředí vyhlásilo výběrové řízení na post ředitele Správy Krkonošského národního parku. Zájemci se mohou hlásit do 8. dubna. Úřad o tom informoval na webu s podrobnějšími...
Areály hodnotí končící lyžařskou sezonu kladně, nejlepším měsícem byl leden ( 24.03.2026 13:36:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Špindlerův Mlýn (Trutnovsko) - Lyžařská střediska v ČR končící lyžařskou sezonu hodnotí pozitivně. Jde o druhou sezonu v řadě, kdy sice přírodního sněhu nebylo příliš, ale byl dostatek mrazivých dnů...
Skupina hlásící se k požáru v Pardubicích začala vyhrožovat LPP Holding ( 24.03.2026 12:59:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Údajná protiizraelská skupina The Earthquake Faction, která se přihlásila k pátečnímu požáru ve zbrojovce LPP Holding v Pardubicích, vyhrožuje firmě, že zveřejní její tajné dokumenty, pokud...
ANO: Návrh změn poplatků ČT a ČRo není hotový, výpadek nepřesáhne poslední růst ( 24.03.2026 12:02:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Návrh na výjimky u rozhlasových a televizních poplatků pro lidi nad 75 let či firmy ještě není hotový, koaliční poslanci ho dnes nepředloží. Novinářům to ve Sněmovně řekl místopředseda dolní...
Rekonstrukcí Nové scény ND vláda vyvrací, že škudlí na kultuře, řekl Klempíř ( 24.03.2026 11:10:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Rekonstrukce Nové scény Národního divadla (ND), která dnes začíná, vyvrací řeči o tom, že vláda Andreje Babiše (ANO) chce škudlit na kultuře, řekl ministr kultury Oto Klempíř (za Motoristy)....
Psychiatr: Omezení sociálních sítí dětem je potřeba, rodiče to sami nezvládnou ( 24.03.2026 10:57:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Omezení sociálních sítí dětem do 16 let a mobilů ve školách je podle místopředsedy Sekce dětské a dorostové psychiatrie České lékařské společnosti Jana Evangelisty Purkyně (ČLS JEP) Michala...
Babiš připustil, že schodek státního rozpočtu příští rok přesáhne ten letošní ( 24.03.2026 10:32:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Premiér Andrej Babiš (ANO) v rozhovoru pro Blesk.cz připustil, že státní rozpočet v příštím roce bude mít vyšší schodek než letos. Zdůvodnil to potřebou investic. První rozpočet, který předložila...
Vláda nerezignuje na zákon, který by rozkryl financování organizací, řekl Babiš ( 24.03.2026 10:30:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Vláda podle premiéra Andreje Babiše (ANO) nerezignuje na přípravu zákona o transparentnosti, který by poskytl ucelený přehled o tom, kolik peněz proudí ze zahraničí organizacím lobbujícím za...
Babiš respektuje víkendovou demonstraci, změny kvůli ní nechystá ( 24.03.2026 09:17:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Premiér Andrej Babiš (ANO) respektuje víkendovou protivládní demonstraci Milionu chvilek, na kterou podle organizátorů dorazilo na pražskou Letnou minimálně čtvrt milionu lidí. Předseda vlády...
ÚS odmítl stížnost Jiřikovského z bitcoinové kauzy proti prodloužení vazby ( 24.03.2026 08:59:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Brno - Ústavní soud (ÚS) odmítl stížnost Tomáše Jiřikovského proti rozhodnutím o prodloužení vazby z přelomu loňského a letošního roku. Potvrdil, že obava z jeho útěku před spravedlností má pádné důvody....
Plán legislativy strop důchodového věku na 65 letech nezmiňuje ( 23.03.2026 18:39:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Vláda počítá od příštího roku s návratem k vyššímu výpočtu růstu důchodů, navyšováním penze každých pět let po osmdesátce a zvyšováním důchodu za takzvané přesluhování. Od roku 2028 chce upravit...
Halu LPP Holding páteční požár zničil, strhnout asi bude nutné i druhý objekt ( 23.03.2026 16:52:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Pardubice - Hala společnosti LPP Holding v Pardubicích, kde v pátek hořelo, byla podle firmy zničena, strhnout bude velmi pravděpodobně nutné i druhý zasažený objekt. Firma dál zjišťuje přesný rozsah...
Tejc: Zákon proti neziskovým organizacím nechystá vláda ani ministerstvo ( 23.03.2026 15:50:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Zákon o zahraničních vazbách neziskových organizací nechystá ani ministerstvo spravedlnosti, ani vláda, řekl po dnešním jednání kabinetu ministr spravedlnosti Jeroným Tejc (za ANO). Přehled...
Vláda schválila memorandum o hlubší spolupráci mezi ČR a Slovenskem ( 23.03.2026 15:24:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Kabinet dnes odsouhlasil memorandum o prohloubené spolupráci mezi vládami Česka a Slovenska. Po jednání to řekl vicepremiér Karel Havlíček (ANO). Potvrdil zároveň, že se obě vlády příští úterý...
Vláda schválila legislativní plán na zbytek roku a výhled do dalších let ( 23.03.2026 15:17:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Legislativní plány na zbytek letošního roku a výhled na další roky dnes schválila vláda, řekl novinářům po jednání vicepremiér Karel Havlíček (ANO). K materiálu se vrátili ministři po měsíci,...
Novým vládním zmocněncem pro digitalizaci je náměstek vnitra Klučka ( 23.03.2026 15:04:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Vláda jmenovala novým zmocněncem pro digitalizaci a strategickou bezpečnost náměstka ministra vnitra Lukáše Klučku. Nahradil poslance Roberta Králíčka (ANO), který minulý týden rezignoval....
Od letoška se zpřísňuje sledování absence ve školách, data musí posílat i MŠ ( 23.03.2026 14:42:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Od letošního roku se zpřísňuje sledování absence žáků a studentů ve školách, údaje o dětech v povinném předškolním vzdělávání, tedy pětiletých, budou odevzdávat také mateřské školy. Změnu přinesla...
Kříž: Útok na pardubickou firmu zapadá do ruského modu operandi učebnicově ( 23.03.2026 13:56:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Brno - Bezpečnostní expert Zdeněk Kříž z Fakulty sociálních studií Masarykovy univerzity nevylučuje, že páteční útok na pardubickou firmu vyrábějící drony pro Ukrajinu mohl mít souvislost s ruskými...
Soud se po třech měsících vrátil ke kauze Dozimetr ( 23.03.2026 13:32:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Po více než tříměsíční pauze se dnes Obvodní soud pro Prahu 9 vrátil k projednávání kauzy Dozimetr. V případu korupce při zadávání zakázek pražského dopravního podniku (DPP) vyslechl Zdeňka...
Vědci v ČR provedli jako druzí na světě pokus, dali lidem bez domova 100.000 Kč ( 23.03.2026 13:21:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Vědci v Česku provedli jako druzí na světě experiment k řešení situace lidí bez domova. Poskytli jim na rok 100.000 korun bez podmínek a pokynů, nebo speciální podporu sociálního pracovníka....
Zemřela dlouholetá ředitelka Nadace Charty 77 Božena Jirků ( 23.03.2026 12:49:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Ve věku 78 let zemřela v neděli dlouholetá ředitelka Nadace Charty 77 Božena Jirků a zakladatelka Konta Bariéry. Podílela se na řadě charitativních projektů, mimo jiné na celonárodní sbírce...
Za opravu Divadla na Vinohradech zaplatí Praha 1,66 mld. Kč, rozhodli radní ( 23.03.2026 11:27:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Kompletní rekonstrukci Divadla na Vinohradech chce Praha zadat společnosti GG AVERS Divadlo, kterou tvoří firmy Geosan Group a Avers. V soutěži nabídla cenu 1,66 miliardy korun bez DPH. Předpokládaná...
Havlíček: Stát zvýší dozor nad zabezpečením areálů zbrojařských firem ( 23.03.2026 09:33:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Stát zvýší kontrolu zabezpečení objektů 428 firem, které mají licenci na výrobu a vývoz zbraní. Pokud nenaplní zákon, hrozí jim neposkytnutí licence, uvedl po dnešním zasedání vlády ministr...
Výrobci pamětí čekají, že se poptávka normalizuje, omezí plány rozšíření kapacit ( 26.03.2026 09:00:00 diit.cz)
Začátkem loňského podzimu nechtěli výrobci pamětí investovat do rozšiřování kapacit nad rámec běžných plánů. Poté uznali, že by se investice mohly vyplatit, ale nakonec, zdá se, budou zdrženlivější…
USA zakazuje import nových zahraničních routerů ( 26.03.2026 08:44:24 root.cz)
Federální komise pro komunikace (FCC) v pondělí zakázala import nových modelů zahraničních routerů. Nařízení je namířeno hlavně proti čínským routerům, kterých je v současnosti v USA asi 60 %. Stávajících modelů se nařízení netýká.
You probably don't want to buy a retro console ( 26.03.2026 08:41:11 medium.com)
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Open source Meshery 1.0 debuts, offering new layer of control for cloud-native infrastructure ( 26.03.2026 08:24:54 lxer.com)
Wildly popular CNCF project finally hits its 1.0 release and it could completely change how organizations manage cloud native infrastructure.
Swift 6.3 Released ( 26.03.2026 07:27:11 swift.org)
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Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring Engineers Who Make Product Decisions ( 26.03.2026 07:00:28 ashbyhq.com)
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After 26 Years at EFF, Cindy Cohn Is Handing Reins to Nicole Ozer ( 26.03.2026 06:53:24 lxer.com)
Cohn, who helped lead a landmark crypto case and shape EFF’s agenda for decades, will hand leadership of the group to Nicole Ozer this summer.
Intel nahrazuje kód GeekBench pro navýšení skóre, ten výsledky zneplatnil ( 26.03.2026 06:40:00 diit.cz)
Pamatujete, jak Intel používal specifické optimalizace pro 3DMark, ač to autoři považovali za cheat? Nyní šel dál a nahrazuje kód GeekBenche vlastním. Autoři testu zpětně tyto výsledky zneplatnili…
Data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant ( 26.03.2026 06:11:01 npr.org)
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VitruvianOS 0.3 Debuts as Haiku-Inspired Linux OS Without X11 or Wayland ( 26.03.2026 05:21:55 lxer.com)
VitruvianOS 0.3 is the first public release, featuring a Haiku-inspired design and a custom graphics stack built on the Linux kernel, without X11 or Wayland.
Brett Cannon: Why pylock.toml includes digital attestations ( 26.03.2026 03:59:58 snarky.ca)
A Python project got hacked where malicious releases were directly uploaded to PyPI. I said on Mastodon that had the project used trusted publishing with digital attestations, then people using a pylock.toml file would have noticed something odd was going on thanks to the lock file including attestation data. That led to someone asking for a link to something to explain what I meant. I didn&apost have a link handy since it&aposs buried in 4 years and over 1,800 comments of discussion, so I figured I would write a blog post. 😁Since trusted publishing is a prerequisite for digital attestations, I&aposll cover that quickly. Basically you can set a project up on PyPI such that a continuous deployment (CD) system can upload a release to PyPI on your behalf. Since PyPI has to trust the CD system to do security right as it lets other sites upload to PyPI on your behalf, not every CD system out there is supported, but the big ones are and others get added as appropriate. Since this helps automate releases without exposing any keys to PyPI that someone might try to steal, it&aposs a great thing to make your life as a maintainer easier while doing something safer; win-win!Digital attestations are a way for a CD system to attest that a file came from that CD system. That&aposs handy as once you know where a file should come from you can verify that fact to make sure nothing nefarious is going on. And since this is just a thing to flip on, it&aposs extremely simple to do. If you use the official PyPA publish action for GitHub Actions, you get it automatically. For other CD systems it should be a copy-and-paste thing into your CD configuration.Now, the thing that pylock.toml records is who the publisher is for a file. Taking packaging as an example, you can look at the provenance for packaging-26.0-py3-none-any.whl that comes from the digital attestation and you will notice it tells you the file came from GitHub via the pypa/packaging repo, using the publish.yml workflow run in the "pypi" environment (which you can also see via the file&aposs details on PyPI):"publisher": {
"environment": "pypi",
"kind": "GitHub",
"repository": "pypa/packaging",
"workflow": "publish.yml"
}So what can you do with this information once it&aposs recorded in your pylock.toml? Well, the publisher details are stored for each package in the lock file. That lets code check that any files listed in the lock file for that package version were published from the same publisher that PyPI or whatever index you&aposre using says the file came from. So if the lock file and index differ on where they say a file came from, something bad may have happened.What can you do as a person if you don&apost have code to check that things line up (which isn&apost a lot of code; the lock file should have the index server for the package, so you follow the index server API to get the digital attestation for each file and compare)? There are two things you can do manually. One, if you know that a project uses trusted publishing then that digital attestation details should be in the lock file (you can manually check by looking at the file details on PyPI); if it&aposs missing or changed to something suspicious then something bad may have happened. Two, when looking at a PR to update your lock file (and pylock.toml was designed to be human-readable), if digital attestation details suddenly disappear then something bad probably happened.So to summarize:Use trusted publishing if you&aposre a maintainerUpload digital attestations if you&aposre a maintainerUse lock files where appropriate (and I&aposm partial to pylock.toml 😁)If you&aposre using pylock.toml have code check the recorded attestations are consistentWhen reviewing lock file diffs (which you should do!), make sure the digital attestations don&apost look weird or were suddenly deletedA special thanks to William Woodruff, Facundo Tuesca, Dustin Ingram, and Donald Stufft for helping to make trusted publishers and digital attestations happen.
Show HN: Robust LLM Extractor for Websites in TypeScript ( 26.03.2026 03:55:52 github.com)
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Obsolete Sounds ( 26.03.2026 03:54:27 citiesandmemory.com)
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The Last Contract: William T. Vollmann's Battle to Publish an Epic (2025) ( 26.03.2026 03:54:13 metropolitanreview.org)
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The Cassandra of 'The Machine' ( 26.03.2026 03:53:40 thenewatlantis.com)
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ASUS Armoury & HP WMI Drivers Add More Laptops Ahead Of Linux 7.0-rc6 ( 26.03.2026 03:50:25 lxer.com)
Merged today was another round of platform-drivers-x86 changes for the ongoing Linux 7.0 cycle. There are bug fixes plus some new hardware support additions that make this merge notable. Due to the new hardware support amounting to just device IDs and not risking existing hardware support, it's fine for merging at this late stage of Linux 7.0 development...
DietPi March 2026 Update Adds Immich, uv, and RustDesk Client ( 26.03.2026 02:18:56 lxer.com)
The March 22, 2026 release of DietPi v10.2 introduces new software options including Immich, uv, and the RustDesk Client, along with a range of enhancements and bug fixes across supported single-board computers. DietPi: DietPi is a lightweight, Debian-based operating system optimized for single-board computers and embedded devices. It focuses on minimal resource usage while providing […]
Master Key for Linux’s Different Take on Password Management ( 26.03.2026 00:47:26 lxer.com)
A deterministic password manager that generates, rather than stores, your logins — and makes versioning old passwords surprisingly handy.
False claims in a widely-cited paper ( 26.03.2026 00:46:31 statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
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Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity) ( 26.03.2026 00:28:38 blog.hofstede.it)
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Show HN: A plain-text cognitive architecture for Claude Code ( 25.03.2026 23:29:13 lab.puga.com.br)
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FreeCAD 1.1 Brings Many Improvements For Open-Source CAD ( 25.03.2026 23:15:56 lxer.com)
FreeCAD 1.1 is out today as the newest feature release for this leading open-source CAD application...
Mini PC Acemagic W1: rozžhavený Ryzen 7 8745HS v kompaktní krabičce ( 25.03.2026 23:00:10 root.cz)
Malý počítač Acemagic W1 vypadá na papíře velmi dobře: Ryzen 7 8745HS s dostatkem užitečných portů v kompaktní krabičce. Realita? Výkonný a vybavený mini PC s chlazením, o kterém mám pochybnosti.
Základní funkce pro zpracování signálů v knihovně SciPy ( 25.03.2026 23:00:05 root.cz)
Ve třetí části seriálu o knihovně SciPy se zaměříme na dvě související oblasti. Nejprve se zmíníme o datových sadách, které SciPy nabízí. Ve druhé části článku si ukážeme některé funkce používané pro zpracování signálů.
„RDNA 3.5+“ / GFX117x umí FP8 / BF8, bude se jmenovat RDNA 4M a podporuje FSR 4 ( 25.03.2026 23:00:00 diit.cz)
Integrovaná grafika Zen 6 APU bude spadat do generace označované jako RDNA 4M. Fakticky jde o hybrid RDNA 3.5 a RDNA 4, některými zdroji dosud pracovně označovaný RDNA 3.5+…
Beginners Guide for Whatis Command on Linux ( 25.03.2026 21:44:27 lxer.com)
The whatis command is used to fetch a one-line description of the specified command or tool from the manual pages in your Linux system.
Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars ( 25.03.2026 21:11:57 bugs.xdavidhu.me)
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Talk Python to Me: #542: Zensical - a modern static site generator ( 25.03.2026 20:55:16 talkpython.fm)
If you've built documentation in the Python ecosystem, chances are you've used Martin Donath's work. His Material for MKDocs powers docs for FastAPI, uv, AWS, OpenAI, and tens of thousands of other projects. But when MKDocs 2.0 took a direction that would break Material and 300 ecosystem plugins, Martin went back to the drawing board. The result is Zensical: A new static site generator with a Rust core, differential builds in milliseconds instead of minutes, and a migration path designed to bring the whole community along.<br/>
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<strong>Martin Donath</strong>: <a href="https://github.com/squidfunk?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank" >github.com</a><br/>
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<strong>Zensical</strong>: <a href="https://zensical.org?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank" >zensical.org</a><br/>
<strong>Material for MkDocs</strong>: <a href="https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank" >squidfunk.github.io</a><br/>
<strong>Getting Started</strong>: <a href="https://zensical.org/docs/get-started/?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank" >zensical.org</a><br/>
<strong>Github pages</strong>: <a href="https://docs.github.com/en/pages?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank" >docs.github.com</a><br/>
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<strong>Michaels Example</strong>: <a href="https://gist.github.com/mikeckennedy/f03686c4c4ce7ce88b41c6b91c3226cf?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank" >gist.github.com</a><br/>
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<strong>gohugo.io/content-management/shortcodes</strong>: <a href="https://gohugo.io/content-management/shortcodes/?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank" >gohugo.io</a><br/>
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ASUS Armoury & HP WMI Drivers Add More Laptops Ahead Of Linux 7.0-rc6 ( 25.03.2026 20:29:03 phoronix.com)
Merged today was another round of platform-drivers-x86 changes for the ongoing Linux 7.0 cycle. There are bug fixes plus some new hardware support additions that make this merge notable. Due to the new hardware support amounting to just device IDs and not risking existing hardware support, it's fine for merging at this late stage of Linux 7.0 development...
The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos ( 25.03.2026 20:27:03 fightchatcontrol.eu)
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Ubuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To The Bare Minimum For Better Security ( 25.03.2026 20:12:57 lxer.com)
Ubuntu developers at Canonical are looking to strip the signed GRUB bootloader features to the bare minimum for the Ubuntu 26.10 release later this year. Dropping support for XFS, ZFS, Btrfs, LVM, md-raid (except RAID1), LUKS-encrypted disks, and other features is being looked at in the name of security...
Personal Encyclopedias ( 25.03.2026 19:41:51 whoami.wiki)
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Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed ( 25.03.2026 19:14:42 lapcatsoftware.com)
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FreeCAD 1.1 Released with Improved Wayland Support, New Tools, and More ( 25.03.2026 18:41:28 lxer.com)
FreeCAD 1.1 has been released today as a major update for this open-source, free, and cross-platform 3D parametric modeler with numerous new features and UI improvements.
90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w ( 25.03.2026 18:16:40 claudescode.dev)
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ARC-AGI-3 ( 25.03.2026 18:16:03 arcprize.org)
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Fedora Project Leader Suggests Linux Distros Could Adopt Apple's Age Verification API ( 25.03.2026 17:37:54 itsfoss.com)
He thinks a cross-distro API standard can be a practical solution to tackle age verification.
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands New Feature To Boost DX12 Game Performance ( 25.03.2026 17:09:58 lxer.com)
Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux systems enabled a new feature called BTP+BTI RCC Keying. You may be wondering what it means or stands for, but long story short it helps with the performance of Direct3D 12 (DX12) games running on Linux by way of Valve's Steam Play with Proton + VKD3D-Proton...
Intel uvedl Arc Pro B70 s 32GB GDDR6 a 365 TOPS Int8 ( 25.03.2026 16:51:33 root.cz)
Vedle procesorů Core Ultra Series 3 generace „Panther Lake“ a Xeonů 600 pro pracovní stanice ohlašuje i třetí díl skládačky, profi grafickou kartu Arc Pro B70. Ta je vybavena velkým GPU generace „Battlemage“ s aktivními 32× Xe jednotkami, 32GB 256bit GDDR6 pamětí a spotřebou 230 W (obecně 160 až 290 W). Právě velikost paměti bude hlavním tahákem, neb superpředražené GeForce RTX 5090 jsou bídně dostupné a Radeon AI PRO R9700 od AMD to sám asi nevytrhne – konkurence vždy přijde vhod.
Quantization from the Ground Up ( 25.03.2026 16:06:34 ngrok.com)
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ShellGPT: Turn Your Words into Terminal Commands ( 25.03.2026 15:38:29 lxer.com)
ShellGPT makes the terminal user-friendly, saving time by generating commands, automating scripts, and guiding me through tasks.
Android-Based GrapheneOS Refuses Age Verification, May Exit Regions That Enforce It ( 25.03.2026 15:33:00 itsfoss.com)
The privacy-focused Android fork would rather lose market access than collect user data at setup.
Fedora 45 Plan Approved For Web Frontend To Linux's "Blue Screen of Death" DRM Panic ( 25.03.2026 15:23:33 phoronix.com)
With just a few weeks to go until the official Fedora 44 release, there is already feature planning and activity beginning for Fedora 45 that will be released toward the end of 2026. Among the early feature approvals is a new web front-end feature to the DRM Panic "Blue/Black Screen of Death" functionality with a specialized QR code for kernel errors...
Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music ( 25.03.2026 15:02:56 nytimes.com)
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PyCharm: Expanding Our Core Web Development Support in PyCharm 2026.1 ( 25.03.2026 15:01:54 blog.jetbrains.com)
With PyCharm 2026.1, our core IDE experience continues to evolve as we’re bringing a broader set of professional-grade web tools to all users for free. Everyone, from beginners to backend-first developers, is getting access to a substantial set of JavaScript, TypeScript, and CSS features that were previously only available with a Pro subscription.
React, JavaScript, TypeScript, and CSS support
Leverage a comprehensive set of editing and formatting tools for modern web languages within PyCharm, including:
Basic React support with code completion, component and attribute navigation, and React component and prop rename refactorings.
Advanced import management:
Enjoy automatic JavaScript and TypeScript imports as you work.
Merge or remove unnecessary references via the Optimize imports feature.
Get required imports automatically when you paste code into the editor.
Enhanced styling: Access CSS-tailored code completion, inspections, and quick-fixes, and view any changes in real time via the built-in web preview.
Smart editor behavior: Utilize smart keys, code vision inlay hints, and postfix code completions designed for web development.
Navigation and code intelligence
Finding your way around web projects is now even more efficient with tools that allow for:
Pro-grade navigation: Use dedicated gutter icons for Jump to… actions, recursive calls, and TypeScript source mapping.
Core web refactorings: Perform essential code changes with reliable Rename refactorings and actions (Introduce variable, Change signature, Move members, and more).
Quality control: Maintain high code standards with professional-grade inspections, intentions, and quick-fixes.
Code cleanup: Identify redundant code blocks through JavaScript and TypeScript duplicate detection.
Frameworks and integrated tools
With the added essential support for some of the most popular frontend frameworks and tools, you will have access to:
Project initialization: Create new web projects quickly using the built-in Vite generator.
Standard tooling: Standardize code quality with integrated support for Prettier, ESLint, TSLint, and StyleLint.
Script management: Discover and execute NPM scripts directly from your package.json.
Security: Check project dependencies for security vulnerabilities.
We’re excited to bring these tried and true features to the core PyCharm experience for free! We’re certain these tools will help beginners, students, and hobbyists tackle real-world tasks within a single, powerful IDE. Best of all, core PyCharm can be used for both commercial and non-commercial projects, so it will grow with you as you move from learning to professional development.
Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm ( 25.03.2026 14:12:04 washington.edu)
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Gnome 50 Smooths Out NVIDIA GPU Issues ( 25.03.2026 14:07:07 linux-magazine.com)
Gamers rejoice, your favorite pastime just got better with Gnome 50 and NVIDIA GPUs.
Kali Linux 2026.1 Is Out with New Default Theme, New Tools, and BackTrack Mode ( 25.03.2026 14:07:00 lxer.com)
Kali Linux 2026.1 ethical hacking and penetration testing distribution is now available for download with 8 new tools, fresh new artwork, Kali NetHunter updates, a BackTrack mode, and other changes.
Real Python: How to Use Git: A Beginner's Guide ( 25.03.2026 14:00:00 realpython.com)
This tutorial shows you how to use Git to track changes in a project using just a few core commands and save clean snapshots of your work. If you’ve ever changed a file, broken something, and wished you could undo it, version control makes that possible. Git keeps a running history of your files so you can see what changed and when.
In this guide, you’ll set up Git locally and use the core workflow from the terminal to track and record changes in a Python project. By the end, you’ll have a working Git repository with a recorded commit history you can inspect and manage:
Commit History Displayed With git log
In the next sections, you’ll create your own repository and begin building that history from scratch. Before you begin, you can download a Git cheat sheet to keep the core commands handy:
Get Your Cheat Sheet: Click here to download your free Git cheat sheet and keep the core Git workflow, essential commands, and commit tips at your fingertips.
Take the Quiz: Test your knowledge with our interactive “How to Use Git: A Beginner's Guide” quiz. You’ll receive a score upon completion to help you track your learning progress:
Interactive Quiz
How to Use Git: A Beginner's Guide
Test your knowledge of Git basics: initializing repos, staging files, committing snapshots, and managing your project history.
How to Use Git: Prerequisites
Before you start tracking your code with Git, make sure you have the right tools in place. This tutorial assumes that you’re comfortable working with the command line and have some basic Python knowledge.
Here’s what you’ll need to get started:
A terminal or command prompt
Python 3.10 or higher installed on your system
Note: Git and GitHub are often confused, but they’re not the same thing:
Git is version control software that runs on your computer. It tracks changes to your files and manages your project’s history locally.
GitHub is an online platform for hosting Git repositories. It provides collaboration tools that make sharing code, working with teams, and backing up your projects easier.
You don’t need a GitHub account to use Git or follow this tutorial. Later, if you want to share your code with others or back it up online, you can optionally push your Git repository to platforms like GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket.
To learn more about the differences between Git and GitHub, check out Introduction to Git and GitHub for Python Developers.
With these prerequisites in place, you’re ready to begin setting up Git and tracking changes in your project. In the next step, you’ll install Git, prepare your existing Python files, and initialize your first repository.
Step 1: Install Git and Prepare Your Project
To start, you’ll check whether Git is installed on your system, prepare a simple project, and initialize a Git repository so you can begin tracking changes right away.
Check Whether Git Is Already Installed
Before you can start using Git, you need to make sure it’s installed on your machine. Chances are that Git is already present on your system. To check whether Git is installed, run this command:
Shell
$ git --version
If this command displays a Git version, you’re good to go and can create a project directory. Otherwise, you need to install Git on your system before continuing.
Install Git on Your System
Luckily, Git provides installers for Windows, macOS, and Linux on its official website, offering a straightforward way to install Git on your machine. Because installation steps vary across operating systems, this guide links to the official documentation rather than reproducing those steps here.
If you prefer a graphical interface, you can install a Git client such as GitHub Desktop, Sourcetree, or GitKraken. These tools install Git automatically during setup.
Once installed, open your terminal and confirm that Git is available:
Shell
$ git --version
git version 2.24.0.windows.2
Your Git version may appear slightly different from this example, depending on your operating system and when you installed Git. That’s perfectly fine. As long as Git is installed and the command runs successfully, you’ll be able to follow along with the rest of this tutorial without any issues.
Create a Project Directory
Read the full article at https://realpython.com/how-to-use-git/ »
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Ubuntu 26.10 dostane Grub v kombinaci se Secure Boot bez podpory XFS, ZFS, Btrfs či LUKS ( 25.03.2026 13:29:16 root.cz)
Canonical představil plán na osekání funkčnosti boot loaderu Grub. Cílem je zvýšení bezpečnosti boot procesu, kde Grub představuje stále ještě klíčovou položku. Počínaje Ubuntu 26.10 tak nebude možné v případě používání UEFI Secure Boot s Grubem bootovat z oddílů typů Btrfs, ZFS, XFS, také LVM, md-raid a disky šifrované s LUKS. Jedinou výjimku z jmenovaného bude mít RAID 1.
Modely Claude si najlepšie poradia s nezmyselnými otázkami ( 25.03.2026 13:25:29 root.cz)
Bullshit Benchmark je netradičný testovací rámec pre veľké jazykové modely (LLM), ktorý vytvoril Peter Gostev. Na rozdiel od bežných benchmarkov, ktoré merajú vedomosti alebo logiku, tento sa zameriava na schopnosť AI rozpoznať nezmysel a odmietnuť naň odpovedať.
Garuda Linux Draws a Line on Age Verification as Arch Stays Keeps Mum ( 25.03.2026 13:16:34 itsfoss.com)
Garuda has taken an official stance on the age verification question, while Arch Linux is silent.
Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field ( 25.03.2026 12:35:30 lxer.com)
Flatpak may be next, and the lobbying behind it is raising eyebrowsAfter weeks of debate, code to record user age was finally merged into the Linux world's favorite system management daemon.…
AMD ROCm 7.2.1 Released With Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS Support, Bug Fixes ( 25.03.2026 12:19:09 phoronix.com)
Building off the release of ROCm 7.2 from January, ROCm 7.2.1 is now available with Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS support as well as various bug fixes to this open-source AMD Radeon/Instinct GPU compute stack...
Real Python: Quiz: Using Data Classes in Python ( 25.03.2026 12:00:00 realpython.com)
Revisit how Python data classes work with Python Data Classes.
You’ll review how to define data classes, add default values to fields, customize ordering and comparisons, and work with immutable data classes.
This quiz is based on the video course and reinforces the practical syntax and patterns you need to create concise classes and reduce boilerplate.
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NVIDIA 595 Beta: Unlocking Better Linux Gaming Performance ( 25.03.2026 11:35:17 linuxtoday.com)
Unlock superior Linux gaming with NVIDIA 595 Beta. Explore enhanced performance features and optimizations that elevate your gaming experience to new heights.
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SUSE May Undergo Another Ownership Change in Potential $6 Billion Sale ( 25.03.2026 11:32:40 linuxtoday.com)
Explore the potential $6 billion sale of SUSE and its implications for the tech industry. Discover insights on the upcoming ownership change and market impact.
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Firemark – Flexible Linux Watermarking Tool for Images and PDFs ( 25.03.2026 11:23:59 linuxtoday.com)
Enhance your digital security with Firemark, a versatile Linux watermarking tool for images and PDFs. Safeguard your work with ease and precision today.
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SuperTuxKart on Linux: A Complete Guide to the Open-Source Kart Racing Game ( 25.03.2026 11:05:45 linuxtoday.com)
Discover the ultimate guide to SuperTuxKart on Linux! Learn tips, tricks, and installation steps for this exciting open-source kart racing game.
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KDE Plasma 6.6 Delivers An Impressive Edge For Radeon Graphics Over GNOME 50 On Ubuntu 26.04 ( 25.03.2026 11:05:17 phoronix.com)
In testing thus far on Ubuntu 26.04, the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop with the Wayland session is working pretty darn well and delivering a performance edge across many games/graphics workloads compared to the default GNOME 50 desktop. At least as far as AMD Radeon graphics are concerned, Plasma 6.6 is in quite impressive shape for the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release.
Thunderbird 149 Email Client Enables Exporting of Selected Address Book Cards ( 25.03.2026 11:04:00 lxer.com)
Hot on the heels of Firefox 149, the Mozilla Thunderbird open-source email, news, chat, calendar, and addressbook client has been updated today to version 149 with various new features and bug fixes.
Exploring Geminispace with Lagrange on Linux ( 25.03.2026 11:03:07 linuxtoday.com)
Dive into Geminispace using Lagrange on Linux. Uncover innovative features, seamless navigation, and a wealth of information at your fingertips.
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Kitty 0.46 Terminal Emulator Released with Smooth Scrolling and Tab Dragging ( 25.03.2026 11:00:14 linuxtoday.com)
Upgrade to Kitty 0.46 Terminal Emulator, offering smooth scrolling and tab dragging. Enhance your productivity with this powerful terminal tool.
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Cloud-audit: Fast, Open-source AWS Security Scanner ( 25.03.2026 10:57:29 linuxtoday.com)
Enhance your AWS security with Cloud-audit, a fast, open-source scanner that provides thorough audits to protect your cloud infrastructure effectively.
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AlmaLinux 9 and 10 Gain Official NVIDIA CUDA Support ( 25.03.2026 10:53:39 linuxtoday.com)
Unlock the power of official NVIDIA CUDA support in AlmaLinux 9 and 10. Learn how this integration boosts your system's performance and capabilities.
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freedesktop Closes Controversial Age Verification API Proposal ( 25.03.2026 10:46:43 linuxtoday.com)
Learn about freedesktop's closure of the contentious Age Verification API proposal, a significant step in the ongoing debate over online privacy and safety.
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Calamares Linux Graphical Installer Now Supports KDE’s Plasma Login Manager ( 25.03.2026 10:43:47 linuxtoday.com)
Explore the new Calamares Linux graphical installer, now compatible with KDE’s Plasma Login Manager for a seamless and user-friendly setup.
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Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 With 32GB GDDR6 Video Memory ( 25.03.2026 10:22:03 phoronix.com)
Alongside announcing the new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake parts with vPro for commercial PCs and the Xeon 600 workstation processors, Intel finally announced their professional "big Battlemage" BMG-G31 graphics card with the Arc Pro B70 as well as the Arc Pro B65...
Kevin Renskers: Building modern Django apps with Alpine AJAX, revisited ( 25.03.2026 10:16:50 loopwerk.io)
About nine months ago I wrote an article about my quest to simplify my web development stack. How I went from SvelteKit on the frontend and Django on the backend, to an all-Django stack for a new project, using Alpine AJAX to enable partial page updates. I’ve now been using this new stack for a while, and my approach -as well as my opinion- has changed significantly. Let’s get into what works, what doesn’t, and where I ended up. A quick recap Alpine AJAX is a lightweight alternative to htmx, which you can use to enhance server-side rendered HTML with a few attributes, turning <a> and <form> tags into AJAX-powered versions. No more full page refreshes when you submit a form. The key mechanic: when a form has x-target="comments", Alpine AJAX submits the form via AJAX, finds the element with that ID in the response, and swaps it into the page. The server returns HTML, not JSON. In the original article I used django-template-partials (since merged into Django itself) to mark sections of a template as named partials using {% partialdef %}. Combined with a custom AlpineTemplateResponse the view could automatically return just the targeted partial when the request came from Alpine AJAX. Where I began: template partials Let’s say you have an article page with the article body parsed from Markdown, a like button, and a comment section. The template looks something like this: article.html{% extends "base.html" %} {% block body %} <article> <h1>{{ article.title }}</h1> {{ article_html|safe }} {% partialdef like_form inline %} <form method="post" id="like_form" x-target="like_form"> {% csrf_token %} <button type="submit" name="toggle-like"> {% if article.is_liked %}Unlike{% else %}Like{% endif %} </button> </form> {% endpartialdef %} {% partialdef comments inline %} <div id="comments"> {% for comment in article.comments.all %} <div>{{ comment.user }}: {{ comment.text }}</div> {% endfor %} <form method="post" x-target="comments"> {% csrf_token %} {{ comment_form }} <button type="submit" name="add-comment">Submit</button> </form> </div> {% endpartialdef %} </article> {% endblock %} Every form POSTs to the same article view, which handles all the actions in one big post method: views.pyclass ArticleView(View): def get_context(self, request, pk): article = get_object_or_404( Article.objects.prefetch_related("comments") .annotate_is_liked(request.user), pk=pk, ) return { "article": article, "article_html": markdown(article.body), "comment_form": CommentForm(), } def post(self, request, pk): context = self.get_context(request, pk) article = context["article"] if "toggle-like" in request.POST: if article.is_liked: article.unlike(request.user) article.is_liked = False else: article.like(request.user) article.is_liked = True return AlpineTemplateResponse(request, "article.html", context) if "add-comment" in request.POST: form = CommentForm(request.POST) if form.is_valid(): Comment.objects.create(article=article, user=request.user, ...) return AlpineTemplateResponse(request, "article.html", context) return redirect(article) def get(self, request, pk): context = self.get_context(request, pk) return AlpineTemplateResponse(request, "article.html", context) (Please note that I’m not saying this is the correct way to do things, simply that this is how I used to do it in this particular project.) The AlpineTemplateResponse from the original article takes care of automatically returning just the targeted partial when the request comes from Alpine AJAX. This works fine. I thought I was being smart to prevent template duplication this way, but there are two problems: The view does too much work. Every POST action calls get_context, which fetches everything: the article, the parsed Markdown body, the comments, the like state, the comment form. When the user clicks “Like”, we do all this work that we’ll never use in the partial template. The template partial means the response is small, but the server-side work is exactly the same as rendering the full page. The template is a mess. Those {% partialdef %} blocks scattered throughout the template make it noisy and hard to read. In a small example it’s fine, but in a real template with 200+ lines, it gets ugly fast. When doubt set in: switching to Jinja2 To be honest though, the real killer of my motivation while working on this project has been the Django Template Language. I’m sorry, but I just hate it. I have since 2009, and I still do. The syntax is bad enough, but then you have to constantly fight its limitations. The fact I can’t simply call a function is so incredibly annoying, and is causing way more boilerplate with tons of custom template tags and filters. So, switch to Jinja2, right? Except that template partials aren’t supported in combination with Jinja2. No more {% partialdef %}. Which means returning full page responses for AJAX requests, which isn’t exactly ideal. I did it anyway. I ripped out all the {% partialdef %} tags, migrated my templates to Jinja2, and my views just returned the full template for AJAX requests. Alpine AJAX is smart enough to extract the elements it needs by their IDs, and throws away the rest. This was simpler and I was much happier writing Jinja2 templates, but the wastefulness got worse. Before, the server at least returned a small response. Now it rendered the entire page and sent all of it over the wire, just for the browser to use a tiny piece of it. Of course it’s still better than an old-fashioned MPA, where every response is a full page refresh, but not by a lot. It was at this moment that I seriously thought about throwing the entire frontend away and rebuilding it in SvelteKit, with Django REST Framework returning JSON responses. But that seemed like a pretty big waste of effort, so instead I took a deep breath and thought about what I wanted: Jinja2 templates. Non-negotiable. Small, fast AJAX responses. No rendering the full page for a like toggle. No template duplication between the full page and the AJAX response. Simple views that only do the work they need to do. Template partials gave me #2 and #3, but not #1 or #4. Switching to Jinja2 and returning the full template for AJAX requests gave me #1 and #3, but not #2 or #4. I needed a different approach. Where I ended up: separate views with template includes The answer turned out to be straightforward, and the one I initially discarded as “too much boilerplate”: instead of one monolithic view handling all POST actions, split each action into its own view with its own URL. And instead of {% partialdef %}, use plain {% include %} tags to extract reusable template fragments. Let me show you. Here’s the simplified article template: article.html{% extends "base.html" %} {% block body %} <article> <h1>{{ article.title }}</h1> {{ article.body }} {% include "articles/_like_form.html" %} {% include "articles/_comments.html" %} </article> {% endblock %} Clean and readable. Each include is a self-contained fragment. And here’s the like form: _like_form.html<form method="post" action="{{ url('toggle-like', args=[article.id]) }}" id="like_form" x-target="like_form"> {{ csrf_input }} {% if article.is_liked %} <button type="submit">Unlike</button> {% else %} <button type="submit">Like</button> {% endif %} </form> And finally, the view: views.pyclass ToggleLikeView(LoginRequiredMixin, View): def post(self, request, pk): article = get_object_or_404( Article.objects.annotate_is_liked(request.user), pk=pk, ) if article.is_liked: article.unlike(request.user) article.is_liked = False article.like_count -= 1 else: article.like(request.user) article.is_liked = True article.like_count += 1 if is_alpine(request): return TemplateResponse( request, "articles/_like_form.html", {"article": article}, ) # For non-Alpine requests, we just redirect back return redirect(article) No comment queries. No form building. No Markdown parsing. Just the like state. The is_alpine check provides a redirect fallback for non-JavaScript POST requests, keeping things progressive. And the ArticleView itself becomes GET-only. No more branching on POST keys. No get_context method that fetches everything for every action. Each view does one thing. The trade-offs There are a few downsides to this approach that are worth mentioning. More templates. For the article page, I went from one template to several: the include fragments (_like_form.html, _comments.html) that are shared between the full page and the AJAX responses. When an action needs to update multiple elements on the page, you also end up with small response templates that combine the right includes. For example, if submitting a comment should update both the comment list and a comment count elsewhere on the page: _add_comment_response.html{% include "articles/_comments.html" %} {% include "articles/_engagement_counts.html" %} Trivial, but still a file you have to create and name. It’s also harder to make sure that the template fragment has access to the context it needs when included into the big template via {% include %}, compared to {% partialdef %} and one single view always rendering it. More views and URL routes. Each action gets its own view class and its own path() entry. For a page with likes, comments, and subscriptions, that’s three or four extra views. But here’s what I got in return: Actual performance improvement. Not just smaller responses, but less work on the server. Each view only queries what it needs. Jinja2. I’m using Jinja2 instead of the Django Template Language. I can call functions, I have proper expressions, and I don’t need custom template tags for basic things. This alone was worth the switch. Readable templates. The main article.html is short and shows the page structure at a glance. Each fragment is self-contained. No {% partialdef %} blocks scattered everywhere. Simple views. Each view does exactly one thing. Easy to understand, easy to test, easy to optimize. Conclusion I went through three stages: template partials with Django Template Language, full-page responses with Jinja2, and finally separated views with template includes. Each step solved a real problem with the previous approach. The pattern I’ve ended up with requires more files and views than I’d like, but each is simple and does one thing. It’s become easier to understand the flow of every action. My overall feelings on Django + Alpine AJAX have also changed. I still believe there are benefits to using a simplified tech stack and using hypermedia as the engine of state. Just return HTML instead of returning JSON to a JavaScript framework which then has to turn it into HTML. Conceptually it still makes sense to me. But the dream was to build a plain old Django application using simple views and simple templates, using old-fashioned MPA server-rendered pages. Sprinkle in a few Alpine AJAX attributes and magically your site gets SPA-like usability. And it simply hasn’t played out that way for me. Yes, you could do that, if you’re fine with the wastefulness of returning full pages as a response to AJAX requests. But when you want to do it better than that, you end up with more boilerplate to make it possible to return small bits of HTML. And this isn’t really about Alpine AJAX specifically; htmx would lead to the exact same place. The fundamental tension is in the HTML-over-the-wire approach itself: the server has to know which fragments of HTML to return, and that means structuring your views and templates around it. You trade the complexity of a JavaScript frontend for a different kind of complexity on the server. Progressive enhancement adds to that complexity. Every form handling view needs an is_alpine check with a redirect fallback, every form needs to work both as a regular POST and as an AJAX submit. If I dropped progressive enhancement and just required JavaScript, those redirect fallbacks and the branching that comes with them would disappear. The views would be simpler. But I think progressive enhancement is important enough to keep in place. Would I use Alpine AJAX (or htmx) again? Honestly: probably not. I have a lot more fun when building frontends with SvelteKit, and for me Django shines when I limit its role to an API, ORM, and admin interface - not so much HTML templates and form handling. Building composable and reusable UI components is so much more natural in SvelteKit, and the performance is simply better (once the initial JS bundle has been downloaded and parsed). But am I going to throw away my current project’s code and redo it all? No, I am not. Django with Alpine AJAX is a nice change of scenery, it’s a nice playground I don’t usually get to play in. I think I ended up with a good compromise, and hey: I still don’t have to build and maintain a separate API, API docs, and frontend.
FreeCAD 1.1 Brings Many Improvements For Open-Source CAD ( 25.03.2026 09:33:00 phoronix.com)
FreeCAD 1.1 is out today as the newest feature release for this leading open-source CAD application...
GNOME 48.10 Released as Final Bugfix Update for GNOME 48 ( 25.03.2026 09:32:31 lxer.com)
GNOME 48.10 is out as the last maintenance update in the GNOME 48 lifecycle, focusing on fixes across core components like Shell, GTK, and Mutter.
Crimson Desert nepodporuje Intel Arc, zákazníkům vrací peníze. Může se to změnit ( 25.03.2026 09:00:00 diit.cz)
Vypadá to, že si studio Pearl Abyss, které stojí za hrou Crimson Desert, spočítalo, že ho vyjde levněji vrátit majitelům GPU Intelu peníze za hru než řešit podporu karet Arc. Mění však názor…
Hashicorp Vault: nastroj na správu hesel, klíčů a citlivých dat (školení) ( 25.03.2026 08:47:05 root.cz)
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Registrace domény .CZ bude vyžadovat uvedení telefonního čísla ( 25.03.2026 08:41:19 root.cz)
Registr českých domén reaguje na nařízení vyplývající z evropské směrnice NIS2 a zákona o kybernetické bezpečnosti. Správce domény, sdružení CZ.NIC musí zajistit, aby bylo možné v případě potřeby držitele domény efektivně kontaktovat. Dochází tedy ke změnám v registracích domény a po držitelích je nově požadováno uvedení telefonního čísla.
Oracle Releases Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8.2 - Still On Linux 6.12 LTS Base ( 25.03.2026 08:01:01 lxer.com)
Days after Oracle celebrated their RHEL-based Oracle Linux distribution turning 20 years old, today they announced Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8.2 "UEK 8.2" as their alternative to the RHEL-clone kernel with Oracle Linux...
OpenShot 3.5 je rychlejší a stabilnější, vylepšuje i GPU akceleraci a přidává podporu AI ( 25.03.2026 07:32:24 root.cz)
Nová verze video editoru OpenShot zase dostává spoustu sympatických vylepšení. Tvůrci nasadili novou výchozí timeline, která disponuje daleko rychlejším zoomováním, scrollováním i úpravami a nechybí ani nový panel klíčových snímků (ve výchozím nastavení zapnutý). Obecně zde došlo ke zrychlení o zhruba 35 %, speciálně u efektů a zpracování snímků.
Lemonade 10.0.1 Improves Setup Process For Using AMD Ryzen AI NPUs On Linux ( 25.03.2026 06:56:04 phoronix.com)
Earlier this month with the release of the Lemonade SDK 10.0 and FastFlowLM 0.9.35, using AMD Ryzen AI NPUs for running LLMs on Linux finally became feasible. AMD XDNA 2 NPUs can now run on Linux well for LLM workloads! Released on Tuesday was Lemonade 10.0.1 with a few improvements for the setup process of this local LLM open-source solution on Linux...
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Zdražení, omezení až zastavení polovodičové výroby je reálným rizikem, z něhož mají obavy výrobci čipů i zákazníci. Jen obnova dodávek Helia totiž potrvá déle, než co pokryjí zásoby některých výrobců…
Ubuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To The Bare Minimum For Better Security ( 25.03.2026 06:31:44 phoronix.com)
Ubuntu developers at Canonical are looking to strip the signed GRUB bootloader features to the bare minimum for the Ubuntu 26.10 release later this year. Dropping support for XFS, ZFS, Btrfs, LVM, md-raid (except RAID1), LUKS-encrypted disks, and other features is being looked at in the name of security...
EFF has a new boss to lead the fight against privacy-sucking forces of doom ( 25.03.2026 06:29:32 lxer.com)
Cyber rights org retools for the days of AI and unrestrained governmentinterview The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday appointed Nicole Ozer to succeed Cindy Cohn as the cyber rights group's executive director when Cohn departs this summer.…
Mesa 26.0 Will Make It In Time For The Fedora 44 Release ( 25.03.2026 06:18:22 phoronix.com)
With the recent Fedora 44 beta release, Mesa 25.3 graphics drivers were in use rather than the newest Mesa 26.0 series. The good news is that there is now approval for getting Mesa 26.0 drivers to land in time for next month's official Fedora 44 release...
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Unvanquished 0.56 is out today as the latest major update to this prominent open-source, community-driven shooter game. Unvanquished continues progressing after more than a decade in development for this open-source game and with today's v0.56 release features improved visuals, OpenMP for CPU-based rendering of skeletal models, and other enhancements...
Pop!_OS 24.04 vs. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS vs. Ubuntu 26.04 Development Benchmarks ( 25.03.2026 04:58:02 lxer.com)
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The Easiest Way to Manage Dotfiles Using GNU Stow ( 25.03.2026 03:26:33 lxer.com)
Keep your hidden configuration files organized and backed up with GNU Stow and Git on any machine in minutes.
Antonio Cuni: Inside SPy, part 2: Language semantics ( 25.03.2026 00:00:00 antocuni.eu)
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Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms ( 24.03.2026 21:54:27 cnn.com)
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Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands New Feature To Boost DX12 Game Performance ( 24.03.2026 20:14:00 phoronix.com)
Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux systems enabled a new feature called BTP+BTI RCC Keying. You may be wondering what it means or stands for, but long story short it helps with the performance of Direct3D 12 (DX12) games running on Linux by way of Valve's Steam Play with Proton + VKD3D-Proton...
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #727: Sunsetting Jazzband, Spyder, A/B Testing, and More (March 24, 2026) ( 24.03.2026 19:30:00 pycoders.com)
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Mike Driscoll: The Python Show – Python Illustrated ( 24.03.2026 17:59:43 blog.pythonlibrary.org)
In this episode, we hear from two sisters who put together a beginner’s book about Python. The unique hook for their book is that one sister wrote the text while the other did the illustrations. Listen in as we learn about these incredible sisters and how they got into software programming, writing, and technical education.
You can check out their book, Python Illustrated, on Packt or Amazon.
Maaike is an Udemy instructor, and she also has courses on Pluralsight.
This episode was originally published on The Python Show!
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Oracle Releases Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8.2 - Still On Linux 6.12 LTS Base ( 24.03.2026 16:50:16 phoronix.com)
Days after Oracle celebrated their RHEL-based Oracle Linux distribution turning 20 years old, today they announced Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8.2 "UEK 8.2" as their alternative to the RHEL-clone kernel with Oracle Linux...
Ari Lamstein: Upcoming O’Reilly Workshop: Building Data Apps with Streamlit and Copilot ( 24.03.2026 16:46:35 arilamstein.com)
On April 14, I’ll be teaching a new 4‑hour live workshop for O’Reilly: Building Data Apps with Streamlit and Copilot.
If you work in Python and want to turn your analyses into interactive, shareable tools, this workshop is designed for you. We’ll start from a Jupyter notebook and build a complete Streamlit app that lets users explore a dataset through interactive controls, charts, and maps. Along the way, we’ll use Copilot to speed up development and discover Streamlit features more efficiently.
What we’ll cover
Structuring a Streamlit app
Working with user input (select boxes, filters, etc.)
Creating interactive graphics with Plotly
Organizing the UI with columns and tabs
Deploying your app to Streamlit Cloud
The workshop is hands‑on: you’ll build the app step‑by‑step, and by the end you’ll have a working project you can adapt to your own data.
What You’ll Build
Here’s a screenshot from the app we’ll build together:
The app lets users choose a state and demographic statistic, explore how it changes over time, and view the data as a chart, map, or table.
And while the example uses demographic data, the skills you’ll learn—structuring an app, building interactive controls, and creating dynamic visualizations—apply to any Streamlit project you want to build.
Who is this for?
Data scientists and analysts who want to make their work more interactive
Python users who want to build dashboards without learning web development
Anyone curious about Streamlit or Copilot
If you’re interested, I’d love to have you join. Registration is open now.
AMD-Optimized Rocky Linux Distribution To Focus On AI & HPC Workloads ( 24.03.2026 15:58:07 phoronix.com)
AMD and CIQ jointly announced today that AMD-optimized Rocky Linux builds are being worked on for this RHEL-derived operating system. The AMD-optimized Rocky Linux will focus on AI and HPC workloads and be nicely integrated with ROCm...
System76 Retools Thelio Desktop ( 24.03.2026 15:15:57 linux-magazine.com)
The new Thelio Mira has landed with improved performance, repairability, and front-facing ports alongside a high-quality tempered glass facade.
Some Linux Distros Skirt Age Verification Laws ( 24.03.2026 14:21:08 linux-magazine.com)
After California introduced an age verification law recently, open source operating system developers have had to get creative with how they deal with it.
The Python Coding Stack: 3 • 7600 • 33 • 121 • When Python Stacks Up ( 24.03.2026 14:16:07 thepythoncodingstack.com)
When I was a child, I used to pace up and down the corridor at home pretending to teach an imaginary group of people. It was my way of learning.It still is.I started writing about Python as a learning tool—to help me sort things out in my head, weave a thread through all the disparate bits of information, clarify my thoughts, make sure any knowledge gaps are filled.I started The Python Coding Stack three years ago. That’s the first of the mystery numbers in the post’s title revealed! I had written elsewhere before, but at the time of starting The Stack, I felt I had found my own “Python voice”. I had been teaching Python for nearly a decade. I had written plenty of articles, but setting up The Python Coding Stack was a deliberate choice to step up. I was still writing articles primarily for my own benefit, but now I was also writing for others, hoping they would want to learn the way I do.And 7,600 subscribers apparently do. Thank you for joining this journey, whether you were there three years ago or you joined a few days ago. If you just joined, there’s an archive of 121 articles, most of them long-form tutorials or step-by-step guides.A special thank you to the 33 subscribers who chose to upgrade to premium and join The Club. It may only amount to 3 coffees per month for you, but it makes a difference to me. Thank you! I hope you’ve been enjoying the exclusive content for The Club members.And perhaps, if a few more decide to join you in The Club (you can surely cut three coffees out of your monthly intake!), then this publication may even become self-sustainable. Your support can make a real difference—if you value these articles and want to see them continue, please consider joining now. At the moment, I give up a lot of my time for free to think about my articles, plan them, draft them, review them technically, review them linguistically, get them ready for publication, and then publish.Subscribe nowI mentioned my live teaching earlier. My written articles and my live teaching have a lot in common. One of the hardest things about teaching (or communication in general) is to place yourself in the learner’s mindset. I know, it’s obvious. But it’s hard.A string of words can make perfect sense to someone who already understands the concept, but it’s hard to understand for someone learning it for the first time.Going from A to B can be a smooth reasoning step for an expert, but requires a few more intermediate steps for a novice.A trait that helps me in my teaching is my ability to recall the pain points I had when learning a topic. Everything is easy once you know it, but hard when you don’t. Remembering that what comes easily today was once hard is essential for teaching, whatever the format.I often use my writing to help me with my live teaching. And, just as often, I discover a new angle or insight during live teaching that I then put down in writing. It’s a two-way street. Both forms of communication—live teaching and writing—complement each other.All this to say that I enjoy writing these articles. They’re useful for me personally, and for my work teaching Python. And I hope they’re useful for you.121 articles. The cliché would have me say that choosing favourites is like choosing a favourite child. But that’s not the case. There are articles I like less than others. So, I tried to put together a highlights reel of the past three years. Here we go…The Centre of the Python Universe • ObjectsMy Life • The Autobiography of a Python ObjectThe One About the £5 Note and the Trip to the Coffee Shop • The Difference Between 'is' and '==' in PythonWhen a Duck Calls Out • On Duck Typing and Callables in PythonA Stroll Across Python • Fancy and Not So Fancy ToolsThe Curious Little Shop at The End of My Street • Python’s f-stringsDo You Really Know How 'or' And 'and' Work in Python?If You Find if..else in List Comprehensions Confusing, Read This, Else…Where Do I Store This? • Data Types and StructuresClearing The Deque—Tidying My Daughter’s Soft Toys • A Python Picture StoryAre Python Dictionaries Ordered Data Structures?Hermione’s Undetectable Extension Charm: Revealed (Using Python)bytes: The Lesser-Known Python Built-In Sequence • And Understanding UTF-8 EncodingWhere’s William? 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CRUD operations are at the heart of nearly every application you interact with. As a developer, you usually want to create data, read or retrieve data, update data, and delete data. Whether you access a database or interact with a REST API, only when all four operations are present are you able to make a complete data roundtrip in your app.
Creating, reading, updating, and deleting are so vital in software development that these methods are widely referred to as CRUD. Understanding CRUD will give you an actionable blueprint when you build applications and help you understand how the applications you use work behind the scenes. So, what exactly does CRUD mean?
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Rodrigo Gir√£o Serr√£o: Ask the LLM to write code for it ( 24.03.2026 13:16:00 mathspp.com)
This article covers a useful LLM pattern where you ask the LLM to write code to solve a problem instead of asking it to solve the problem directly.
The problem of merging two transcripts
I had two files that contained two halves of the transcript of an audio recording and I wanted to use an LLM to merge the two halves.
There were three reasons that stopped me from simply copying part 2 and pasting it after part 1:
the two transcripts overlapped (the end of part 1 was after the start of part 2);
the timestamps for part 2 started from 0, so they were missing an offset; and
speaker identification was not consistent.
I uploaded the two halves into ChatGPT and asked it to merge the two transcripts, fix the timestamps and the speaker identification, but to not change the text.
The result I got back was a ridiculous attempt at providing the full transcript, with two sections that supposedly represented parts of either transcript I could just copy and paste confidently, and a couple of other ridiculous blunders.
Instead of fighting ChatGPT, I decided to use a very useful pattern I learned about last year.
Ask the LLM to write code for it
Instead of asking ChatGPT to merge the transcripts, I could ask it to analyse them, find the solutions to the three problems listed above, and then write code that would merge the transcripts.
Since I was confident that ChatGPT could
identify the overlap between the two files;
use the overlap information to compute the timestamp offset required for part 2; and
figure out you had to swap the two speakers in part 2,
I knew ChatGPT would be able to write a Python script that could read from both files and apply a couple of string operations to the second part.
This yielded much better results in two ways.
ChatGPT was able to find the solutions for the three problems above and write a script that fixed them automatically.
That was the goal.
On top of that, since ChatGPT had a very clear implicit goal — get the final merged transcript — and since running Python code is something that ChatGPT can do, ChatGPT even ran the script for me and produced two artifacts at the end:
the full Python script I could run against the two halves if I wanted; and
the final, fixed transcript.
This is an example application of a really useful LLM pattern:
Don't ask the LLM to solve a problem. Instead, ask it to write code that solves the problem.
As another visual example, it's much easier to ask an LLM to write a Python script that draws a path that solves a maze (that's just a couple hundred of lines of code) than it is to upload an image and ask the LLM to draw a valid path on the picture of a maze.
Try it yourself!
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In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Python Modules and Packages.
By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to write and import modules and packages, how to structure code for modular development, and how to combine modules to create larger applications.
This quiz will help you practice organizing projects so they stay easier to maintain and grow.
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Seth Michael Larson: LAN Party Calculator (Mario Kart, Kirby Air Riders, F-Zero) ( 24.03.2026 00:00:00 sethmlarson.dev)
Nintendo has multiple popular racing franchises,
including Mario Kart,
Kirby Air Ride, and F-Zero. Each of these
franchises spans multiple titles and consoles and
have ways to play with more than one console
in a single shared “game lobby”. This feature makes these games interesting
for LAN parties, where you have
many players, consoles, and games in one area.
What does it mean to be the most “LAN-party-able” Nintendo racing game?
There are three metrics I found
interesting for this question: most-players, price-per-player, and “real-estate”-per-player (aka: TVs/consoles).
There is a different “best” game according to each of these metrics. I've compiled
the data and created a small calculator to compare:
Game
(Any)
F-Zero (FZ)
Super Mario Kart (SMK)
Mario Kart 64 (MK64)
F-Zero: GP Legend (FZGL)
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity (FZMV)
Mario Kart: Super Circuit (MKSS)
F-Zero GX (FZGX)
Kirby Air Ride (KAR)
Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (MKDD)
Mario Kart Wii (MKWII)
Mario Kart DS (MKDS)
Mario Kart 7 (MK7)
Mario Kart 8 (MK8)
F-Zero 99 (FZ99)
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (MK8D)
Kirby Air Riders (KARS)
Mario Kart World (MKWRD)
Players
(Any)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Mode
(Any)
Local
LAN
Online
Share
GameMode#PPriceConsolesGamesCablesAdaptersTVs
Price includes consoles, controllers, games, cables, adapters. Prices sourced from Pricecharting and Microcenter (no affiliation) for March 2026.
TVs and Mountain Dew‚Ñ¢ not included in price.
“Cables” means Link Cables for the GBA or Ethernet for the GameCube, Switch, and Switch 2.
“Adapters” means ETH2GC for the GameCube, “USB-A to Ethernet” adapters for docked Switch 1, or “USB-C to Ethernet” for undocked Switch 1 and Switch 2.
Which games are the winners?
Best price per player: Mario Kart DS using DS Download Play. With this method
you can buy a single copy of Mario Kart DS and play concurrently with up to 8
players. With 8 players would cost $62 per player.
Best real-estate per player: Mario Kart: Double Dash!! in LAN mode.
This is somehow the only game in the list that supports 4 players per
console in LAN mode, all future games only support 1 or 2 players per console in LAN mode.
This means fewer TVs and consoles per player and helps alleviate
slightly higher prices these days for GameCube gear.
Most players: F-Zero 99 hands down wins most players with up to 99
per lobby. Mario Kart World also supports up to 24 concurrent players
in LAN mode, but needing to use 12 Switch 2's compared to F-Zero
being a Switch 1 title means a much higher price.
Why did you build this?
This post was inspired by hosting a LAN party
with friends for my birthday. Researching and verifying the limits for each game
and console took a lot of work, so I hope this can save someone
some time wrangling all these numbers in the future.
After all this research, the games I chose for the LAN party are
“Mario Kart: Double Dash” on the GameCube, “Mario Kart 8 Deluxe” and
“F-Zero 99” on the Nintendo Switch, and “Mario Kart World” on the Nintendo Switch 2.
The data and the script I used to generate this calculator
is all open source. If there are mistakes or improvements,
please submit a patch. Please note that I don't own a
DS, 3DS, or Wii U so the numbers there are more likely to be incorrect.
The rest of this blog post will be about the specifics for each
console and game.
What features does each game support?
Each game supports one of four multiplayer modes: Local, LAN, Online, and Share.
Availability depends on both the console and the game.
GameConsoleYearLocalLANOnlineShare
Super Mario KartSNES1992YESNONONO
F-ZeroSNES1990YESNONONO
Mario Kart 64N641996YESNONONO
Mario Kart: Super CircuitGBA2001NOYESNOYES (1)
F-Zero: Maximum VelocityGBA2003NOYESNOYES (1)
F-Zero: GP LegendGBA2003NOYESNOYES (1)
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!GameCube2003YESYESNONO
Kirby Air RideGameCube2003YESYESNONO
F-Zero GXGameCube2003YESNONONO
Mario Kart DSDS2005NOYESYESYES (2)
Mario Kart WiiWii2008YESNOYESNO
Mario Kart 73DS/2DS2011NOYESYESYES (2)
Mario Kart 8Wii U2014YESNOYESNO
Mario Kart 8 DeluxeSwitch2017YESYESYESNO
F-Zero 99Switch2023NONOYESNO
Mario Kart WorldSwitch 22025YESYESYESNO
Kirby Air RidersSwitch 22025YESYESYESYES (3)
(1): via GBA Single-Pak Link Mode
(2): via DS Download Play
(3): via Nintendo Switch GameShare
Pricing
Here is a table with costs from March 2026 for each
game, console, and accessory:
GameConsoleControllerCableAdapter
F-Zero$18SNES$129$17
Super Mario Kart$34
Mario Kart 64$46N64$87$16
Mario Kart: Super Circuit$17GBA$73$24
F-Zero: GP Legend$30
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity$20
F-Zero GX$61GameCube$119$28$5$25
Kirby Air Ride$71
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!$60
Mario Kart DS$17DS$60
Mario Kart Wii$35Wii$60$13
Mario Kart 7$143DS/2DS$94
Mario Kart 8$10Wii U$129$30
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe$35Switch$135$36$5
F-Zero 99$0
Kirby Air Riders$50Switch 2$395$36$5$20
Mario Kart World$58
Game Boy Advance
The Game Boy Advance (GBA) had multiple features that made the console
perfect for multi-console multiplayer. These features being the new
GBA Link Cables, allowing more than two consoles to connect, and the
Single-Pak Link Play that all the GBA titles on this list support.
GBA Link Cables have three terminals per cable, a larger grey plug,
a smaller blue plug, and a smaller blue socket in the middle of the cable.
The grey and blue plugs both fit into a GBA console, but the larger grey plug
does not fit into the small blue socket on the cable. To connect four players,
two players connect like normal, and then player three connects their blue plug
into the blue socket between the existing connected consoles.
In the end, this means you only need N-1 cables for N consoles and that
a single player (player 1) ends up with a blue plug in their console.
The second feature “Single-Pak Link Play” allowed a single player to own
a cartridge and to share the game with other connected consoles if the
game supports the mode. This mode is also sometimes called “Multiboot”
or “Joyboot”. Because the game ROM data itself is transferred to the
other consoles, this often made for load-times during startup and
meant all content wasn't playable by all players. For example, in
Mario Kart: Super Circuit only a subset of maps and characters were
available in Single-Pay Link Play mode.
GameCube
The GameCube was Nintendo’s first internet-enabled console,
even if only 8 titles supported the feature. Only three titles supported
LAN play,
that being Kirby Air Ride, Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, and 1080° Avalanche.
The GameCube Broadband Adapter is legendarily expensive now due to how
few games supported the feature at all. Nowadays, it's advised to
modify your GameCube with a method to boot into Swiss
and using Swiss’s “Emulate Broadband Adapter” feature with an
ETH2GC adapter. These adapters are cheap, even if you don't assemble
them yourself. There are a few variants, ETH2GC Sidecar,
ETH2GC Lite,
and ETH2GC Card Slot.
I am currently running a ETH2GC Sidecar and ETH2GC Card Slot and both
work together with Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and Kirby Air Ride.
DS, Wii, Wii U, 3DS
The DS supported a feature called DS Download Play, which similar to
Single-Pak Link play for the GBA, allowed a playing single game cartridge
with up to 8 consoles. The 3DS also supported this feature.
Beyond this I didn't have a lot to say about these consoles, as they aren't my interest.
If you have more to say, maybe write your own blog post and send it to me
after!
Nintendo Switch
The first-generation Switch is a quirky console being both portable and dockable.
Because the console itself has a screen on it, this means you can play games
without a TV. However, to access “LAN” modes in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe you need to be
physically linked via Ethernet.
Problem is... the original Switch doesn't have
an Ethernet port. And depending on whether you're playing docked or undocked:
you'll need a different adapter!
If you're playing undocked, using the Switch screen as your “TV” you'll
need to buy a USB-C to Ethernet adapter. If you're playing docked you'll
need to buy a USB-A to Ethernet adapter, as the dock itself doesn't have
a USB-C port except for power delivery. Switch OLED docks do have an Ethernet port,
so if you have one of those models then you won't need an adapter in docked mode.
Test your adapters before your LAN party, as not every adapter
will be accepted by the Switch!
Both the first-generation Switch and Switch 2 also come with two controllers
(“Joycons”) per console, meaning you'll have to buy fewer controllers to
reach high player counts.
Nintendo Switch 2
The Switch 2 is similar to the Switch 1, being both portable and dockable.
Nintendo included an Ethernet port on the Switch 2 dock,
and also USB-A and USB-C ports, too. So if you're playing without
a TV, you'll still need a USB-C to Ethernet adapter for your Switch 2.
The Switch 2 adds support for a new mode: Game Share. This mode is similar to
DS Download Play and Single-Pak Link in terms of functionality but in terms of
implementation: it's local game streaming! Even cooler, this feature means that
first-generation Switch consoles can “play” some Switch 2 games like Kirby Air
Riders without sacrificing any features.
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
The game supports up to 16 players, however you can
only have 8 total karts per race. Double Dash allows two players
to share a single kart, with one player driving and other throwing
items. LAN mode also doesn't allow selecting which character
or kart you are, you are assigned which kart you
will be driving.
Kirby Air Ride
Despite supporting LAN mode and having 8 Kirby colors,
you are only allowed to have 4 players maximum within
City Trial or Air Ride modes. So, the LAN mode only
allows having fewer people sharing a TV.
F-Zero GX
I saw a reference online to a Nintendo-hosted online leaderboard via passwords
or ghosts for Time Attack, but wasn't able to find an
actual source that this happened. If you have a reference or video,
please send it my way!
Otherwise, I may be mis-remembering something else that I read in the past.
F-Zero 99
First F-Zero game in over 20 years (sorry F-Zero fans, us Kirby Air Ride fans know how
you feel). Allows up to 99 players in a private lobby. Game is free, but
you need a Switch or Switch 2 console per player. There isn't any local
or LAN multiplayer, so once Nintendo Switch Online is sunsetted this
game won't be playable with multiplayer.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Kart World
In both Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Mario Kart World the LAN play mode
is hidden behind holding L+R and pressing the left joystick down
on the "Wireless Play" option.
Kirby Air Riders
There is very little information online about Kirby Air Riders LAN multiplayer mode.
The official Nintendo documentation doesn't describe the allowed number of players per console. If anyone
has more definitive data, please reach out. Nintendo Switch GameShare allows playing online with four players with only one cartridge.
Nintendo Switch GameShare for Kirby Air Riders is also compatible with Nintendo Switch consoles.
Note that on launch Kirby Air Riders was very disappointing with online play
only allowing one player per console. An update added support
for more than one player per console for wireless play. LAN mode
still requires 1 console per player.
Local Multiplayer
Multiple players play the game on a single console
with different controllers.
Game1234
Super Mario Kart$163$180
F-Zero$147$164
Mario Kart 64$133$149$165$181
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!$179$207$235$263
Kirby Air Ride$190$218$246$274
F-Zero GX$180$208$236$264
Mario Kart Wii$95$108$121$134
Mario Kart 8$139$169$199$229
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe$170$170$206$242
Mario Kart World$453$453$489$525
Kirby Air Riders$445$445$481$517
LAN Multiplayer
Consoles directly communicate to each other
through wired, short-range wireless, or “local” internet connections, such as ethernet
running to an internet switch/router or
are directly wired together through ethernet
or console-specific link cable. What distinguishes
this mode from “Wireless” is that this mode will
continue to work even after Nintendo servers
have been discontinued.
Game23456789101112131415161718192021222324
Mario Kart: Super Circuit$204$318$432
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity$210$327$444
F-Zero: GP Legend$230$357$484
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!$418$446$474$502$530$558$586$795$823$851$879$1088$1116$1144$1172
Kirby Air Ride$440$468$496
Mario Kart DS$154$231$308$385$462$539$616
Mario Kart 7$216$324$432$540$648$756$864
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe$390$390$390$585$585$780$780$975$975$1170$1170
Mario Kart World$956$956$956$1434$1434$1912$1912$2390$2390$2868$2868$3346$3346$3824$3824$4302$4302$4780$4780$5258$5258$5736$5736
Kirby Air Riders$940$1410$1880$2350$2820$3290$3760$4230$4700$5170$5640$6110$6580$7050$7520
Online Multiplayer
Multiplayer where you can play against your friends
or other players without needing to be on the
same local network. This uses
either Wi-Fi or Ethernet but connected to the global internet.
This mode relies on a central service so once discontinued will
either not be possible or will require modifications to your console,
such as wiimmfi for the Nintendo Wii.
Game23456789101112131415161718192021222324
Mario Kart DS$154$231$308
Mario Kart Wii$190$203$216$311$324$419$432$527$540$635$648
Mario Kart 7$216$324$432
Mario Kart 8$278$308$338$477$507$646$676
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe$340$340$340$510$510$680$680
F-Zero 99$270$405$540$675$810$945$1080$1215$1350$1485$1620$1755$1890$2025$2160$2295$2430$2565$2700$2835$2970$3105$3240
Mario Kart World$906$906$906$1359$1359$1812$1812$2265$2265$2718$2718$3171$3171$3624$3624
Kirby Air Riders$890$890$890$1335$1335$1780$1780
Mario Kart Wii, Mario Kart DS have mods you can apply to play online
in private servers. Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and Kirby Air Ride
also have mods that allow wireless play which wasn't possible
when the games were first released.
Share Multiplayer (Single-Pak Link, DS Download Play, Game Share)
This multiplayer mode allows playing with local players
that own a console, but not the game. This usually results in
a degraded experience for players that don't own the game, such
as a reduced number of playable characters, karts, or racetracks.
Nintendo Switch “GameShare” uses game streaming between consoles.
Game2345678
Mario Kart: Super Circuit$187$284$381
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity$190$287$384
F-Zero: GP Legend$200$297$394
Mario Kart DS$137$197$257$317$377$437$497
Mario Kart 7$202$296$390$484$578$672$766
Kirby Air Riders$840$1235$1630
All Multiplayers
Here is a table comparing all multiplayer modes and their costs:
GameMode123456789101112131415161718192021222324
Super Mario KartLOCAL$163$180
F-ZeroLOCAL$147$164
Mario Kart 64LOCAL$133$149$165$181
Mario Kart: Super CircuitLOCAL$90
LAN$90$204$318$432
SHARE$90$187$284$381
F-Zero: Maximum VelocityLOCAL$93
LAN$93$210$327$444
SHARE$93$190$287$384
F-Zero: GP LegendLOCAL$103
LAN$103$230$357$484
SHARE$103$200$297$394
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!LOCAL$179$207$235$263
LAN$179$418$446$474$502$530$558$586$795$823$851$879$1088$1116$1144$1172
Kirby Air RideLOCAL$190$218$246$274
LAN$190$440$468$496
F-Zero GXLOCAL$180$208$236$264
Mario Kart DSLOCAL$77
LAN$77$154$231$308$385$462$539$616
ONLINE$77$154$231$308
SHARE$77$137$197$257$317$377$437$497
Mario Kart WiiLOCAL$95$108$121$134
ONLINE$95$190$203$216$311$324$419$432$527$540$635$648
Mario Kart 7LOCAL$108
LAN$108$216$324$432$540$648$756$864
ONLINE$108$216$324$432
SHARE$108$202$296$390$484$578$672$766
Mario Kart 8LOCAL$139$169$199$229
ONLINE$139$278$308$338$477$507$646$676
Mario Kart 8 DeluxeLOCAL$170$170$206$242
LAN$170$390$390$390$585$585$780$780$975$975$1170$1170
ONLINE$170$340$340$340$510$510$680$680
F-Zero 99LOCAL$135
ONLINE$135$270$405$540$675$810$945$1080$1215$1350$1485$1620$1755$1890$2025$2160$2295$2430$2565$2700$2835$2970$3105$3240
Mario Kart WorldLOCAL$453$453$489$525
LAN$453$956$956$956$1434$1434$1912$1912$2390$2390$2868$2868$3346$3346$3824$3824$4302$4302$4780$4780$5258$5258$5736$5736
ONLINE$453$906$906$906$1359$1359$1812$1812$2265$2265$2718$2718$3171$3171$3624$3624
Kirby Air RidersLOCAL$445$445$481$517
LAN$445$940$1410$1880$2350$2820$3290$3760$4230$4700$5170$5640$6110$6580$7050$7520
ONLINE$445$890$890$890$1335$1335$1780$1780
SHARE$445$840$1235$1630
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Programování pro osmibitová Atari: blokové výplně a přesuny dat, grafický subsystém ( 23.03.2026 23:00:10 root.cz)
Čtvrtý článek o vývoji pro počítače Atari je rozdělen na dvě části. V části první si ukážeme vyplňování paměti i přesunů bloků pouze s využitím osmibitových registrů. Pak se začneme zabývat grafickým subsystémem Atari.
Core Ultra 7 270K+ a Core Ultra 5 250K+ vydány: Zajímavější aplikačně než herně ( 23.03.2026 23:00:01 diit.cz)
Intelu se prakticky po roce a půl od vydání Core Ultra 9 285K podařilo vyrobit procesor, který se výkonnostně prakticky neliší od Core Ultra 9 285K, jen má o něco vyšší spotřebu a nové jméno…
Talk Python Blog: Updates from Talk Python - March 2026 ( 23.03.2026 21:04:09 talkpython.fm)
There have been a bunch of changes to make the podcast and courses at Talk Python just a little bit better. And I wrote a few interesting articles that might pique your interest. So I thought it was time to send you all a quick little update and let you know what’s new and improved.
Talk Python Courses
Account Dashboard for courses
I spoke to a lot of users who said that it’s a bit difficult to jump back into your account and see which courses you were last taking. I can certainly appreciate that, especially if you have the bundle with every class is available. So I added this cool new dashboard that sorts and displays your progress through your most recent course activity as well as courses that you have finished.
GTK3 Toolkit Winding Down To One Release Per Year ( 23.03.2026 20:21:20 phoronix.com)
The GTK 4.0 toolkit released in December 2020 while the GTK3 toolkit has continued to be maintained given a lot of software still relying on that older version. GTK 3.24.52 was released yesterday and with this version it's now shifting its release cadence to just one new update per year...
Patch Posted To Enable Intel FRED By Default On Linux ( 23.03.2026 17:03:01 phoronix.com)
Following today's article exploring the performance benefits of Intel Flexible Return and Event Delivery "FRED" with Panther Lake and also pointing out the rather obscure nature of FRED being disabled-by-default, an Intel Linux kernel engineer posted a patch to now enable FRED by default for better performance...
LibreOffice is Adding a Donation Banner That Might Annoy Some Users ( 23.03.2026 16:41:12 itsfoss.com)
The feature has already been merged into LibreOffice 26.8's development builds.
More precise elevation data for GraphHopper routing engine ( 23.03.2026 16:39:53 graphhopper.com)
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"Michael Kennedy's Thoughts on Technology": Replacing Flask with Robyn wasn't worth it ( 23.03.2026 16:31:19 mkennedy.codes)
TL;DR; I converted Python Bytes from Quart/Flask to the Rust-backed Robyn framework and benchmarked it with Locust. There was no meaningful speed or memory improvement - and Robyn actually used more memory. Framework maturity, ecosystem depth, and app server flexibility still matter more than raw benchmark numbers.
Last week I played with the idea of replacing Quart (async Flask ) with Robyn for our bigger web apps. Robyn is built almost entirely in Rust, and in the benchmarks, it looks dramatically better. Not just a little bit faster, but 25 times faster. However, if you’ve been around the block for a while, you know that benchmarks and how things work for your app and your situation are not always the same thing.
So I picked the simplest complex app that I run, Python Bytes, and converted it entirely to run on the Robyn framework. This took a few hours of careful work and experimenting, and I even had to create a Python package to allow Robyn to run the Chameleon template language.
When I was done, it was time to fire up Locust and see if there was any dramatic performance improvements. I certainly wasn’t expecting 25x, but 2x? 1.5x? That would have been really impressive.
Did Robyn improve speed or memory over Flask?
The results were in and the answer was just about no difference in RPS or latency. It turns out that almost all the computational time is in the logic of our app, which of course doesn’t change and I never intended to change it.
Requests per second: No meaningful difference between Robyn and Quart/Granian
Latency: Essentially identical under load
Memory: Robyn actually used more memory, not less
Another area I was hoping to optimize is memory. Our web apps use a lot of memory for what they are. They’re certainly not trivial. But running a couple of copies of the app in a web garden was using way more than I expected that they should. And I thought moving closer to Rust might have positive influences for memory too.
It turns out the Robyn fork actually used more memory, not less, than the current setup. After all, our web apps run on Granian, which is mostly Rust right up to the Flask framework itself already.
Why Flask’s maturity still beats Robyn’s speed
So our fun little spike to explore the Robyn framework is going to remain just that. I’m sticking with Flask. I’ve talked about this before, but maturity in a library or framework is a big plus. The ecosystem for Flask/Quart is much bigger and more polished than for the smaller Robyn framework.
More than that, the app server runtime for Robyn is much less polished than some of the pluggable app servers out there. Think Granian, Gunicorn, uvicorn, etc. For example, Robyn does not support web garden process recycling. In many servers you can say after five hours or 10,000 requests or something like that, just slowly take the request out of a process, spin up a new one and shut down the old one just to keep things fresh. This helps if you’re using some library that holds on to too many caches or some other weird memory thing.
Was the Robyn experiment a waste of time?
Even though I spent maybe close to six hours working on this exploration and decided not to use it, I still found it super valuable. I created the fun Chameleon Robyn package to help people using Robyn have a greater choice of template languages. I got to see my apps from multiple perspectives. I built out some tooling for Claude that I’m going to write about later that is generally really awesome. And I ended up saving significant memory for some of my biggest web apps by just spending more time thinking about how I’m running them currently in Granian and Flask.
PyCharm: OpenAI Acquires Astral: What It Means for PyCharm Users ( 23.03.2026 16:04:34 blog.jetbrains.com)
On March 19, OpenAI announced that it would acquire Astral, the company behind uv, Ruff, and ty. The Astral team, led by founder Charlie Marsh, will join OpenAI’s Codex team. The deal is subject to regulatory approval.
First and foremost: congratulations to Charlie Marsh and the entire Astral team. They shipped some of the most beloved tools in the Python ecosystem and raised the bar for what developer tooling can be. This acquisition is a reflection of the impact they’ve had.
This is big news for the Python ecosystem, and it matters to us at JetBrains. Here’s our perspective.
What Astral built
In just two years, Astral transformed Python tooling. Their tools now see hundreds of millions of downloads every month, and for good reason:
uv is a blazing-fast package and environment manager that unifies functionality from pip, venv, pyenv, pipx, and more into a single tool. With around 124 million monthly downloads, it has quickly become the default choice for many Python developers.
Ruff is an extremely fast linter and formatter, written in Rust. For many teams it has replaced flake8, isort, and black entirely.
ty is a new type checker for Python. It’s still early, and we‚Äôre already working on it with PyCharm. It’s showing promise.
This is foundational infrastructure that millions of developers rely on every day. We’ve integrated both Ruff and uv into PyCharm because they substantially make Python development better.
The risks are real, but manageable
Change always carries risk, and acquisitions are no exception. The main concern here is straightforward: if Astral’s engineers get reassigned to OpenAI’s more commercial priorities, these tools could stagnate over time.
The good news is that Astral’s tools are open-source under permissive licenses. The community can fork them if it ever comes to that. As Armin Ronacher has noted, uv is “very forkable and maintainable.” There‚Äôs no possible future where these tools go backwards.
Both OpenAI and Astral have committed to continued open-source development. We take them at their word, and we hope for the best.
Our commitment hasn’t changed
JetBrains already has great working relationships with both the Astral and the Codex teams. We’ve been integrating Ruff and uv into PyCharm, and we will continue to do so. We‚Äôve submitted some upstream improvements to ty. Regardless of who owns these tools, our commitment to supporting the best Python tooling for our users stays the same. We’ll keep working with whoever maintains them.
The Python ecosystem is stronger because of the work Astral has done. We hope this acquisition amplifies that work, not diminishes it. We’ll be watching closely, and we’ll keep building the best possible experience for Python developers in PyCharm.
Cloudflare Details Their Upgrade To EPYC Turin For 2x Throughput, 50% Better Perf/Watt ( 23.03.2026 15:28:00 phoronix.com)
Cloudflare's technical blog posts about their hardware and software efforts are always a treat to read. Their latest fascinating technical content is on their newest "Gen 13" server platform based around AMD EPYC Turin where they are now achieving 2x throughput and 50% better performance-per-Watt thanks to these latest-generation AMD EPYC server processors paired with software improvements too...
Hledač zranitelností Trivy šířil malware ( 23.03.2026 15:16:11 root.cz)
Trivy od Aqua Security je oblíbený open source vyhledávač zranitelností a špatných konfigurací, který pracuje s kontejnery, souborovými systémy i repozitáři Git. O víkendu došlo k napadení a Trivy šířilo malware, který krade klíče, hesla a další informace.
Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support ( 23.03.2026 15:10:10 itsfoss.com)
The project removes the birthDate field systemd added last week in response to age verification laws.
GrapheneOS nebude kontrolovat věk uživatelů ( 23.03.2026 14:10:45 root.cz)
Alternativní operační systém GrapheneOS založený na Androidu je specializovaný na bezpečnost a soukromí. GrapheneOS oficiálně podporuje telefony Google Pixel. V pátek oznámil, že nebude zavádět kontrolu věku uživatelů, jak vyžadují například zákony Kalifornie, Colorada a Brazílie.
James Bennett: Rewriting a 20-year-old Python library ( 23.03.2026 14:09:23 b-list.org)
Way back in 2005, lots of people (ordinary people, not just people who work in tech) used to have personal blogs where they wrote about things, rather than using third-party short-form social media sites. I was one of those people (though I wasn’t yet blogging on this specific site, which launched the following year). And back in 2005, and even earlier, people liked to have comment sections on their blogs where readers could leave their thoughts on posts. And that was an absolute magnet for spam.
There were a few attempts to do something about this. One of them was Akismet, which launched that year and provided a web service you could send a comment (or other user-generated-content) submission to, and get back a classification of spam or not-spam. It turned out to be moderately popular, and is still around today.
The folks behind Akismet also documented their API and set up an API key system so people could write their own clients/plugins for various programming languages and blog engines and content-management systems. And so pretty quickly after the debut of the Akismet service, Michael Foord, who the Python community, and the world, tragically lost at the beginning of 2025, wrote and published a Python library, which he appropriately called akismet, that acted as an API client for it.
He published a total of five releases of his Python Akismet library over the next few years, and people started using it. Including me, because I had several use cases for spam filtering as a service. And for a while, things were good. But then Python 3 was released, and people started getting serious about migrating to it, and Michael, who had been promoted into the Python core team, didn’t have a ton of time to work on it. So I met up with him at a conference in 2015, and offered to maintain the Akismet library, and he graciously accepted the offer, imported a copy of his working tree into a GitHub repository for me, and gave me access to publish new packages.
In the process of porting the code to support both Python 2 and 3 (as was the fashion at the time), I did some rewriting and refactoring, mostly focused on simplifying the configuration process and the internals. Some configuration mechanisms were deprecated in favor of either explicitly passing in the appropriate values, or else using the 12-factor approach of storing configuration in environment variables, and the internal HTTP request stack, based entirely on the somewhat-cumbersome (at that time) Python standard library, was replaced with a dependency on requests. The result was akismet 1.0, published in 2017.
Over the next six years, I periodically pushed out small releases of akismet, mostly focused on keeping up with upstream Python version support (and finally going Python-3-only, in 2020 when Python 2.7 reached its end of upstream support). But beginning in 2024, I embarked on a more ambitious project which spanned multiple releases and turned into a complete rewrite of akismet which finished a few months ago. So today I’d like to talk about why I chose to do that, how the process went, and what it produced.
Why?
Although I‚Äôm not generally a believer in the concept of software projects being ‚Äúdone‚Äù and thus no longer needing active work (in the same sense as ‚Äúa person isn‚Äôt really dead as long as their name is still spoken‚Äù, I believe a piece of software isn‚Äôt really “done” as long as it has at least one user), a major rewrite is still something that needs a justification. In the case of akismet, there were two specific things I wanted to accomplish that led me to this point.
One was support for a specific feature of the Akismet API. The akismet Python client‚Äôs implementation of the most important API method‚Äîthe one that tells you whether Akismet thinks content is spam, called comment-check‚Äîhad, since the very first version, always returned a bool. Which at first sight makes sense, because the Akismet web service‚Äôs response body for that endpoint is plain text and is either the string true (Akismet thinks the content is spam) or the string false (Akismet thinks it isn‚Äôt spam). Except actually Akismet supports a third option: “blatant” spam, meaning Akismet is so confident in its determination that it thinks you can throw away the content without further review (while a normal ‚Äúspam‚Äù determination might still need a human to look at it and double-check). It signals this by returning the true text response and also setting a custom HTTP response header (X-Akismet-Pro-Tip: discard). But the akismet Python client couldn‚Äôt usefully expose this, since the original API design of the client chose to have this method return a two-value bool instead of some other type that could handle a three-value situation. And any attempt to fix it would necessarily change the return type, which would be a breaking change.
The other big motivating factor for a rewrite was the rise of asynchronous Python via async and await, originally introduced in Python 3.5. The async Python ecosystem has grown tremendously, and I wanted to have a version of akismet that could support async/non-blocking HTTP requests to the Akismet web service.
Keep it classy?
The first thing I did was spend a bit of time exploring whether I could replace the entire class-based design of the library. Since the very first version back in 2005, the akismet library had always provided its client as a class (named Akismet) with one method for each supported Akismet HTTP API method. But it’s always worth asking if a class is actually the right abstraction. Very often it’s not! And while Python is an object-oriented language and allows you to write classes, it doesn’t require you to write them. So I spent a little while sketching out a purely function-based API.
One immediate issue with this was how to handle the API credentials. Akismet requires you to obtain an API key and to register one or more sites which will use that API key, and most Akismet web API operations require that both the API key and the current site be sent with the request. There’s also a verify-key API operation which lets you submit a key and site and tells you if they’re valid; if you don’t use this, and accidentally start trying to use the rest of the Akismet API with an invalid key and/or site, the other Akismet API operations send back responses with a body of invalid.
As noted above, the 1.0 release already nudged users of akismet in the direction of putting config in the environment, so reading the key and site from env variables was already well-supported. But some people probably can‚Äôt, or won‚Äôt want to, use environment variables for configuration. For example: they might have multiple sets of Akismet credentials in a multi-tenant application, and need to explicitly pass different sets of credentials depending on which site they’re performing checks for. So in any function-based interface, all the functions would not only need to be able to read configuration from the environment (which at least could be factored out into a helper function), they‚Äôd also need to explicitly accept credentials as optional arguments. That complicates the argument signatures (which are already somewhat gnarly because of all the optional information you can provide to Akismet to help with spam determinations), and makes the API start to look cumbersome.
This was a clue that the function-based approach was probably not the right one: if a bunch of functions all have to accept extra arguments for a common piece of data they all need, it’s a sign that they may really want to be a class which just has the necessary data available internally.
The other big sticking point was how to handle credential verification. It requires an HTTP request/response to Akismet, so ideally you’d do this once (per set of credentials per process). Say, if you’re using Akismet in a web application, you’d want to check your credentials at process startup, and then just treat them as known-good for the lifetime of the process after that. Which is what the the existing class-based code did: it performed a verify-key on instantiation and then could re-use the verified credentials after that point (or raise an immediate exception if the credentials were missing or invalid). I really like the ergonomics of that, since it makes it much more difficult to create an Akismet client in an invalid/misconfigured state, but it basically requires some sort of shared state. Even if the API key and site URL are read from the environment or passed as arguments every time, there needs to be some sort of additional information kept by the client code to indicate they’ve been validated.
It still would be possible to do this in a function-based interface. It could implicitly verify each new key/site pair on first use, and either keep a full list of ones that had been verified or maybe some sort of LRU cache of them. Or there could be an explicit function for introducing a new key/site pair and verifying them. But the end result of that is a secretly-stateful module full of functions that rely on (and in some cases act on) the state; at that point the case for it being a class is pretty overwhelming.
As an aside, I find that spending a bit of time thinking about, or perhaps even writing sample documentation for, how to use a hypothetical API often uncovers issues like this one. Also, for a lot of people it’s seemingly a lot easier, psychologically, to throw away documentation than to throw away even barely-working code.
One class or two?
Another idea that I rejected pretty quickly was trying to stick to a single Akismet client class. There is a trend of libraries and frameworks providing both sync and async code paths in the same class, often using a naming scheme which prefixes the async versions of the methods with an a (like method_name() for the sync version and amethod_name() for async), but it wasn’t really compatible with what I wanted to do. As mentioned above, I liked the ergonomics of having the client automatically validate your API key and site URL, but doing that in a single class supporting both sync and async has a problem: which code path to use to perform the automatic credential validation? Users who want async wouldn’t be happy about a synchronous/blocking request being automatically issued. And trying to choose the async path by default would introduce issues of how to safely obtain a running event loop (and not just any event loop, but an instance of the particular event loop implementation the end user of the library actually wants).
So I made the decision to have two client classes, one sync and one async. As a nice bonus, this meant I could do all the work of rewriting in new classes with new names. That would let me mark the old Akismet class as deprecated but not have to immediately remove it or break its API, giving users of akismet plenty of notice of what was going on and a chance to migrate to the new clients. So I started working on the new client classes, calling them akismet.SyncClient and akismet.AsyncClient to be as boringly clear as possible about what they’re for.
How to handle async, part one
Unfortunately, the two-class solution didn’t fully solve the issue of how to handle the automatic credential validation. On the old Akismet client class it had been easy, and on the new SyncClient class it would still be easy, because the __init__() method could perform a verify-key operation before returning, and raise an exception if the credentials weren’t found or were invalid.
But in Python, __init__() cannot be (usefully) async, which posed the tricky question of how to perform automatic credential validation at instantiation time for AsyncClient.
As I dug into this I considered a few different options, and at one point even thought about going back to the one-class approach just to be able to issue a single HTTP request at instantiation without needing an event loop. But I wanted AsyncClient to be truly and thoroughly async, so I ended up settling for a compromise solution, implemented in two phases:
Both SyncClient and AsyncClient were given an alternate constructor method named validated_client(). Alternate constructors can be usefully async, so the AsyncClient version could be implemented as an async method. I documented that if you’re directly constructing a client instance you intend to keep around for a while, this is the preferred constructor since it will perform automatic credential validation for you (direct instantiation via __init__() will not, on either class). And then…
I implemented the context-manager protocol for SyncClient and the async context-manager protocol for AsyncClient. This allows constructing the sync client in a with statement, or an async with statement for AsyncClient. And since async with is an async execution context, it can issue an async HTTP request for credential validation.
So you can get automatic credential validation from either approach, depending on your needs:
import akismet
# Long-lived client object you'll keep around:
sync_client = akismet.SyncClient.validated_client()
async_client = await akismet.AsyncClient.validated_client()
# Or for the duration of a "with" block, cleaned up at exit:
with akismet.SyncClient() as sync_client:
# Do things...
async with akismet.AsyncClient() as async_client:
# Do things...
Most Python libraries can benefit from these sorts of conveniences, so I’d recommend investing time into learning how to implement them. If you’re looking for ideas, Lynn Root’s “The Design of Everyday APIs” covers a lot of ways to make your own code easier to use.
How to handle async, part deux
The other thing about writing code that supports both sync and async operations is how to handle the things they have in common. There are a few different ways to do this: you can write one implementation and have the other one call it. Or you can write two full implementations and live with the duplication. Or you can try to separate the I/O and the pure logic as much as possible, and reuse the logic while duplicating only the I/O code (or, since the two implementations aren’t perfect duplicates, writing two I/O implementations which heavily rhyme).
For akismet, I went with a hybrid of the last two of these approaches. I started out with my two classes each fully implementing everything they needed, including a lot of duplicate code between them (in fact, the first draft was just one class which was then copy/pasted and async-ified to produce the other). Then I gradually extracted the non-I/O bits into a common module they could both import from and use, building up a library of helpers for things like validating arguments, preparing requests, processing the responses, and so on.
One final object-oriented design decision here (or, I guess, not object-oriented decision): that common code is a set of functions in a module. It’s not a class. It’s not stateful the way the clients themselves are: turning an Akismet web API response into the desired Python return value, or validating a set of arguments and turning them into the correct request parameters (to pick a couple examples) are literally pure functions, whose outputs are dependent solely on their inputs.
And the common code also isn’t some sort of abstract base class that the two concrete clients would inherit from. An akismet.SyncClient and an akismet.AsyncClient are not two different subtypes of a parent “Akismet client” class or interface! Because of the different calling conventions of sync and async Python, there is no public parent interface that they share or could be substitutable for.
The current code of akismet still has some duplication, primarily around error handling since the try/except blocks need to wrap the correct version of their respective I/O operations, and I might be able to achieve some further refactoring to reduce that to the absolute minimum (for example, by splitting out a bunch of duplicated except clauses into a single common pattern-matching implementation now that Python 3.10 is the minimum supported version). But I’m not in a big hurry to do that; the current code is, I think, in a pretty reasonable state.
Enumerating the options
As I mentioned back at the start of this post, the akismet library historically used a Python bool to indicate the result of a spam-checking operation: either the content was spam (True) or it wasn’t (False). Which makes a lot of sense at first glance, and also matches the way the Akismet web service behaves: for content it thinks is spam, the HTTP response has a body consisting of the string true, and for content that it doesn‚Äôt think is spam the response body is the string false.
But for many years now, the Akismet web service has actually supported three possible values, with the third option being “blatant” spam, spam so obvious that it can simply be thrown away with no further human review. Akismet signals this by returning the true response body, and then adding a custom HTTP header to the response: X-Akismet-Pro-Tip, with a value of discard.
Python has had support for enums (via the enum module in the standard library) since Python 3.4, so that seemed the most natural way to represent the possible results. The enum module lets you use lots of different data types for enum values, but I went with an integer-valued enum (enum.IntEnum) for this, because it lets developers still work with the result as a pseudo-boolean type if they don’t care about the extra information from the third option (since in Python 0 is false and all other integers are true).
Python historical trivia
Originally, Python did not have a built-in boolean type, and the typical convention was similar to C, using the integers 0 and 1 to indicate false/true.
Python phased in a real boolean type early in the Python 2 days. First, the Python 2.2 release series (technically, Python 2.2.1) assigned the built-in names False and True to the integer values 0 and 1, and introduced a built-in bool() function which returned the integer truth value of its argument. Then in Python 2.3, the bool type was formally introduced, and was implemented as a subclass of int, constrained to have only two instances. Those instances are bound to the names False and True and have the integer values 0 and 1.
That’s how Python’s bool still works today: it’s still a subclass of int, and so you can use a bool anywhere an int is called for, and do arithmetic with booleans if you really want to, though this isn’t really useful except for writing deliberately-obfuscated code.
For more details on the history and decision process behind Python’s bool type, check out PEP 285 and this blog post from Guido van Rossum.
The only tricky thing here was how to name the third enum member. The first two were HAM and SPAM to match the way Akismet describes them. The third value is described as “blatant spam” in some documentation, but is represented by the string “discard” in responses, so BLATANT_SPAM and DISCARD both seemed like reasonable options. I ended up choosing DISCARD; it probably doesn’t matter much, but I like having the name match the actual value of the response header.
The enum itself is named CheckResponse since it represents the response values of the spam-checking operation (Akismet actually calls it comment-check because that’s what its original name was, despite the fact Akismet now supports sending other types of content besides comments).
Bring your own HTTP client
Back when I put together the 1.0 release, akismet adopted the requests library as a dependency, which greatly simplified the process of issuing HTTP requests to the Akismet web API. As part of the more recent rewrite, I switched instead to the Python HTTPX library, which has an API broadly compatible with requests but also, importantly, provides both sync and async implementations.
Async httpx requires the use of a client object (the equivalent of a requests.Session), so the Akismet client classes each internally construct the appropriate type of httpx object: httpx.Client for akismet.SyncClient, and httpx.AsyncClient for akismet.AsyncClient.
And since the internal usage was switching from directly calling the function-based API of requests to using HTTP client objects, it seemed like a good idea to also allow passing in your own HTTP client object in the constructors of the Akismet client classes. These are annotated as httpx.Client/httpx.AsyncClient, but as a practical matter anything with a compatible API will work.
One immediate benefit of this is it’s easier to accommodate situations like HTTP proxies, and server environments where all outbound HTTP requests must go through a particular proxy. You can just create the appropriate type of HTTP client object with the correct proxy settings, and pass it to the constructor of the Akismet client class:
import akismet
import httpx
from your_app.config import settings
akismet_client = akismet.SyncClient.validated_client(
http_client=httpx.Client(
proxy=settings.PROXY_URL,
headers={"User-Agent": akismet.USER_AGENT}
)
)
But an even bigger benefit came a little bit later on, when I started working on improvements to akismet‘s testing story.
Testing should be easy
Right here, right now, I’m not going to get into a deep debate about how to define “unit” versus “integration” tests or which types you should be writing. I’ll just say that historically, libraries which make HTTP requests have been some of my least favorite code to test, whether as the author of the library or as a user of it verifying my usage. Far too often this ends up with fragile piles of patched-in mock objects to try to avoid the slowdowns (and other potential side effects and even dangers) of making real requests to a live, remote service during a test run.
I do think some fully end-to-end tests making real requests are necessary and valuable, but they probably should not be used as part of the main test suite that you run every time you’re making changes in local development.
Fortunately, httpx offers a feature that I wrote about a few years ago, which greatly simplifies both akismet‘s own test suite, and your ability to test your usage of it: swappable HTTP transports which you can drop in to affect HTTP client behavior, including a MockTransport that doesn’t make real requests but lets you programmatically supply responses.
So akismet ships with two testing variants of its API clients: akismet.TestSyncClient and akismet.TestAsyncClient. They’re subclasses of the real ones, but they use the ability to swap out HTTP clients (covered above) to plug in custom HTTP clients with MockTransport and hard-coded stock responses. This lets you write code like:
import akismet
class AlwaysSpam(akismet.TestSyncClient):
comment_check_response = akismet.CheckResponse.SPAM
and then use it in tests. That test client above will never issue a real HTTP request, and will always label any content you check with it as spam. You can also set the attribute verify_key_response to False on a test client to have it always fail API key verification, if you want to test your handling of that situation.
This means you can test your use of akismet without having to build piles of custom mocks and patch them in to the right places. You can just drop in instances of appropriately-configured test clients, and rely on their behavior.
If I ever became King of Programming, with the ability to issue enforceable decrees, requiring every network-interacting library to provide this kind of testing-friendly version of its core constructs would be among them. But since I don’t have that power, I do what I can by providing it in my own libraries.
(py)Testing should be easy
In the Python ecosystem there are two major testing frameworks:
The unittest module in the Python standard library, which is a direct port to Python of the xUnit style of test frameworks seen in many other languages (including xUnit style naming conventions, which don’t match typical Python naming conventions).
The third-party pytest framework, which aims to be a more natively “Pythonic” testing framework and encourages function- rather than class-based tests and heavy use of dependency injection (which it calls fixtures).
For a long time I stuck to unittest, or unittest-derived testing tools like the ones that ship with Django. Although I understand and appreciate the particular separation of concerns pytest is going for, I found its fixture system a bit too magical for my taste; I personally prefer dependency injection to use explicit registration so I can know what’s available, versus the implicit way pytest discovers fixtures based on their presence or absence in particularly-named locations.
But pytest pretty consistently shows up as more popular and more broadly used in surveys of the Python community, and every place I’ve worked for the last decade or so has used it. So I decided to port akismet’s tests to pytest, and in the process decided to write a pytest plugin to help users of akismet with their own tests.
That meant writing a pytest plugin to automatically provide a set of dependency-injection fixtures. There are four fixtures: two sync and two async, with each flavor getting a fixture to provide a client class object (which lets you test instantiation-time behavior like API key verification failures), and a fixture to provide an already-constructed client object. Configuration is through a custom pytest mark called akismet_client, which accepts arguments specifying the desired behavior. For example:
import akismet
import pytest
@pytest.mark.akismet_client(comment_check_response=akismet.CheckResponse.DISCARD)
def test_akismet_discard_response(akismet_sync_client: akismet.SyncClient):
# Inside this test, akismet_sync_client's comment_check() will always
# return DISCARD.
@pytest.mark.akismet_client(verify_key_response=False)
def test_akismet_fails_key_verification(akismet_sync_class: type[akismet.SyncClient]):
# API key verification will always fail on this class.
with pytest.raises(akismet.APIKeyError):
akismet_sync_class.validated_client()
Odds and ends
Python has had the ability to add annotations to function and method signatures since 3.0, and more recently gained the ability to annotate attributes as well; originally, no specific use case was mandated for this feature, but everybody used it for type hints, so now that’s the official use case for annotations. I’ve had a lot of concerns about the way type hinting and type checking have been implemented for Python, largely around the fact that idiomatic Python really wants to be a structurally-typed language, or as some people have called it “interfacely-typed”, rather than nominally-typed. Which is to say: in Python you almost never care about the actual exact type name of something, you care about the interfaces (nowadays, called “protocols” in Python typing-speak) it implements. So you don’t care whether something is precisely an instance of list, you care about it being iterable or indexable or whatever.
On top of which, some design choices made in the development of type-hinted Python have made it (as I understand it) impossible to distribute a single-file module with type hints and have type checkers actually pick them up. Which was a problem for akismet, because traditionally it was a single-file module, installing a file named akismet.py containing all its code.
But as part of the rewrite I was reorganizing akismet into multiple files, so that objection no longer held, and eventually I went ahead and began running mypy as a type checker as part of the CI suite for akismet. The type annotations had been added earlier, because I find them useful as inline documentation even if I’m not running a type checker (and the Sphinx documentation tool, which all my projects use, will automatically extract them to document argument signatures for you). I did have to make some changes to work around mypy, though It didn’t find any bugs, but did uncover a few things that were written in ways it couldn’t handle, and maybe I’ll write about those in more detail another time.
As part of splitting akismet up into multiple files, I also went with an approach I’ve used on a few other projects, of prefixing most file names with an underscore (i.e., the async client is defined in a file named _async_client.py, not async_client.py). By convention, this marks the files in question as “private”, and though Python doesn’t enforce that, many common Python linters will flag it. The things that are meant to be supported public API are exported via the __all__ declaration of the akismet package.
I also switched the version numbering scheme to Calendar Versioning. I don’t generally trust version schemes that try to encode information about API stability or breaking changes into the version number, but a date-based version number at least tells you how old something is and gives you a general idea of whether it’s still being actively maintained.
There are also a few dev-only changes:‚Ä®
* Local dev environment management and packaging are handled by PDM and its package-build backend. Of the current crop of clean-sheet modern Python packaging tools, PDM is my personal favorite, so it’s what my personal projects are using.
* I added a Makefile which can execute a lot of common developer tasks, including setting up the local dev environment with proper dependencies, and running the full CI suite or subsets of its checks.
* As mentioned above, the test suite moved from unittest to pytest, using AnyIO’s plugin for supporting async tests in pytest. There’s a lot of use of pytest parametrization to generate test cases, so the number of test cases grew a lot, but it’s still pretty fast—around half a second for each Python version being tested, on my laptop. The full CI suite, testing every supported Python version and running a bunch of linters and packaging checks, takes around 30 seconds on my laptop, and about a minute and a half on GitHub CI.
That’s it (for now)
In October of last year I released akismet 25.10.0 (and then 25.10.1 to fix a documentation error, because there’s always something wrong with a big release), which completed the rewrite process by finally removing the old Akismet client class. At this point I think akismet is feature-complete unless the Akismet web service itself changes, so although there were more frequent releases over a period of about a year and a half as I did the rewrite, it’s likely the cadence will settle down now to one a year (to handle supporting new Python versions as they come out) unless someone finds a bug.
Overall, I think the rewrite was an interesting process, because it was pretty drastic (I believe it touched literally every pre-existing line of code, and added a lot of new code), but also… not that drastic? If you were previously using akismet with your configuration in environment variables (as recommended), I think the only change you’d need to make is rewriting imports from akismet.Akismet to akismet.SyncClient. The mechanism for manually passing in configuration changed, but I believe that and the new client class names were the only actual breaking changes in the entire rewrite; everything else was adding features/functionality or reworking the internals in ways that didn’t affect public API.
I had hoped to write this up sooner, but I’ve struggled with this post for a while now, because I still have trouble with the fact that Michael’s gone, and every time I sat down to write I was reminded of that. It’s heartbreaking to know I’ll never run into him at a conference again. I’ll miss chatting with him. I’ll miss his energy. I’m thankful for all he gave to the Python community over many years, and I wish I could tell him that one more time. And though it’s a small thing, I hope I’ve managed to honor his work and to repay some of his kindness and his trust in me by being a good steward of his package. I have no idea whether Akismet the service will still be around in another 20 years, or whether I’ll still be around or writing code or maintaining this Python package in that case, but I’d like to think I’ve done my part to make sure it’s on sound footing to last that long, or longer.
Real Python: How to Use Note-Taking to Learn Python ( 23.03.2026 14:00:00 realpython.com)
Learning Python can be genuinely hard, and it’s normal to struggle with fundamental concepts. Research has shown that note-taking is invaluable when learning new things. This guide will help you get the most out of your learning efforts by showing you how to take better notes as you walk through an existing tutorial and keep handwritten notes on the side:
In this guide, you’ll begin by briefly learning about the benefits of note-taking. Then, you’ll follow along with an existing Real Python tutorial as you perform note-taking steps to help make the information in the tutorial really stick. To help you stay organized as you practice, download the Python Note-Taking Worksheet below. It outlines the process you’ll learn here and provides a repeatable framework you can use with future tutorials:
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Using async for Loops for Asynchronous Iteration
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PyPy: Using Claude to fix PyPy3.11 test failures securely ( 23.03.2026 10:27:55 pypy.org)
I got access to Claude Max for 6 months, as a promotional move Anthropic made
to Open Source Software contributors. My main OSS impact is as a maintainer for
NumPy, but I decided to see what claude-code could to for PyPy's failing 3.11
tests. Most of these failures are edge cases: error messages that differ from
CPython, or debugging tools that fail in certain cases. I was worried about
letting an AI agent loose on my development machine. I noticed a post by
Patrick McCanna (thanks Patrick!) that pointed to using bubblewrap to
sandbox the agent. So I set it all up and (hopefully securely) pointed
claude-code at some tests.
Setting up
There were a few steps to make sure I didn't open myself up to obvious gotchas.
There are stories about agents wiping out data bases, or deleting mail boxes.
Bubblewrap
First I needed to see what bubblewrap does. I followed the instructions in the
blog post to set things up with some minor variations:
sudo apt install bubblewrap
I couldn't run bwrap. After digging around a bit, I found I needed to add
an exception for appamor on Ubuntu 24.04:
sudo bash -c 'cat > /etc/apparmor.d/bwrap << EOF
abi <abi/4.0>,
include <tunables/global>
profile bwrap /usr/bin/bwrap flags=(unconfined) {
userns,
}
EOF'
sudo apparmor_parser -r /etc/apparmor.d/bwrap
Then bwrap would run. It is all locked down by default, so I opened up some
exceptions. The arguments are pretty self-explanatory. Ubuntu spreads the
executables around the operating system, so I needed access to various
directories. I wanted a /tmp for running pytest. I also wanted the prompt
to reflect the use of bubblewrap, so changed the hostname:
cat << 'EOL' >> ./run_bwrap.sh
function call_bwrap() {
bwrap \
--ro-bind /usr /usr \
--ro-bind /etc /etc \
--ro-bind /run /run \
--symlink usr/lib /lib \
--symlink usr/lib64 /lib64 \
--symlink usr/bin /bin \
--proc /proc \
--dev /dev \
--bind $(pwd) $(pwd) \
--chdir $(pwd) \
--unshare-user --unshare-pid --unshare-ipc --unshare-uts --unshare-cgroup \
--die-with-parent \
--hostname bwrap \
--tmpfs /tmp \
/bin/bash "$@"
}
EOL
source ./run_bwrap.sh
call_bwrap
# now I am in a sandboxed bash shell
# play around, try seeing other directories, getting sudo, or writing outside
# the sandbox
exit
I did not do --unshare-network since, after all, I want to use claude and
that needs network access. I did add rw access to $(pwd) since I want it to
edit code in the current directory, that is the whole point.
Basic claude
After trying out bubblewrap and convincing myself it does actually work, I
installed claude code
curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash
Really Anthropic, this is the best way to install claude? No dpkg?
I ran claude once (unsafely) to get logged in. It opened a webpage, and saved
the login to the oathAccount field in ~/.claude.json. Now I changed my
bash script to this to get claude to run inside the bubblewrap sandbox:
cat << 'EOL' >> ./run_claude.sh
claude-safe() {
bwrap \
--ro-bind /usr /usr \
--ro-bind /etc /etc \
--ro-bind /run /run \
--ro-bind "$HOME/.local/share/claude" "$HOME/.local/share/claude" \
--symlink usr/lib /lib \
--symlink usr/lib64 /lib64 \
--symlink usr/bin /bin \
--symlink "$HOME/.local/share/claude/versions/2.1.81" "$HOME/.local/bin/claude" \
--proc /proc \
--dev /dev \
--bind $(pwd) $(pwd) \
--bind "$HOME/.claude" "$HOME/.claude" \
--bind "$HOME/.claude.json" "$HOME/.claude.json" \
--chdir $(pwd) \
--unshare-user --unshare-pid --unshare-ipc --unshare-uts --unshare-cgroup \
--die-with-parent \
--hostname bwrap \
--tmpfs /tmp \
--setenv PATH "$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" \
claude "$@"
}
EOL
source ./run_claude.sh
claude-safe
Now I can use claude. Note it needs some more directories in order to run. This
script hard-codes the version, in the future YMMV. I want it to be able to look
at github, and also my local checkout of cpython so it can examine differences.
I created a read-only token by clicking on my avatar in the upper right corner
of a github we page, then going to Settings ‚Üí Developer settings ‚Üí Personal
access tokens ‚Üí Fine-grained tokens ‚Üí Generate new token. Since pypy is in the
pypy org, I used "Repository owner: pypy", "Repository access: pypy (only)" and
"Permissions: Contents". Then I made doubly sure the token permissions were
read-only. And checked again. Then I copied the token to the bash script. I
also added a ro-bind to the cpython checkout, so I could tell claude code
where to look for CPython implementations of missing PyPy functionality.
--ro-bind "$HOME/oss/cpython" "$HOME/oss/cpython" \
--setenv GH_TOKEN "hah, sharing my token would not have been smart" \
Claude /sandbox
Claude comes with its own sandbox, configured by using the /sandbox command.
I chose the defaults, which prevents malicious code in the repo from accessing
the file system and the network. I was missing some packages to get this to
work. Claude would hang until I installed them, and I needed to kill it with
kill.
sudo apt install socat
sudo npm install -g @anthropic-ai/sandbox-runtime
Final touches
One last thing that I discovered later: I needed to give claude access to some
grepping and git tools. While git should be locked down externally so it
cannot push to the repo, I do want claude to look at other issues and pull
requests in read-only mode. So I added a local .claude/settings.json file
inside the repo (see below for which directory to do this):
{
"permissions": {
"allow": [
"Bash(sed*)",
"Bash(grep*)",
"Bash(cat*)",
"Bash(find*)",
"Bash(rg*)",
"Bash(python*)",
"Bash(pytest*)"
]
}
}
Then I made git ignore it, even when doing a git clean, in a local (not part
of the repo) configuration
echo -n .claude >> ~/.config/git/ignore
What about git push?
I don't want claude messing around with the upstream repo, only read access. But
I did not actively prevent git push. So instead of using my actual pypy
repo, I cloned it to a separate directory and did not add a remote pointing to
github.com.
Fixing tests - easy
Now that everything is set up (I hope I remembered everything), I could start
asking questions. The technique I chose was to feed claude the whole test
failure from the buildbot. So starting from the buildbot py3.11 summary,
click on one of the F links and copy-paste all that into the claude prompt.
It didn't take long for claude to come up with solutions for the long-standing
ctype error missing exception which turned out to be due to an missing error
trap when already handling an error.
Also a CTYPES_MAX_ARGCOUNT check was
missing. At first, claude wanted to change the ctypes code from CPython's stdlib,
and so I had to make it clear that claude was not to touch the files in
lib-python. They are copied verbatim from CPython and should not be
modified without really good reasons.
The fix to raise TypeError rather
than Attribute Error for deleting ctype object's value was maybe a little
trickier: claude needed to create its own property class and use it in
assignments.
The fix for a failing test for a correct repr of a ctypes array was a
little more involved. Claude needed to figure out that newmemoryview was
raising an exception, dive into the RPython implementation and fix the problem,
and then also fix a pure-python __buffer__ shape edge case error.
There were more, but you get the idea. With a little bit of coaching, and by showing
claude where the CPython implementation was, more tests are now passing.
Fixing tests - harder
PyPy has a HPy backend. There were some test failures that were
easy to fix (a handle not being closed, an annotation warning). But the big one
was a problem with the context tracking before and after ffi function calls. In
debug mode there is a check that the ffi call is done using the correct HPy
context. It turns out to be tricky to hang on to a reference to a context in
RPython since the context RPython object is pre-built. The solution, which took
quite a few tokens and translation cycles to work out, was to assign the
context on the C level, and have a getter to fish it out in RPython.
Conclusion
I started this journey not more than 24 hours ago, after some successful
sessions using claude to refactor some web sites off hosting platforms and make
them static pages. I was impressed enough to try coding with it from the
terminal. It helps that I was given a generous budget to use Anthropic's tool.
Claude seems capable of understanding the layers of PyPy: from the pure python
stdlib to RPython and into the small amount of C code. I even asked it to
examine a segfault in the recently released PyPy7.3.21, and it seems to have
found the general area where there was a latent bug in the JIT.
Like any tool, agentic programming must be used carefully to make sure it
cannot do damage. I hope I closed the most obvious foot-guns, if you have other
ideas of things I should do to protect myself while using an agent like this, I
would love to hear about them.
Firefox 149 Now Available With XDG Portal File Picker ( 23.03.2026 10:06:12 phoronix.com)
Firefox 149.0 release binaries are now available with a wide assortment of improvements for this month's update to the cross-platform Mozilla web browser solution...
Tryton News: Release 0.8.0 of mt940 ( 23.03.2026 09:33:28 discuss.tryton.org)
We are proud to announce the release of the version 0.8.0 of mt940.
mt940 is a library to parse MT940 files. MT940 is a specific SWIFT message type used by the SWIFT network to send and receive end-of-day bank account statements.
In addition to bug-fixes, this release contains the following improvements:
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Add fund code to transaction
Remove support for Python older than 3.9
mt940 is available on PyPI: mt940 0.8.0.
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Tryton News: Release 0.4.0 of febelfin-coda ( 23.03.2026 09:29:20 discuss.tryton.org)
We are proud to announce the release of the version 0.4.0 of febelfin-coda.
febelfin-coda is a library to parse CODA files. This bank standard (also called CODA) specifies the lay-out for the electronic files, by banks to customers, of the account transactions and the information concerning the enclosures in connection with the movement.
In addition to bug-fixes, this release contains the following improvements:
Upgrade to pyproject
Add support for Python 3.13 and 3.14
Remove support for Python older than 3.9
febelfin-coda is available on PyPI: febelfin-coda 0.4.0.
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systemd přidává datum narození do uživatelského záznamu JSON ( 23.03.2026 09:22:40 root.cz)
Kvůli kontrole věku, kterou zavádí například zákony Kalifornie, Colorada a Brazílie, byla do záznamu o uživateli ve formátu JSON v systemd přidána položka birthDate. Zároveň tuto položku nemůže měnit sám uživatel, jen root. K tématu se strhla bouřlivá diskuse.
Linux's sched_ext Will Prioritize Idle SMT Siblings For Better Performance ( 23.03.2026 09:04:00 phoronix.com)
A change to the Linux kernel's extensible scheduler class "sched_ext" for allowing nifty scheduler implementations via BPF programs will begin to prioritize SMT siblings to help with better performance...
Herní výkon Arrow Lake-refresh se moc neposunul, je na úrovni Ryzen 5/7 bez X3D ( 23.03.2026 09:00:00 diit.cz)
Procesory Intel Core Ultra 5 250K+ a Core Ultra 7 270K+, které měly přinést velký posun herního výkonu, zase takovým skokem nejsou. Intel těsně před vydáním doplnil materiály o konkurenční srovnání…
Zbývá poslední týden: Velikonoční soutěž o 100 prémiových Steam klíčů stále běží ( 23.03.2026 08:00:00 cdr.cz)
Velikonoční soutěž o 100 Steam klíčů byla spuštěna 9. března, přičemž za necelý první týden se připojilo více než 1400 soutěžících. Další týden přibylo dalších cca 250 přihlášek, což je opravdu pozoruhodná účast, která je zároveň mnohonásobně vyšší než u první herní soutěže.
Ansible: efektivní nasazení a provoz, velké automatizační školení ( 23.03.2026 07:45:17 root.cz)
Ansible je automatizační nástroj, který umožňuje zjednodušit centrální instalaci, konfiguraci a provoz linuxových serverů a aplikací. Připravili jsme pro vás školení Ansible: efektivní nasazení a provoz, které je určeno pro správce systémů, kteří chtějí Ansible začít používat pro automatizaci opakujících se činností. Bude se hodit i vývojářům, kteří občas nasazují aplikace do testovacích prostředí.
Upscale až na 4K/8K s Aiarty Image Enhancer – doživotní licence teď s 49% slevou ( 23.03.2026 07:20:00 diit.cz)
Potřebujete vylepšit kvalitu starých fotografií? Digitalizujte je moderním způsobem s nástrojem od Digiarty Software, ve velikonoční akci nyní za výhodnou cenu.
Nvidia si utrhla ostudu, Jen-Hsun Huang o DLSS 5 lhal ( 23.03.2026 06:40:00 diit.cz)
Vyjádření CEO Nvidie Jen-Hsun Huanga a fungování a možnostech DLSS 5 nebylo pravdivé. Inženýři Nvidie nakonec přiznali, že DLSS 5 je post-filtr, který využívá již kompletně vyrenderovaný (2D) obraz…
Qt 6.11 Toolkit Released With "The Same 3D Capabilities As A Game Engine" ( 23.03.2026 06:38:07 phoronix.com)
Qt 6.11 is out as the latest version of this cross-platform toolkit used by the KDE desktop and widely by both open-source and closed-source applications...
Ubuntu Maker Canonical Joins The Rust Foundation ( 23.03.2026 06:27:49 phoronix.com)
Canonical announced today that they have joined the Rust Foundation as a Gold Member...
Minirecenze: ASUS ROG Flow Z13 Kojima Edition, Strix Halo se 128GB RAM ( 23.03.2026 02:00:00 diit.cz)
Dnes se podíváme znovu na tablet společnosti ASUS s vynikajícím AMD Strix Halo APU, tentokráte ve speciální edici se 128GB RAM.
My DIY FPGA board can run Quake II ( 22.03.2026 23:06:57 blog.mikhe.ch)
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Postřehy z bezpečnosti: osm her na Steamu kradlo kryptoměny a data ( 22.03.2026 23:00:10 root.cz)
V dnešním bezpečnostním přehledu se podíváme na šíření malwaru na Steamu, další kritickou zranitelnost v telnetu, íránskou odvetu USA v kyberprostoru a sankce uvalené Evropskou unií za útoky na její členy.
SUSE bude možná na prodej, Německo sází na formát ODF ( 22.03.2026 23:00:05 root.cz)
Společnost SUSE by v blízké budoucnosti mohla být opět na prodej. Německo nařídilo své státní správě používat výhradně otevřené formáty. Vyšla Fedora Asahi Remix 43. Firma System76 uvedla novou generaci stolního počítače Thelio Mira.
Ujorm3: nový lehký ORM pro JavaBeans a Records ( 22.03.2026 23:00:00 root.cz)
Rád bych vám představil novou ORM knihovnu Ujorm3, o které se domnívám, že poráží své konkurenty svojí jednoduchostí a nízkou režií. Cílem je nabídnout spolehlivý, bezpečný a snadno pochopitelný nástroj.
AMD FSR 4.1 vydáno, dostupné již nyní v Crimson Desert ( 22.03.2026 23:00:00 diit.cz)
FSR 4.1 je díky ovladačům Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 26.3.1 oficiálně vydané. Krom avizovaného přináší plynulejší pohyb a ostřejší kresbu objektů v pohybu, zejména vegetace…
Two studies in compiler optimisations ( 22.03.2026 15:34:44 hmpcabral.com)
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My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary ( 22.03.2026 14:28:06 rpastro.square.site)
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Do Architects Still Need to Draw? (2020) ( 22.03.2026 02:43:17 lifeofanarchitect.com)
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The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records' ( 22.03.2026 01:58:23 english.elpais.com)
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KDE Plasma s 3D LUT, Valve chystající 64bit Steam pro Linux ( 21.03.2026 23:00:00 root.cz)
Týden v KDE a nejen zaoblené rohy oken a 3D LUT pro GPU, týden v GNOME #241 ve znamení padesátky, boot na Apple M3 je tu, beta Steamu pro 64bit běžící uvnitř kontejneru Steam Runtime, Canonical sbírající nápady pro další rozvoj kompozitoru Mir.
Turris Omnia NG Wired is a Fanless, Rack-Ready OpenWrt Router with Dual 10G Ports ( 21.03.2026 10:01:59 itsfoss.com)
It can go in a rack, runs OpenWrt, and comes with a promise of lifetime updates.
Big Win for Open Source as Germany Backs Open Document Format ( 21.03.2026 02:06:09 itsfoss.com)
The Deutschland-Stack names ODF and PDF/UA as the only permitted document formats for German public administrations.
Vercel Labs vydal json-render: framework, ktorý dáva AI kontrolu nad UI ( 20.03.2026 18:42:22 root.cz)
Vercel Labs predstavil json-render – nový framework pre tzv. Generative UI, ktorý rieši jeden z najväčších problémov AI generovaného frontendu: ako nechať LLM modely tvoriť dynamicky používateľské rozhrania, no zároveň si zachovať kontrolu nad výsledkom.
KiCad 10 umí varianty návrhu, ladění spojů v časové doméně i import z Allegra ( 20.03.2026 16:36:56 root.cz)
Projekt KiCad dnes vydal verzi 10.0.0, která přináší řadu nových funkcí, vylepšení a stovky oprav chyb. Mezi nejvýraznější novinky patří podpora návrhových variant, tedy možnost sledovat různé verze jednoho projektu, které sdílejí schéma, ale liší se například v kusovníku.
Zemřel Chuck Norris, hvězda akčních filmů a internetových memů ( 20.03.2026 15:08:07 root.cz)
Ve věku 86 let dnes zemřel Chuck Norris, mistr bojových umění a herec známý především díky hlavní roli v seriálu Walker, Texas Ranger. Zanechal po sobě manželku Genu O’Kelleyovou, pět dětí a třináct vnoučat.
Testovací jádro 6.18 pro Raspberry Pi ( 20.03.2026 12:21:37 root.cz)
Jednodeskové počítače Raspberry Pi s oficiálním Raspberry Pi OS jedou v současnosti na jádře 6.12. O testování dalšího jádra 6.18 jsme tu již psali. Protože se vydání blíží, testování se posunulo do další fáze a nyní stačí udělat jen sudo rpi-update.
Systemd’s New Feature Brings Age Verification Option to Linux ( 20.03.2026 12:02:28 itsfoss.com)
The optional birthDate field gives other projects a standardized data source for age verification compliance.
Boti budou dominovat internetovému provozu již příští rok ( 20.03.2026 10:03:53 root.cz)
Boti budou dominovat internetovému provozu již příští rok
Zabbix: monitorujte svou infrastrukturu a mějte ji pod kontrolou (školení) ( 20.03.2026 07:44:38 root.cz)
Provozujete vlastní infrastrukturu a chcete vědět, v jakém stavu se v každém okamžiku nachází? Zabbix vám umožní monitorovat infrastrukturu z pohledu sítí, tak i z pohledu operačních systémů až po aplikace. Přináší ucelené monitorovací řešení. Naučíme vás konfigurovat monitorovací systém Zabbix od základních kroků až po složité nízkoúrovňové objevování monitorovaných objektů.
Google zveřejnil postup, jak instalovat aplikace od neověřených vývojářů do Androidu ( 20.03.2026 07:12:44 root.cz)
Google chce od září v Androidu zakázat instalaci aplikací od neregistrovaných vývojářů kvůli bezpečnosti. Uživatelé se však bouří. Google včera na blogu vydal postup, jak bude stále možné instalovat aplikace neověřených vývojářů (tzv. sideloading).
OpenAI kupuje firmu Astral ( 20.03.2026 07:10:32 root.cz)
Firma Astral je dobře známá jako tvůrce správce balíčků uv, ale i dalších projektů pro vývoj v Pythonu.
OpenAI nyní oznámila odkoupení Astralu. Vývoj open-source aplikací by měl pokračovat a Astral se má stát součástí projektu Codex.
Paranoikova představa o budoucnosti Linuxu: je to špatné a bude hůř ( 19.03.2026 23:00:10 root.cz)
Minulý týden jsme se vezli na pozitivní vlně kolem API Vulkan a jeho roli v zachování funkčnosti her, které na moderních Windows často už nefungují. Pojďme si dnes hrát s myšlenkou, že jiné linuxové sféry už tak růžové nejsou.
Fedora Asahi Remix 43 Arrives with Mac Pro Support and Beats Fedora to a Key Upgrade ( 19.03.2026 12:28:14 itsfoss.com)
Mac Pro support and working microphones on the M2 Pro/Max are in, along with a package management upgrade that Fedora is yet to ship.
Firefox nabídne VPN zdarma integrovanou do prohlížeče ( 19.03.2026 10:28:05 root.cz)
Mozilla připravuje nadcházející aktualizace prohlížeče Firefox zaměřené na ochranu soukromí a multitasking, které přinesou dvě významné novinky: integrovanou VPN zdarma a funkci rozdělení obrazovky (split view). Novinky jsou připravovány pro Firefox 149, který by měl vyjít už 24. března.
AI Companies Put $12.5M Into Open Source Security to Fix a Problem Their Tools Helped Create ( 19.03.2026 04:53:00 itsfoss.com)
The move targets the problem of maintainers drowning in AI-generated vulnerability reports.
GNOME 50 is Here, and X11 is Finally Gone ( 19.03.2026 02:42:27 itsfoss.com)
There's a lot this release offers, but a few changes stand out.
Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project ( 18.03.2026 10:11:10 itsfoss.com)
A significant portion of the Manjaro team has signed a manifesto demanding the project split from its parent company and restructure as a non-profit.
UN Creates Open Source Portal ( 17.03.2026 15:04:54 linux-magazine.com)
In a quest to strengthen open source collaboration, the United Nations Office of Information and Communications Technology has created a new portal.
Ageless Linux Emerges to Protest OS-Level Age Verification Laws ( 17.03.2026 07:30:46 itsfoss.com)
And thankfully, it's more than just a Linux distro without age verification.
Latest Linux Kernel RC Contains Changes Galore ( 16.03.2026 21:13:14 linux-magazine.com)
Linux kernel 7.0-rc3 includes more changes than have been made in a single release in recent history.
Ukrajinci nacházejí v ruských zbraních české součástky. V „Azbukistánu“ se sankce neřeší ( 26.03.2026 05:30:26 hlidacipes.org)
ANALÝZA. Ukrajinští vojáci v ruských zbraních nacházejí i české součástky. Jak se tam dostávají, když přímý export zboží umožňujícího i vojenské užití je zakázaný a porušování zákazu je trestným činem? Navenek legálně – přes třetí země. Jev připomíná variaci na komunistickou tezi o tom, že kapitalisti prodají nepřátelům i provaz, na němž pak budou sami
Bém odmítl, Krnáčovou nechtějí. Proč ANO povede do voleb v Praze Prokop ( 26.03.2026 05:00:00 neovlivni.cz)
Sázka na dlouholetého loajálního politika je spojená s připravovanou strategií lídra ANO pro komunální volby. „Věří, že to utáhne sám na své jméno. Nepotřebuje žádnou oblíbenou tvář, na pražské liberály kašle.“ To, k čemu se poslední týdny v Praze schylovalo a detailně jsme to popsali v březnovém časopise Neovlivní.cz, nakonec veřejně potvrdil lídr hnutí ANO Andrej Babiš. Kandidátku do říjnových komunálních voleb povede pražský šéf ANO Ondřej Prokop. „Nevím o žádném jiném kandidátovi,“ potvrdil v Deníku.cz Babiš. Žádná nová tvář, žádný návrat Pavla Béma nebo Adriany Krnáčové. Nic takového se tedy nekoná. Důvodů je hned několik. Už jsme popsali, že bývalý primátor […]
Investor Brůna: Fotbal je produkt a Real Madrid je mašina na peníze ( 25.03.2026 15:00:14 hlidacipes.org)
KOMENTÁŘ. Real Madrid CF není nejbohatší klub světa proto, že vyhrává. Je to nejlépe řízený byznys ve fotbalu. A to je rozdíl, který většině firem uniká. Příběh Realu Madrid ukazuje něco podstatného i mimo sport: fotbal je produktem. Největší hodnotu dnes nevytváří samotný produkt, ale ekosystém kolem něj. Značka, stadion, marketing a globální dosah jsou
Je to nezákonné, víme to, ale nic dělat nemůžeme, podepsal nový ministr Klempíř ( 25.03.2026 10:30:37 hlidacipes.org)
Vilová zástavba na pražských Hřebenkách v okolí Tiché ulice je od roku 1993 památkovou zónou. Přesto zde památkáři dali razítko na stavbu domu, který je svým charakterem v zjevném rozporu s tím, co lze v takové zákonem chráněné oblasti stavět. Ministerstvo kultury již dříve potvrdilo, že byl porušen zákon, nic s tím prý už dělat
Politická kultura v Bavorsku: co zlomilo vaz primátorovi Mnichova? ( 25.03.2026 05:30:27 hlidacipes.org)
Mnichov bude poprvé v historii města řídit politik ze strany Zelených – Dominik Krause. Přestože dlouholetý primátor, sociální demokrat Dieter Reiter, byl favoritem ještě dva týdny před prvním kolem voleb, na poslední chvíli mu zlomily vaz dva přešlapy. Německá média mluví o senzaci. Pro české prostředí jde o fascinující pohled přes hranice na zatím stále
Babiš: Za Trumpem nechci. Ve skutečnosti jeho lidé cestu chystají ( 25.03.2026 05:00:00 neovlivni.cz)
Diplomaté i tým předsedy vlády dostali jasné zadání: Za Donaldem Trumpem se pojede. „Tyhle schůzky jsou to, co ho opravdu baví. Ne každodenní vládnutí, kdy to je hlavně s Motoristy občas peklo.“ „Jsou jen tři zahraniční cesty, na kterých současným vládním lídrům záleží. A přijetí premiéra Babiše u Donalda Trumpa je jednou z nich,“ píše dubnové vydání časopisu Neovlivní.cz, které právě míří k předplatitelům. Andrej Babiš veřejně tvrdí, že na cestě do Bílého domu mu až tak nesejde. „Nechystáme se tam, já jsem tam byl, a byl to zážitek na celý život, já jsem s Trumpem mluvil pětkrát, teď vidíme jiného […]
Jakub Jirsa: Zákon proti neziskovkám. Nejde o transparenci, jde o zastrašení ( 24.03.2026 15:00:29 hlidacipes.org)
KOMENTÁŘ. Návrh zákona o zahraniční podpoře nevládních organizací je obhajován jako opatření pro větší transparentnost veřejného života. Pokud bychom však vzali tuto argumentaci vážně a podívali se na fungování neziskového sektoru v České republice, zjistíme velmi rychle jednu věc: takový zákon je zbytečný. A právě tato zbytečnost odhaluje jeho skutečný smysl. Nevládní neziskové organizace patří mezi nejtransparentnější subjekty v celé
Kluby, rozhodčí a funkcionáři, kterých se razie týká ( 24.03.2026 11:31:23 neovlivni.cz)
Nejnovější fotbalová kauza cílí především na kluby z Moravy. Policie rozjela vyšetřování podezřelých sázek ve fotbale. Tentokrát míří podle informací Neovlivní.cz hned na několik klubů, rozhodčích a funkcionářů. Podezření se týká zejména moravských klubů, ve kterých zasahují detektivové z Národní centrály proti organizovanému zločinu. O razii jako první informoval deník iSport. Zadrženo bylo zatím přes čtyřicet osob. Mezi kluby, o které se policie zajímá, je jeden prvoligový – Karviná. A dále řada klubů z nižších soutěží – Zlínsko, Opava, Chrudim, České Budějovice, Frýdek-Místek, Vratimov, Chlumec nad Cidlinou či Ústí nad Orlicí. U rozhodčích jde o Jana Petříka, Jana Všetečku, Miroslava […]
Políbit prsten Orbánovi. Maďarsko před volbami s ruským stínem a českou stafáží ( 24.03.2026 10:30:59 hlidacipes.org)
KOMENTÁŘ. Předvolební trachtace Viktora Orbána maskovaná jako „konference“ CPAC v Budapešti nenabídla oproti předchozím ročníkům obsahově nic nového. Přesto se vyplatí se k akci z minulého víkendu vrátit. Nabízí totiž dokonalý přehled, kdo je ochoten podpořit maďarského premiéra za každou cenu – i navzdory posledním aférám, které Orbánovu vládu přímo propojují s režimem v Moskvě.
Agrofert hospodaří na pozemcích větších, než měly velké šlechtické rody i císařpán ( 24.03.2026 05:30:15 hlidacipes.org)
Holding Agrofert hospodaří v součtu na 158 tisících hektarech své či pronajaté zemědělské půdy v Česku, na Slovensku, v Maďarsku a Chorvatsku a na jednotkách hektarů vlastních lesů. Celkově jde o plochu větší, než ještě za Rakouska-Uherska obhospodařovala jednotlivá arcibiskupství, císařská rodina i většina známých šlechtických rodů. „Zemědělskou část koncernu Agrofert tvoří síť podniků zemědělského
Mars útočí! Kdo bude pákou na Muska, Zuckerberga či Bezose ( 24.03.2026 05:00:00 neovlivni.cz)
Mocní podnikatelé měli vždy sklony rozpínat se za hranice byznysu, tahat za nitky v zákulisí. Jenže dnes už titáni ani nemají potřebu jednat ve stínu. Rychlý internet jim dal sakra dlouhé prsty, a tak zažíváme něco, co tu ještě nebylo. Cílené, účelové a nijak nemaskované zásahy do politik států napříč světem. Ten příměr se nabízí. Ve vtipné sci-fi Mars útočí! režiséra Tima Burtona, natočené právě před třiceti lety, jde o to, že na Zemi přistanou létající talíře s Marťany. Ti tvrdí, že přišli v míru, a pak bez jakýchkoli skrupulí zmasakrují všechno, co jim přijde do cesty. Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff […]
Fialova vláda a 4,2 miliardy na marketing? Lež, ze které je trapno ( 23.03.2026 14:30:02 hlidacipes.org)
POZNÁMKA. Poslankyně hnutí ANO Berenika Peštová zveřejnila na svém facebookovém profilu tvrzení, že „agentura KnowLimits dostala od Fialovy vlády 4,2 miliardy korun na PR marketing“. Součástí sdělení byl i odkaz na video, v němž Lucie Kubovičová, Michal Půr a Thomas Kulidakis tuto údajnou kauzu komentují sebejistým, blahosklonným tónem, který má vzbuzovat dojem věcné a kvalifikované
Šikanózní žaloba zamítnuta. Plzeňský podnikatel milion platit nemusí ( 23.03.2026 10:30:46 hlidacipes.org)
Plzeňský městský soud zamítl žalobu podnikatele a bývalého politika za ODS Petra Štrunce, který nyní podle místních zdrojů stojí za hnutím PRO Plzeň. Ten loni v únoru zažaloval dva plzeňské politiky za výroky v médiích. První proces, v němž Štrunc požadoval milion korun a omluvu, byl nyní zamítnut, soud proti druhému politikovi je naplánován na
Milan Čech: Milion chvilek popírání reality. Ohleduplná „demokracie 1.0“ už nefunguje ( 23.03.2026 05:30:59 hlidacipes.org)
KOMENTÁŘ. Nesmírně si vážím každého jednotlivce, který upřednostnil občanskou odpovědnost před tradičním českým hédonistickým užíváním si víkendu a vyrazil v sobotu na Letnou. Byli to přemýšlející občané, kteří zřetelně chápou, na jak nebezpečně nakloněnou rovinu jsme se dostali. Uvědomují si ničivé dopady hybridní války i existenci těch, kteří ji cynicky využívají ke svým osobním a
Babiš vyhodil na hodinu šéfa státní firmy. Kvůli fotkám u kopírky ( 23.03.2026 05:00:00 neovlivni.cz)
Ředitel mocné energetické firmy ČEPS Martin Durčák měl odejít podle původní dohody a veřejného oznámení až ke konci března. Předseda vlády ale osobně 12. března nařídil jeho okamžitý odchod. Tahle výměna v čele státní firmy s miliardovými obraty a odchod jednoho z nejvlivnějších manažerů v energetice nejsou pouhou součástí Babišovy „Noci dlouhých nožů“, kterou spustil po svém návratu do Strakovy akademie. Tím spíš, že Durčáka před lety posvětil sám lídr ANO. Do čela ČEPS byl jmenovaný už za minulé vlády Andreje Babiše v roce 2019. Sestřelení Martina Durčáka v sobě kombinuje mocenské hry tuzemských miliardářů, Babišův způsob vládnutí i přerozdělování vlivu v energetice. A to vše na […]
Andrej Babiš přístup vůči koaličním partnerům zatím nezměnil ( 26.03.2026 06:29:00 irozhlas.cz)
Andrej Babiš (ANO) zvolí tvrdší přístup vůči koaličním partnerům. Stane se tak v momentu, kdy ho vládní většina ve Sněmovně odmítne vydat k trestnímu stíhání. Tento názor se šířil veřejným prostorem. Po zhruba třech týdnech od tohoto hlasování se zatím názorně ukazuje, že to byla představa naivní, která nevychází z politické reality.
Návrat do minulosti aneb Je rok 2026 opakováním inflačního roku 2022? ( 25.03.2026 16:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Pracujte z domova, snižte rychlostní limity na dálnicích nejméně o 10 kilometrů za hodinu, podporujte veřejnou dopravu, sdílejte auta, omezte soukromé jízdy a lety. Doporučení Mezinárodní energetické agentury, jejichž cílem je zmírnit ekonomické dopady drahé ropy, se zatím nesetkala s pochopením.
Ve francouzských komunálních volbách extrémy neuspěly ( 25.03.2026 06:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Řekněme hned na začátku, že v místních volbách ve Francii se žádné krajně pravicové ani krajně levicové tsunami nekonalo. Radikální extrémy nedobyly téměř jediné větší město. Prognózy, že po velkém úspěchu v parlamentních volbách před dvěma lety teď krajně pravicové Národní sdružení Marine Le Penové prorazí i na lokální úrovni, se ukázaly jako liché.
Babiš už zase lační po voličích partnerů. Tentokrát na to ale může doplatit ( 24.03.2026 16:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Obrázek, který se nám skýtá prakticky týden co týden: předseda SPD Tomio Okamura přichází do Strakovy akademie na pondělní jednání koaliční rady a novinářům sděluje, co je na programu. Po skončení je pak seznamuje se závěry, u nichž nezřídka nezapomene zdůraznit, že vycházejí z programu jeho hnutí.
Německá sociální demokracie je v hluboké krizi. Ohrožuje to i Merze ( 24.03.2026 06:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
O politické scéně v Německu se dlouho tvrdilo, že je ve srovnání s ostatními evropskými zeměmi poměrně stabilní. Oslabování tradičních politických stran na úkor populistických hnutí levého nebo pravého spektra probíhalo v Německu velmi pomalu, říká pro Český rozhlas Plus Pavel Polák. Poslední dekádu ztrácejí takzvané státotvorné strany své voliče – postupně a bez přestání. Týká se to konzervativců i sociálních demokratů, tedy CDU a SPD.
Sofiina volba prezidenta Pavla ( 23.03.2026 16:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Prezident republiky Petr Pavel bude zřejmě čelit čím dál otevřenější válce ze strany premiéra Babiše (ANO) a ministra zahraničí Macinky (Motoristé). To znamená, že bude muset stále častěji volit mezi tím, co sliboval svým voličům, a pragmatickými dohodami s Andrejem Babišem.
Klíčová výzva z Letné ( 23.03.2026 06:29:00 irozhlas.cz)
Vládní politici a agitátoři, kteří se pokoušeli rámovat sobotní demonstraci spolku Milion chvilek pro demokracii jako protest proti výsledkům voleb, musí být rozmrzelí. Akce, které se zúčastnilo podle organizátorů čtvrt milionu lidí a stala se tak jedním z největších polistopadových protestů, byla obsahem až nečekaně věcná.
Další americká zeď – chilský prezident se inspiroval na severu ( 22.03.2026 17:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Nový chilský prezident José Antonio Kast neztrácí čas. Sotva nastoupil do úřadu, začal plnit jeden ze svých nejvýraznějších slibů: tvrdý zásah proti nelegální migraci. Na severu země začala armáda tento týden hloubit příkopy podél hranice s Peru, na což se Kast jel osobně podívat.
Babiš už ohlásil vítězství nad emisními povolenkami. Má k němu ale hodně daleko ( 22.03.2026 06:29:00 irozhlas.cz)
Je to přesně tak, jako to bývá s tou poloplnou, nebo poloprázdnou sklenicí. V tomto případě dokonce ještě bez rysky. Premiér Andrej Babiš se vrátil ze čtvrtečního a pátečního unijního summitu s vítězoslavným prohlášením: Podařilo se nám prosadit revizi systému emisních povolenek.
Putin že je válečný zločinec? Šup s tebou do blázince! ( 21.03.2026 16:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Představte si to překvapení, kdyby se jednoho dne Tomio Okamura probudil a začal psát na sociální sítě, že Andrej Babiš je prolhaný hochštapler a zloděj a že skutečným hrdinou naší doby je Volodymyr Zelenskyj. Přibližně stejný šok zažili ruští uživatelé internetu toto úterý, kdy z muže, jenž byl doposud známý jako jeden z Putinových propagandistů, začaly padat tvrdé odsudky na adresu prezidenta.
Abychom to nepřepískli ( 21.03.2026 06:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Můj dávný kamarád Kába vždycky tvrdil, že je členem Spolku pohodlí. Základním mottem Spolku bylo: Pěkného počasí využij ke spánku. Pořádaly se akce jako Den neklidu, Buchta, Knedlík nebo Četba ve skleníku. Témata byla záměrně banální, aby se člověk neunavil ani psychicky.
Trumpovy hrozby vystoupením USA z NATO nelze brát na lehkou váhu ( 20.03.2026 16:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Americký prezident Donald Trump je velmi nespokojený s tím, že se spojenci Spojených států v Severoatlantické alianci odmítají zapojit do vojenského tažení USA a Izraele proti Íránu. Nejvíce mu vadí, že ty členské země NATO, které by mohly pomoci s obnovením námořní dopravy v Hormuzském průlivu, odmítly vyslat do průlivu svoje lodě.
Jak Moskva vydělá na íránské válce ( 20.03.2026 06:29:00 irozhlas.cz)
Rusko poskytuje Íránu zpravodajské informace, které mu pomáhají zaměřovat americké síly na Blízkém východě. Zahrnuje mimo jiné údaje o poloze amerických válečných lodí a letadel, což může zvyšovat přesnost íránských útoků proti americké vojenské infrastruktuře i personálu.
Povinnost ozvat se, dokud je čas ( 19.03.2026 16:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Premiér Andrej Babiš a ministryně financí Alena Schillerová (oba ANO) obhajovali na Pražském hradě sněmovnou schválený rozpočet se schodkem 310 miliard korun. Nemuseli se přitom ani zapotit. Prezident Petr Pavel v debatě Deníku.cz už před měsícem konstatoval, že zákon roku, kterým skončí rozpočtové provizorium, vetovat nebude.
Kultura jako Popelka? Proč si autoritáři tak často brousí zuby na umělce ( 19.03.2026 06:29:00 irozhlas.cz)
Studenti a studentky vysokých škol svolali v reakci na plánované škrty v oblasti kultury demonstraci, na kterou podle pořadatelů dorazily až dva tisíce lidí. Byla namířená jak proti osekávání financí, tak proti krokům ministra kultury Oto Klempíře (za Motoristy), který s nástupem do funkce zkušeně vyměnil roli rapera a provokatéra za poslušného vládního stachanovce.
Oscar za dokument je ve správných rukou Pavla Talankina ( 18.03.2026 16:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Česko-dánský dokument Pan Nikdo proti Putinovi v kategorii filmových dokumentů získal Oscara. Ruský filmař Pavel Talankin, který je hlavním tvůrcem dokumentu a v současné době žije v ČR, se ale žádných gratulací ve své rodné zemi nedočkal. Kremelská média o ocenění mlčí. Už dříve režiséra označila za „vlastizrádce“.
Pokud je Larídžání mrtev, kdo vládne Íránu? ( 18.03.2026 06:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Zdá se, že nejrizikovějším povoláním posledních dnů je být vysokým představitelem Íránu. Podle zatím nepotvrzených zpráv zahynul Alí Larídžání, tajemník Nejvyšší rady národní bezpečnosti a jeden z nejmocnějších mužů režimu.
Připravovaný zákon o neziskových organizacích je ještě horší než na Slovensku ( 17.03.2026 16:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Slovensko je s regulací neziskových organizací o něco dál než Česko, kde se nyní objevil návrh vypracovaný poslanci za hnutí ANO a SPD Tomia Okamury. V Bratislavě přijali novelu příslušného zákona vloni v dubnu, na konci roku ji ale zrušil ústavní soud, protože byla v rozporu se základními lidskými i politickými právy. Krátká historie slovenského řešení je ovšem poučná.
Rozpočet aneb Česko směřuje k setrvalým schodkům a horším službám státu ( 17.03.2026 06:29:00 irozhlas.cz)
Rozpočet je úplný, pravdivý a realistický, opakuje ministryně financí Alena Schillerová (ANO). Má pravdu. Bohužel, protože kromě reality 310miliardového deficitu by bylo dobré znát vizi, kterou se bude rozpočet ubírat v dalších letech. Nejen v době současné vlády, ale i těch následujících.
Ubírá se slovenská ekonomika řeckou cestou? ( 16.03.2026 16:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Životní úroveň na Slovensku neroste tak, jak by si asi představovala většina jeho obyvatel. Mzdy v zemi jsou podle slovenských médií nejnižší ve visegrádském regionu, naopak životní náklady ale nižší nejsou.
Írán chce zpoplatnit cestu Hormuzským průlivem ( 26.03.2026 10:26:00 patria.cz)
Íránský parlament připravuje návrh zákona, na jehož základě by Teherán formálně zpoplatnil cestu Hormuzským průlivem, napsala dnes agentura AP s odvoláním na íránská média.
ČEZ, a.s.: Novým členem představenstva zvolen Ondřej Landa ( 26.03.2026 10:23:00 patria.cz)
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Společnost ČEZ, a.s. zveřejňuje, že novým členem představenstva byl zvolen Ondřej Landa.
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Válka v Íránu může vyvolat inflační šok, odhaduje ČNB. Rada by pak zvedla i úrokové sazby ( 26.03.2026 10:00:00 e15.cz)
ČNB ponechala sazby na 3,5 procentech, zvýšení nyní nepovažuje za vhodné, ukazuje zápis z jednání.
Konflikt v Íránu ale může zvýšit ceny energií a inflační očekávání.
Pokud by šok trval déle, banka je připravena úrokové sazby zvýšit.
ČNB podle Michla nesmí podcenit dopady války v Íránu, má být připravena zvýšit sazby ( 26.03.2026 09:54:32 patria.cz)
Česká národní banka (ČNB) nesmí podcenit ekonomický šok, který vyvolal konflikt v Íránu. Pokud bude hrozit růst jádrové inflace v Česku, bude bankovní rada připravena zvýšit úrokové sazby.
Nová cílová cena ČEZ: Restrukturalizace jako katalyzátor výnosu pro akcionáře? ( 26.03.2026 09:53:00 patria.cz)
Patria aktualizuje doporučení a cílovou cenu na akcie ČEZ. Fundamentální výhled společnosti je zatížen zejména nižší zajištěnou cenou elektřiny, dočasným poklesem výroby z jádra a oslabováním marží v segmentu prodeje i těžby.
Už i Putin přiznává: ruská ekonomika klesá. Ale je to opravdu kolaps? ( 26.03.2026 09:24:01 e-news.cz)
Roky války a tisíce sankcí. Nekonečné řeči o odolnosti ruské ekonomiky. Vladimir Putin teď na vládním zasedání přiznává propad. Hrubý domácí produkt klesl o 2,1 procenta. Průmyslová výroba o 0,8 procenta. Slovo zhroucení Kreml slyšet nechce. Z úst ruského prezidenta však zaznělo přiznání reality. Otázka zní jasně. Jde o začátek konce, nebo jen o dočasnou komplikaci válečné ekonomiky?
Článek Už i Putin přiznává: ruská ekonomika klesá. Ale je to opravdu kolaps? se nejdříve objevil na Ekonomický magazín.
KARO Leather loni zvýšila tržby o 23 procent, letos začne se zpětným odkupem akcií ( 26.03.2026 09:18:00 patria.cz)
KARO Leather evidovala v loňském roce meziročně o 23 procent vyšší tržby, které dosáhly 300 milionů korun. Rostl také zisk EBITDA, jenž vzrostl oproti roku 2024 o 15 procent na necelých 112 milionů.
ČSSZ spouští „Moje konto“. Nová služba umožní doplnit chybějící data online ( 26.03.2026 09:06:00 e15.cz)
Česká správa sociálního zabezpečení (ČSSZ) spustila novou digitální službu Moje konto.
Na ePortálu ČSSZ si díky ní snadno zkontrolujete odpracované roky a evidované doby pojištění.
Pokud v záznamech najdete chybu, vyřešíte ji online přímo z domova – bez papírování a front na úřadě.
Solana Price Prediction: SOL Foundation Bets on AI Agents ( 26.03.2026 09:02:22 cryptonews.com)
Solana trades at $90.92 as the Solana Foundation reveals 15M onchain AI agent payments. Key support at $86, resistance at $96. Full SOL price analysis inside.
The post Solana Price Prediction: SOL Foundation Bets on AI Agents appeared first on Cryptonews.
Rozbřesk: ECB je připravena zvýšit úrokové sazby ( 26.03.2026 08:56:00 patria.cz)
Evropská centrální banka je dle slov své šéfky Christine Lagardeové připravena zareagovat na dopady války na Blízkém východě zvýšením úrokových sazeb.
Silná čísla CSG kontrastují s globální nejistotou. Futures jsou opět v červeném ( 26.03.2026 08:50:00 patria.cz)
Trhy zůstávají pod tlakem globálního geopolitického napětí i obav z inflace, když šéf BlackRocku varuje před negativními dopady války, i kdyby brzy skončila.
Strnadově CSG stoupl zisk o třetinu. Pomohly akvizice i silná poptávka ( 26.03.2026 08:50:00 e15.cz)
CSG zvýšila čistý zisk o 35,5 % na 872 mil. eur, tržby vzrostly o 71,7 %.
Růst táhla poptávka po obranných systémech i integrace The Kinetic Group.
Skupina zároveň dokončila vstup na burzu Euronext Amsterdam.
J&T ARCH INVESTMENTS SICAV, a.s.: Čtvrtletní zpráva investorům Q4 2025 ( 26.03.2026 08:43:00 patria.cz)
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Shrnutí výsledků fondu J&T ARCH INVESTMENTS SICAV, a.s. ve 4Q 2025.
Podrobnosti naleznete v přiložené čtvrtletní zprávě investorům zde.
Vyšetřovatelka odchází: Politika versus právo na americké burze ( 26.03.2026 08:40:49 e-news.cz)
Margaret Ryanová odstoupila z čela vyšetřovacího oddělení americké Komise pro cenné papíry a burzy. Oficiální prohlášení znělo profesionálně. Vzájemné poděkování, uznání za práci a žádný konflikt. Realita byla však jiná. Dění v zákulisí regulátora vypovídá o současném stavu americké finanční regulace víc než tisíc slov o korekci kurzu.
Článek Vyšetřovatelka odchází: Politika versus právo na americké burze se nejdříve objevil na Ekonomický magazín.
CSG si zapsala silný závěr roku i rekordní množství nevyřízených objednávek ( 26.03.2026 08:36:00 patria.cz)
Rok 2025 potvrdil, že CSG se stává jedním z nejdůležitějších hráčů evropského obranného průmyslu. Závěr roku ukázal silný obchodní moment, vysokou efektivitu dodávek i to, že vertikální integrace již začíná přinášet strategické benefity.
Skupina Allwyn prodlužuje partnerství s Formulí 1. Cílí na miliardové publikum ( 26.03.2026 08:35:00 e15.cz)
Skupina Allwyn miliardáře Karla Komárka podepsala novou víceletou smlouvu s Formulí 1.
V rámci partnerství získá loterijní skupina exkluzivní branding během nejsledovanějších momentů závodů.
Spolupráce se zaměří také na digitální interakci s fanoušky prostřednictvím predikčních soutěží.
Švehla: Pod tlakem Force Majeure – vyšší moci ( 26.03.2026 08:34:34 e-news.cz)
Globální ekonomika vstoupila do další těžké zkoušky, diktované konfliktem na Blízkém východě. Zablokování Hormuzského průplavu vyvolává reakce, které nejsou příznivé růstu ekonomik, ani stabilitě finančních trhů. Po třech týdnech bombardování se vidina rychlého ukončení konfliktu rozplynula.
Článek Švehla: Pod tlakem Force Majeure – vyšší moci se nejdříve objevil na Ekonomický magazín.
Na třetí byt si připravte milion navíc. Investiční hypotéky se už za pár dní zpřísní ( 26.03.2026 08:30:00 e15.cz)
ČNB od dubna 2026 doporučuje bankám zpřísnit podmínky pro investiční hypotéky u třetí a další nemovitosti.
Změny začnou už za pár dní a pro investory to bude znamenat výrazně vyšší nároky na vlastní kapitál i přísnější posuzování celkového zadlužení.
Hypotéky na vlastní bydlení zůstávají beze změny včetně zvýhodnění pro mladé žadatele.
Ethereum Price Prediction: Exchange Supply Lowest Since 2016 ( 26.03.2026 08:25:35 cryptonews.com)
ETH trades at $2,157 with exchange reserves at 2016 lows and 33.1% of supply staked. Analysts eye $2,590 bull case and $1,320 bear target. Plus: LiquidChain L3 presale at $0.01435.
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Zapomeňte na Kodiaq. Škoda ukázala Peaq, obří sedmimístné SUV, které změní pohled na českou značku ( 26.03.2026 08:21:00 e15.cz)
Škoda Auto poodhalila připravovaný model Peaq, který se stane největším a technologicky nejvyspělejším elektromobilem v nabídce značky.
Nové sedmimístné SUV vychází z designového směru Modern Solid.
Má za cíl posílit pozici automobilky v segmentu prémiových rodinných vozů, píše Auto.cz.
Mýtus o vyplácení sourozenců: Co se stane, když rodiče přepíšou dům jen na jedno dítě? ( 26.03.2026 08:00:00 e15.cz)
Přepis nemovitosti na jednoho potomka je legální, ale vyžaduje dodržení jasných zákonných pravidel.
Zákon nestanovuje žádnou povinnost obdarovaného dítěte zpětně vyplácet své sourozence z nabytého majetku.
Spravedlivé rozdělení pozůstalosti se po smrti rodičů řeší prostřednictvím takzvaného započtení na dědický podíl.
Bitcoin Price Prediction: Middle East Conflicts and BTC USD Chart Analysis ( 26.03.2026 07:17:33 cryptonews.com)
Bitcoin trades at $71,299.68 with spot volume at 2023 lows and the Coinbase Premium at its most negative in a month. Here's the bull, base, and bear case for BTC — plus a look at Bitcoin Hyper's $32M presale.
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Nejbohatší Čech slaví. Tržby zbrojařské CSG překonaly 160 miliard ( 26.03.2026 07:16:42 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Zbrojařské a strojírenské skupině Czechoslovak Group (CSG) podnikatele Michala Strnada loni výrazně vzrostly hospodářské výsledky. Čistý zisk meziročně stoupl o 35,5 procenta na 872 milionů eur, tedy zhruba 21,3 miliardy korun. Tržby se zvýšily o 71,7 procenta na 6,7 miliardy eur (163,8 miliardy korun). Uvedli to zástupci firmy.
Ústup dolaru, repatriace zlata z USA a stablecoiny v mezinárodním rezervním systému ( 26.03.2026 06:05:00 patria.cz)
Barry Eichengreen a jeho kolegové na stránkách VoxEU připomínají, že v rezervách centrálních bank došlo v posledních letech k výrazným změnám včetně odklonu od dolaru a pohybu opačným směrem ke zlatu.
Jsme na prahu další velké krize, konflikt na Blízkém východě může zdražit bydlení, varuje šéf Monety Spurný ( 26.03.2026 06:00:00 e15.cz)
Hormuzský průliv se může podle šéfa Monety Tomáše Spurného stát globální rozbuškou, a pokud bude jeho blokáda trvat, vzroste cena ropy i na 200 dolarů za barel.
Hrozí drtivý inflační šok pro českou ekonomiku, která je závislá na dovozu surovin.
Definitivně podle manažera končí éra levných peněz a hypoték.
Metaverse splaskl, miliardy zmizely a lidé se vrátili do reality s pár užitečnými technologiemi ( 26.03.2026 06:00:00 e15.cz)
Metaverse sliboval revoluci, místo toho přinesl prázdné světy a ztráty investorů v řádu milionů.
Digitální pozemky i NFT propadly, zájem opadl a uživatelů bylo méně než na lokálním festivalu.
Přežily jen praktické technologie VR a AR, které našly využití mimo přehnané vize virtuálních světů.
US Congressman Moves to Ban Staff From Trading on Prediction Markets ( 26.03.2026 05:42:52 decrypt.co)
Congress is moving to tighten oversight of prediction markets amid rising concerns over insider trading and misuse of sensitive information.
Poslední dospělý v místnosti. Rubio představuje trumpismus s lidskou tváří ( 26.03.2026 05:30:00 e15.cz)
Málokterý evropský diplomat či státník je nakloněn současné americké administrativě, píše businessový newsletter 11am.
Jeden člen Trumpova týmu ale před měsícem v Mnichově sklidil ovace vestoje: ministr zahraničí Marco Rubio.
Jako jediný klade důraz na spolupráci mezi starým kontinentem a USA.
Český výrobce elektrododávek pro Čuprův Rohlík zlákal investora, na jehož dílech staví Škoda Auto ( 26.03.2026 05:00:00 e15.cz)
Česká rodinná automotive skupina HAUK vstupuje do mladé tuzemské automobilky Battswap.
Elektrododávky s výměnnou baterií se tak budou vyrábět kromě Číny také v Česku.
Desítky jich dlouhodobě testuje Rohlík.cz miliardáře Tomáše Čupra, Battswap cílí ale i na zákazníky z dalších segmentů.
Nvidia to Face Class Action Lawsuit Over Alleged Crypto Mining Revenue Gaps ( 26.03.2026 04:56:00 decrypt.co)
The chipmaker failed to rebut claims its crypto disclosures affected its stock price, allowing the case to move forward.
Crypto Case Over Money Transmitter Laws Dismissed by US Judge ( 26.03.2026 04:25:13 decrypt.co)
The decision leaves unresolved whether developers of non-custodial crypto tools must comply with federal money-transmission rules.
Australia Lays Groundwork for Tokenized Asset Markets After RBA Project ( 26.03.2026 00:03:18 decrypt.co)
Regulators are beginning work on legal and market infrastructure for tokenized assets, moving from pilot programs to real-world implementation.
Jak funguje dual SIM na iPhone a proč bys ho měl chtít taky? ( 26.03.2026 00:00:00 e15.cz)
Už tě nebaví nosit v kapse dva telefony, jeden pracovní a druhý osobní? Nebo se chystáš na cesty a děsíš se účtů za roaming? Přesně pro tebe je tu dual SIM v iPhonu.
Google Shrinks AI Memory With No Accuracy Loss—But There's a Catch ( 25.03.2026 23:28:14 decrypt.co)
The technique reduces the memory required to run large language models as context windows grow, a key constraint on AI deployment.
Google Sets 2029 Deadline to Deal With Quantum Threat—Is It a Problem for Bitcoin? ( 25.03.2026 21:31:04 decrypt.co)
Google just issued a 2029 deadline to encrypt its systems against quantum computers. Bitcoin may not have the same luxury of time.
Wall Street rostla: Úleva na ropě a geopolitice hnala akcie vzhůru ( 25.03.2026 21:18:02 patria.cz)
Americké akcie ve středečním obchodování posilují, když investoři reagovali na zlepšení geopolitické situace a pokles cen ropy. Hlavní indexy tak nevázaly na pozitivní sentiment a vrátily se k růstu po předchozí zvýšené volatilitě.
Stagflation 2.0: Today Gold Surges, Oil Slips, Bitcoin Hyper Fills the Gap ( 25.03.2026 20:47:49 cryptonews.com)
Oil Drops, Gold Surges: Why Bitcoin Hyper Is Next
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Výměna území za záruky. Trump tlačí na Kyjev, aby vyklidil Donbas a ukončil válku ( 25.03.2026 20:42:00 e15.cz)
Donald Trump podmiňuje bezpečnostní záruky pro Kyjev stažením ukrajinských vojsk z celého Donbasu.
Volodymyr Zelenskyj varuje, že opuštění obranných linií by bylo riskantní pro bezpečnost celé Evropy.
Navzdory nové válce v Íránu USA nadále dodávají Ukrajině klíčové střely pro systémy Patriot.
$15 Billion in Bitcoin Options Expire Friday as Trump's Iran Deadline Looms ( 25.03.2026 20:19:02 decrypt.co)
Bitcoin options worth $15 billion expire Friday—just as a Trump-Iran diplomatic deadline runs out. Should traders expect greater volatility?
XRP Price Prediction: Is $10 Plausible? ( 25.03.2026 20:00:00 cryptonews.com)
Bitrue claims XRP should be $10, but technicals show resistance at $1.51. Meanwhile, Bitcoin Hyper raises $32M for BTC Layer 2.
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BTC USD Price Outlook: Bitcoin Resurgence and Gold Losing Streak ( 25.03.2026 20:00:00 cryptonews.com)
As gold hits a 100-year losing streak, Bitcoin holds $70k. Analysis of the BTC/Gold ratio and the new Bitcoin Hyper Layer 2 raising $32M.
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Maskováni před světem. Zadržený Egypťan měl od soudu bezpečnostní výjimku ( 25.03.2026 19:41:12 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Případ žhářského útoku v Pardubicích ukázal mimo jiné na to, že české veřejné rejstříky umožňují z bezpečnostních důvodů tajit identitu v nich zapsaných osob. Zároveň tato ochrana ale není stoprocentní. Přes slovenské databáze se dá toto maskování rozkrýt. Jedním ze zadržených v případu úmyslně zapáleného skladu firmy LPP Holding je Egypťan Youssef M.
Rakušan narazil i napočtvrté. ANO, SPD a Motoristé ho blokují ( 25.03.2026 19:34:14 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Ani čtvrtý pokus nevedl ke zvolení předsedy hnutí STAN Víta Rakušana místopředsedou Poslanecké sněmovny. Poslanci ho nepodpořili ani ve druhém kole druhé volby, která se uskutečnila dnes. Poslední ze čtyř místopředsednických postů tak zůstává nadále neobsazený. Rakušan byl v aktuální volbě jediným kandidátem. Ke zvolení potřeboval minimálně 87 hlasů, získal jich ale jen 73.
F1 Champion McLaren Racing Joins Hedera Council to Help Govern Network ( 25.03.2026 19:22:44 decrypt.co)
Reigning Formula 1 champion McLaren will join Google, FedEx, IBM, and other firms in helping to guide Hedera’s growth.
Circle Selloff 'Looks Overdone' Analysts Say as Shares Rise After Cathie Wood Buys the Dip ( 25.03.2026 19:03:49 decrypt.co)
Analysts argued that Circle's selloff was overblown after shares fell Tuesday amid crypto bill developments and a stablecoin rival's moves.
Konflikt na Blízkém východě: USA poslaly Íránu mírový plán, Teherán ho odmítl ( 25.03.2026 19:00:00 e15.cz)
USA podle světových médií předaly Íránu patnáctibodový mírový plán.
Írán odmítl americký návrh plánu ukončení války a předložil pět vlastních požadavků.
Přehledně vysvětlujeme aktuální vývoj, obsah plánu i dopady války na ceny ropy a globální ekonomiku.
Mír v nedohlednu. Írán odmítl americký plán a žádá válečné reparace ( 25.03.2026 18:38:00 e15.cz)
Írán odmítl americký 15bodový mírový plán a označil jej za odtržený od reality na bojišti.
Teherán představil pět vlastních podmínek včetně válečných reparací a uznání suverenity v Hormuzu.
Írán zvažuje otevření nové fronty v strategické úžině Báb al-Mandab.
Pokud se Evropa nechce stát kořistí geopolitických dravců, musí se stát federací ( 25.03.2026 18:30:00 e15.cz)
Jedinou možnou cestou pro Evropskou unii je hlubší integrace.
EU je pořád významný obchodní aktér a musí se s ní počítat.
Dokazují to dohody s jihoamerickým sdružením Mercosur nebo úmluva s Indií.
CoinShares Files for Bitcoin Volatility ETF Suite, Targeting BTC Price Swings ( 25.03.2026 18:16:32 decrypt.co)
CoinShares filed for three Bitcoin volatility ETFs: a base, leveraged, and inverse fund. The funds could begin trading in early June 2026.
Franklin Templeton, Ondo Finance Bring 24/7 Tokenized ETF Trading to Crypto Users ( 25.03.2026 17:58:04 decrypt.co)
Five Franklin Templeton ETFs will be tokenized via Ondo Finance as the firms seek to broaden access to traditional assets on-chain.
Monetární středověk, fiskální doba kamenná? ( 25.03.2026 17:14:19 patria.cz)
Ekonom Scott Sumner se přidává k hlasům, podle kterých byla inflační vlna posledních let v USA zejména dílem (stimulované) poptávky. Na jednu stranu bychom mohli tíhnout k tomu, že dnes už je to jedno.
Visa Becomes First Major Payments Company to Join Canton Network as Super Validator ( 25.03.2026 17:03:42 decrypt.co)
Visa will help banks bring stablecoin payments and settlement on-chain while preserving privacy on the institutional blockchain network.
Ripple XRP Enters MAS BLOOM Sandbox to Pilot RLUSD Trade Finance Settlement ( 25.03.2026 16:58:12 cryptonews.com)
Ripple Joins MAS BLOOM Sandbox to Pilot RLUSD Trade Finance
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Ethereum Unveils 2029 ‘Strawmap’: 7 Hard Forks to Beat Quantum Threats ( 25.03.2026 16:42:10 cryptonews.com)
Ethereum 'Strawmap': 7 Hard Forks for Quantum Security by 2029
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Miliardy na zbrojení odklepli Česku. Poslední čeká rebelující Maďarsko ( 25.03.2026 16:35:53 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Český plán na využití prostředků z finančního nástroje SAFE schválila Evropská komise. Program vznikl loni a umožňuje půjčky na vojenské vybavení. Česko z něj může čerpat až 2,06 miliardy eur (50,4 miliardy korun). Dokument ale koalice ještě v lednu upravovala, schvalování se tak protáhlo.
Zdražení plynu je tady. Největší dodavatel zvýšil cenu téměř o pětinu, ostatní zatím váhají ( 25.03.2026 16:30:00 e15.cz)
První velký dodavatel reaguje na zvýšení velkoobchodních cen kvůli válce na Blízkém východě.
Innogy od pondělí zdražil plyn novým zákazníkům až o 17 procent.
Přidají se i další dodavatelé jako ČEZ či Pražská plynárenská?
Trump psal na sociální síť a někdo na tom vydělal 800 milionů dolarů ( 25.03.2026 16:30:00 e-news.cz)
Představte si, že znáte prezidentův příspěvek na síti Truth Social ještě před jeho zveřejněním. Na základě této informace vsadíte stovky milionů dolarů. Přesně to se podle analytiků stalo několik minut před Trumpovým oznámením „produktivních jednání s Íránem“.
Článek Trump psal na sociální síť a někdo na tom vydělal 800 milionů dolarů se nejdříve objevil na Ekonomický magazín.
Padesát miliard z Bruselu schváleno. Babišova vláda chce peníze přesunout z armády do dálnic ( 25.03.2026 16:26:00 e15.cz)
Evropská komise schválila Česku půjčku 50 miliard korun z fondu SAFE na armádu a infrastrukturu.
Proces se protáhl kvůli lednovým úpravám projektů ze strany nové vlády Andreje Babiše.
Kabinet chce v rámci plánu posílit financování dálnic na úkor původně zamýšlených armádních nákupů.
Bratislava si zahrává s pravidly: Dvojí ceny nafty jsou testem evropské trpělivosti ( 25.03.2026 16:00:00 e-news.cz)
Slovensko si nyní zkouší, jak daleko může zajít v testování hranic evropského práva. Vláda Roberta Fica zavedla dvojí ceny nafty. Řidiči se zahraniční poznávací značkou platí více. Domácí motoristé tankují levněji. Evropská komise reagovala velmi rychle. Toto je diskriminace. Odporuje totiž právu EU.
Článek Bratislava si zahrává s pravidly: Dvojí ceny nafty jsou testem evropské trpělivosti se nejdříve objevil na Ekonomický magazín.
Tom Lee's Ethereum Treasury Firm BitMine Launches 'Made in America' Staking Network ( 25.03.2026 15:51:49 decrypt.co)
Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee said BitMine’s Ethereum staking platform, MAVAN, was set to become the world’s largest following its debut.
Regulatory Backlash: $110B in Outflows Forces South Korea to Rethink Crypto Tax ( 25.03.2026 15:46:35 cryptonews.com)
South Korea Rethinks Crypto Tax After $110B in Outflows
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Trump se stal rizikem: Britská ropná lobby hledá nové spojence ( 25.03.2026 15:45:00 e-news.cz)
Donald Trump nedávno sliboval britským ropařům pomoc. Dnes představuje pro tento sektor spíše problém než řešení. Vypovídá to o mnohém. Pravidla hry v energetice se rychle mění.
Článek Trump se stal rizikem: Britská ropná lobby hledá nové spojence se nejdříve objevil na Ekonomický magazín.
Drsná realita Kuby na pokraji kolapsu. Fotky z ostrova bez jídla a elektřiny ( 25.03.2026 15:30:00 e15.cz)
Kuba čelí kritickému nedostatku ropy a kolapsu sítě po odstřižení dodávek z Venezuely.
Ekonomická krize na ostrově se prohlubuje kvůli chybějícím investicím a výpadku příjmů z turismu.
Venezuela byla až dosud největším dodavatelem ropy na Kubu. Nyní však dodávky směřují do Spojených států.
Nový technologický hit: simulace lidského chování? ( 25.03.2026 15:30:00 patria.cz)
Na CNBC byli hosty Cameron Fink, Ned Koh a John Kessler, tedy lidé z vedení startupu Aaru, který se zabývá simulací lidského chování. Podle CNBC jeho hodnota během pár let vzrostla na zhruba jednu miliardu dolarů.
UK Imposes Moratorium on Political Donations in Cryptocurrency ( 25.03.2026 15:12:44 decrypt.co)
Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced an immediate freeze on crypto donations to political parties, following the independent Rycroft review.
Čistka v českém fotbale. Policie obvinila 32 lidí z korupce a praní peněz přes sázky ( 25.03.2026 15:10:00 e15.cz)
Policie obvinila 32 lidí z korupce, ovlivňování zápasů a praní špinavých peněz skrze sázky.
Mezi stíhanými jsou hráči, rozhodčí i funkcionáři, přičemž některým hrozí až 13 let vězení.
Do skandálu je zapleteno několik klubů včetně prvoligové Karviné a druholigové Opavy.
Ze zanedbaného prostoru na novou chloubu města. V Česku se chystají nová náměstí ( 25.03.2026 15:00:00 e15.cz)
Dlouho šlo o místa, kterým se lidem vyhýbali, dnes se na několika z nich chystá kvalitní veřejný prostor.
Proměny zanedbaných prostor se chystají po celém Česku.
Hned několik zlepšení čeká také Prahu.
Když se Hormuz zavře, je ropný průmysl v šoku ( 25.03.2026 15:00:00 e-news.cz)
Hormuzský průliv je uzavřený. Ropa Brent se přiblížila hranici 120 dolarů za barel. Šéfové ropných gigantů neslaví rekordní zisky. Řeší naopak ochranu rafinerií před íránskými útoky. Scénář z učebnic se stal realitou. Nikdo neví, jak dlouho potrvá.
Článek Když se Hormuz zavře, je ropný průmysl v šoku se nejdříve objevil na Ekonomický magazín.
Cipher Digital Stock Pops as Firm Bolsters Shift From Bitcoin Mining With 15-Year Data Center Deal ( 25.03.2026 14:59:03 decrypt.co)
Cipher Digital revealed a 15-year lease deal and a $200 million revolving credit facility, continuing its shift away from Bitcoin mining.
Škodovka ukončí prodej v Číně. Automobilka prozradila, na jaké zacílí trhy ( 25.03.2026 14:44:26 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Škoda Auto ukončí v polovině letošního roku prodej aut v Číně. Důvodem je výrazná změna tamního trhu pro mezinárodní výrobce. Potvrdila to mluvčí společnosti Ivana Povolná. Automobilka se chce soustředit na posilování v Indii a regionu jihovýchodní Asie.
Pět stovek dolarů a letenka: Jak se z moldavských automechaniků stávají ruští sabotéři ( 25.03.2026 14:30:00 e-news.cz)
Maxim Roșca potkal Anatoliho Prizenca před obchodem v Kišiněvě. Netušil, že zdánlivě nevinná nabídka změní jeho život. Rozhodně ne k lepšímu. Prizenco sliboval snadný výdělek, cestu do zahraničí a minimum otázek.
Článek Pět stovek dolarů a letenka: Jak se z moldavských automechaniků stávají ruští sabotéři se nejdříve objevil na Ekonomický magazín.
President Trump Names Meta, Nvidia CEOs to White House Tech and Science Council ( 25.03.2026 14:27:01 decrypt.co)
Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and other tech leaders will advise President Trump on emerging technology policy.
Odvody živnostníků na sociální pojistné zřejmě klesnou na loňskou úroveň ( 25.03.2026 14:17:00 e15.cz)
Odvody živnostníků na sociální pojistné se zřejmě vrátí na loňskou úroveň.
Sněmovna schválila předlohu koaličních politiků, která zastavuje zvýšení jejich měsíčního vyměřovacího základu. Klesne na 35 procent průměrné hrubé mzdy.
Živnostníci by tak mohli měsíčně ušetřit 715 korun.
Živnostníci ušetří 715 korun měsíčně. Jak to bude s přeplatky na sociálním pojistném? ( 25.03.2026 14:14:31 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Odvody živnostníků na sociální pojistné se zřejmě vrátí na loňskou úroveň. Sněmovna ve středu schválila předlohu koaličních politiků, která zastavuje zvýšení jejich měsíčního vyměřovacího základu. Vrátí se tak na loňskou úroveň a klesne na 35 procent průměrné hrubé mzdy. Živnostníci by tak mohli měsíčně ušetřit 715 korun. Předlohu musí ještě projednat Senát a podepsat prezident.
Evropské technologické firmy s valuací 1,4 bilionu dolarů skončily v zahraničí, upozorňuje studie ( 25.03.2026 14:05:00 patria.cz)
Evropský technologický sektor za poslední dekádu výrazně oslabil svou přítomnost na domácích kapitálových trzích. Firmy s kombinovanou hodnotou 1,2 bilionu eur (1,4 bilionu dolarů) buď vstoupily na zahraniční burzy, nebo skončily v rukou mimoevropských vlastníků, odhalila studie švédské investiční skupiny EQT a konzultační společnosti McKinsey.
Česká armáda dostane F-35 z americké linky. Výroba začne už příští rok ( 25.03.2026 14:00:00 e-news.cz)
Americký gigant Lockheed Martin spustí výrobu stíhaček páté generace pro českou armádu. Jde o nejdražší armádní nákup v historii země. Čtyřiadvacet letounů F-35A Lightning II v nejmodernější verzi vyjde na 150 miliard korun.
Článek Česká armáda dostane F-35 z americké linky. Výroba začne už příští rok se nejdříve objevil na Ekonomický magazín.
Druhá největší zdravotní pojišťovna mění vedení. Do čela jde Ondřej Felix ( 25.03.2026 13:25:00 e15.cz)
Novým generálním ředitelem druhé největší zdravotní pojišťovny v tuzemsku, Zdravotní pojišťovny Ministerstva vnitra ČR (ZPMV), bude od května Ondřej Felix.
Správní rada ho dnes vybrala na svém mimořádném jednání, informovala pojišťovna v tiskové zprávě.
Zdeněk Kostka, který pojišťovnu se zhruba 1,3 milionem pojištěnců vedl od roku 2015, v únoru avizoval, že na konci dubna z osobních důvodů odejde.
Státní exportní pojišťovna EGAP je už pátým rokem v zisku. Loni vydělala přes miliardu ( 25.03.2026 12:50:00 e15.cz)
V minulém roce státní instituce podpořila například vývoz letadel do Uzbekistánu nebo zemědělských strojů do Afriky.
Dařilo se také Fondu Ukrajina, který zatím nezaznamenal jedinou pojistnou událost a je tak ziskový.
EGAP je v čele iniciativy na zapojení evropských peněz do podpory vývozu.
Bitcoin ETFs Draw in $2.5B in a Month, Close to Erasing YTD Losses ( 25.03.2026 12:48:39 decrypt.co)
Bitcoin ETFs show "incredible fortitude" with $2.5B monthly inflows, erasing YTD losses despite a 40% price drawdown, experts say.
Evropská energetika má stále prostor růst. Morgan Stanley zvyšuje doporučení ( 25.03.2026 12:47:00 patria.cz)
Evropský energetický sektor podle analytiků Morgan Stanley zdaleka ještě nedosáhl svého vrcholu. Investoři totiž teprve začínají oceňovat strukturální posun.
Morning Minute: Circle Plunges 20% Over Clarity Act Yield Changes ( 25.03.2026 12:24:12 decrypt.co)
Circle just had its worst day ever, while the CFTC is building a task force for crypto, AI, and prediction markets.
Startují žádosti o kompenzace z Nové zelené úsporám. Stát proplatí projekty těm, kteří loni nestihli termín ( 25.03.2026 12:16:00 e15.cz)
Majitelé domů, kteří investovali do projektové přípravy pro program Nová zelená úsporám, ale kvůli vyčerpání peněz v listopadu 2025 nestihli podat žádost, dostanou odškodnění.
Ministerstvo životního prostředí spouští speciální krátkodobou výzvu, která pokryje výdaje na dokumentaci pro komplexní renovace.
Zájemci o kompenzaci mohou podávat žádosti u Státního fondu životního prostředí ČR v termínu od 25. března do 15. dubna 2026.
Nálada investorů stoupá s rostoucí důvěrou v příměří v Íránu ( 25.03.2026 12:04:00 patria.cz)
Středeční dopoledne je na trzích slušně pozitivní. Evropské akciové indexy rostou zhruba o 1-1,5 procenta a asi o procento výš se drží americké futures.
CFTC Chief Launches Innovation Task Force Targeting Crypto Derivatives Framework ( 25.03.2026 11:55:09 cryptonews.com)
CFTC Launches Innovation Task Force for Crypto Framework
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Bittensor Income Desert: Why $52M in Subsidies Mask a TAO Crypto Valuation Risk ( 25.03.2026 11:33:44 cryptonews.com)
Bittensor TAO: $52M Subsidies Hide Real Valuation Risk
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Irish Police Crack First of 12 Bitcoin Wallets in $418M Drug Seizure ( 25.03.2026 11:20:48 decrypt.co)
Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau accessed 500 BTC worth $34 million with the help of Europol, breaking into wallets seized in 2019.
Škoda opouští čínský trh. Nepomohla ani garance výkupu nebo sleva na další vůz ( 25.03.2026 11:20:00 e15.cz)
Škoda Auto už se nebude trápit na čínském trhu.
Prodej vozů ukončí v polovině roku.
Končí tak příběh, který začal mimořádným úspěchem.
Nečekané změny v mezinárodním rezervním systému – vliv zlata a nástup netradičních měn ( 25.03.2026 11:07:00 patria.cz)
Barry Eichengreen a jeho kolegové na stránkách VoxEU poukazují na „současné překvapivé trendy“ v oblasti mezinárodních rezerv. Mezi ně podle ekonomů patří „pokračující diverzifikace od rezerv v amerických dolarech k netradičním měnám a rostoucí nákupy zlata ze strany centrálních bank“.
Cardano Price Prediction: Record Shorting and Line to Defend ( 25.03.2026 11:03:50 cryptonews.com)
Cardano ($ADA) whales accumulate at $0.25 as Santiment data flags a historic "opportunity zone" for the asset. Meanwhile, the Maxi Doge presale surges past $4.7M.
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Ifo: Podnikatelská nálada v Německu se v březnu snížila méně, než se čekalo ( 25.03.2026 10:56:08 patria.cz)
Podnikatelská nálada v Německu se v březnu zhoršila. Pokles byl ale menší, než čekali analytici. Hodnota indexu klesla na 86,4 bodu, uvedl ve své dnešní zprávě hospodářský institut Ifo.
Solana Price Prediction: Is SOL Done? Will Memecoin Season Back to Solana? ( 25.03.2026 10:52:30 cryptonews.com)
Solana ($SOL) tests huge support at $80 while SOL/BTC hints at a breakout. Can the Alpenglow upgrade trigger a rally? Analysis + price targets inside.
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Trump Crypto Price Test: A Bounce or A Downtrend Extension ( 25.03.2026 10:25:20 cryptonews.com)
OFFICIAL TRUMP (TRUMP) fights to hold $3.31 support amid falling volume. Meanwhile, the LiquidChain ($LIQUID) presale attracts over $622k with its L3 solution.
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Bhutan Continues Bitcoin Sell-Off with $37M Transfer to Binance ( 25.03.2026 10:13:16 cryptonews.com)
Bhutan Sells $37M in BTC via Binance Transfer
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Gold Price Analysis: Time’s Up for Metals? ( 25.03.2026 10:10:52 cryptonews.com)
Gold prices climb 1.6% on geopolitical rumors, but data shows metals are lagging crypto markets. See why traders are rotating into LiquidChain ($LIQUID).
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Ethereum ‘Mini Crypto Winter’ Nears End as Bitmine Adds 65,341 ETH, Tom Lee Says ( 25.03.2026 10:05:52 cryptonews.com)
Bitmine Adds 65,341 ETH as Tom Lee Eyes ETH Recovery
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Ropa výrazně zlevňuje v naději na jednání s Íránem, Brent klesl pod 100 dolarů ( 25.03.2026 09:58:19 patria.cz)
Ceny ropy dnes výrazně klesají po zprávě, že Spojené státy zaslaly Íránu 15bodový návrh směřující k ukončení války na Blízkém východě. To zvýšilo naděje na příměří, které by mohlo zmírnit narušení dodávek v regionu, uvedla agentura Reuters.
Silver Price Analysis: Almost 50% Drop From The Top ( 25.03.2026 09:49:56 cryptonews.com)
Silver prices correct sharply to $69.049 from January highs. Technical analysis and new opportunities in Bitcoin Layer 2 infrastructure.
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Komárkův Allwyn dokončil spojení s řeckou OPAP, vstoupil tak na aténskou burzu ( 25.03.2026 09:48:00 patria.cz)
Loterijní společnost Allwyn International ze skupiny KKCG podnikatele Karla Komárka dokončila spojení s řeckou firmou OPAP. Sloučená skupina je registrovaná na aténské akciové burze pod tickerem ALWN.
Rozbřesk: Washington tlačí Írán k jednání. Trhy si oddychly, ekonomika už šok vstřebává ( 25.03.2026 09:33:00 patria.cz)
Vývoj konfliktu na Blízkém východě se zřejmě posouvá do další fáze. Podle izraelských médií americká administrativa zesiluje snahu dostat Írán k jednacímu stolu a ve hře je scénář jednoměsíčního příměří.
Už žádné krypto ani co-work. Známý černý činžák po Paralelní Polis bude mít nové využití ( 25.03.2026 09:30:00 e15.cz)
Z budovy bývalé Paralelní Polis mizejí poslední připomínky její minulosti.
Činnost tam ukončil i sdílený pracovní prostor Second Culture.
Černý dům v holešovické Dělnické ulici má v budoucnu sloužit umění.
SWIFT Blockchain Pivot Puts XRP Back in Cross-Border Spotlight ( 25.03.2026 09:29:57 cryptonews.com)
SWIFT Blockchain Pivot Puts XRP Back in Spotlight
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Třetí podezřelý z terorismu v Pardubicích je ve vazbě. Čeká se na převoz ze Slovenska ( 25.03.2026 09:25:36 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Vyšetřování pátečního úmyslného zapálení haly zbrojovky LPP Holding v Pardubicích nabralo hodně rychlý spád. Zatímco hasiči sčítají stamilionové škody na zničené výrobě, policie už rozpletla síť podezřelých, která sahá za hranice České republiky. Před soudem v Pardubicích se včera odehrály scény jako z hollywoodského filmu, doprovázené skandováním v angličtině a palestinskými vlajkami.
Colt CZ potvrzuje odolnost portfolia, růst v roce 2026 potáhne munice a nový segment energetických materiálů ( 25.03.2026 09:16:00 patria.cz)
Colt CZ má za sebou rok zásadní transformace. Předběžné výsledky za 2025 potvrdily solidní výkonnost mírně nad očekáváním trhu, ale zároveň ještě výrazněji ukázaly změnu struktury celého byznysu, komentuje výsledky analytik Patria Finance Jakub Blaha.
OpenAI končí se Sorou. Spolu s ní končí i miliardová dohoda s Disneym ( 25.03.2026 09:15:00 e15.cz)
Americká společnost OpenAI ukončí aplikaci Sora, která umožňuje generování krátkých videí pomocí umělé inteligence (AI) a jejich následné sdílení.
Firma to bez bližších podrobností oznámila na sociální síti X.
Končí tím i prosincová dohoda o partnerství s mediální společností Walt Disney.
Colt CZ překonal očekávání, USA předložily plán pro mír a ARM uvede vlastní čipy ( 25.03.2026 08:57:00 patria.cz)
Colt CZ mírně lepší čísla, než se očekávalo. Investoři zároveň sledují dění kolem Íránu, napětí na trzích private credit fondů a zvýšený tlak na softwarové tituly, zatímco OpenAI míří k novému kolu financování v hodnotě kolem 10 miliard dolarů a ARM poprvé uvede vlastní čipy, které budou dodávat i pro Metu.
BNB Price Prediction: Aggressive Spot Market and Bottlenecks ( 25.03.2026 08:54:50 cryptonews.com)
BNB price targets $693 as open interest surges to $923 million. Meanwhile, LiquidChain raises over $600k in its presale to unify cross-chain liquidity.
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Kauza Turek zvýšila důvěru v prezidenta. Překvapivě ji hodnotí voliči Motoristů ( 25.03.2026 08:46:24 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Spor mezi prezidentem a vládou o jmenování Filipa Turka ministrem zvýšil důvěru v hlavu státu. Alespoň tedy u třetiny Čechů, uvádí to průzkum agentury Median. Důvěru ve vládu Andreje Babiše (ANO) zvedl spor jen u devíti procent lidí, zatímco u 36 procent vedl k poklesu důvěry v kabinet.
INVESTIČNÍ ONLINE: Konflikt v Íránu může podpořit větší využití čínského jüanu v ropném obchodě ( 25.03.2026 08:20:00 e15.cz)
Akcie, komodity, nemovitosti i kryptoměny. Sledujte nejdůležitější události, které hýbou investičními trhy doma i ve světě. V tomto přehledu najdete aktuální zprávy, rychlé analýzy i komentáře expertů.
Colt CZ loni výrazně zvýšil zisk, podpořil ho hlavně byznys s municí ( 25.03.2026 08:15:00 e15.cz)
Holding Colt CZ Group SE (Colt CZ) vykázal loni výnosy 23,398 miliardy korun.
Meziročně byly vyšší o 4,6 procenta a vzrostly u prodeje munice, naopak za prodej zbraní klesly.
Vyplývá to z konsolidovaných neauditovaných finančních výsledků, které dnes Colt CZ zveřejnil.
Sněmovna podpořila možnost důchodců ukončit penzijní spoření bez sankcí ( 25.03.2026 07:46:00 e15.cz)
Poslanecká sněmovna v úvodním kole podpořila novelu vládní koalice, aby důchodci, kteří si před rokem 2023 založili penzijní spoření, ho mohli bez sankce ukončit.
Důchodci, kteří od spoření odstoupili předčasně a přišli o státní podporu či vlastní peníze, mají získat kompenzaci.
Koalice původně navrhovala, aby Sněmovna schválila předlohu zrychleně již v prvním čtení. Tento postup ale vetovaly opoziční kluby TOP 09, ODS a KDU-ČSL.
Amerika volá o pomoc ale Trumpovi nikdo neodpovídá ( 25.03.2026 07:30:00 e-news.cz)
Donald Trump začal válku s Íránem po boku Izraele. Čekal rychlé vítězství. Teherán měl padnout během několika týdnů. Írán však odpověděl jinak. Zaminoval Hormuzský průliv. Pentagon najednou zjistil fatální nedostatek prostředků.
Článek Amerika volá o pomoc ale Trumpovi nikdo neodpovídá se nejdříve objevil na Ekonomický magazín.
Dědictví a dary nad pět milionů: Pozor na skrytou past finančního úřadu, pokuta může být likvidační ( 25.03.2026 06:30:00 e15.cz)
Příjmy z dědictví a dary jsou sice osvobozeny od daně, ale nezbavují vás všech daňových povinností.
Pokud váš osvobozený příjem přesáhne pět milionů korun, musíte ho nahlásit finančnímu úřadu.
Zanedbání této důležité oznamovací povinnosti může vést k obrovským finančním sankcím.
Přichází ropná krize. Měl by stát dotovat bohaté motoristy a vylepšovat hospodaření dopravců? ( 25.03.2026 06:30:00 e15.cz)
Všechno naznačuje tomu, že přichází další z řetězce krizí, tentokrát ropná.
Přestože ceny pohonných hmot nejsou nijak krizové, ozývá se volání po nižší spotřební dani.
Komu tím ale vlastně prospějeme?
Propad akcií je hlubší, než se může zdát. Podle Morgan Stanley to dává šanci na silné oživení ( 25.03.2026 06:01:00 patria.cz)
Podle Morgan Stanley existují důvody se domnívat, že pondělní oživení trhu by mohlo být součástí širšího vzestupu indexu S&P 500. Díky pondělnímu růstu o 1,2 % se index S&P 500 vrátil z pokraje téměř 10% korekce.
Polsko předběhlo Švýcarsko, je mezi dvacítkou největších ekonomik. Další růst ale naráží na limity ( 25.03.2026 06:00:00 e15.cz)
Polsko se stalo 20. největší ekonomikou, růst táhly fondy a investice.
Ekonomika ale naráží na limity: stárnutí, nedostatek lidí a slabší inovace.
Další vývoj bude záviset na posunu k vyšší přidané hodnotě a technologiím, píše businessový newsletter 11am.
V Česku rozjíždí vývoj čipová firma z Tchaj-wanu. Jde o její první pobočku mimo domovskou zemi a Silicon Valley ( 25.03.2026 05:30:00 e15.cz)
Tchajwanská společnost Jmem Tek v dubnu otevře pobočku v Praze, přičemž se zaměří na vývoj bezpečných čipů pro drony a obranu.
Nové brněnské centrum ACDRC propojuje české vědce s tchajwanskými firmami a pomáhá s komerčním využitím pokročilého výzkumu.
Spolupráce láká další investory jako Light Momentum či Inventec, kteří využijí silné české zázemí v automotive a AI serverech.
Baltimore Becomes the Latest to Sue Elon Musk's X and xAI Over Grok Deepfakes ( 25.03.2026 05:21:16 decrypt.co)
Baltimore's consumer protection suit against xAI will test whether local law can hold AI companies liable where federal regulation has failed.
Bitcoin Depot CEO Departs Amid Broader Crypto ATM Crackdown ( 25.03.2026 04:11:26 decrypt.co)
A swift reset in the crypto ATM operator’s leadership comes as regulatory oversight has hurt its core kiosk business.
Delaware Moves to Establish State Framework for Stablecoin Issuers ( 25.03.2026 02:33:53 decrypt.co)
The proposal would create a state licensing regime for stablecoin issuers while bolstering Delaware’s position to attract digital asset firms.
NASA Pivots Artemis Program Toward Building Permanent Base on the Moon ( 25.03.2026 02:01:48 decrypt.co)
The agency has outlined a three-phase plan for lunar infrastructure and says the effort will serve as a proving ground for future missions to Mars.
Kurzové pohyby už mnohé firmy nepodceňují. Zahrnuje i vaše firma měnové riziko do finančního plánování? ( 25.03.2026 00:00:00 e15.cz)
Měnové výkyvy, tlak na marže i složitější finanční plánování. To jsou témata, která dnes řeší stále více malých a středních firem. Akcenta na to reaguje neobvyklým krokem: bývalý Head of Finance Štěpán Hájek se nově přesouvá do čela obchodní sítě. Firma tím chce posílit propojení mezi finanční teorií, devizovým trhem a reálným fungováním klientů.
OpenAI to Shut Down Sora Video App, Derailing $1 Billion Deal with Disney ( 24.03.2026 23:23:15 decrypt.co)
OpenAI will discontinue the Sora app and API, ending its AI video-generation platform months after launching the standalone product.
Akcie odmazaly část ztrát díky naději na jednání o Hormuzu, válka však dál trvá ( 24.03.2026 21:10:22 patria.cz)
Americké akcie dnes umazaly část ztrát poté, co se objevily zprávy o možném posunu v diplomatických jednáních mezi USA a Íránem, která by mohla uvolnit situaci ve strategické úžině Hormuz.
Circle Stock Dives as Rival Tether Secures Big Four Audit, Crypto Bill Threatens Stablecoin Yield ( 24.03.2026 20:48:55 decrypt.co)
Circle (CRCL) stock plunged 20% on Tuesday as stablecoin rival Tether made a long-awaited move and Clarity Act speculation grew.
'Fortnite' Maker Epic Games Reveals Mass Layoffs, Says AI Isn’t to Blame ( 24.03.2026 19:24:11 decrypt.co)
Epic Games is laying off more than 1,000 employees as Fortnite engagement falls, but CEO Tim Sweeney says it's not AI's fault.
Russian Hacker Jailed for 81 Months Over $9M Ransomware Attacks ( 24.03.2026 18:47:14 decrypt.co)
Aleksei Volkov facilitated dozens of attacks across the U.S. as an "initial access broker," causing over $9 million in actual losses.
CFTC Unveils Innovation Task Force Focused on Crypto, AI and Prediction Markets ( 24.03.2026 18:23:37 decrypt.co)
The CFTC launched a new task force designed to create a clear framework of rules for technologies like AI, crypto, and prediction markets.
Wall Street se mění v minové pole pro investory. Kam letos zamíří index S&P 500? ( 24.03.2026 18:00:00 e15.cz)
Světové kapitálové trhy už delší dobu vykazují poměrně výraznou volatilitu.
Například hlavní index burzy v New Yorku S&P 500 se v posledním půlroce pohybuje v rozmezí 6,5 až 7,0 tisíce bodů.
Je rozkolísanost globálních kapitálových trhů novým normálem, nebo jde jen o krátkodobý úkaz?
J&T ARCH INVESTMENTS SICAV, a.s.: Vnitřní informace ( 24.03.2026 17:00:00 patria.cz)
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BMO Is First Bank to Join CME's Tokenized Cash Platform on Google Cloud ( 24.03.2026 16:54:17 decrypt.co)
BMO joins CME Group and Google Cloud to enable 24/7 tokenized cash settlement for institutional clients.
Ropný šok vrací zpět noční můru: zvyšování sazeb a konec levných peněz ( 24.03.2026 16:30:00 e15.cz)
Co přinesla zasedání centrálních bankéřů světových ekonomik?
Jaké důvody vedly k oslabení bezpečného přístavu?
Jak trhy zareagovaly na odložení Trumpova ultimáta?
Turecko zvažuje zásah zlatými rezervami. Liru oslabuje válka i inflační tlak ( 24.03.2026 16:30:00 e15.cz)
Turecko zvažuje, že využije zlaté rezervy k obraně své měny, na kterou negativně doléhá válečný konflikt na Blízkém východě.
S odkazem na informované zdroje to dnes uvedla agentura Bloomberg.
Turecko mělo na začátku března v rezervách zlato za 135 miliard dolarů (2,9 bilionu korun) a centrální banka se podle zdrojů chystá rozšířit svůj arzenál nástrojů měnové politiky.
Bitcoin Has Likely Bottomed as Strategy Shows Resilience Amid Plunge: Bernstein ( 24.03.2026 16:28:00 decrypt.co)
The analysts highlighted Bitcoin giant Strategy's flagship preferred share as an alternative source of funding amid tepid market conditions.
Traders Talk: Trhem zmítá extrémní strach. Jak se v něm zorientovat a udělat co nejméně škody ( 24.03.2026 16:19:00 patria.cz)
Geopolitické napětí, vysoká volatilita a rychle se měnící očekávání kolem sazeb dělají z dnešního trhu mimořádně nepřehledné prostředí. Makléř Patria Finance Pavel Mokoš vysvětluje, proč technický obrázek trhu nevypadá dobře, proč dává smysl pracovat se stop lossy a proč on sám v této chvíli dává přednost opatrnosti před snahou za každou cenu obchodovat.
Turecko zvažuje kvůli válce využití zlatých rezerv k obraně měny ( 24.03.2026 16:10:37 patria.cz)
Turecko zvažuje, že využije zlaté rezervy k obraně své měny, na kterou negativně doléhá válečný konflikt na Blízkém východě. S odkazem na informované zdroje to dnes uvedla agentura Bloomberg.
Evropa utahuje zemědělcům kohoutky. Ministr Šebestyán sází i na spojování farmářů ( 24.03.2026 16:01:30 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Evropské dotace pro zemědělství mají v příštích letech citelně klesnout. Dopad to bude mít i na Česko. Po započtení inflace by podle ministra zemědělství Martina Šebestyána (za SPD) aktuální návrh rozpočtu Společné zemědělské politiky znamenal oproti současnému období přibližně padesátiprocentní pokles. Z financování vypadnou pozemkové úpravy i zpracovatelský potravinářský průmysl.
Deset let nulová inflace… ( 24.03.2026 15:21:00 patria.cz)
Po finanční krizi roku 2008 se docela hodně mluvilo o tom, že je třeba nějaká nová ekonomická teorie, nějaký úplně nový přístup. Takové hledání nového není zdaleka omezeno jen na ekonomii.
Kvůli válce v Íránu by mohly splasknout balonky i AI bublina. Když schází LNG, není ani helium ( 24.03.2026 15:20:00 e15.cz)
Katar je důležitým globálním dodavatelem helia, v ohrožení jsou asijští výrobci čipů.
Přeprava vzácného plynu je náročná a citlivá na zdržení.
Problémy nastanou, pokud se konflikt na Blízkém východě protáhne.
Tether Says It Will Be Audited By Big Four Accounting Firm—But Won't Say Which One ( 24.03.2026 14:52:08 decrypt.co)
The first independent audit of Tether’s claimed $192 billion stablecoin reserves could pave the way to USDT’s approval under the GENIUS Act.
Wall Street's Crypto Ties Deepen as NYSE Taps Securitize for Tokenized Securities ( 24.03.2026 14:47:00 decrypt.co)
Securitize was selected by the New York Stock Exchange as a "digital transfer agent" for a platform dedicated to tokenized securities.
Halda Heřmanice v Ostravě nezíská miliardový sarkofág, město nahraje státnímu podniku Diamo ( 24.03.2026 14:00:00 e15.cz)
Sarkofág, který plánoval státní podnik Diamo, se na haldě Heřmanice v Ostravě stavět nebude.
Sanace haldy bude pokračovat zejména budováním vzdušných oddělovacích stěn.
Ostrava chystá kvůli haldě změnu územního plánu.
Mastercard, Western Union, Worldpay Building With New Solana Enterprise Platform ( 24.03.2026 13:55:04 decrypt.co)
Major financial players are building via the Solana Developer Platform, which is meant to streamline enterprise development on the network.
Energetický šok opět otestuje měnovou politiku Fedu. Klíčová bude jeho délka a intenzita ( 24.03.2026 13:44:00 patria.cz)
Rostoucí ceny ropy zvyšují nejistotu ohledně dalšího vývoje americké měnové politiky a znovu otevírají debatu o tom, jak Fed zareaguje na energetické šoky.
Zvrat v útoku na zbrojaře v Pardubicích? Policie už má tři podezřelé ( 24.03.2026 13:43:30 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Pardubický areál zbrojařské firmy ARCHER-LPP lehl popelem po žhářském útoku, který za sebou nechal škody za stovky milionů korun. Zatímco se k činu přihlásila tajemná mezinárodní skupina bojující za práva Palestinců, vyšetřovatelé nyní rozplétají mnohem temnější pozadí. Tři podezřelé už policie po pár dnech zadržela – jednoho na Slovensku.
Vláda chce rušit poplatky za TV a ČRo ve dvou fázích. Opozice varuje před paralýzou a hrozí obstrukcemi ( 24.03.2026 13:30:00 e15.cz)
Předseda Sněmovny Tomio Okamura uvedl, že změny u poplatků ČT a ČRo musí být kvůli smlouvám dvoufázové.
Koalice plánuje úplné zrušení poplatků od roku 2027, první úpravy mají přijít už letos.
Opozice vládní plán ostře kritizuje. Varuje před paralýzou i politickým ovládnutím médií a nevylučuje sněmovní obstrukce.
Fico narazil v Bruselu. Dvojí ceny nafty na Slovensku jsou protiprávní, zní z Evropské komise ( 24.03.2026 13:27:00 e15.cz)
Evropská komise označila slovenské zavedení dvojích cen nafty za vysoce diskriminační a odporující unijnímu právu.
Brusel plánuje proti Bratislavě podniknout právní kroky, protože opatření podle komise nepřípustně narušuje integritu jednotného trhu.
Slovenský premiér Robert Fico se hájí tím, že třicetidenní omezení má pouze zamezit palivové turistice po prudkém zdražení ropy.
Komárkova nadace zaplatila digitalizační stanici na záchranu památek. Pomůže na Ukrajině ( 24.03.2026 12:52:00 e15.cz)
Národní muzeum vysílá na Ukrajinu mobilní stanici Archa III pro 3D digitalizaci památek.
Technologie umožní dokumentovat ohrožené objekty přímo v terénu a sdílet data odborníkům.
Projekt podpořila nadace KKFF, reaguje na škody, které válka způsobila kulturnímu dědictví.
Bittensor Leads AI Altcoin Surge as Short Squeeze, Conflicting Iran Talks Claims Fuel Volatility ( 24.03.2026 12:40:46 decrypt.co)
AI altcoins notched double-digit gains amid conflict-related volatility, buoyed by last week's Nvidia GTC conference.
ZFP Investments mění majitele. Realitní fond kupuje slovenský investor ( 24.03.2026 12:33:00 e15.cz)
Slovenská Vosem Capital kupuje ZFP Investments s aktivy přes 600 milionů eur.
Transakci ještě musí schválit ČNB a antimonopolní úřady v Česku i na Slovensku.
Nový majitel chce zvýšit výkonnost fondu a cílit na výnos kolem šesti procent.
Anthropic vstupuje do boje o agentní AI. Claude může na dálku ovládat počítač ( 24.03.2026 12:24:00 patria.cz)
Anthropic představuje novou konkurenci pro AI agenta OpenClaw. AI startup oznámil, že jeho chatbot Claude nyní může používat počítač člověka k plnění úkolů.
Morning Minute: Saylor Gains Access to Another $44B to Buy Bitcoin ( 24.03.2026 12:21:01 decrypt.co)
Strategy just unveiled a $44 billion war chest to keep buying Bitcoin, while Congress is moving to ban sports bets on prediction markets.
Růst cen plynu je letos nevyhnutelný, varuje analýza EGU ( 24.03.2026 12:20:00 e15.cz)
Podle analýzy EGU letos ceny plynu nevyhnutelně porostou, výrazněji hlavně ve druhé polovině roku.
Hlavním důvodem je výpadek dodávek LNG z Kataru v důsledku konfliktu v Perském zálivu.
Zdražování se pravděpodobně rychle promítne do nových ceníků dodavatelů.
S&P Global: Růst aktivity v soukromém sektoru v eurozóně v březnu zpomalil ( 24.03.2026 12:12:54 patria.cz)
Růst aktivity v soukromého sektoru v eurozóně v březnu výrazně zpomalil. Válka na Blízkém východě firmám zvyšuje vstupní náklady, které se dostaly na nejvyšší úroveň za více než tři roky, a způsobuje nejhorší narušení dodavatelských řetězců od poloviny roku 2022.
Babiš ruší jeden předvolební slib za druhým. Zapláčou senioři, podnikatelé i odpůrci ČT ( 24.03.2026 12:12:00 e15.cz)
První velké překvapení pro voliče Babišova kabinetu přišlo už na podzim, kdy jeho představitelé vycouvali ze zrušení nákupu letounů F-35.
Další zklamanou skupinou jsou senioři, kteří se těšili na štědřejší valorizace penzí.
Nyní vláda oznámila firmám, že se velmi pravděpodobně nedočkají nižší daně z příjmů.
Holešovice zrychlují: ceny bytů rostly o 25 % ( 24.03.2026 12:11:00 patria.cz)
Holešovice patří v posledních letech mezi nejrychleji rostoucí rezidenční lokality v Praze. Podle Deloitte Rent Index zde ceny bytů v roce 2025 vzrostly o 25 %, což výrazně překonává průměr hlavního města.
Co věřit Trumpovi a jak zareaguje Írán? Trhy stále nevědí, na jakou kartu si vsadit ( 24.03.2026 11:14:36 patria.cz)
Po divokém začátku týdne se hlavní trhy během úterka přece jen zklidňují, když se ropa konsoliduje u 102 dolarů. To ukazuje, že se strach z íránské války nevrací v plné síle.
Revolut hlásí rekordní zisk před zdaněním. O desítky procent roste počet klientů i předplatného ( 24.03.2026 11:09:00 patria.cz)
Britský fintech Revolut se vytasil s působivými hospodářskými výsledky. V loňském roce zaznamenal rekordní zisk před zdaněním, který vzrostl o 57 procent na 1,7 miliardy liber.
MoonPay Launches Open-Source Wallet Standard for AI Agents ( 24.03.2026 11:07:26 decrypt.co)
The payments infrastructure firm has unveiled an open-source framework enabling AI agents to manage crypto funds across multiple chains.
„My to děláme dobře.“ Reagoval Babiš na plnou Letnou. Turek srovnával s vlastními fanoušky ( 24.03.2026 10:35:01 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Víkendovou protivládní demonstraci Milionu chvilek premiér Andrej Babiš (ANO) respektuje. Podle organizátorů dorazilo na pražskou Letnou minimálně čtvrt milionu lidí. Předseda vlády v úterním rozhovoru pro Blesk.cz řekl, že vláda kvůli ní neuvažuje o změnách, protože věci dělá dobře. Odmítl komentovat to, že se shromáždění zúčastnila manželka prezidenta Eva Pavlová.
AI ano, ale ne jako jádro portfolia. Erhard Radatz z Invesca o technologiích, válce v Íránu, energetice i návratu zájmu o Čínu ( 24.03.2026 09:51:00 patria.cz)
Erhard Radatz, Global Head of Portfolio Management v Invesco Quantitative Strategies, v rozhovoru pro Patria.cz ukazuje, proč investoři podle něj dnes dělají chybu, když bezhlavě naskakují na velká témata typu AI, ESG nebo geopolitika.
Důvěra v českou ekonomiku v březnu stoupla u podnikatelů i spotřebitelů ( 24.03.2026 09:45:53 patria.cz)
Důvěra v českou ekonomiku letos v březnu opět stoupla, meziměsíčně se zvýšila o jeden bod na hodnotu 102,1 bodu. Oznámil to dnes Český statistický úřad (ČSÚ).
EU a Austrálie se dohodly na odstranění cel, bezpečnostní spolupráci i těžebních projektech ( 24.03.2026 09:36:00 patria.cz)
Evropská unie a Austrálie dnes po letech vyjednávání podepsaly obchodní dohodu, která podle Evropské komise odstraní téměř všechna cla na vývoz evropského zboží.
Obří zásah kvůli sázkám ve fotbale: Policie prověřuje ovlivňování zápasů ( 24.03.2026 09:08:28 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Policie od rána zasahuje kvůli možné korupci ve fotbalových utkáních v souvislosti se sázkami. Národní centrála proti organizovanému zločinu (NCOZ) potvrdila, že provádí úkony trestního řízení. Podle olomouckého vrchního žalobce Radima Dragouna bylo zadrženo několik desítek lidí a provedeny domovní prohlídky. Vedení Fotbalové asociace ČR kvůli tomu svolalo mimořádný výkonný výbor, uvádí web iSport.cz.
Rozbřesk: Trumpova otočka jako test citlivosti středoevropských měn na ropu ( 24.03.2026 08:57:00 patria.cz)
Nevýhodou ekonomie oproti ostatním exaktním vědám jako je například fyzika je to, že nedisponuje tzv. řízeným experimentem. Jinak řečeno ekonomie nemá možnost pravdivost nastolené hypotézy otestovat v laboratorních podmínkách.
Trhy se uklidňují po prudkých výkyvech, pozornost ale zůstává na Blízkém východě ( 24.03.2026 08:51:00 patria.cz)
Futures na evropské indexy mírně rostou. K pozitivnějšímu sentimentu přispívají i zprávy o dvou indických tankerových zásilkách proplouvajících Hormuzem, zatímco trhy sledují napětí v private-credit fondech a novinky ze světa technologií, včetně plánů Applu spustit reklamu v aplikaci Mapy.
Stratégové nadále věří evropským akciím. I přes rizika čekají návrat Stoxx 600 na rekordy ( 24.03.2026 06:03:00 patria.cz)
Současná geopolitická nejistota ani růst cen energií by neměly vykolejit očekávané zrychlení evropského hospodářského růstu. Průzkum Bloombergu ukazuje, že analytici dál počítají s návratem evropských akcií na nová maxima, přestože válka na Blízkém východě zvyšuje inflační rizika, tlačí ceny energií vzhůru a vede k přecenění očekávání u sazeb.
Překvapivě zelené pondělí na Wall Street ( 23.03.2026 21:20:52 patria.cz)
Dnešní obchodování v USA rozhodně ráno nevypadalo ani zdaleka tak růžově jako nyní. Po víkendových ultimátech ze strany prezidenta Trumpa k Íránu byl trh nastaven v podstatě na protržení lokálních minim a důvěra investorů v pozitivní obrat ve vztazích mezi USA a Íránem se pomalu začínala rovant nule.
Hyperscaleři, jejich mohutné investice a to, co firmy skutečně vydělávají ( 23.03.2026 17:36:00 patria.cz)
Trhy se sice téměř výhradně zaměřují na ziskovost obchodovaných společností, ale ta nemusí nutně ukazovat to, co firmy skutečně vydělávají. Možná to může mimo jiné vysvětlovat někdy překvapivé reakce cen akcií na zveřejněné výsledky.
Jaderná energie, umělá inteligence i startupy. Čím je chce vláda nakopnout? ( 23.03.2026 17:03:50 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Nejméně 17 nových či novelizovaných zákonů předloží ministr průmyslu a obchodu Karel Havlíček (ANO) do konce roku vládě ke schválení. Patří mezi ně třeba návrhy zákonů o umělé inteligenci, digitální ekonomice a podpoře startupů. V energetice počítá s opatřeními, jež podpoří stavbu jaderných a plynových elektráren.
PODCAST Týdenní výhled: Trump vystrašil trhy ultimátem Íránu, ale znovu otočil ( 23.03.2026 16:14:00 patria.cz)
Donald Trump opět předvádí svou typickou hru - nejprve vystrašit a potom couvnout. A trhy reagují adekvátně. Využije Írán nabídku k deeskalaci?
Patria Podcasts · Týdenní výhled: Trump vystrašil trhy ultimátem Íránu, ale znovu otočil
Konflikt v Íránu vystoupal na žebříčku eskalace opět o stupeň nahoru spolu s víkendovým ultimátem Donalda Trumpa vůči Íránu.
Těžaři pod tlakem: prudký propad zlata tlačí na jejich marže ( 23.03.2026 16:10:00 patria.cz)
Před vypuknutím konfliktu na Blízkém východě dosahovalo zlato až 5 500 dolarů za unci. S několika týdenním trváním války v Íránu se ale investoři začali žlutého kovu setrvale zbavovat a historická maxima jsou tatam.
Dohoda EU s Mercosurem začne prozatímně platit od května, uvedla Evropská komise ( 23.03.2026 15:47:56 patria.cz)
Dohoda o volném obchodu mezi Evropskou unií a skupinou latinskoamerických států Mercosur začne prozatímně platit od 1. května, oznámila dnes Evropská komise.
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Největší dluhopisový výprodej od roku 2022. Energetický šok mění pravidla hry i tradiční bezpečné přístavy ( 23.03.2026 14:58:00 patria.cz)
Válka v Íránu a Trumpovo víkendové ultimátum vyústilo v jeden z nejprudších výprodejů na dluhopisových trzích za více než tři roky, když rostoucí ceny ropy zvyšovaly inflační tlaky a investoři začali zaceňovat možnost dalšího utažení měnové politiky.
Byty jako veřejný zájem: Co změna v zákoně udělá s právy lidí i výstavbou? ( 23.03.2026 13:35:51 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Developeři si mnou ruce, ochránci přírody zbystřili. Novela stavebního zákona posouvá velké bytové projekty do režimu „veřejného zájmu“ a tím jim otevírá dosud zavřené dveře. Jak konkrétně statut veřejného zájmu usnadní povolování bytových domů? A bude se v Česku konečně stavět více? Novela stavebního zákona, kterou nyní projednává sněmovna, přináší zásadní změnu.
„Minus čtvrtina rozpočtu.“ Opozice se bouří, vláda chce tvrdě osekat poplatky ( 23.03.2026 13:23:16 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Šéf Sněmovny Tomio Okamura (SPD) řekl, že koalice v úterý předloží návrh, který zruší významnou část poplatků pro veřejnoprávní média. Odpustit by se mohly třeba seniorům, firmám, nezaopatřeným mladým lidem do 26 let nebo osobám se zdravotním postižením. Plán kritizuje opozice.
Trump chválí jednání s Íránem a odkládá útoky na energetiku ( 23.03.2026 12:38:00 patria.cz)
Donald Trump oznámil, že nařídil ministerstvu obrany odložit útok na íránské elektrárny o pět dní po jednáních s íránskými představiteli o ukončení nepřátelských akcí, která označil za „plodná“.
Trump otočil s ultimátem, akcie i dluhopisy letí prudce nahoru ( 23.03.2026 12:38:00 patria.cz)
Začátek nového týdne je ve znamení další eskalace v íránské válce. Výrazně negativní dopad mělo ultimátum amerického prezidenta Donalda Trumpa, které zvedlo riziko, že obě strany přejdou k civilním cílům, tedy elektrárnám, energetické, IT a odsolovací infrastruktuře.
Zlato padá kvůli Íránu. Nejvíc od roku 1983 ( 23.03.2026 11:05:20 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Ceny zlata i stříbra prudce klesají. Zlato brzy ráno vykazovalo propad o více než osm procent a stříbro téměř o devět. Pak se pokles zmírnil. Vliv mají i nadále dopady války na Blízkém východě a obavy z růstu inflace. Ta by si vyžádala zvyšování úrokových sazeb.
Češi platí o pětinu víc než Slováci. Dvojí ceny nafty můžou být protiprávní ( 23.03.2026 08:48:51 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Slovensko od pondělka zavádí dvojí ceny motorové nafty u čerpacích stanic. Více za toto palivo zaplatí řidiči vozidel se zahraniční poznávací značkou. Už minulý týden začalo v zemi platit objemové a finanční omezení při tankování nafty.
Vyhozené miliardy? Peníze na obnovu šly i na slepé ulice a měly minimální přínos ( 23.03.2026 07:52:17 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Na obnovu místních silnic a cest šlo v letech 2019 až 2025 celkem 4,7 miliardy korun. Ministerstvo pro místní rozvoj je poskytlo městům a obcím na 2150 projektů. Na kontrolovaném vzorku se ale ukázalo, že ve víc než polovině případů měla tato podpora minimální přínos pro řešení dopravní situace.
Finančák vidí víc, než si myslíte: Nové hlášení odhalí triky s výplatami i skryté příjmy ( 23.03.2026 07:30:00 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Finanční úřady už dávno netápou naslepo. Díky lavině digitálních dat vidí firmám pod ruce – a nově i do výplatních pásek. Jedno jediné měsíční hlášení může odhalit triky, na které se roky nepřicházelo.
Macinka bagatelizuje maďarský špionážní skandál. Mediální kampaň, tvrdí ( 22.03.2026 16:41:32 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Ministr zahraničí Petr Macinka (Motoristé) zlehčuje kauzu kolem šéfa maďarské diplomacie Pétera Szijjártó, která otřásá Evropou. Zprávu deníku The Washington Post o údajném vynášení informací z jednání EU označuje spíš za předvolební útok na Maďarsko než za reálný problém.
Válka v Íránu stojí USA každý den miliardu dolarů. Možná je zbytečná ( 22.03.2026 14:47:48 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Spojené státy na válku v Íránu dosud vynaložily více než 27,6 miliardy dolarů (téměř 600 miliard korun). Částka každým dnem narůstá zhruba o další miliardu dolarů. Na gigantické válečné výdaje upozornil ukrajinský web RBC-Ukraine s odkazem na analytický portál Iran War Cost Tracker. Částka vychází z údajů Pentagonu, podle nějž první týden konfliktu stál zemi 11,3 miliardy dolarů.
Většina Evropanů chce silnější ochranu EU v krizích. Češi říkají NE ( 22.03.2026 11:59:39 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Dvě třetiny Evropanů chtějí, aby Evropská unie hrála silnější roli v ochraně svých občanů před globálními krizemi. Češi ale zůstávají stranou. Data Evropského parlamentu ukazují nejen rekordně nízkou podporu posilování EU v Česku, ale i zásadně odlišné vnímání hrozeb.
Další rána pro peněženky Čechů? Ceny hnojiv rostou, hrozí zdražení potravin ( 22.03.2026 10:52:12 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Na každého může dopadnout zdražení. Ceny hnojiv vystřelily o desítky procent a zemědělci varují: zatím jedeme ze starých zásob, ale co bude dál? Pokud růst zdražování nezastaví, mohou pole zůstat bez potřebné výživy. To znamená jediné: slabší úrodu a dražší potraviny.
Trump vyhrožuje útokem na elektrárny a Bitcoin na to reaguje poklesem ( 22.03.2026 09:00:00 kryptomagazin.cz)
Kurz ceny bitcoinu se nám tento týden neúspěšně pokusil vrátit nad 76 000 USD. Konflikt v Íránu nás zase mírně srazil, ale propad nebyl nijak extrémní.
48 hodin do útoku? Trump hrozí Íránu likvidací celé energetiky ( 22.03.2026 05:46:42 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Americký prezident Donald Trump dal v noci na dnešek Íránu 48hodinové ultimátum na úplné otevření Hormuzského průlivu. V opačném případě začnou Spojené státy ničit íránské elektrárny. Naplnění této hrozby by zasáhlo každodenní život běžných Íránců. Podle agentury Reuters jde o dramatickou eskalaci ve více než třítýdenním konfliktu.
Plná Letná burácela proti Babišovi: Tahle země není na prodej. Zvyšte výdaje na obranu ( 21.03.2026 15:03:19 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Pražskou Letnou se v sobotu odpoledne zaplnily stovky tisíc lidí. Přišly protestovat proti vládě premiéra Andreje Babiše (ANO). Demonstraci spolku Milion chvilek s názvem „Lev se probouzí. Jaro je tady“ zahájilo skandování „Už jsme tady. Už jsme tady,“ které se neslo davem jako jasný signál nespokojenosti i odhodlání.
Benzin stojí 40 korun, nafta skoro 45. Paliva jsou nejdražší za dva roky. A bude hůř? ( 21.03.2026 11:37:41 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Benzin za 40 korun a nafta ještě dražší. Ceny pohonných hmot v Česku jsou nejvyšší za poslední dva roky. Konflikt na Blízkém východě po úderech v Íránu rozkolísal ropné trhy a Češi to začínají tvrdě cítit u pump.
Konečně se kopne: Po měsících zpoždění odstartuje dostavba posledního úseku D11 ( 21.03.2026 10:29:33 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Po měsících zdržení a rozpočtových tahanic konečně padlo rozhodnutí: stát dostaví dálnici D11. Práce na chybějícím úseku za více než 9 miliard korun mají odstartovat už za pár dní. Slibují rychlejší cestu k polským hranicím.
Česko se zapojí do ochrany ropné tepny, Trump obvinil spojence ze zbabělosti ( 21.03.2026 06:31:05 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Česká republika zapojí do ochrany Hormuzského průlivu, přes nějž proudí ropa z Perského zálivu do Evropy. Zatímco Donald Trump ostře kritizuje spojence a mluví o „zbabělcích“, čtrnáct států včetně Česka vysílá vzkaz: další útoky už neprojdou. Hraje se přitom víc než jen o lodní trasy. Jde o stabilitu světové ekonomiky.
Statisíce v prachu a ticho z Prahy: Stát vysvětluje, proč nechal turisty na holičkách ( 21.03.2026 05:05:00 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Dovolená v exotickém ráji se pro stovky českých turistů během několika hodin změnila v nejdražší past jejich života. Zatímco úřady vydávají oficiální prohlášení o fungování informačních systémů a nouzových linek, lidé uvízlí v krizovém regionu Perského zálivu i dalekém okolí prožívali situace, které v cestovních katalozích nenajdete.
Zkrotí vláda ceny energií? Karel Havlíček vystoupí na konferenci Právo a energetika ( 20.03.2026 14:33:53 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Česká energetika stojí na křižovatce, kde se střetává tlak na dekarbonizaci s požadavkem na dostupné ceny pro domácnosti a průmysl. Právě energetické regulaci a jejím právní i ekonomickým dopadům na život a podnikání v Česku se bude věnovat konference Právo a energetika. Ekonomický deník a Česká justice ji pořádají 10. dubna v Praze.
Fed ponechal sazbu, důležitá je ale dlouhodobá projekce ( 18.03.2026 18:03:07 kryptomagazin.cz)
Před malou chvilinkou skončilo zasedání Fedu kolem možné změny základní úrokové sazby Spojených států. Asi nikoho nepřekvapí, že sazba byla zachována. To co se ale vyhlíželo je jejich dlouhodobý výhled.
Ve hře je stále možný propad bitcoinu až ke 40 000 USD ( 15.03.2026 09:00:00 kryptomagazin.cz)
Tento týden to vše vypadá skvěle! Kurz ceny bitcoinu tvoří zelenou týdenní svíčku s poměrně velkým tělem. Aktuálně se pohybujeme nad 71 500 USD a v týdnu došlo k otestování i hranice 74 000 USD.
USA povede za obhajobou zlata na mistrovství světa trenér Granato ( 26.03.2026 10:24:44 sport.cz)
Hokejisty Spojených států amerických povede na květnovém mistrovství světa ve Švýcarsku za obhajobou loňského titulu jako trenér Don Granato. Ve středu to oznámila organizace USA Hockey.
Pastrňák s Nečasem se v NHL drží mezi elitou ( 26.03.2026 10:20:19 sport.cz)
Ruský hokejový útočník Nikita Kučerov z Tampy Bay vede produktivitu NHL o dva body před Kanaďanem Connorem McDavidem z Edmontonu. Trojnásobný držitel Art Ross Trophy pro nejproduktivnějšího hráče z let 2019, 2024 a loňska Kučerov si připsal v 66 zápasech 120 bodů za 40 gólů a 80 asistencí, díky kterým je i nejlepším nahrávačem.
Dojemné momenty v NHL. Aréna tleskala kapitánově znovuzrozené snoubence ( 26.03.2026 10:12:21 sport.cz)
Loni si společně prožili martyrium, které těžce otřáslo jejich životy. Snoubenka švédského kapitána hokejistů Buffala Rasmuse Dahlina se nyní poprvé od loňské transplantace srdce objevila na utkání Sabres. A v KeyBank Center jí diváci nadšeně vítali a aplaudovali.
Slovenský hokejový medailista z MS běsní: Američani dělají to samé, co Rusové, taky by neměli nikde hrát ( 26.03.2026 10:01:36 sport.cz)
Výzvy k nespojování sportu s politikou se v poslední době opět množí, zvláště ohledně diskusí, zda nechat účastnit se vrcholných akcí sportovce z Ruska, které stále vede válku na Ukrajině. Nyní se k těmto hlasům přidal bývalý slovenský hokejista s bohatými zkušenostmi z NHL Andrej Sekera. Podle něj se USA chovají stejně jako Rusko, ale nikdo je ze sportovních akcí nevylučuje.
ONLINE: Slováci čelí Kosovu, Dánsko proti Severní Makedonii. Kdo postoupí do finále baráže? ( 26.03.2026 10:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Kromě utkání české reprezentace se hrají i další duely baráže o postup na mistrovství světa 2026 v Severní Americe. Slovensko na domácí půdě přivítá Kosovo. Dánové se v Kodani představí proti Severní Makedonii. Vítěz tohoto zápasu se následně utká s vítězem duelu Česko - Irsko. Do akce jde také Itálie, která hostí Severní Irsko. Poláci doma vyzvou Albánii. Hraje také Ukrajina, která na neutrálním hřišti ve španělské Valencii čelí Švédsku. Všechny duely, kromě utkání Turecko - Rumunsko (18.00), startují od 20.45. Baráž o MS sledujte ONLINE na iSportu.
Voborníková vyhrála mistrovství republiky. A pak… Rychle domů, aby se mohla učit ( 26.03.2026 09:54:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Po úspěšné sezoně na mezinárodní scéně uspěla v jejím závěru i na domácím šampionátu. Tereza Voborníková má konečně i titul mistryně ČR v supersprintu. Teď už se může jít věnovat jiným věcem. Odpočinek ale nečekejte. Má před sebou studijní povinnosti. „Teď se jdu ještě učit na čtvrteční zkoušku,“ hlásila.
Zápasník Polívka po rozchodu s Vondráčkovou: Polibky s novou láskou a narážka na Lucku ( 26.03.2026 09:53:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Moc dlouho sám nezůstal! MMA zápasník Zdeněk Polívka (27) se po rozchodu s Lucií Vondráčkovou (46) švižně oklepal. Jen pár měsíců po oficiálním konci vztahu zaplavily jeho Instagram zamilované záběry a polibky.
Potrestaný trenér dorazil na zápas v přestrojení, ruply mu ale nervy a napadl soupeře ( 26.03.2026 09:50:58 sport.cz)
Fotbal je krásná hra a nabízí příběhy, kterým se občas nechce věřit. S jedním takovým teď přispěchali v Itálii. Matteo Ciceri, trenér mužstva Mulazzano Union z deváté ligy, vyfasoval čtyřměsíční zákaz činnosti a pokutu. Důvod? Neuvěřitelně bizarní. V podzimním utkání s Galgagnanem, jehož se kvůli předchozímu trestu nesměl zúčastnit, se převlékl za kněze. A těsně před koncem při oslavě gólu vyběhl na hřiště a nakopl soupeře!
Sparta nad propastí. Zatlačili nás ke zdi, ale máme na to vyhrát tři zápasy v řadě, věří Pražané ( 26.03.2026 09:40:21 sport.cz)
Tuhle situaci už hokejisté Sparty znají. Stačí jedna porážka a sezona jim skončí. Ve čtvrtfinále play off Tipsport extraligy s Plzní se však nacházejí ještě ve svízelnější situaci než v předkole, prohrávají totiž už 1:3 na zápasy. A tak dnes (od 17:30) musí na západě Čech bezpodmínečně zvítězit. „Už nemáme co ztratit,“ uvědomuje si útočník Kryštof Hrabík.
Bývalá hvězda Liverpoolu Toshack se potýká s demencí ( 26.03.2026 09:24:21 sport.cz)
Bývalá hvězda Liverpoolu a pozdější fotbalový trenér John Toshack se potýká s demencí. Středečnímu vydání listu Daily Mail to řekl syn někdejšího velšského útočníka Cameron.
Muchová zaútočí na postup do finále. Proti ní stojí neoblíbená soupeřka ( 26.03.2026 09:05:48 sport.cz)
Česká tenistka Karolína Muchová si přivezla do Miami skvělou formu. Na americké tisícovce zapsala už čtyři výhry, ztratila pouze jediný set a probojovala se už do semifinále. V něm jí však čeká zatím nejtěžší zkouška. Američanku Coco Gauffovou, aktuální světovou čtyřku, totiž ještě nikdy neporazila. Souboj o postup do finále začíná zhruba ve 20:00 a jeho průběh můžete sledovat v podrobné online reportáži na Sport.cz.
Lehečka v Miami prošel do semifinále, utká se s Francouzem. Muchovou čeká Gauffová ( 26.03.2026 09:05:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Tenista Jiří Lehečka vyhrál na v Miami nad překvapením turnaje Španělem Martinem Landalucem 7:6, 7:5 a postoupil do semifinále, což se mu na Masters povedlo teprve podruhé. V duelu o postup do finále narazí na Francouze Arthura Filse. Karolínu Muchovou čeká ve stejné fázi turnaje domácí Coco Gauffová.
Žalobci žádají vazbu pro pět z 32 obviněných ve fotbalové korupční kauze ( 26.03.2026 09:01:12 sport.cz)
Ve fotbalové korupční kauze podali žalobci návrh na vazbu u pěti obviněných, tři jejich návrhy projedná Okresní soud ve Zlíně, další dva Městský soud v Brně. Ostatní zadržení byli propuštěni, řekl dnes ČTK olomoucký vrchní žalobce Radim Dragoun. V kauze spjaté s ovlivňováním utkání kvůli sázkám je obviněno 32 lidí. Stíháni jsou mimo jiné za trestné činy podvod, úplatkářství a legalizaci výnosů z trestné činnosti, část viní detektivové z účasti na organizované zločinecké skupině.
Útok na rekord! Osmdesátiletá legenda bojuje o MS, letos už ale třikrát skončila v nemocnici ( 26.03.2026 08:53:59 sport.cz)
Velký příběh pokračuje, ve čtvrtek bude vyzdoben rekordním záznamem a možná i cennou výhrou. Proslulý rumunský fotbalový stratég Mircea Lucescu se stane nejstarším koučem, který kdy vedl reprezentační tým. Pokud to tedy nenaruší nějaká nenadálá mimořádná komplikace. Nebude to ledajaký zápas: semifinále play off o účast na mistrovství světa proti Turecku. Lucescuovi bude 80 let a 240 dnů, překoná dosavadní maximum Němce Otta Pfistera. Zmiňuje to agentura SID a další zahraniční média.
Fotbalový skandál ONLINE: Žalobci žádají vazbu pro pět lidí, další obvinění byli propuštěni ( 26.03.2026 08:50:00 isport.blesk.cz)
V úterý 24. března proběhl největší policejní zásah v historii českého fotbalu. Týká se první ligy, nižších soutěží i mládeže. Zadrženy byly desítky lidí. Jde o korupci v utkáních v souvislosti se sázkami a v některých případech šlo primárně o ovlivnění výsledků. Jedním z podezřelých je primátor Karviné Jan Wolf, jde také o rozhodčí z profesionální listiny i prvoligového hráče. Etická komise FAČR už zveřejnila seznam 47 zahajených disciplinárních řízení. Veškeré dění sledujeme v ONLINE reportáži.
Sport Magazín: případ Kinský, reakce Čecha s Vaclíkem i nevidomá hrdinka ( 26.03.2026 08:30:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Už v pátek vychází Sport Magazín a nešťastný případ brankáře Antonína Kinského. Co by mu poradili Petr Čech s Tomášem Vaclíkem? Nevidomá paralympijská hrdinka Simona Bubeníčková představuje svůj svět s trasérem Davidem Šrůtkem. Zavzpomínejte s legendárním stolním tenistou Jindřichem Panským. Další palbu spustil plavec Ondřej Gemov. Deník Sport s magazínem kupujte v pátek na stáncích nebo na iKiosek.cz/Sport.
V klíčových momentech Jirka ukázal své zkušenosti, ocenil Lehečku mladý Španěl ( 26.03.2026 08:30:00 tenisportal.cz)
Martín Landaluce (20) postoupil na Miami Open do svého prvního čtvrtfinále turnaje Masters 1000, kde jeho parádní jízdu zastavil Jiří Lehečka (24). Po zápase vyjádřil mladý Španěl spokojenost s dosaženým výkonem, zároveň ale upozornil, že jeho cíle jsou ambicióznější. "Být blízko první stovky mě těší, ale určitě chci dosáhnout na mnohem vyšší cíle," uvedl.
Murray dal v NBA 53 bodů, Jokič se zapsal do historie asistencemi ( 26.03.2026 08:03:06 sport.cz)
Basketbalista Jamal Murray dal 53 bodů a svým druhým nejlepším výkonem v kariéře v NBA zařídil Denveru vítězství nad Dallasem 142:135. Pro Murrayho to byl šestý zápas, ve kterém pokořil hranici 50 bodů, jeho rekordem je 55 bodů proti Portlandu. Zazářil i Nikola Jokič, který k 23 bodům přidal 21 doskoků a 19 asistencí. Celkem už má 6000 asistencí, což se mu povedlo jako prvnímu pivotovi v historii zámořské soutěže.
ONLINE: Česko - Irsko. Reprezentace vstupuje do baráže o MS, zvládne první krok? ( 26.03.2026 08:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Velký večer je tu! Čeští fotbalisté proti Irsku vstupují do baráže kvalifikace o mistrovství světa. Pokud se chtějí dostat na letní šampionát v Severní Americe, potřebují přejít přes dva soupeře. V případě dnešního úspěchu se o pět dní později utkají s lepším z dvojice Dánsko - Severní Makedonie. Premiéru v roli hlavního trenéra reprezentace absolvuje Miroslav Koubek. Zvládnou Češi udělat první krok? ONLINE přenos ze zápasu na stadionu v Edenu sledujte od 20.45 na iSportu.
ONLINE: Plzeň - Sparta. Pátý zápas série, odvrátí Pražané konec sezony? ( 26.03.2026 08:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Hokejisté Plzně dnes mají první šanci zajistit si jako druhý tým postup do semifinále play off extraligy. Západočeši vedou v sérii hrané na čtyři vítězství nad Spartou 3:1 na zápasy a Pražany hostí ve své domácí aréně. Mezi čtyřmi nejlepšími týmy soutěže byla Plzeň naposledy v sezoně 2018/19, od té doby nikdy nepřešla přes předkolo. Zápas začíná v 17:30, ONLINE přenos sledujte na iSportu.
V klíčovém zápase bez Součka? Kouč mlží, experti jsou překvapení ( 26.03.2026 07:57:54 sport.cz)
Bylo absolutně nemyslitelné, aby fotbalová reprezentace nastoupila v základní sestavě bez záložníka a do listopadu kapitána Tomáše Součka. Vytáhlý dříč z West Hamu hrál prakticky všechno, nerad vynechával i přátelská utkání. Ovšem jeho neotřesitelná pozice se po příchodu trenéra Miroslava Koubka, zdá se, změnila. Ve hře je, že by první barážové utkání o mistrovství světa proti Irsku začal na lavičce. Důležitý zápas se hraje dnes od 20.45 v pražském Edenu.
Křehká žena po boku drsňáka. Procházkovu partnerku čeká životní dobrodružství ( 26.03.2026 07:07:28 sport.cz)
Zatímco nejúspěšnější český bijec Jiří Procházka nastoupí už 11. dubna v Miami k titulovému zápasu v polotěžké váze UFC proti Novozélanďanovi Carlosi Ulbergovi, jeho partnerka Kamila Kordulíková mezitím bude doufat, že termín porodu jejich dcery, který připadá na 13. dubna, nenastane dřív, než se vrátí ze zámoří. „Snad se to stihne, oba v to doufáme,“ usmívá se advokátka, která přiznává, že se možná na klíčový souboj svého partnera ani dívat nebude.
Sabalenková složitý duel zvládla, v ostře sledovaném semifinále vyzve Rybakinovou ( 26.03.2026 06:30:00 tenisportal.cz)
WTA MIAMI - Aryna Sabalenková (27) musela ve čtvrtfinále turnaje v Miami čelit nepříjemné výzvě v podobě Hailey Baptisteové (24). Přestože se zápas nevyvíjel jednoznačně, světová jednička v klíčových momentech získala potřebné brejky a zvítězila 6:4, 6:4 za 1 hodinu a 20 minut. Díky výhře postoupila Sabalenková podruhé za sebou do semifinále a čeká ji 17. vzájemné utkání s Jelenou Rybakinovou.
Boston se rve o play off, Češi řídili cennou výhru. Pastrňák byl u tří gólů, Zacha rozhodl ( 26.03.2026 06:30:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Čeští útočníci David Pastrňák a Pavel Zacha měli ve středečním utkání NHL velký podíl na výhře hokejistů Bostonu 4:3 v prodloužení v Buffalu. Pastrňák skóroval a připsal si dvě asistence včetně té na Zachův vítězný gól a byl zvolen nejlepším hráčem utkání, jeho český spoluhráč zaznamenal navíc přihrávku a získal ocenění pro třetí hvězdu.
Kvalifikace na fotbalové MS 2026: Program české reprezentace v baráži ( 26.03.2026 06:07:00 sport.cz)
V pondělí 17. listiopadu česká reprezentace zakončila kvalifikaci na fotbalové MS 2026 v USA, Kanadě a Mexiku. Češi skončili na druhém místě a zahrají si baráž. Program, výsledky a veškeré další info o kvalifikaci na MS 2026 sledujte na webu Sport.cz.
Neskutečná bitva! Fils otočil ztracený zápas, odvrátil čtyři mečboly a vyzve Lehečku ( 26.03.2026 06:05:00 tenisportal.cz)
ATP MIAMI - Francouz Arthur Fils (21) se na turnaji v Miami postaral o jeden z nejdramatičtějších zápasů letošní sezony. Ve čtvrtfinále Miami Open dokázal odvrátit čtyři mečboly a porazit domácího favorita Tommyho Paula po setech 6:7, 7:6 a 7:6. Díky tomu postoupil do svého prvního semifinále na úrovni ATP Masters 1000.
Fantastický výkon. Pastrňák se Zachou zařídili důležitou výhru Bostonu ( 26.03.2026 05:55:30 sport.cz)
Česká dvojička v Bostonu zase jednou řádila. Po domácí prohře s Torontem si Boston lehce zkomplikoval situaci v bojích o postup do play off. A jak na to Bruins zareagovali? Okamžitě! Za dvacet čtyři hodin od pokoření dobyli území vedoucího celku Atlantické divize! V Buffalu se o to postarali hlavně Češi. David Pastrňák pomohl k výhře 4:3 v prodloužení gólem a dvěma asistencemi. Pavel Zacha jednou přihrával a především utkání rozhodl.
Největší korupce v českém fotbalu: Jak ovlivní boj o titul?! ( 26.03.2026 05:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Fotbalové řády líčí na neřády, ale trefit můžou nejen je. Úplatkářský skandál prostřednictvím Karviné hraje první ligu, vzniklá nepřehledná situace generuje spoustu otázek a nečekaných odpovědí.
I Slavia kouká do Anglie, sleduje jedničku z Premier League! Nejasná situace se Staňkem ( 26.03.2026 05:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Fotbalisté Slavie v Chance Lize kráčí za titulem, logicky už se ale přemýšlí o příští sezoně. A v kancelářích v Edenu kromě tématu „evropský útočník“ začíná rezonovat i diskuse o brankářích. Podle informací deníku Sport a webu iSport figuruje v nejužším výběru potenciálních posil mezi tři tyče i veterán Martin Dúbravka, který momentálně chytá za Burnley v Premier League a po sezoně mu končí smlouva. Logicky bude ale vše záležet na stavu a budoucnosti Jindřicha Staňka.
Témata sestavy na baráž: kdo k Daridovi, jak postavit útok... A co atomovka z lavičky? ( 26.03.2026 05:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Velký střet je velmi blízko. Trenér Miroslav Koubek už má v hlavě sestavu, kterou pošle do prvního duelu baráže o fotbalové mistrovství světa. Česko ve čtvrtek večer v Edenu vyzve Irsko a pokud uspěje, za pár dní se na Letné utká s lepším z dvojice Dánsko - Severní Makedonie. Jde o moc, mundial je naleštěné lákadlo, v samostatné historii se na něj reprezentace dostala jen jednou. Navíc se hraje o stamiliony, které asociace sakra potřebuje. Kdo zná trenéra Koubka, ten ví… Je nachystaný, přitom tajemný. Co jsou zásadní témata jeho první základní jedenáctky?
MS v krasobruslení 2026: program, výsledky, vstupenky, kdy startují Češi? ( 26.03.2026 04:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Od středy 25. března se světová krasobruslařská elita představí v Praze na mistrovství světa. O2 arena tak přivítá ty nejlepší z nejlepších. Do konečného pořadí budou chtít promluvit i domácí naděje – sourozenecké páry Mrázkových a Taschlerových, kteří mají o motivaci před vlastními fanoušky postaráno. Kompletní přehled informací naleznete v tomto článku.
Florbalistky Chodova a Bulldogs Brno postoupily do semifinále extraligy ( 25.03.2026 23:12:46 sport.cz)
Florbalistky Chodova a Bulldogs Brno uspěly v pátých utkáních čtvrtfinále play off doma a po výhrách 4:1 na zápasy postoupily mezi nejlepší čtyři, kde doplnily Vítkovice a Tatran Střešovice. Chodov porazil Olomouc 4:3 a hráčky Bulldogs vyhrály 3:2 v prodloužení nad FBC Ostrava.
Za 120 minut jeden gól a ještě vlastní. Vary navíc přišly o dalšího útočníka ( 25.03.2026 22:55:23 sport.cz)
Po dvou venkovních výhrách měli jedinečnou šanci stvrdit postup před svými fanoušky. Jenže hokejisté Karlových Varů nezvládli ani jeden domácí zápas extraligového čtvrtfinále proti Liberci. Za sto dvacet minut hry navíc skórovali pouze jednou a to ještě s pořádnou klikou, když si Bílí Tygři dali vlastní gól.
Rozhodují desetiny, boj o zlato bude drama. Německá dvojice má v Praze mírně navrch ( 25.03.2026 22:33:54 sport.cz)
Nicotných 33 setin hraje ve prospěch německé sportovní dvojice Minerva Fabienne Haseová, Nikita Volodin v polovině soutěže na světovém šampionátu v krasobruslení v Praze. S titěrným odstupem zaútočí ve čtvrtek večer na zlato průběžně druzí Gruzínci Anastasija Meťolkinová a Luka Berulava. To vše na závěr programu, který zahájí čeští reprezentanti Martin Bidař s Annou Valesiovou, poslední postupující do volných jízd.
Bidař s Valeisovou navzdory pádu postupují z 20. místa. Ve vedení jsou Němci ( 25.03.2026 22:30:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Sportovní dvojice Anna Valesiová, Martin Bidař navzdory pádu po odhozeném trojitém lutzu postoupila na krasobruslařském mistrovství světa v Praze do volných jízd. Z krátkého programu se do finálové soutěže šampionátu dostalo 20 z 21 dvojic, ale čeští reprezentanti museli dlouho čekat, než pod sebe jednoho potřebného soupeře dostali. Nakonec obsadili poslední postupové 20. místo. Vedou Němci Fabienne Minerva Haseová a Nikita Volodin s minimálním náskokem 33 setin bodu před reprezentanty Gruzie Anastasijí Meťolkinovou a Lukou Berulavou.
Liberec probudil své střelce a znovu venku uspěl. Rozhodl klid v hlavě, tvrdí lídr ( 25.03.2026 22:19:34 sport.cz)
Výhoda domácího prostředí, s tím byste v této sérii nepochodili. V souboji hokejistů Liberce a Karlových Varů se znovu radoval hostující tým. Byli jím Bílí Tygři, kteří po dvou neúspěšných duelech pod Ještědem zvládli psychicky složitý úkol. Na západě Čech vyhráli i podruhé a triumfem 4:1 srovnali stav série.
K mečbolu Třince přispěl na ledě i asistent Dravecký. Je to charakter, usmíval se střelec vítězné branky ( 25.03.2026 22:10:58 sport.cz)
Zatímco třetí utkání čtvrtfinálové série mezi Třincem a Hradcem Králové bylo plné faulů, emotivních momentů a diváci si mohli užít i férovou bitku Kevina Klímy s Danielem Kurovským, čtvrté dějství výsledkově hodně vyrovnané bitvy připomínalo ze všeho nejvíce zákopovou válku. Uspěl v ní Třinec, který vítězstvím 4:2 získal postupový mečbol.
Benfica zaplatí za rasistické pokřiky fanoušků téměř milion ( 25.03.2026 22:03:50 sport.cz)
Fotbalová Benfica Lisabon zaplatí za rasistické pokřiky fanoušků v úvodním utkání 1. kola play off Ligy mistrů proti Realu Madrid 40 tisíc eur (zhruba 980 tisíc korun). Benfica dostala i roční podmínku, během níž bude čelit hrozbě uzavření části stadionu.
Karlovy Vary - Liberec 1:4. Bílí Tygři s klidnou hlavou. Potvrdili vzedmutí a srovnali ( 25.03.2026 21:54:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Ve třetí třetině mířil až moc přesně a trefil tyčku za zády Petra Kváči. Karlovarský kapitán Jiří Černoch mohl zdramatizovat vývoj čtvrtého čtvrtfinále a snížit na rozdíl jediné branky. Místo toho si Bílí Tygři náskok pohlídali a po výhře 4:1 srovnali stav série na 2:2. „Jeli jsme sem s klidnou a srovnanou hlavou. Nedělat kraviny, zbytečné fauly, jako jsme dělali v druhém zápase v Liberci,“ vysvětloval lídr libereckých hokejistů Radim Šimek. Program play off extraligy ZDE>>>
Horor na můstku. Skokan po drsném přistání zůstal ležet bez hnutí ( 25.03.2026 21:50:41 sport.cz)
Hrozivé chvíle na úvod finále. Těžký pád poznamenal testy před tradičními závěrečnými závody Světového poháru skokanů na lyžích v Planici. Domácí Nik Heberle po jednom z tréninkových pokusů na mamutím můstku dopadl zcela nekoordinovaně pár desítek metrů za odrazovou hranou v rychlosti zhruba 100 km za hodinu.
Úleva! Lístky nepřijdou vniveč, po hodině a půl nervů dostane český pár novou šanci ( 25.03.2026 21:42:41 sport.cz)
Od diváků se dočkali ohlušující podpory. „Jsou úžasní, už na rozbruslení to byl pořádný rambajs,“ děkoval krasobruslař Martin Bidař pár minut poté, co dokončil se svou partnerkou ve sportovní dvojici Annou Valesiovou krátký program. Nebyl rozhodně bezchybný, a tak se o postup do volných jízd museli třást. Ale O2 arenu opouštěli s úlevou, na světovém šampionátu pojedou i volné jízdy pro dvacet nejlepších.
Podle Martince gól Nestrašila neměl platit. V NHL by to ani nezkoumali, reagoval kouč Třince ( 25.03.2026 21:32:34 sport.cz)
Dvě zprávy pro hokejový Hradec. Jedna špatná a druhá možná ještě horší. Čtvrtý tým po základní části bude po porážce 2:4 ve čtvrtém zápase čtvrtfinále v pátek doma za stavu 1:3 na zápasy odvracet mečbol Třince, navíc možná bez klíčového hráče Lukáše Radila, který ze čtvrtého utkání odstoupil. Nejvíce se ale po zápase řešila trefa domácího Andreje Nestrašila na 3:2. Trenéři obou celků se na jejím uznání neshodli.
Vojta: Cenovku 100 milionů neřeším. Po Alkmaaru bylo na Letné dusno ( 25.03.2026 21:25:00 isport.blesk.cz)
V zimě z něj Sparta udělala nejdražšího hráče, který kdy přestoupil v rámci české ligy, když za Matyáše Vojtu (22) neváhala zaplatit zhruba 100 milionů korun + dalších 17 v případných bonusech. Sám mladý střelec si tlak spojený s cenovkou nepřipouští. „Je to lepší, než kdybych šel za drobné. Sparta do mě vložila důvěru,“ říká útočník v rozhovoru před klíčovým kvalifikačním zápasem reprezentace do 21 let proti Skotsku. Registrujte se ZDARMA na iSport.cz, získejte přístup k celému článku a exkluzivní slevě na televizi >>>
Program play off extraligy 2025/26: Je znám první semifinalista, Jandač proti Spartě ( 25.03.2026 21:20:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Boj o Masarykův pohár je ve fázi čtvrtfinále, dokonce zná už prvního semifinalistu play off Tipsport extraligy. Tím jsou hokejisté Pardubic, kteří vyřadili Kometu 4:0 na zápasy. V dalších sériích proti sobě bojuje Sparta s Plzní, kterou vede jejich bývalý dlouholetý kouč Josef Jandač. Liberec čelí Karlovým Varů a Mountfield HK vyzývá Třinec. Kompletní informace o vyřazovací části najdete v článku iSportu.
Třinec - Mountfield HK 4:2. Spor o vítězném gólu! Nejsme v NHL, oponoval kouč Hradce ( 25.03.2026 21:13:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Viděl puk, píchnul do něj a jel slavit s tribunami. Andrej Nestrašil ve čtvrtém čtvrtfinále Třince proti hokejistům Hradce Králové prokázal hlad po gólu, když pod bruslí brankáře Stanislava Škorvánka dostal kotouč za čáru. Jeho zásah z času 52:41 rozhodnul, podle hostů však neregulérně. „Myslím, že tam byly dva fauly na našeho brankáře,“ rozporoval výrok sudích po hradecké výzvě trenér Tomáš Martinec. Mountfield na třetí trefu Ocelářů nezvládl reagovat a prohrál 2:4. Ve čtvrtfinálové sérii tak ztrácí už 1:3. Program play off extraligy ZDE>>>
Bruslař, co střídá partnerky: Bidař našel Italku. Chci si dát svíčkovou, usmívala se ( 25.03.2026 21:10:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Deset let po zisku titulu juniorského mistra světa krasobruslař Martin Bidař stále hledá svou životní partnerku do sportovní dvojice. Na šampionátu v O2 areně se po roční spolupráci ukázal s Italkou Annou Valesiovou a navzdory několika chybám se spolu radovali z postupu do čtvrteční volné jízdy. Program MS v krasobruslení ZDE>>>
Pour: Začali na nás štěkat, chce to přidat na agresivitě. Třinec má neskutečné mužstvo ( 25.03.2026 20:55:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Správný recept zatím hledají marně. S Třincem padli dvakrát doma a následně jednou venku. I proto hokejisté Hradce Králové vrávorají nad propastí. Teď už nesmí klopýtnout, potřebují vyhrát třikrát za sebou. V závěru předali signál, že rozhodně nic nebalí. „Trošku jsem je tam seknul a najednou na nás začali štěkat. Chce to přidat na agresivitě,“ burcoval útočník Jakub Pour po porážce 2:4. Program play off extraligy ZDE>>>
Jak by vypadala tabulka po vyloučení Karviné: Vzpruha pro Spartu, potíž pro Slavii. Ale… ( 25.03.2026 20:45:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Fotbalisté Slavie vedou ligu o deset bodů. Hele, vlastně možná ne. Blahobytný náskok může ztenčit probíhající korupční kauza. Jak? To když etická komise ještě v průběhu sezony vyloučí obviněnou Karvinou ze soutěže. Pak by se odstup od Sparty ztenčil na čtyři, pět nebo sedm bodů. Jenže to by etická komise musela stihnout verdikt v probíhající sezoně. Navíc ve středečním komuniké uvedla, že první rozhodnutí nepadnou v nejbližších týdnech. Tento scénář je tedy nyní v podstatě vyloučený, ale v jiných reáliích na něj může dojít v příští sezoně.
Sparťanky byly blízko senzaci v semifinále. Silné Hammarby ale otočilo v závěru ( 25.03.2026 20:16:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Sparťanské fotbalistky v úvodním semifinálovém utkání Evropského poháru podlehly doma Hammarby 2:3. Vedoucí tým české ligy ve druhé půli otočil skóre, ale totéž se v závěru povedlo hostujícím hráčkám. Odveta je na programu příští čtvrtek ve Švédsku. Vítěz ve finále, které se rovněž bude hrát na dva zápasy, vyzve jiný švédský celek Häcken, nebo Frankfurt.
Velký skok u plzeňského esa, hodnota Chaloupka také roste. Transfermarkt aktualizoval ceny hráčů ( 25.03.2026 20:15:32 sport.cz)
Fotbalisté mají nové cenovky. Německý databázový web Transfermarkt provedl v úterý pravidelnou aktualizaci. Web Sport.cz se zaměřil na hráče první ligy, kterým se změnila hodnota alespoň o milion eur. Největší nárůst zaznamenali Štěpán Chaloupek, Amar Memič a Patrik Vydra.
Krejčí o roli kapitána: Mrzí mě, jak k tomu došlo. Se Součkem jsme byli v kontaktu ( 25.03.2026 20:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Rozhodnutí o novém kapitánovi české reprezentace nebylo údajně až tak složité. „Je to lídr,“ řekl trenér Miroslav Koubek. Hovořil o obránci anglického Wolverhamptonu, který povede národní tým do baráže s cílem postoupit na mistrovství světa. „Tenhle sraz jsem vyhlížel už dlouho, mám rád takové situace,“ zdůraznil Ladislav Krejčí.
Skvěle! Lehečka zastavil senzaci turnaje. V Miami vyrovnal své maximum na Masters ( 25.03.2026 19:45:00 tenisportal.cz)
MIAMI - Jiří Lehečka ve čtvrtfinále tisícovky v Miami potvrdil roli favorita, vyřadil senzaci turnaje Martína Landaluceho a využil obrovskou šanci. Český tenista mladého Španěla přehrál ve dvou vyrovnaných setech 7:6, 7:5 a postoupil do semifinále, čímž vyrovnal své maximum na turnajích Masters. O životní finále si zahraje proti Francouzi Arthuru Filsovi.
Nádvorník „utekl“ z Opavy včas. Asi jsem měl štěstíčko, ulevil si nový kouč Artisu ( 25.03.2026 19:35:00 isport.blesk.cz)
V malé nadsázce: Vítězem čerstvé korupční aféry v českém fotbale je hlavně on. Trenér Roman Nádvorník (53) na konci víkendu „zběhl“ z Opavy do Artisu a teď už na dálku sleduje, jak se slezský klub potápí ke dnu. „Potkalo se to. Asi jsem měl teď štěstíčko,“ zasmál se nástupce odvolaného Jiřího Chytrého.
Přestupy NHL ONLINE: Felcman opouští Švýcarsko, míří na farmu. Podpis Hrabala v Utahu ( 25.03.2026 19:17:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Sledujte podpisy, trejdy, pohyby mezi farmářskými a hlavními týmy a veškeré dění kolem nejlepší hokejové soutěže světa před uzávěrkou přestupů, která proběhla v pátek v 21:00 SEČ, na iSport.cz ONLINE.
Češi v akci, čtvrtek 26. 3. Muchová o finále na Masters, Martincová vyzve Havlíčkovou ( 25.03.2026 19:00:00 tenisportal.cz)
Karolína Muchová absolvuje těžký semifinálový zápas na prestižní tisícovce v Miami, kde vyzve domácí hvězdu Coco Gauffovou. Maxim Mrva má na dosah další čtvrtfinálovou účast na challengerech. Na větším podniku ITF ve Slovinsku zabojují o čtvrtfinále Tereza Martincová proti Lucii Havlíčkové a také Anna Sisková a Gabriela Knutsonová. Další Češi budou hrát na challengerech, turnajích ITF a juniorských akcích.
Koubek: Žádám fanoušky o podporu. A primitivní irský fotbal? Tohle mi nepodsouvejte! ( 25.03.2026 17:50:00 isport.blesk.cz)
V premiéře na lavičce národního týmu v roli hlavního kouče skočí rovnou do rozbouřené řeky. Miroslav Koubek (74) zažívá trenérský kariérní vrchol – v následujících dnech může dovést české fotbalisty na mistrovství světa, což se povedlo naposledy Karlu Brücknerovi před 20 lety. První překážkou je čtvrteční baráž s Irskem. „Nikdy jsem neřekl, že hraje primitivní fotbal, to je komunikační šum,“ ohradil se zkušený kouč při otázce irského novináře tlumočenou do sluchátek.
Velká proměna fotbalového chrámu: tenisty čeká v Madridu luxus i parádní podmínky ( 25.03.2026 17:00:00 tenisportal.cz)
Stadion slavného Realu Madridu Santiago Bernabéu se na konci dubna stane centrem tenisového světa. Od 23. do 30. dubna bude ikonický stadion upraven tak, aby na něm mohly světové tenisové hvězdy absolvovat své tréninky během Masters v Madridu.
Chystá Koubek šokující tah? Na Iry bez Součka, indicie směřují k velmi ofenzivní variantě ( 25.03.2026 16:58:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Česká fotbalová reprezentace rovná se Tomáš Souček. Za posledních deset let vynechal od debutu minimum zápasů, takřka pokaždé figuroval v základu. Na kruciální baráž o světový šampionát s Irskem (čtvrtek od 20.45 ve vyprodaném Edenu) se v hlavě Miroslava Koubka podle přibývajících indicií rodí na první pohled překvapivá možnost. Zkušený kouč ve své extrémně sledované premiéře za národní tým zřejmě zvolí sestavu bez klíčového pilíře středu pole. Vsadit může i na velmi ofenzivní variantu s Tomášem Chorým a Patrikem Schickem.
Fotbalové přestupy ONLINE: Uprostřed aféry nový trenér. Opavu povede Nádvorníkův asistent ( 25.03.2026 16:51:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Fotbalové přestupy, spekulace, podpisy i změny na trenérských postech. Zkrátka vše, co o světovém i českém fotbale na přestupovém poli potřebujete vědět, sledujeme ONLINE.
SESTŘIH: Karlovarské vedení v sérii je fuč. Energie doma padla i podruhé a Liberec srovnává ( 25.03.2026 16:32:07 sport.cz)
Začíná se od znovu. Karlovy Vary nedokázaly ve čtvrtfinále play off Tipsport extraligy vyhrát ani druhý domácí zápas a po jejich prohře 1:4 je stav série s Libercem srovnaný na 2:2 na zápasy. K jednoznačné výhře se Bílí Tygři nasměrovali už v úvodní třetině, když dali dva góly. V dosavadních čtyřech zápasech tak zatím pokaždé vyhráli hosté, série se stěhuje zpátky do Liberce, kde se v pátek odehraje pátý duel.
Nadal se zastává Alcaraze: Obavy ze dvou porážek? Neblázněte! To nedává žádný smysl ( 25.03.2026 16:00:00 tenisportal.cz)
Rafael Nadal (39) se po výkonech Carlose Alcaraze (22) na turnajích v Indian Wells a Miami postavil na stranu světové jedničky a vyzval k zachování klidu. Španělský tenista reagoval na porážky s Daniilem Medveděvem (30) a Sebastianem Kordou (25) a zdůraznil, že není důvod k obavám.
Primátor Karviné a šéf klubu Wolf má být v CPZ, opozice žádá jeho rezignaci ( 25.03.2026 15:33:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Dopady korupční fotbalové kauzy, v níž kvůli podezření z uplácení figuruje i primátor Karviné Jan Wolf (nestraník, dříve SOCDEM), se zabývala rada města. Podle opozice by měl Wolf rezignovat na funkci. Svolání mimořádného zastupitelstva ale zatím není v plánu, protože řádné zastupitelstvo se má uskutečnit zhruba za měsíc. Seznam 47 osob a klubů zapletených do skandálu najdete ZDE >>>
Král se loučí: Salah v Liverpoolu devět let nevídaně dominoval. Kam může zamířit v létě? ( 25.03.2026 15:05:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Tohle sbohem bude hodně bolet. Po devíti letech se rozpadne jedno z největších fotbalových spojení poslední doby. Tituly ověnčený Mohamed Salah si od fanoušků Liverpoolu hned při své první sezoně v klubu vysloužil přezdívku Král a na trůnu seděl dlouhých devět let. Nyní se však jeho čas na Merseyside naplnil. „Bohužel, nadešel čas. Na konci sezony opustím Liverpool,“ oznámil v rozlučkovém videu.
Kdo je vlivný muž z aféry? Coufalův svědek, pykal za dětské porno a měl ovlivnit zápasy ( 25.03.2026 14:45:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Ve východní části „fotbalové“ republiky zřejmě nenajdete člověka s horší pověstí. Daniel Černaj je známá firma, která v kauze FAČR zatím figuruje „jen“ u ovlivňování zápasů Vratimova, ale podle informací iSportu je pravděpodobné, že postupem času bude případů přibývat. Ostatně policie má rovněž pořádně nabito. Kdo vlastně je možná hlavní postava příběhu, která se roky pohybovala po boku Vladimíra Coufala, než ji reprezentační obránce definitivně odpojil ze svého života? Registrujte se ZDARMA na iSport.cz, získejte přístup k celému článku a exkluzivní slevě na televizi >>>
V Praze startuje první MS v krasobruslení po 33 letech: Jak je budou soudit? Na šestky zapomeňte ( 25.03.2026 14:22:00 isport.blesk.cz)
V pražské O2 areně rozbalil své šapitó cirkus, který sem přijel poprvé po třiatřiceti letech. Startuje MS v krasobruslení. V akci nebudou jen závodníci, ale i rozhodčí. Jak vlastně probíhá jejich hodnocení?
Paráda! Lehečka vydřel další výhru a v Miami si zahraje semifinále ( 25.03.2026 14:00:05 sport.cz)
Jízda Jiřího Lehečky v Miami nekončí. Čtyřiadvacetiletý český tenista zvládl i čtvrtý zápas a na americké tisícovce postoupil mezi nejlepší čtyřku. Ve čtvrtfinále udolal o čtyři roky mladšího Španěla Martina Landaluceho 7:6 (7:1) a 7:5. Lehečka ani jednou nepřišel o podání, proměnil sice až desátý brejkbol, ale servis soupeře prolomil poprvé v ten nejlepší možný moment, a to při mečbolu.
Jen vítězství nestačí. Musím se zlepšit, tohle je málo, kritizuje se Sinner ( 25.03.2026 14:00:00 tenisportal.cz)
Jannik Sinner (24) po ubojovaném vítězství nad Alexem Michelsenem (21) v poměru 7:5, 7:6 v osmifinále Miami spokojeností nehýřil. I přes výhru si je podle vlastních slov vědom svých nedostatků, které musí zlepšit, pokud chce završit triumf i na druhém z podniků Sunshine Double.
Mapa Miami: Kdy hrají Češi, výsledky, program a všechny důležité informace ( 25.03.2026 13:00:00 tenisportal.cz)
Prestižní tisícovka v Miami je v plném proudu, a proto jsme si pro vás připravili kompletní souhrn těch nejdůležitějších informací, které pro vás budeme průběžně aktualizovat. Kdy nastoupí na kurty na Floridě čeští tenisté, jak si v průběhu turnaje vedou naše naděje i největší favorité a kde můžete zápasy sledovat živě? Vše najdete v tomto článku.
První reakce Karviné na skandál: klub popřel vinu, tu podle něj nesou jednotlivci ( 25.03.2026 13:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Karvinský fotbalový klub odmítl, že by se podílel na ovlivňování utkání a narušování regulérnosti soutěží. Případnou vinu nesou podle něj jednotlivci, uvedl v prohlášení na svém webu. Seznam 47 osob a klubů zapletených do skandálu najdete ZDE>>>
Karviná vydala prohlášení k sázkařské aféře. Neví se, kde je primátor Wolf, navíc klub ztrácí sponzora ( 25.03.2026 12:59:17 sport.cz)
Karvinský fotbalový klub popřel, že by se podílel na ovlivňování utkání a narušování regulérnosti soutěží. Případnou vinu nesou podle něj jednotlivci, uvedl v prohlášení na svém webu. Přišel však o svého generálního partnera, společnost OKD.
Mimozemšťan Malinin ukázal, že je člověk. Superstar se teď v Praze chce oklepat z olympiády ( 25.03.2026 12:30:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Bude to pokus o největší comeback story letošního roku. A uvidí ho Praha. Americký krasobruslař Ilia Malinin nastoupí v O2 areně při mistrovství světa, aby smazal temné vzpomínky na olympijskou noční můru, kde šokoval nepovedenou volnou jízdou s dvěma pády. „Je to bruslař z jiné planety, myslím, že se z toho oklepe,“ věří krasobruslařský trenér a expert František Pechar. Program MS v krasobruslení v Praze>>>
Kreuziger: I cyklisté jsou dnes křehčí. A na co jezdec myslí v největším kopci na Tour? ( 25.03.2026 12:20:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Jsou dnešní sportovci křehčí než dřív? Kolik stojí vychovat cyklistu? A co se odehrává v hlavě závodníka v největším kopci Tour de France? I na tyto otázky odpovídá v novém dílu podcastu Branky, děti, rodiče bývalý elitní cyklista Roman Kreuziger. Muž, který patřil mezi absolutní světovou špičku, dnes působí jako sportovní ředitel týmu Bahrain Victorious a na současnou cyklistiku se dívá z nové perspektivy – trenérské, rodičovské i manažerské.
Miami: Další šlágr rivalek? Chybí už jen výhra momentální vládkyně ( 25.03.2026 12:00:00 tenisportal.cz)
Jiří Lehečka má ve středu jedinečnou příležitost postoupit do semifinále na prestižním podniku v Miami a vyrovnat své kariérní maximum na úrovni Masters. Znovuzrozený český tenista předvádí na Floridě fantastické výkony a měl by ve čtvrtfinálové fázi zastavit senzaci turnaje. Pokud se naplní papírové předpoklady i v zápasech ženské dvouhry, zajistí si další vzájemný souboj Aryna Sabalenková s Jelenou Rybakinovou.
Česko vs. Irsko v TV: kde sledovat baráž o MS ve fotbale 2026 živě? ( 25.03.2026 12:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Česká fotbalová reprezentace se chystá na domácí bitvu s Irskem, které jí stojí v cestě jako první soupeř v baráži na světový šampionát v USA, Kanadě a Mexiku. Trenér Koubek si odbude svou premiéru na reprezentační lavičce a fanoušci jsou zvědaví, jakou tvář národní tým pod jeho vedením ukáže. Zápas v Edenu odstartuje ve čtvrtek 26. března od 20:45. Kde sledovat Česko vs. Irsko živě?
Irové se ptali na Koubkův „pikantní“ výrok. I to je motivace, přiznal obránce Evertonu ( 25.03.2026 11:55:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Na středeční tiskové konferenci fotbalistů Irska bylo narváno. Před čtvrteční baráží o mistrovství světa proti Česku přicestovalo do Prahy přes padesát zahraničních novinářů včetně televizních štábů. Posadili se do prvních čtyř řad mediálního sálu v pražském Edenu, zajímali se o nácvik penalt, atmosféru v kabině, herní vytížení kapitána, ale také o nedávný výrok domácího trenéra Miroslava Koubka.
Gudas se po trestu za zranění Matthewse vrátil do akce: Cítím se hrozně, musím se polepšit ( 25.03.2026 10:57:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Radko Gudas se vrátil do akce poprvé od chvíle, co za ošklivou srážku s Austonem Matthewsem dostal od NHL trest na pět zápasů. Olympijský vítěz utrpěl zranění kolena, které ho vyřadilo po zbytek sezony. Kapitán hokejistů Anaheimu nehrál od 12. března. Poprvé od incidentu naskočil při úterním zápase ve Vancouveru, Ducks zvítězili 5:3. Ještě před utkáním se poprvé vyjádřil do médií. Český obránce zdůraznil, že jeho záměrem nikdy není soupeře zranit, ale tentokrát to přehnal.
Mistrovství světa v krasobruslení 2026: Program vrcholné akce po 33 letech v Praze ( 25.03.2026 09:47:00 sport.cz)
Po dlouhých 33 letech se vrátil krasobruslařský světový šampionát do České republiky. Od 24. do 29. března se v pražské O2 areně představují velké světové hvězdy i domácí reprezentanti. Sledujte program světového šampionátu na Sport.cz.
Irský fanoušek před baráží s Českem: Očekáváme, že prohrajeme, ale stejně budeme slavit ( 25.03.2026 09:31:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Jak vidí šance irských fotbalistů před klíčovým duelem v baráži o MS s Českem? Fanoušek John Quinn z Tullamore ve středu země otevřeně popisuje náladu mezi Iry – vedle tradičního optimismu převažují obavy ze zranění a celkové síly týmu. V rozhovoru mluví o slabinách výběru, spoléhání na jediného střelce Troye Parrotta i o tom, jak velký respekt má v Irsku český fotbal. Přibližuje také, jak se na zápas chystají fanoušci napříč zemí, kde se očekává bouřlivá atmosféra v hospodách i improvizovaných fanouškovských zónách.
Nečas dvakrát skóroval a už má 88 bodů. Pastrňák se Zachou asistovali, Boston padl ( 25.03.2026 06:30:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Útočník Martin Nečas v NHL dvěma góly pomohl hokejistům Colorada k výhře 6:2 na ledě Pittsburghu a vylepšil svou sezonní bilanci na 88 bodů (34+54). Jen o bod méně má na kontě David Pastrňák, jenž si připsal asistenci při porážce Bostonu 2:4 s Torontem.
Fotbalový skandál: 47 obviněných? Policie zadržela i další. Všetečka měl letět na U21, ale... ( 25.03.2026 05:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Časné ráno, úterý. Policie, pokolikáté už, zadržela desítky lidí v souvislosti s úplatkářstvím ve fotbale. Kauza, o níž samotný předseda asociace David Trunda mluví jako o největší v historii, dosáhla prostřednictvím Karviné a profesionálních sudích až do nejvyšší soutěže. Korupce se týká především sázek, ale jde také o dosažení sportovních výhod.
Záhadné zmizení tchána brankáře Saláka: Detaily, co se stalo! ( 25.03.2026 05:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Konec idylické rodinné dovolené se změnil v horor. Michaele Salákové (39), manželce bývalého hokejového reprezentačního gólmana Alexandra Saláka (39), zmizel otec Jiří (73), který měl rodinu vyzvednout na letišti. Vyhlásili po něm pátrání.
Kdo vydělal nejvíc? Spočítali jsme zimní odměny! Činili se medailisté z OH, ale i Ledecká ( 25.03.2026 05:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Sezona zimních sportů je prakticky u konce. Vrcholem pro všechny byly olympijské hry. Právě ty se výrazně propsaly do odměn Metoděje Jílka, Terezy Voborníkové či Zuzany Maděrové. Dost se už pak liší prize money podle popularity sportu. A samozřejmě toho, jak se v celé sezoně Čechům v jejich odvětvích dařilo. Přinášíme průřez tuzemskými sněhovými i ledovými prize money. Ty však sportovcům nezůstávají komplet, ale rozdělují se do celého týmu (trenéři, servis, fyzioterapeuti a další).
Emoce stoupají a pracují, Flynn terčem. Věříme, že máme chytré hráče, zní z Hradce ( 25.03.2026 05:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Důvody k velké rivalitě nemají. Ano, Třinec sice ve finále 2023 hokejisty Hradce pokořil, ale vadivější soupeře let minulých byste našli u obou klubů. Přesto právě v této čtvrtfinálové sadě začínají naplno bublat vášně. V plné nahotě je odhalil třetí zápas s výhrou Mountfieldu 3:2, kdy padly vyšší tresty pro domácího Libora Hudáčka i hostujícího Kevina Klímu. Ten se předtím pral s Danielem Kurovským. „Bez emocí se hrát nedá,“ má za stavu 2:1 na zápasy jasno Ocelář Patrik Hrehorčák.
Program a výsledky čtvrtfinále play off Tipsport extraligy. Repríza finále i souboj Sparty s Plzní ( 23.03.2026 07:03:00 sport.cz)
Letošní play off hokejové Tipsport extraligy začalo ve středu 18. března a jako obhájce titulu do něj vstoupila brněnská Kometa. Sledujte program a výsledky zápasů hokejového play off na Sport.cz.
ONLINE: Stopka plynu pro Kyjev. Maďarsko zakázalo aukce pro dodávky suroviny na Ukrajinu ( 26.03.2026 10:34:00 irozhlas.cz)
Maďarsko zakázalo svému provozovateli přepravní soustavy plynu pořádat ve třetím čtvrtletí aukce na dodávky suroviny pro Ukrajinu. Uvedla to ve čtvrtek agentura Reuters, podle níž premiér Viktor Orbán už podepsal příslušné nařízení. Orbán ve středu oznámil, že Maďarsko dodávky plynu na Ukrajinu postupně ukončí. Reaguje tak na přerušení tranzitu ruské ropy přes Ukrajinu, které trvá od konce ledna.
‚Nejsme připraveni na válku,‘ stěžují si důstojníci britské armády v AI písních ( 26.03.2026 10:22:00 irozhlas.cz)
V britské armádě se staly virálními dvě písně generované umělou inteligencí, které zesměšňují stav tamních ozbrojených sil. Jednu z nich si nechal složit major. Vyšetřování začalo poté, co si armádní důstojníci stěžovali na nedostatek vybavení a na to, že „nejsou připraveni na válku“. V písních také vtipkovali, že by v první vlně konfliktu všichni zemřeli.
Írán chce zpoplatnit cestu Hormuzským průlivem, kterým se přepravuje ropa ( 26.03.2026 09:31:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Teherán - Íránský parlament připravuje návrh zákona, na jehož základě by Teherán formálně zpoplatnil cestu Hormuzským průlivem, napsala dnes agentura AP s odvoláním na íránská média. Teherán již nyní...
Brazil vs France: When and where is the match? Will Mbappe, Vinicius play? ( 26.03.2026 09:16:40 aljazeera.com)
French and Brazilian stars in focus as former title holders meet in a glamour friendly in Boston, US, before World Cup.
Cuban president says Raul Castro involved in US talks amid oil blockade ( 26.03.2026 09:09:06 aljazeera.com)
The talks come amid increasing tensions with the US after Trump said he would be 'honoured' to take over Cuba.
Meta and YouTube found liable in landmark social media addiction trial ( 26.03.2026 09:03:45 bbc.com)
A woman has been awarded $6m in a verdict that could have implications for hundreds of other cases in the US.
New India bill to amend transgender rights sparks protests ( 26.03.2026 09:01:03 bbc.com)
The bill seeks to change how transgender people are legally recognised and their right to self-identify.
'We are being choked': Philippines transport workers strike over fuel costs ( 26.03.2026 09:00:31 bbc.com)
It comes as a ship carrying barrels of Russian crude oil arrived in the Philippines earlier this week.
How will the UK respond to US court verdict on social media? ( 26.03.2026 09:00:17 bbc.com)
Will the decision of a Los Angeles jury have an impact on the UK government as it considers potential future regulations on social media, writes the BBC's political editor.
Pentagon Wants It to Be Illegal for Reporters to Ask “Unauthorized” Questions ( 26.03.2026 09:00:00 theintercept.com)
The Trump admin wants to criminalize a key part of journalists doing their jobs — a broadside attack on a free press.
The post Pentagon Wants It to Be Illegal for Reporters to Ask “Unauthorized” Questions appeared first on The Intercept.
Venezuela’s Maduro set to appear in US court months after abduction ( 26.03.2026 08:57:01 aljazeera.com)
The Venezuelan leader, who is accused of plotting to traffic cocaine, denies all charges as part of an imperialist plot.
‘He will call me Mama’: The Gaza ‘grandmother’ raising an orphaned baby ( 26.03.2026 08:53:33 aljazeera.com)
Maha was 'Grandmother' in her family until she adopted Hamza, born the day an Israeli air strike killed his parents.
Helium hitch: Why US-Israel war on Iran could cause MRI scan delays ( 26.03.2026 08:51:30 aljazeera.com)
Shortage of helium will have ripple effects across medical and other industries.
US seeks Hamas ‘political surrender’ in new Gaza plan ( 26.03.2026 08:42:56 aljazeera.com)
Analysts say a new US disarmament proposal exploits the regional war to enforce inequitable plan for Gaza.
RTR: Vance navštíví mezi 7. a 8. dubnem Maďarsko, aby podpořil Orbána ve volbách ( 26.03.2026 08:40:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Washington/Budapešť - Americký viceprezident J. D. Vance navštíví mezi 7. a 8. dubnem Maďarsko, aby podpořil premiéra Viktora Orbána v nadcházejících parlamentních volbách, které se uskuteční 12. dubna....
German minister calls Iran war an ‘economic catastrophe’ ( 26.03.2026 08:21:43 aljazeera.com)
Germany’s defence minister, Boris Pistorius, says the economic impact of the war is "absolutely evident".
Trump Says Iranians Negotiating -- But Afraid To Admit It ( 26.03.2026 08:05:00 rferl.org)
As the US-Israeli war with Iran continues to impact and shape the region, journalists from RFE/RL deliver ongoing updates and analysis.
Israeli push for more force ‘not working out very well’ ( 26.03.2026 07:59:58 aljazeera.com)
“The Israeli public opinion is to use more force”
Two teenagers killed in Shiraz, two dead in Abu Dhabi as Iran war expands ( 26.03.2026 07:47:23 aljazeera.com)
Deadly attacks rise as Israel announces strikes on Isfahan and as Trump and Tehran debate ceasefire terms.
Trump confirms May meeting with Xi Jinping as Iran war forces postponement ( 26.03.2026 07:34:55 bbc.com)
Trump's delayed meeting with Xi Jinping will be the first visit to China by a US president since 2017.
Falešní kandidáti, hackování opozice i fingovaný atentát. Co se děje v Maďarsku před volbami? ( 26.03.2026 07:00:00 irozhlas.cz)
Maďarsko čekají za necelé tři týdny volby, které ukážou, zda dlouholetý premiér Viktor Orbán a jeho strana Fidesz zůstanou u moci. V průzkumech veřejného mínění má navrch spíš jeho vyzyvatel, strana Tisza s Péterem Magyarem v čele. Předvolební kampaň běží už delší dobu, napětí ale v poslední době roste. Projevuje se to i v událostech spojených právě s volbami.
US-Israel war on Iran: What’s happening on day 27 of attacks? ( 26.03.2026 06:53:23 aljazeera.com)
The US and Israel’s war on Iran is intensifying, as Trump again claims Iranian leaders want to 'make a deal'.
In U-turn, UK police say Palestine Action protesters will be arrested again ( 26.03.2026 06:47:41 aljazeera.com)
London's Met Police had eased arrests following the High Court ruling that the ban on Palestine Action was unlawful.
,Myslí si totiž, že je zabijí jejich vlastní lidé.‘ Podle Trumpa se Írán bojí přiznat, že s USA vyjednává ( 26.03.2026 06:45:00 irozhlas.cz)
Americký prezident Donald Trump prohlásil, že íránský režim se účastní mírových rozhovorů a naznačil, že to Teherán popírá z obav, že ho zabijí vlastní lidé. Napsala to v noci na čtvrtek agentura AFP, podle níž se tak šéf Bílého domu vyjádřil během večeře republikánů v Kongresu. Íránský ministr zahraničí Abbás Arakčí ve středu tvrdil, že Teherán nemá v úmyslu s Washingtonem vyjednávat.
Deaths and debts: Missiles in Gulf shake millions of South Asian families ( 26.03.2026 06:26:10 aljazeera.com)
Most people killed in Iran's Gulf attacks have been from South Asia. And entire economies back home are on edge.
ONLINE: Izrael ve velkém zaútočil na íránskou infrastrukturu. Na jihu země údery zabily dva chlapce ( 26.03.2026 06:21:00 irozhlas.cz)
Izraelská armáda oznámila, že podnikla rozsáhlou vlnu útoků na íránskou infrastrukturu v několika oblastech včetně města Isfahán, uvedl deník Haarec. Podle íránské agentury IRNA izraelsko-americké útoky ve středu večer zabily dva chlapce v obytné části města Kafrí v jižním okrese Šíráz. Několik států v Perském zálivu mezitím podle stanice Al-Džazíra hlásilo zneškodnění dronů ve svém vzdušném prostoru.
PŘEHLEDNĚ: Jak se financují veřejnoprávní média ve světě a jaké mají jednotlivé varianty výhody a nevýhody ( 26.03.2026 06:20:00 irozhlas.cz)
Poplatky, státní rozpočet, nebo speciální daň? Navázat financování na inflaci, nebo ne? Vybírat peníze pro veřejnoprávní média přes soukromou firmu, poštu, nebo třeba nezávislý úřad? Jak nastavit financování veřejnoprávních médií řeší vlády demokratických zemí po celém světě. Web iROZHLAS.cz přináší přehled možných variant z vybraných zemí Evropy a zbytku světa.
Senegal appeal to CAS against handing over of AFCON title to Morocco ( 26.03.2026 06:16:38 aljazeera.com)
Senegal hope to overturn CAF's decision to crown Morocco champions after a walkout by Senegalese players in the final.
NBA owners vote to explore Seattle, Las Vegas expansion bids ( 26.03.2026 06:13:47 aljazeera.com)
All 30 owners voted to explore the two city bids, according to ESPN, with the 2028-29 season the entry point.
'I have no recollection of anything' - Epstein survivor says she was drugged and raped ( 26.03.2026 06:02:20 bbc.com)
A survivor of Epstein's abuses spoke publicly for the first time to BBC Newsnight about her experience of being raped and drugged by the sex offender.
Ztraceni v překladu: Hloupá chyba, která prozradila novou elitní jednotku Ruské federace (I. díl) ( 26.03.2026 06:00:00 irozhlas.cz)
Přísně tajný útvar pro ty nejdůležitější operace. Ruské Centrum 795. Investigativní server The Insider odhalil klíčové velitele a sponzory této tajné jednotky.
Australia's sunscreen regulator wants new rules after recent product scandal ( 26.03.2026 05:45:39 bbc.com)
The medicines regulator is proposing stricter rules after more than a dozen products were recalled.
Netanyahu boasts about ‘breaking boundaries in every sense of the word’ ( 26.03.2026 05:41:02 aljazeera.com)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the country is working to expand its 'buffer zone' from Lebanon.
Šéf námořnictva íránských revolučních gard byl podle izraelského zdroje zabit ( 26.03.2026 05:33:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Tel Aviv/Teherán - Šéf námořnictva íránských revolučních gard Alírezá Tangsírí byl zabit, napsal dnes server The Times of Israel (ToI) s odkazem na nejmenovaný izraelský zdroj. Teherán ani izraelská...
Why transport workers are protesting in the Philippines ( 26.03.2026 05:13:46 bbc.com)
BBC News Asia Business Correspondent Suranajana Tewari spoke to people taking to the streets of Manila.
Oil prices rise higher as Iran denies US talks, dimming deescalation hopes ( 26.03.2026 05:06:02 aljazeera.com)
Brent crude tops $104 a barrel as hopes fade for deescalation in US-Israel war on Iran.
Malaysia’s prime minister says Iran talks should end war ( 26.03.2026 04:36:31 aljazeera.com)
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said any talks with Iran must aim to end the war.
Videos show wave of missiles fired from Lebanon to Israel ( 26.03.2026 03:54:44 aljazeera.com)
Videos show scenes of rocket interceptions in the sky over central Israel.
US lawmakers push for pause in data centres until AI safeguards in place ( 26.03.2026 03:39:28 aljazeera.com)
Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduce bill to pause AI rollout amid growing backlash to technology.
Russia slams second US-Israeli strike at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor ( 26.03.2026 03:31:36 aljazeera.com)
Russia’s foreign ministry has accused the US and Israel of trying to spark a nuclear disaster after a strike at Bushehr.
Australia bans visitors from Iran amid war in the Middle East ( 26.03.2026 03:28:18 aljazeera.com)
Australia's Home Affairs Department said decision to ban Iranian visitors amid the war was in the 'national interest'.
US jury finds Meta, Google, liable in social media addiction trial ( 26.03.2026 03:19:56 aljazeera.com)
A Los Angeles jury has found Alphabet's Google and Meta liable for $6 million in a landmark social media addiction case.
Íránské vedení s USA jedná, ale bojí se to přiznat, řekl Trump ( 26.03.2026 02:45:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Washington - Donald Trump trvá na tom, že íránské vedení s jeho vládou jedná, ačkoliv Teherán to popírá. Trump ve středu prohlásil, že íránští činitelé to nechtějí přiznat, protože se bojí, že by je...
Malaysia moves to tighten rules for expats, raising fears of talent flight ( 26.03.2026 02:40:43 aljazeera.com)
Malaysia's government plans to slash the number of foreign workers to encourage local hiring and raise incomes.
Harrison: ‘There is going to be some kind of a military escalation.’ ( 26.03.2026 01:56:48 aljazeera.com)
Ross Harrison says public talk of diplomacy between the US and Iran is hiding hardline positions.
Tehran issues warning to regional neighbour if Iranian island occupied ( 26.03.2026 01:24:04 aljazeera.com)
Iran's parliament speaker issues threat as US administration talks peace while committing more troops to conflict.
Britská armáda bude moci zabavovat lodě ruské stínové flotily, oznámil Londýn ( 26.03.2026 01:18:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Londýn - Britská armáda bude moci vstupovat na palubu a zabavovat lodě takzvané ruské stínové flotily, které budou proplouvat britskými vodami. Napsala to agentura AFP s odvoláním na vládu premiéra...
Prepare for turbulence - how a prolonged Middle East conflict could reshape how we fly ( 26.03.2026 00:41:16 bbc.com)
The Gulf's hub airports made long-distance travel cheaper - but now their future looks unclear.
Parents should monitor children '24/7' on Roblox, says developer ( 26.03.2026 00:31:33 bbc.com)
Roblox said safety was a top priority and it had advanced safeguards in place to keep users safe.
Air Strikes Continue Amid Uncertainty Over Iran Peace Plans ( 26.03.2026 00:11:49 rferl.org)
As the uncertainty surrounding indirect negotiations between Washington and Tehran intensifies, air strikes on Iran, Israel, and surrounding states also continued -- “business as usual,” as one Israeli military official called it on March 25.
A right-wing populist party made big poll gains in Australia - and it's shaking up politics ( 25.03.2026 22:36:31 bbc.com)
Pauline Hanson's One Nation is riding a wave of popularity driven by voters weary of mainstream parties.
Senát podpořil volbu dalajlamy bez vměšování Číny. ‚Neměl by podporu,‘ říká místopředsedkyně Seitlová ( 25.03.2026 21:54:00 irozhlas.cz)
Čínský komunistický režim by se podle Senátu neměl vměšovat do volby budoucího tibetského duchovního vůdce dalajlamy, i když území Tibetu ovládá. Senátoři se na tom ve středu shodli na závěr své březnové schůze na návrh senátního výboru pro lidská práva. Čínské velvyslanectví v Praze v minulosti podobné aktivity označovalo za vměšování se do vnitřních záležitostí Číny.
Who wants what and why from US-Iran peace talks? ( 25.03.2026 21:37:34 bbc.com)
There is indirect contact and channels between the two sides - but a deal may still be a long way off.
What are the US and Iran's proposals for peace? ( 25.03.2026 21:06:26 bbc.com)
Trump says he is talking to "the right people" in Iran, but Tehran says no such negotiations are being held.
Trump navštíví Čínu v půlce května, dřívější summit se Sim odložil kvůli Íránu ( 25.03.2026 20:30:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Washington - Nový termín cesty amerického prezidenta Donalda Trumpa do Číny je 14. až 15. května, oznámil dnes podle agentury AP Bílý dům. Šéf Bílého domu už dříve oznámil odložení summitu se svým...
UN votes to recognise enslavement of Africans as 'gravest crime against humanity' ( 25.03.2026 20:12:31 bbc.com)
The landmark resolution calls for an apology and contributions to a reparations fund, without specifying an amount.
Izrael v jižní Libanonu rozšiřuje nárazníkovou zónu, uvedl Netanjahu ( 25.03.2026 19:59:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Tel Aviv/Bejrút - Izraelská armáda na území jižního Libanonu vytvořila nárazníkovou zónu a dále ji rozšiřuje, uvedl dnes podle agentury AFP izraelský premiér Benjamin Netanjahu. Generální tajemník...
Pokud se Ukrajina stáhne z Donbasu, dostane od Washingtonu bezpečnostní garance, řekl Zelenskyj ( 25.03.2026 19:49:00 irozhlas.cz)
Washington nabídl Kyjevu, že finalizuje bezpečnostní garance pro tuto východoevropskou zemi, když se stáhne z Donbasu, uvedl v rozhovoru s agenturou Reuters ukrajinský prezident Volodymyr Zelenskyj. Bylo by to podle něj velmi riskantní jak pro Ukrajinu, tak pro Evropu. Řekl také, že Spojené státy navzdory válce v Íránu stále dodávají Ukrajině zbraně.
Zelenskyj: USA nabízejí garance za stažení Ukrajiny z Donbasu ( 25.03.2026 19:35:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Kyjev - Washington podmínil bezpečnostní garance pro Kyjev tím, že se Ukrajina stáhne z Donbasu, uvedl v rozhovoru s agenturou Reuters ukrajinský prezident Volodymyr Zelenskyj. Bylo by to podle něj...
Soud rozhodl, že firmy Meta i Google jsou odpovědné za to, že se děti stávají závislými na sociálních sítích ( 25.03.2026 19:19:00 irozhlas.cz)
Porota v Los Angeles shledala firmy Google a Meta odpovědnými v přelomovém soudním sporu, který se týká závislosti na sociálních sítích; firmy musí zaplatit odškodné tři miliony dolarů (63,4 milionu korun), píše agentura Reuters. Společnosti, které s verdiktem nesouhlasí, čelily obvinění, že své sociální sítě a platformy záměrně navrhly tak, aby si na nich děti vypěstovaly závislost.
Soud shledal Google a Metu odpovědnými v případu závislosti na sítích ( 25.03.2026 19:03:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Los Angeles - Porota v Los Angeles shledala firmy Google a Meta odpovědnými v přelomovém soudním sporu, který se týká závislosti na sociálních sítích; firmy musí zaplatit odškodné tři miliony dolarů...
Teherán odmítl přistoupit na návrh USA k ukončení války. Předložil pět vlastních požadavků ( 25.03.2026 17:58:00 irozhlas.cz)
Írán odmítl americký návrh plánu ukončení války a předložil pět vlastních požadavků, kterými podmiňuje vyřešení konfliktu. Íránské státní televizní stanici Press TV to sdělil nejmenovaný vysoce postavený představitel íránské bezpečnosti. Agentura Reuters ve středu nicméně s odvoláním na také nejmenovaného íránského činitele uvedla, že prvotní odpověď Íránu na americký návrh nebyla pozitivní, ale že ho Teherán nadále zkoumá.
'We are in agony' - Savannah Guthrie does first interview since mum's disappearance ( 25.03.2026 16:38:03 bbc.com)
The US presenter says terrifying thoughts wake her at night as she imagines what happened.
Yale Report Links Russian Energy Giants To Deportation, Indoctrination Of Ukrainian Children ( 25.03.2026 15:35:22 rferl.org)
A new report by the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab alleges that Russian state-linked energy giants Gazprom and Rosneft were directly involved in the transfer and political indoctrination of thousands of Ukrainian children,
Evropská komise schválila český plán využití prostředků z nástroje SAFE ( 25.03.2026 15:28:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Brusel - Evropská komise schválila český plán využití prostředků z evropského finančního nástroje SAFE, který byl zřízen loni a umožňuje půjčky na vojenské vybavení. Česká republika může využít částku...
Běloruský vůdce Lukašenko při návštěvě KLDR uctil památku sovětských vojáků ( 25.03.2026 15:02:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Pchjongjang - Běloruský vůdce Alexandr Lukašenko při dnešní návštěvě KLDR společně se severokorejským vůdcem Kim Čong-unem uctil památku sovětských vojáků, kteří padli při osvobození Koreje od japonské...
Chlapec, který zastřelil deset lidí, svědčí u srbského soudu proti rodičům ( 25.03.2026 14:11:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Bělehrad - Chlapec, který před necelými třemi lety zastřelil v bělehradské škole deset lidí, dnes svědčil u soudu proti svým rodičům. Ti v obnoveném procesu čelí obvinění ze zanedbání výchovy dítěte,...
Fico: Slovensko i po kritice dopravců ponechá omezení při tankování nafty ( 25.03.2026 14:06:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Bratislava/Veľké Zálužie (Slovensko) - Slovenská vláda i po kritice autodopravců ponechá v platnosti omezení, že při jednom tankování lze u čerpacích stanic v zemi koupit naftu maximálně za 400 eur...
Ukraine Hits Russia's Ports Again As Fighting Intensifies Amid Stalled Peace Talks ( 25.03.2026 12:56:56 rferl.org)
Two Russian major ports were pounded by drones over three days as Moscow and Kyiv continued to exchange hundreds of air strikes, marking a spike in fighting as peace talks appear to be stalling despite Ukraine's attempt to revive the issue in Florida last week.
SŠA, ne USA. Dezinformátor blízký Šimkovičové hrozí novinářům ‚telerozhlasu‘ pokutou kvůli slovenštině ( 25.03.2026 12:28:00 irozhlas.cz)
Místopředseda Rady Slovenské televize a rozhlasu Lukáš Machala zkritizoval v úterý kvalitu slovenského jazyka ve vysílání. Dezinformátor a pravá ruka ministryně kultury Martiny Šimkovičové zároveň zmínil pokuty pro redaktory. Trestat chce například novináře, kteří budou pro označení Spojených států amerických používat zkratku USA, správná je podle něj SŠA, protože jde ve slovenštině o Spojené štáty americké.
'There's no safety anymore': Palestinians warn of expanding West Bank settler violence ( 25.03.2026 12:27:28 bbc.com)
There has been a surge of attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinian villages across the occupied territory since the start of the Iran war.
How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Phone at the Airport ( 25.03.2026 12:14:35 theintercept.com)
If you’re traveling, follow these digital security practices to keep federal authorities from getting into your phone.
The post How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Phone at the Airport appeared first on The Intercept.
Kreml: Moskva je v kontaktu s USA, vítá snahy o řešení konfliktu na Ukrajině ( 25.03.2026 11:29:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Moskva - Rusko zůstává v kontaktu se Spojenými státy a doufá, že Spojené státy budou pokračovat ve snaze urovnat konflikt na Ukrajině, prohlásil dnes mluvčí ruského prezidenta Dmitrij Peskov. Podle...
V Estonsku a Lotyšsku se zřítily ukrajinské drony, uvedly úřady ( 25.03.2026 10:34:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Tallinn/Riga - Drony, které během noci vletěly do estonského a lotyšského vzdušného prostoru z Ruska a havarovaly, byly podle úřadů v Tallinnu a Rize ukrajinské stroje, které Kyjev nasadil do útoku...
Nemáš mužský doprovod, musíš rodit před nemocnicí. Tálibán ohrožuje životy Afghánek ( 25.03.2026 10:02:00 irozhlas.cz)
Restrikce Tálibánu, které v Afghánistánu omezují ženám přístup ke zdravotní péči a zaměstnání ve zdravotnictví, způsobují nemoci i úmrtí. Podle zprávy OSN by mohly dosahovat úrovně femicidy, tedy úmyslného vraždění žen. „Nedovolili nám, studentkám, převzít diplomy na promoci. Úplně nás vymazali,“ říká porodní asistentka Mariam. 80 % afghánských žen je nyní vyloučeno z pracovního procesu a vzdělávání. Tálibán ale tvrdí, že práva žen respektuje.
Soud na Slovensku poslal do vazby Američanku zadrženou kvůli požáru v Pardubicích ( 25.03.2026 09:43:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Bratislava - Bratislavský krajský soud už v pondělí poslal do předběžné vazby v rámci vydávacího řízení ženu zadrženou v souvislosti s pátečním úmyslným zapálením haly zbrojovky LPP Holding v Pardubicích....
Uvázlou velrybu na pobřeží Baltu se stále nedaří dostat do moře ( 25.03.2026 09:07:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Berlín/Lübeck - Velrybu, která uvázla na mělčině na severu Německa, se stále nedaří dostat do moře. V úterý selhal pokus pomoci jí za použití sacího bagru, uvedla dnes agentura DPA. Zhruba desetimetrový...
Teherán odmítl americký návrh ukončení války, tvrdí íránská státní televize ( 25.03.2026 08:04:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Teherán - Írán odmítl americký návrh plánu ukončení války a předložil pět vlastních požadavků, kterými podmiňuje vyřešení konfliktu. Íránské státní televizní stanici Press TV to sdělil nejmenovaný...
Rusko hlásí sestřelení 389 ukrajinských dronů. Mířily na Moskevskou a Leningradskou oblast ( 25.03.2026 07:12:00 irozhlas.cz)
Ruská protivzdušná obrana během noci na středu sestřelila 389 ukrajinských dronů. Podle agentury Reuters to oznámilo ruské ministerstvo obrany, které ale informace o případných škodách neuvedlo.
‚USA vyjednávají samy se sebou.‘ Írán zesměšnil americké pokusy o dosažení příměří ( 25.03.2026 07:06:00 irozhlas.cz)
Spojené státy vyjednávají jen samy se sebou a ne s Íránem. V úterním prohlášení to uvedl mluvčí íránské armády, který zároveň podle agentury AP zesměšnil americké pokusy dosáhnout dohody o příměří. Prohlášení Teherán vydal poté, co USA podle médií předaly islámské republice 15bodový plán k ukončení války. Válku na konci února rozpoutaly USA s Izraelem s deklarovaným cílem zabránit Íránu získat jaderné zbraně.
Dánské volby vyhráli sociální demokraté premiérky Frederiksenové s nejhorším výsledkem od roku 1903 ( 25.03.2026 06:38:00 irozhlas.cz)
Úterní parlamentní volby v Dánsku vyhráli sociální demokraté premiérky Mette Frederiksenové, kteří ale zaznamenali nejhorší výsledek od roku 1903. Po sečtení všech hlasů o tom ve středu informovala dánská stanice TV2. Zemi čekají zřejmě složitá koaliční jednání, neboť levicové strany sice těsně porazily ty pravicové, ani jeden z bloků ale nezískal ve 179členném jednokomorovém parlamentu většinu.
Po dronovém útoku hoří ruský přístav, v Belgorodu je 450.000 lidí bez proudu ( 25.03.2026 06:36:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Kyjev/Moskva - Ukrajinské dronové útoky z noci na dnešek způsobily požár v ruském přístavu Usť-Luga v Baltském moři, připravily o dodávky elektřiny bezmála půl milionu lidí v příhraniční Belgorodské oblasti...
In pictures: Hunting lynx snatches top prize in photo competition ( 25.03.2026 06:29:10 bbc.com)
A young lynx caught mid play has won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award 2026.
‚Viktor tvrdě pracuje.‘ Trump podpořil před maďarskými volbami premiéra Orbána ( 25.03.2026 06:25:00 irozhlas.cz)
Americký prezident Donald Trump před nadcházejícími dubnovými parlamentními volbami v Maďarsku podpořil tamního premiéra Viktora Orbána. Na své síti Truth Social vyzval obyvatele Maďarska, aby svůj hlas dali Orbánovi. Toho označil za silného a mocného lídra, bojovníka, vítěze a svého přítele a zároveň mu vyslovil svou plnou podporu ve volební kampani.
Mezinárodní letiště v Kuvajtu zasáhly drony a způsobily požár palivové nádrže ( 25.03.2026 05:48:00 irozhlas.cz)
Drony na mezinárodním letišti v Kuvajtu zasáhly nádrž s palivem a vypukl požár. V noci na středu o tom informovala agentura Reuters s tím, že událost si podle místních úřadů nevyžádala žádné oběti. Během války, kterou proti Íránu vedou USA a Izrael, bylo letiště v Kuvajtu zasaženo opakovaně. Drony podle agentury AFP útočily také na Saúdskou Arábii. Íránské revoluční gardy oznámily, že vypustily střely na Izrael, Jordánsko, Kuvajt a Bahrajn.
Dánské volby vyhráli vládní sociální demokraté ( 25.03.2026 05:32:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Kodaň - Úterní parlamentní volby v Dánsku vyhráli sociální demokraté premiérky Mette Frederiksenové, kteří ale zaznamenali nejhorší výsledek od roku 1903. Po sečtení všech hlasů o tom dnes informovala...
Lockheed Martin začne s výrobou F-35 pro Česko v roce 2027 ( 25.03.2026 03:23:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Washington - Americká společnost Lockheed Martin začne s výrobou letounů páté generace F-35 pro českou armádu v roce 2027. Informují o tom portály zaměřené na vojenství, mimo jiné The Defence Post...
Trump před volbami podpořil Orbána, vyslovil mu plnou podporu ( 25.03.2026 01:01:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Washington - Americký prezident Donald Trump před nadcházejícími dubnovými parlamentními volbami v Maďarsku podpořil tamního premiéra Viktora Orbána. Na své síti Truth Social vyzval obyvatele Maďarska,...
Minnesota žaluje vládu USA, chce důkazy v případech zabití Goodové a Prettiho ( 24.03.2026 23:00:00 irozhlas.cz)
Americký stát Minnesota žaluje federální vládu Spojených států: žádá přístup k důkazům v případech zastřelení Renée Goodové a Alexe Prettiho a postřelení dalšího muže federálními imigračními agenty, píší tiskové agentury. Minnesotští představitelé tvrdí, že důkazy potřebují k nezávislému vyšetření incidentů.
USA podle The New York Times předaly Íránu 15bodový mírový plán ( 24.03.2026 22:44:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Washington - Spojené státy předaly Íránu 15bodový plán k ukončení války. S odvoláním na své zdroje to napsal deník The New York Times (NYT) s tím, že se tak stalo prostřednictvím Pákistánu. O mírovém...
‚Souhlasili, že nikdy nebudou mít jadernou zbraň.‘ USA podle Trumpa vyjednávají s Íránem ( 24.03.2026 22:40:00 irozhlas.cz)
Spojené státy v současnosti jednají s Íránem, prohlásil před novináři v Bílém domě americký prezident Donald Trump. Teherán podle něj hovoří smysluplně a souhlasil, že nikdy nebude vlastnit jadernou zbraň. Stanice CNN s odvoláním na íránský zdroj uvedla, že Washington a Teherán navázaly kontakt a že Írán je ochoten vyslechnout udržitelné návrhy na ukončení války.
What happened in the seconds before Air Canada plane crashed at LaGuardia ( 24.03.2026 20:55:58 bbc.com)
BBC Verify breaks down the moments before the deadly collision with a fire truck at the New York airport.
U.S. Oil Blockade Could Condemn Cubans to Die Without a Deal ( 24.03.2026 20:32:29 theintercept.com)
The American oil blockade of Cuba has made conditions on the island dire, and reaching a deal has become a matter of life and death.
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Leaders of Elite Paratrooper Unit Ordered to Middle East as Trump Weighs Iran Ground War ( 24.03.2026 19:25:58 theintercept.com)
Government sources tell The Intercept that leadership of the storied 82nd Airborne Division have been ordered to the Middle East.
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Saúdská Arábie a SAE zvažují zapojení do války proti Íránu, píše Bloomberg ( 24.03.2026 19:02:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Abú Zabí - Saúdská Arábie a Spojené arabské emiráty zvažují zapojení do izraelsko-americké války proti Íránu v případě, že Teherán zaútočí na jejich kritickou infrastrukturu. Napsala to agentura Bloomberg...
US Citizen Dennis Coyle Freed After Over A Year In Taliban Captivity ( 24.03.2026 18:48:01 rferl.org)
Afghanistan's Taliban government announced the release and Dennis Coyle, a US citizen held for more than a year, after his mother plead for a pardon on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
NASA plánuje vybudovat základnu na Měsíci za 20 miliard dolarů ( 24.03.2026 17:46:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Washington - Americký Národní úřad pro letectví a vesmír (NASA) ruší plány na vybudování vesmírné stanice Lunar Gateway na oběžné dráze Měsíce. Místo toho využije její součásti k výstavbě základny...
Rusko podniklo jeden z největších dronových útoků na Ukrajinu ( 24.03.2026 16:55:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Kyjev - Rusko dnes podniklo jeden z nejrozsáhlejších dronových útoků na Ukrajinu, během dne vyslalo 556 úderných dronů, z nichž 541 protivzdušná obrana zneškodnila, uvedlo ukrajinské letectvo na Telegramu....
Palantir Will No Longer Profit Off of New Yorkers’ Health Data ( 24.03.2026 16:23:25 theintercept.com)
After The Intercept exposed Palantir’s deal with NYC public hospitals, the health care system didn’t renew the contract.
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Španělská policie zadržela muže podezřelého ze zavraždění českého občana ( 24.03.2026 15:54:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Madrid - Španělská policie zadržela muže, kterého podezřívá z vraždy českého občana na jihu Španělska na začátku března. Policie v Alicante, která vraždu vyšetřuje, to dnes sdělila na dotaz ČTK. Podle...
Newyorské letiště LaGuardia den po tragické nehodě stále plně neobnovilo provoz ( 24.03.2026 15:10:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
New York - Newyorské letiště LaGuardia se den po tragické strážce letounu společnosti Air Canada s hasičským vozem stále potýká se zpožděnými a zrušenými lety, informuje agentura Reuters. LaGuardia...
Trump Says US 'In Negotiations Right Now' On Ending War Despite Iranian Denials ( 24.03.2026 14:21:40 rferl.org)
President Donald Trump said the United States is "talking to the right people in Iran" about a deal to end the war, while Tehran launched attacks on Israel and Kuwait and US media outlets reported that thousands more troops may be headed to the region.
Bipartisan Backlash Grows As Trump Administration Expands Russian Sanctions Relief ( 24.03.2026 14:19:46 rferl.org)
US lawmakers are raising concerns after the Trump administration took additional steps to allow more Russian oil shipments to reach global markets despite existing sanctions.
Kvůli žhářskému útoku na východě Berlína čelí obvinění čtyři osoby ( 24.03.2026 13:38:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Berlín - Kvůli loňskému žhářskému útoku na energetickou soustavu na východě Berlína čelí obvinění čtyři osoby. S odvoláním na policii a státní zastupitelství o tom dnes informovala agentura DPA. Útok...
Vědcům v CERNu se poprvé podařilo převézt antihmotu v nákladním voze ( 24.03.2026 13:16:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Ženeva - Vědcům z Evropské laboratoře pro fyziku částic (CERN) v Ženevě se jako prvním na světě podařilo převézt antihmotu v nákladním automobilu. Informovala o tom dnes agentura DPA. Následně chtějí...
Central Asia Emerges As Strategic Energy Player Amid Oil Crisis ( 24.03.2026 13:15:19 rferl.org)
In light of the unprecedented market uncertainty stemming from Iran's effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic importance of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan's energy reserves has never been greater.
Generál: USA zůstávají spojencem Francie, jsou ale stále méně předvídatelné ( 24.03.2026 12:09:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Paříž - Spojené státy zůstávají podle náčelníka francouzského generálního štábu Fabiena Mandona spojencem Francie, stávají se ale stále méně předvídatelnými a neinformovaly Paříž o svém rozhodnutí...
Maďarský ministr zahraničí přiznal pravidelný kontakt s Lavrovem ( 24.03.2026 11:35:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Brusel/Budapešť - Maďarský ministr zahraničí Péter Szijjártó potvrdil, že je v pravidelném kontaktu s ruským ministrem zahraničí Sergejem Lavrovem o dění na jednáních EU. Informoval o tom server Euronews....
V Íránu bylo zatčeno 466 lidí, kteří podle úřadů podrývali národní bezpečnost ( 24.03.2026 11:03:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Teherán - Íránská policie zatkla 466 lidí obviněných z podrývání národní bezpečnosti na internetu, uvedla dnes íránská média. Podle agentury Reuters jde o největší razii od začátku války s Izraelem...
Russian Drones Hit Lviv And Other Cities In Major Daytime Attack On Ukraine ( 24.03.2026 10:46:46 rferl.org)
Ukraine reported that Russia had launched 426 drones and missiles while peace talks remained on a "situational pause" amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
Íránská raketa dopadla na Tel Aviv, v Libanonu pokračovaly izraelské údery ( 24.03.2026 05:38:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Tel Aviv/Teherán - Írán v noci pokračoval v ostřelování Izraele v odvetě za pokračující americko-izraelské údery z předchozích dnů. Íránské rakety zasáhly domy v Tel Avivu a předměstí Haify, uvedla...
Senát USA schválil ministra vnitřní bezpečnosti Mullina, nástupce Noemové ( 24.03.2026 03:22:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Washington - Americký Senát v pondělí večer potvrdil ve funkci nového ministra vnitřní bezpečnosti Markwaynea Mullina, který v administrativě prezidenta Donalda Trumpa nahradí končící Kristi Noemovou...
EU a Austrálie podepsaly obchodní dohodu, odstraní většinu cel ( 24.03.2026 02:09:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Canberra - Evropská unie a Austrálie dnes po letech vyjednávání podepsaly obchodní dohodu, která podle Evropské komise odstraní téměř všechna cla na vývoz evropského zboží. Předsedkyně komise Ursula...
How the deadly LaGuardia Airport crash unfolded ( 23.03.2026 22:17:26 bbc.com)
Video shows the aftermath of the collision between a passenger plane and a firefighting vehicle on the runway of the New York airport.
Babiš ve videozdravici ocenil maďarského premiéra Orbána ( 23.03.2026 18:44:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Budapešť - Český premiér Andrej Babiš ve videozdravici k dnešnímu shromáždění vrcholných politiků hlásících se k europarlamentní frakci Patrioti pro Evropu ocenil politiku, hodnoty a zkušenosti maďarského...
Policie v Bavorsku zadržela dva Čechy, stříleli ze vzduchovky ( 23.03.2026 17:56:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Mnichov - Německá policie krátce zadržela v Bavorsku dvojici Čechů, kteří v lese bez povolení stříleli ze vzduchovky. Dnes o tom informovala bavorská média. Německo při pořízení slabších vzduchovek...
Watch: Inside Palestinian homes attacked by settlers ( 23.03.2026 17:53:17 bbc.com)
Violence began after a teenage settler was killed, reportedly after being hit by a vehicle driven by a Palestinian.
Pentagon Reveals Attacks in Latin America Are Just the Beginning ( 23.03.2026 15:44:49 theintercept.com)
With “Operation Total Extermination” and Trump’s threats against Cuba, expect more U.S. military strikes in the region.
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Studie: Víc času na sociálních sítích v dětství může vyvolat deprese v dospívání ( 23.03.2026 15:43:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Londýn - U dětí, které na sociálních sítích tráví více než tři hodiny denně, hrozí vyšší riziko, že se u nich v dospívání rozvinou deprese a úzkosti. Důvodem je ale spíše nedostatek spánku než sítě...
'Stop, stop, stop': Listen to LaGuardia control tower audio during collision ( 23.03.2026 15:04:25 bbc.com)
An Air Canada plane carrying 72 passengers and four crew initially landed safely from Montreal on Sunday evening before colliding with a firefighting vehicle.
Dohoda EU s Mercosurem začne prozatímně platit od května, uvedla EK ( 23.03.2026 13:15:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Brusel - Dohoda o volném obchodu mezi Evropskou unií a skupinou latinskoamerických států Mercosur začne prozatímně platit od 1. května, oznámila dnes Evropská komise. Dohodu zatím neschválil Evropský...
Polsko se s Maďarskem neshodne ve všem, řekl Nawrocki o postoji k Rusku ( 23.03.2026 13:08:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Přemyšl (Polsko) - Polsko a Maďarsko se neshodují ve všem, uvedl polský prezident Karol Nawrocki při setkání se svým maďarským protějškem Tamásem Sulyokem na oslavách polsko-maďarského přátelství na...
Americká letadlová loď USS Gerald Ford doplula podle AFP na Krétu ( 23.03.2026 12:50:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Washington - Americká letadlová loď USS Gerald Ford dnes doplula na Krétu. Uvedla to agentura AFP, jejíž fotoreportér plavidlo spatřil u vojenské základny na řeckém ostrově, kterou obvykle využívá...
Trump Sees 'Very Serious Chance' Of Iran Deal As He Delays Strikes On Energy Targets ( 23.03.2026 12:29:52 rferl.org)
US President Donald Trump said he sees a "very serious chance" of making a deal with Tehran after he revealed the two sides had talks over the weekend that led him to delay any strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure for five days.
Výsledek voleb je pro německou sociální demokracii katastrofální, řekl její šéf ( 23.03.2026 12:26:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Berlín/Mohuč - Pro německou sociální demokracii (SPD) je výsledek nedělních zemských voleb v Porýní-Falci katastrofální. Na tiskové konferenci to dnes řekl spolupředseda strany Lars Klingbeil. Podle...
Putin si postěžoval na pokles HDP a žádal, aby ruská ekonomika zase rostla ( 23.03.2026 11:58:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Moskva - Hrubý domácí produkt (HDP) Ruska byl letos v lednu o 2,1 procenta nižší než před rokem, uvedl ruský prezident Vladimir Putin na dnešní poradě o ekonomických problémech. Šéf Kremlu stanovil...
China Urges De-Escalation As Hormuz Crisis Deepens ( 23.03.2026 11:51:56 rferl.org)
China has warned over an "uncontrollable situation" amid the escalating Strait of Hormuz crisis and urged all sides to halt military operations as the war involving Iran enters a critical phase and threatens global energy supplies.
Russia, Ukraine Launch Massive Drone Strikes After US-Ukraine Talks In Florida ( 23.03.2026 11:18:27 rferl.org)
Ukraine and Russia exchanged drone strikes, involving over 200 drones from each side, following US-Ukrainian talks in Florida, which also addressed potential prisoner exchanges between Russia and Ukraine.
Klima na Zemi se stále více vychyluje z rovnováhy, varují meteorologové ( 23.03.2026 11:00:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Ženeva - Klima na Zemi se vychýlilo z rovnováhy nejvíce od začátku měření, uvedla Světová meteorologická organizace (WMO) ve zprávě o stavu globálního klimatu za loňský rok. Upozorňuje v ní na to,...
Politico: Země EU se kvůli Maďarsku scházejí v jiných formátech ( 23.03.2026 10:46:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Brusel - Zpráva, že maďarský ministr zahraničí pravidelně informoval Rusko o jednáních EU, není pro některé diplomaty překvapivá, napsal bruselský server Politico. Země Evropské unie i jejich partneři...
Trump nařídil o pět dnů podmínečně odložit útoky na íránské elektrárny ( 23.03.2026 09:58:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Washington - Americký prezident Donald Trump nařídil ministerstvu obrany na dobu pěti dnů podmínečně odložit jakékoliv útoky na íránské elektrárny a energetickou infrastrukturu. Oznámil to na sociální...
Democrats Might Save Mike Johnson’s Push to Give Trump Domestic Spying Power ( 23.03.2026 09:08:00 theintercept.com)
They’re crossing party lines to renew Section 702 of FISA. Jamie Raskin asks, “What could go wrong with that?”
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Jako antisemitský trestný čin vyšetřuje britská policie požár čtyř sanitek ( 23.03.2026 08:23:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Londýn - Jako trestný čin s antisemitským pozadím vyšetřuje britská policie požár čtyř sanitek, které patřily židovské dobrovolnické zdravotnické organizaci Hatzolah. Napsal to dnes server BBC News,...
Po izraelském útoku hovoří obyvatelé Teheránu o explozích a výpadcích proudu ( 23.03.2026 06:07:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Teherán/Tel Aviv - Izraelská armáda dnes uvedla, že zahájila rozsáhlou vlnu úderů na infrastrukturu v Teheránu, píše stanice Al-Džazíra. V centrální části a také v okolí íránské metropole se ozývaly...
Skutečným vítězem voleb ve Slovinsku je proruská strana Pravda, píše APA ( 23.03.2026 00:40:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Lublaň - Skutečným vítězem nedělních voleb ve Slovinsku je proruská, protievropská a populistická strana Pravda (Resni.ca), které se s více než pěti procenty hlasů poprvé podařil vstup do parlamentu....
Trump Ultimatum Looms, As Israel Warns Of 'Weeks' More Fighting Against Iran, Hezbollah ( 23.03.2026 00:07:31 rferl.org)
As US President Donald Trump’s deadline looms for Iran to open the crucial Strait of Hormuz, the Israeli military warned its citizens that “more weeks” remain in the twin wars against Iran and Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon.
Russia Continues Deadly Strikes On Ukraine Amid Stalled Peace Efforts ( 22.03.2026 16:31:04 rferl.org)
Russian deadly air strikes across Ukrainian regions continue as trilateral negotiations between Kyiv, Moscow, and Washington to end the four-year-old war are effectively paused amid the conflict in the Middle East.
More Than 1 Million People in Lebanon Have Been Displaced. These Are Their Stories. ( 22.03.2026 10:11:00 theintercept.com)
Israel’s military strikes in Lebanon sparked a humanitarian crisis, driving thousands to the streets of Beirut.
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Trump Gives Tehran 48 Hours To Open Hormuz Or US Will 'Obliterate' Iran's Power Plants ( 22.03.2026 00:14:48 rferl.org)
US President Donald Trump has given Tehran 48 hours to "fully open" the crucial Strait of Hormuz or the United States will "obliterate" Iran's power plants, a major escalation of tensions in a war that already threatens to spin out of control.
Hegseth Makes Troops Prove “Sincerely Held” Faith in Latest Beard Crackdown ( 21.03.2026 10:13:00 theintercept.com)
Hegseth’s obsession with beards risks jeopardizing religious liberties as the military undergoes an apparent Christian nationalist turn.
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Fire At Czech Arms Producer With Ukraine Ties Investigated As Terror Attack ( 21.03.2026 01:59:34 rferl.org)
Czech authorities have launched a probe into a fire that broke out at a warehouse of a company that makes drones and other military equipment, including a new cruise missile it was reportedly planning to test in combat in Ukraine this year.
IAEA Urges 'Military Restraint' As Iran's Natanz Facility Hit, More Ground Troops Travel To Region ( 21.03.2026 01:06:00 rferl.org)
US President Donald Trump said he is considering “winding down” military efforts in the Middle East, even as reports grow of thousands of US ground forces heading toward the region as the war with Iran enters its fourth week.
Pentagon Implores Civilian Workers to Join ICE “Volunteer Force” ( 20.03.2026 18:47:17 theintercept.com)
The Defense Department is recruiting on behalf of DHS while the latter faces public backlash and a continued lack of government funding.
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Joe Kent’s Resignation Could Bolster a Wave of Conscientious Objectors to Trump’s Iran War ( 20.03.2026 15:16:06 theintercept.com)
“This is the kind of thing that really resonates: seeing respected people in positions of power validating what many service members feel.”
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“Liberate Their Bodies From Their Souls”: The Lies That Sell the Iran War ( 20.03.2026 10:00:00 theintercept.com)
Ali Gharib speaks to Afeef Nessouli about the latest strikes on Lebanon and peace strategist Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini on the U.S.–Israel assault on Iran.
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Data Centers Are Military Targets Now ( 20.03.2026 09:05:00 theintercept.com)
With militaries increasingly relying on artificial intelligence, data centers have emerged as new targets for strikes.
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EU Vows To Get $90 Billion Loan To Kyiv Despite Hungary’s Opposition ( 20.03.2026 02:10:35 rferl.org)
Despite the opposition of Hungary, the European Union will find ways to deliver the promised 90 billion euro ($104.2 billion) loan to Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said early on March 20.
Iran Attacks Oil Infrastructure In Gulf As Trump Weighs Troop Deployments, Says 'Nobody To Talk To' In Iran ( 20.03.2026 01:17:15 rferl.org)
Iran continues to attack oil infrastructure in the Gulf region amid reports that President Donald Trump is weighing the deployment of US troops to bolster operations in the Middle East.
Pentagon Claims It Needs Additional $200 Billion to Pay for War on Iran ( 19.03.2026 17:52:39 theintercept.com)
“Obviously, it takes money to kill bad guys,” said Pete Hegseth, when asked about the funding request.
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Washington Eases Sanctions On Minsk As Belarus Releases 250 Prisoners ( 19.03.2026 17:16:00 rferl.org)
The United States has lifted sanctions on several Belarusian entities and the country's Finance Ministry as Minsk announced the release of scores of prisoners -- including political detainees Kim Samusenko and journalist Katsyaryna Andreyeva.
Seth Moulton Saw Trans Rights as a Political Liability. It Could Doom His Senate Campaign. ( 19.03.2026 16:02:21 theintercept.com)
The Massachusetts congressman is struggling to land his message of generational change with his past anti-trans comments haunting him.
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U.S. Warmongering Hits Historic Level as Trump Attacks 3 Continents in 3 Days ( 19.03.2026 11:51:00 theintercept.com)
Since World War II, the U.S. has rarely, if ever, attacked so many places. “All war. All the time. Everywhere,” one source put it.
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Air Force Academy Prepares Ideological Overhaul, With Erika Kirk Bringing “Bold Christian Faith” ( 19.03.2026 09:11:00 theintercept.com)
The academy’s oversight board records show leaders dismantling DEI to align with Trump directives. Critics warn the military is becoming “a Christian nationalist praetorian guard.”
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Illinois Results: Daniel Biss Beats Kat Abughazaleh in Blow to Left and AIPAC Alike ( 18.03.2026 02:01:09 theintercept.com)
Pro-Israel, AI, and crypto groups saw mixed results across Illinois as outside interests sought to snatch up open seats that favor Democrats.
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Trump Wants to Put You in a Massive, Secret Government Database ( 17.03.2026 18:59:15 theintercept.com)
Agencies are reportedly pooling immigration data, Social Security numbers, and more into a central database. FPF is suing to learn how deep it goes.
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Trump’s War on Iran Could Cost Trillions ( 17.03.2026 16:12:19 theintercept.com)
“My kids’ kids, and probably their kids, are going to be paying for this,” said one official briefed on the U.S war on Iran.
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Redwire ( 26.03.2026 09:00:24 kosmonautix.cz)
Společnost Redwire oznámila první zakázku na své nové solární panely, kontrakt v hodnotě 12,8 milionu dolarů od společnosti Moog.
Astronstone ( 26.03.2026 07:00:20 kosmonautix.cz)
Astronstone, jeden z čínských startupů v oblasti vývoje nosných raket, si zajistil nové financování pro přípravu prvního letu své opakovaně použitelné rakety AS-1.
Poprvé připravili antiferomagnetický kvazikrystal ( 26.03.2026 06:51:45 sciencemag.cz)
Kvazikrystaly jsou pevné látky vykazující uspořádání ve velkém měřítku, nikoliv ale nějaký periodický vzor. V ikosaedrických (20stěnných) kvazikrystalech zlata, gallia a prvku vzácných zemin (Au-Ga-R) byl nedávno objeven feromagnetismus. Což se však nepokládá za tak překvapivé – translační periodicita (opakující se uspořádání atomů v krystalu) nebyla považována pro vznik feromagnetismu za nutnou podmínku. Naproti tomu …
There Are 10 Signs of Faster Aging Hidden in Your Blood, Study Says ( 26.03.2026 02:05:02 sciencealert.com)
You might be older than you think.
Vivid dreams may be the secret to deeper, more restful sleep ( 26.03.2026 02:00:56 sciencedaily.com)
Vivid dreams might be doing more than just entertaining your mind at night. Researchers found that immersive dreaming can actually make sleep feel deeper and more refreshing, even when brain activity is high. Surprisingly, people reported their deepest sleep after intense dream experiences, not just during quiet, inactive periods. This suggests dreams may play a key role in helping us feel truly rested.
Oldest Dog DNA Ever Found Reveals How Ancient Our Friendship Really Is ( 26.03.2026 01:52:43 sciencealert.com)
Old friends, best friends.
Scientists found a bug that generates its own heat in freezing cold ( 26.03.2026 01:26:31 sciencedaily.com)
Snow flies have an unexpected way of surviving freezing temperatures. They produce antifreeze proteins to block ice formation and can even generate their own heat. Scientists also found that their genes are unusually unique, and they feel less cold-related pain than other insects. These combined traits let them stay active in conditions that would freeze most species.
Frequent Ejaculations Can Boost Sperm Quality, Study Suggests ( 26.03.2026 01:20:11 sciencealert.com)
This is really important.
Scientists open a million-year-old time capsule beneath New Zealand ( 26.03.2026 00:58:43 sciencedaily.com)
Deep inside a cave, scientists uncovered fossils from 16 species, including a newfound kākāpō ancestor that may have been able to fly. These remains reveal that New Zealand’s ecosystems were constantly disrupted by volcanic eruptions and rapid climate shifts. Long before humans, waves of extinction and replacement reshaped the islands’ wildlife. It’s a rare window into a missing chapter of natural history.
Gateway (březen 2026) ( 25.03.2026 23:10:51 kosmonautix.cz)
Přechod z nosné rakety SLS verze Block 1 (ICPS) na Block 1B (EUS) pro plánované lety Orionu při misích Artemis IV a Artemis V k lunární orbitální kosmické stanici Gateway vyžadoval dokončení nové mobilní vypouštěcí plošiny ML-2 kvůli rozdílům v umístění obslužných ramen oproti plošině ML-1. Konstrukční práce na nové věži byly dokončeny a celkově dosáhla míra jejího dokončení přibližně 90 %. NASA však 27. února oznámila na tiskové konferenci, že výrobu horního stupně EUS pro mise Artemis ruší. Od přítomných novinářů padly mimo jiné i dotazy na Gateway. Jared Isaacman a další představitelé NASA byli ve svých odpovědích opatrní, slovo Gateway nezmínili a pokaždé přešli na jiné téma. Výslovně neodpověděli ani na dotaz ohledně ML-2.
After 60 Years, Diabetes Drug Revealed to Unexpectedly Affect The Brain ( 25.03.2026 22:54:58 sciencealert.com)
Scientists haven't been exactly sure how it works.
How We Walk Might Reveal Our Risk of Death ( 25.03.2026 22:00:00 nautil.us)
Another good reminder to keep a pep in your step
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Most mass spectrometers handle a few molecules. This new prototype handles billions ( 25.03.2026 21:30:50 sciencedaily.com)
A new prototype could supercharge mass spectrometry by analyzing thousands of molecules at once instead of one by one. The breakthrough boosts sensitivity enough to reveal rare, hidden molecules—potentially transforming fields like drug discovery and single-cell biology.
Cold weather linked to 40,000 extra heart deaths each year in the U.S. ( 25.03.2026 21:11:55 sciencedaily.com)
When temperatures plunge, the risk to your heart rises dramatically. A large U.S. study shows cold weather is linked to far more cardiovascular deaths than heat, accounting for tens of thousands of extra deaths each year. Scientists found the safest temperature sits around 74°F, with danger increasing as conditions get colder—or hotter. As more people live with chronic illnesses, the threat from extreme cold may only intensify.
NASA releases stunning new Saturn images—and the gas giant has never looked so good ( 25.03.2026 20:40:00 scientificamerican.com)
New images captured by the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes show Saturn in both visible and infrared light
Sharks Are Testing Positive For Cocaine And Caffeine in The Bahamas ( 25.03.2026 20:00:15 sciencealert.com)
Even remote waters aren't safe from human influence.
The Fate of a Soviet Nuclear Sub Decades After It Sank ( 25.03.2026 20:00:00 nautil.us)
The Soviet sub K-278 Komsomolets was lost in 1989
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Improve Engineering Communication by Translating Technical Detail ( 25.03.2026 19:03:20 spectrum.ieee.org)
This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free!Engineers Aren’t Bad at Communication. They’re Just Speaking to the Wrong Audience.There’s a persistent myth that engineers are bad communicators. In my experience, that’s not true.Engineers are often excellent communicators—inside their domain. We’re precise. We’re logical. We structure arguments clearly. We define terms. We reason from constraints.The breakdown happens when the audience changes.We’re used to speaking in highly technical language, surrounded by people who share our vocabulary. In that environment, shorthand and jargon are efficient. But outside that bubble, when talking to executives, product managers, marketing teams, or customers, that same precision can be confusing.The problem isn’t that we can’t communicate. It’s that we forget to translate.If you’ve ever explained a critical issue or error to a non-technical stakeholder, you’ve probably experienced this: You give a technically accurate explanation. They leave either more confused than before, or more alarmed than necessary.Suddenly you’re spending more time clarifying your explanation than fixing the issue.Under pressure, we default to what we know best—technical detail. But detail without context creates cognitive overload. The listener can’t tell what matters, what’s normal, and what’s dangerous.That’s when the “engineers can’t communicate” narrative shows up.In reality, we just skipped the translation step.The Writing Shortcut One of the simplest ways to improve written communication today is surprisingly easy: Run your explanation through an AI model and ask, “would this make sense to a non-technical audience? Where would someone get confused?”You can also say:“Rewrite this for an executive audience.”“What analogy would help explain this?”“Simplify this without losing accuracy.”Large language models are particularly good at identifying jargon and offering alternative framings. They’re essentially translation assistants.Analogies are especially powerful. If you’re explaining system latency, compare it to traffic congestion. If you’re describing technical debt, compare it to skipping maintenance on a house. If you’re explaining distributed systems, try using supply chain examples.The goal isn’t to “dumb it down.” It’s to map the unfamiliar onto something familiar.Before sending an email or report, ask yourself:Does this audience need to understand the mechanism, or just impact?Does this explanation help them make a decision?Have I defined terms they might not know?Translation When Speaking When speaking—especially in meetings or presentations—most engineers have one predictable habit: We speak too fast.Nerves speed us up. Speed causes filler words. Filler words dilute authority.To prevent that, follow a simple rule: Speak 10 to 15 percent slower than feels natural.Slowing down cuts down the number of times you say “um” and “uh”, gives you time to think, makes you sound more confident, and gives the listener time to process.Another rule: Say only what the audience needs to move forward.Explain just enough for the person to make a decision. If you overload someone with implementation details when they only need tradeoffs, you’ve made their job harder.The Real SkillThe key skill in communication is audience awareness.The same engineer who can clearly explain a concurrency bug to a peer can absolutely explain system risk to an executive. The difference is framing, vocabulary, and context. Not intelligence.In the age of AI, where code generation is increasingly commoditized, the ability to translate complexity into clarity is becoming a defining advantage.Engineers aren’t bad communicators. We just have to remember that outside our bubble, translation is part of the job.—BrianHow Robert Goddard’s Self-Reliance Crashed His DreamsRobert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket 100 years ago, but his legacy still has relevant lessons for today’s engineers. Although Goddard’s headstrong confidence in his ideas helped bring about the breakthrough, it later became an obstacle in what systems engineer Guru Madhavan calls “the alpha trap.” Madhavan writes: “We love to celebrate the lone genius, yet we depend on teams to bring the flame of genius to the people.”Read more here. Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for AIFor Communications of the ACM, two Microsoft engineers propose a model for software engineering in the age of AI: Making the growth of early-in-career developers an explicit organizational goal. Without hiring early-career workers, the profession’s talent pipeline will eventually dry up. So, they argue, companies must hire them and develop talent, even if that comes with a short-term dip in productivity. Read more here. IEEE Launches Global Virtual Career FairsLooking for a job? Last year, IEEE Industry Engagement hosted its first virtual career fair to connect recruiters and young professionals. Several more career fairs are now planned, including two upcoming regional events and a global career fair in June. At these fairs, you can participate in interactive sessions, chat with recruiters, and experience video interviews. Read more here.
Training Driving AI at 50,000× Real Time ( 25.03.2026 19:00:05 spectrum.ieee.org)
This is a sponsored article brought to you by General Motors. Visit their new Engineering Blog for more insights.Autonomous driving is one of the most demanding problems in physical AI. An automated system must interpret a chaotic, ever-changing world in real time—navigating uncertainty, predicting human behavior, and operating safely across an immense range of environments and edge cases.At General Motors, we approach this problem from a simple premise: while most moments on the road are predictable, the rare, ambiguous, and unexpected events — the long tail — are what ultimately defines whether an autonomous system is safe, reliable, and ready for deployment at scale. (Note: While here we discuss research and emerging technologies to solve the long tail required for full general autonomy, we also discuss our current approach or solving 99% of everyday autonomous driving in a deep dive on Compound AI.)As GM advances toward eyes-off highway driving, and ultimately toward fully autonomous vehicles, solving the long tail becomes the central engineering challenge. It requires developing systems that can be counted on to behave sensibly in the most unexpected conditions.GM is building scalable driving AI to meet that challenge — combining large-scale simulation, reinforcement learning, and foundation-model-based reasoning to train autonomous systems at a scale and speed that would be impossible in the real world alone.Stress-testing for the long tailLong-tail scenarios of autonomous driving come in a few varieties.Some are notable for their rareness. There’s a mattress on the road. A fire hydrant bursts. A massive power outage in San Francisco that disabled traffic lights required driverless vehicles to navigate never-before experienced challenges. These rare system-level interactions, especially in dense urban environments, show how unexpected edge cases can cascade at scale.But long-tail challenges don’t just come in the form of once-in-a-lifetime rarities. They also manifest as everyday scenarios that require characteristically human courtesy or common sense. How do you queue up for a spot without blocking traffic in a crowded parking lot? Or navigate a construction zone, guided by gesturing workers and ad-hoc signs? These are simple challenges for a human driver but require inventive engineering to handle flawlessly with a machine.Autonomous driving scenario demand curveDeploying vision language modelsOne tool GM is developing to tackle these nuanced scenarios is the use of Vision Language Action (VLA) models. Starting with a standard Vision Language Model, which leverages internet-scale knowledge to make sense of images, GM engineers use specialized decoding heads to fine-tune for distinct driving-related tasks. The resulting VLA can make sense of vehicle trajectories and detect 3D objects on top of its general image-recognition capabilities.These tuned models enable a vehicle to recognize that a police officer’s hand gesture overrides a red traffic light or to identify what a “loading zone” at a busy airport terminal might look like.These models can also generate reasoning traces that help engineers and safety operators understand why a maneuver occurred — an important tool for debugging, validation, and trust.Testing hazardous scenarios in high-fidelity simulationsThe trouble is: driving requires split-second reaction times so any excess latency poses an especially critical problem. To solve this, GM is developing a “Dual Frequency VLA.” This large-scale model runs at a lower frequency to make high-level semantic decisions (“Is that object in the road a branch or a cinder block?”), while a smaller, highly efficient model handles the immediate, high-frequency spatial control (steering and braking).This hybrid approach allows the vehicle to benefit from deep semantic reasoning without sacrificing the split-second reaction times required for safe driving.But dealing with an edge case safely requires that the model not only understand what it is looking at but also understand how to sensibly drive through the challenge it’s identified. For that, there is no substitute for experience.Which is why, each day, we run millions of high-fidelity closed loop simulations, equivalent to tens of thousands of human driving days, compressed into hours of simulation. We can replay actual events, modify real-world data to create new virtual scenarios, or design new ones entirely from scratch. This allows us to regularly test the system against hazardous scenarios that would be nearly impossible to encounter safely in the real world.Synthetic data for the hardest casesWhere do these simulated scenarios come from? GM engineers employ a whole host of AI technologies to produce novel training data that can model extreme situations while remaining grounded in reality.GM’s “Seed-to-Seed Translation” research, for instance, leverages diffusion models to transform existing real-world data, allowing a researcher to turn a clear-day recording into a rainy or foggy night while perfectly preserving the scene’s geometry. The result? A “domain change”—clear becomes rainy, but everything else remains the same.In addition, our GM World diffusion-based simulator allows us to synthesize entirely new traffic scenarios using natural language and spatial bounding boxes. We can summon entirely new scenarios with different weather patterns. We can also take an existing road scene and add challenging new elements, such as a vehicle cutting into our path.High-fidelity simulation isn’t always the best tool for every learning task. Photorealistic rendering is essential for training perception systems to recognize objects in varied conditions. But when the goal is teaching decision-making and tactical planning—when to merge, or how to navigate an intersection—the computationally expensive details matter less than spatial relationships and traffic dynamics. AI systems may need billions or even trillions of lightweight examples to support reinforcement learning, where models learn the rules of sensible driving through rapid trial and error rather than relying on imitation alone.To this end, General Motors has developed a proprietary, multi-agent reinforcement learning simulator, GM Gym, to serve as a closed-loop simulation environment that can both simulate high-fidelity sensor data, and model thousands of drivers per second in an abstract environment known as “Boxworld.”By focusing on essentials like spatial positioning, velocity and rules of the road while stripping away details like puddles and potholes, Boxworld creates a high-speed training environment for reinforcement learning models at incredible speeds, operating 50,000 times faster than real-time and simulating 1,000 km of driving per second of GPU time. It’s a method that allows us to not just imitate humans, but to develop driving models that have verifiable objective outcomes, like safety and progress.From abstract policy to real-world drivingOf course, the route from your home to your office does not run through Boxworld. It passes through a world of asphalt, shadows, and weather. So, to bring that conceptual expertise into the real world, GM is one of the first to employ a technique called “On Policy Distillation,” where engineers run their simulator in both modes simultaneously: the abstract, high-speed Boxworld and the high-fidelity sensor mode.Here, the reinforcement learning model—which has practiced countless abstract miles to develop a perfect “policy,” or driving strategy—acts as a teacher. It guides its “student,” the model that will eventually live in the car. This transfer of wisdom is incredibly efficient; just 30 minutes of distillation can capture the equivalent of 12 hours of raw reinforcement learning, allowing the real-world model to rapidly inherit the safety instincts its cousin painstakingly honed in simulation.Designing failures before they happenSimulation isn’t just about training the model to drive well, though; it’s also about trying to make it fail. To rigorously stress-test the system, GM utilizes a differentiable pipeline called SHIFT3D. Instead of just recreating the world, SHIFT3D actively modifies it to create “adversarial” objects designed to trick the perception system. The pipeline takes a standard object, like a sedan, and subtly morphs its shape and pose until it becomes a “challenging”, fun-house version that is harder for the AI to detect. Optimizing these failure modes is what allows engineers to preemptively discover safety risks before they ever appear on the road. Iteratively retraining the model on these generated “hard” objects has been shown to reduce near-miss collisions by over 30%, closing the safety gap on edge cases that might otherwise be missed.Even with advanced simulation and adversarial testing, a truly robust system must know its own limits. To enable safety in the face of the unknown, GM researchers add a specialized “Epistemic uncertainty head” to their models. This architectural addition allows the AI to distinguish between standard noise and genuine confusion. When the model encounters a scenario it doesn’t understand—a true “long tail” event—it signals high epistemic uncertainty. This acts as a principled proxy for data mining, automatically flagging the most confusing and high-value examples for engineers to analyze and add to the training set.This rigorous, multi-faceted approach—from “Boxworld” strategy to adversarial stress-testing—is General Motors’ proposed framework for solving the final 1% of autonomy. And while it serves as the foundation for future development, it also surfaces new research challenges that engineers must address.How do we balance the essentially unlimited data from Reinforcement Learning with the finite but richer data we get from real-world driving? How close can we get to full, human-like driving by writing down a reward function? Can we go beyond domain change to generate completely new scenarios with novel objects?Solving the long tail at scaleWorking toward solving the long tail of autonomy is not about a single model or technique. It requires an ecosystem — one that combines high-fidelity simulation with abstract learning environments, reinforcement learning with imitation, and semantic reasoning with split-second control.This approach does more than improve performance on average cases. It is designed to surface the rare, ambiguous, and difficult scenarios that determine whether autonomy is truly ready to operate without human supervision.There are still open research questions. How human-like can a driving policy become when optimized through reward functions? How do we best combine unlimited simulated experience with the richer priors embedded in real human driving? And how far can generative world models take us in creating meaningful, safety-critical edge cases?Answering these questions is central to the future of autonomous driving. At GM, we are building the tools, infrastructure, and research culture needed to address them — not at small scale, but at the scale required for real vehicles, real customers, and real roads.
Chinese lander reveals giant 'cavity' of radiation between Earth and the moon — and it could change how lunar exploration is done ( 25.03.2026 18:08:51 livescience.com)
A new study using data from China's Chang'e-4 moon lander found an area of reduced radiation from cosmic rays near the moon. The findings could be used to improve the safety of lunar explorations.
30 Years Ago, Robots Learned to Walk Without Falling ( 25.03.2026 18:00:05 spectrum.ieee.org)
When you hear the term humanoid robot, you may think of C-3PO, the human-cyborg-relations android from Star Wars. C-3PO was designed to assist humans in communicating with robots and alien species. The droid, which first appeared on screen in 1977, joined the characters on their adventures, walking, talking, and interacting with the environment like a human. It was ahead of its time.Before the release of Star Wars, a few androids did exist and could move and interact with their environment, but none could do so without losing its balance.It wasn’t until 1996 that the first autonomous robot capable of walking without falling was developed in Japan. Honda’s Prototype 2 (P2) was nearly 183 centimeters tall and weighed 210 kilograms. It could control its posture to maintain balance, and it could move multiple joints simultaneously.In recognition of that decades-old feat, P2 has been honored as an IEEE Milestone. The dedication ceremony is scheduled for 28 April at the Honda Collection Hall, located on the grounds of the Mobility Resort Motegi, in Japan. The machine is on display in the hall’s robotics exhibit, which showcases the evolution of Honda’s humanoid technology.In support of the Milestone nomination, members of the IEEE Nagoya (Japan) Section wrote: “This milestone demonstrated the feasibility of humanlike locomotion in machines, setting a new standard in robotics.” The Milestone proposal is available on the Engineering Technology and History Wiki.Developing a domestic androidIn 1986 Honda researchers Kazuo Hirai, Masato Hirose, Yuji Haikawa, and Toru Takenaka set out to develop what they called a “domestic robot” to collaborate with humans. It would be able to climb stairs, remove impediments in its path, and tighten a nut with a wrench, according to their research paper on the project.“We believe that a robot working within a household is the type of robot that consumers may find useful,” the authors wrote.But to create a machine that would do household chores, it had to be able to move around obstacles such as furniture, stairs, and doorways. It needed to autonomously walk and read its environment like a human, according to the researchers.But no robot could do that at the time. The closest technologists got was the WABOT-1. Built in 1973 at Waseda University, in Tokyo, the WABOT had eyes and ears, could speak Japanese, and used tactile sensors embedded on its hands as it gripped and moved objects. Although the WABOT could walk, albeit unsteadily, it couldn’t maneuver around obstacles or maintain its balance. It was powered by an external battery and computer.To build an android, the Honda team began by analyzing how people move, using themselves as models.That led to specifications for the robot that gave it humanlike dimensions, including the location of the leg joints and how far the legs could rotate.Once they began building the machine, though, the engineers found it difficult to satisfy every specification. Adjustments were made to the number of joints in the robot’s hips, knees, and ankles, according to the research paper. Humans have four hip, two knee, and three ankle joints; P2’s predecessor had three hip, one knee, and two ankle joints. The arms were treated similarly. A human’s four shoulder and three elbow joints became three shoulder joints and one elbow joint in the robot.The researchers installed existing Honda motors and hydraulics in the hips, knees, and ankles to enable the robot to walk. Each joint was operated by a DC motor with a harmonic-drive reduction gear system, which is compact and offered high torque capacity.To test their ideas, the engineers built what they called E0. The robot, which was just a pair of connected legs, successfully walked. It took about 15 seconds to take each step, however, and it moved using static walking in a straight line, according to a post about the project on Honda’s website. (Static walking is when the body’s center of mass is always within the foot’s sole. Humans walk with their center of mass below their navel.)The researchers created several algorithms to enable the robot to walk like a human, according to the Honda website. The codes allowed the robot to use a locomotion mechanism, dynamic walking, whereby the robot stays upright by constantly moving and adjusting its balance, rather than keeping its center of mass over its feet, according to a video on the YouTube channel Everything About Robotics Explained.“P2 was not just a technical achievement; it was a catalyst that propelled the field of humanoid robotics forward, demonstrating the potential for robots to interact with and assist humans in meaningful ways.” —IEEE Nagoya SectionThe Honda team installed rubber brushes on the bottom of the machine’s feet to reduce vibrations from the landing impacts (the force experienced when its feet touch the ground)—which had made the robot lose its balance.Between 1987 and 1991, three more prototypes (E1, E2, and E3) were built, each testing a new algorithm. E3 was a success.With the dynamic walking mechanism complete, the researchers continued their quest to make the robot stable. The team added 6-axis sensors to detect the force at which the ground pushed back against the robot’s feet and the movements of each foot and ankle, allowing the robot to adjust its gait in real time for stability.The team also developed a posture-stabilizing control system to help the robot stay upright. A local controller directed how the electric motor actuators needed to move so the robot could follow the leg joint angles when walking, according to the research paper.During the next three years, the team tested the systems and built three more prototypes (E4, E5, and E6), which had boxlike torsos atop the legs.In 1993 the team was finally ready to build an android with arms and a head that looked more like C-3PO, dubbed Prototype 1 (P1). Because the machine was meant to help people at home, the researchers determined its height and limb proportions based on the typical measurements of doorways and stairs. The arm length was based on the ability of the robot to pick up an object when squatting.When they finished building P1, it was 191.5 cm tall, weighed 175 kg, and used an external power source and computer. It could turn a switch on and off, grab a doorknob, and carry a 70 kg object.P1 was not launched publicly but instead used to conduct research on how to further improve the design. The engineers looked at how to install an internal power source and computer, for example, as well as how to coordinate the movement of the arms and legs, according to Honda.For P2, four video cameras were installed in its head—two for vision processing and the other two for remote operation. The head was 60 cm wide and connected to the torso, which was 75.6 cm deep.A computer with four microSparc II processors running a real-time operating system was added into the robot’s torso. The processors were used to control the arms, legs, joints, and vision-processing cameras.Also within the body were DC servo amplifiers, a 20-kg nickel-zinc battery, and a wireless Ethernet modem, according to the research paper. The battery lasted for about 15 minutes; the machine also could be charged by an external power supply.The hardware was enclosed in white-and-gray casing.P2, which was launched publicly in 1996, could walk freely, climb up and down stairs, push carts, and perform some actions wirelessly. P2, which was launched publicly in 1996, could walk freely, climb up and down stairs, push carts, and perform some actions wirelessly.King Rose ArchivesThe following year, Honda’s engineers released the smaller and lighter P3. It was 160 cm tall and weighed 130 kg.In 2000 the popular ASIMO robot was introduced. Although shorter than its predecessors at 130 cm, it could walk, run, climb stairs, and recognize voices and faces. The most recent version was released in 2011. Honda has retired the robot.Honda P2’s influenceThanks to P2, today’s androids are not just ideas in a laboratory. Robots have been deployed to work in factories and, increasingly, at home.The machines are even being used for entertainment. During this year’s Spring Festival gala in Beijing, machines developed by Chinese startups Unitree Robotics, Galbot, Noetix, and MagicLab performed synchronized dances, martial arts, and backflips alongside human performers.“P2’s development shifted the focus of robotics from industrial applications to human-centric designs,” the Milestone sponsors explained in the wiki entry. “It inspired subsequent advancements in humanoid robots and influenced research in fields like biomechanics and artificial intelligence.“It was not just a technical achievement; it was a catalyst that propelled the field of humanoid robotics forward, demonstrating the potential for robots to interact with and assist humans in meaningful ways.”To learn more about robots, check out IEEE Spectrum’s guide.Recognition as an IEEE MilestoneA plaque recognizing Honda’s P2 robot as an IEEE Milestone is to be installed at the Honda Collection Hall. The plaque is to read:In 1996 Prototype 2 (P2), a self-contained autonomous bipedal humanoid robot capable of stable dynamic walking and stair-climbing, was introduced by Honda. Its legged robotics incorporated real-time posture control, dynamic balance, gait generation, and multijoint coordination. Honda’s mechatronics and control algorithms set technical benchmarks in mobility, autonomy, and human-robot interaction. P2 inspired new research in humanoid robot development, leading to increasingly sophisticated successors.Administered by the IEEE History Center and supported by donors, the Milestone program recognizes outstanding technical developments around the world.
Earth’s magnetic field may be more powerful than we thought ( 25.03.2026 18:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
A major defense against everything space throws at us, Earth’s magnetic field may even protect the moon from damaging galactic cosmic rays
Top climate scientist Kate Marvel just resigned from NASA. Here's why ( 25.03.2026 18:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
Climate scientist Kate Marvel talked to Scientific American about her decision to leave NASA amid federal government turmoil and funding challenges
Can Home-Cooked Meals Help Stave Off Dementia? ( 25.03.2026 18:00:00 nautil.us)
It’s got all the ingredients of a healthy, active lifestyle
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NASA announces 'near‑impossible' space plans, including $20B moon base and humanity's first nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft ( 25.03.2026 17:54:37 livescience.com)
NASA's Gateway lunar space station won't launch next year in new changes to the Artemis program, which include ramping up development of a $20 billion moon base and a nuclear-powered 'Freedom' spacecraft.
Zuckerberg Suffers Pair of Bruising Courtroom Defeats in Two Days That Could Cost Him a Fortune ( 25.03.2026 17:52:42 futurism.com)
They set a major legal precedent.
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This excellent NordVPN deal knocks up to 77% off the price and comes with a $50 Amazon voucher — perfect if you want to watch nature documentaries on the go ( 25.03.2026 17:49:53 livescience.com)
NordVPN is rated as the best VPN around, now with up to $500 discount and four months free, it also adds value for money to its impressive repertoire.
Jury finds Meta and YouTube negligent in landmark social media addiction case ( 25.03.2026 17:42:00 scientificamerican.com)
A Los Angeles trial jury found that Meta and YouTube are offering products that are addictive and harmful to young users’ mental health
Physicists just took a road trip with a load of antimatter. Here’s how it went ( 25.03.2026 16:30:00 scientificamerican.com)
Scientists at CERN built a container weighing about a ton to transport just 92 subatomic antimatter particles without annihilating them
Is the metaverse finally dead and buried? What's really going on with the embattled idea of living in virtual worlds. ( 25.03.2026 16:00:00 livescience.com)
Touted as the next big thing just a few years back, the development of and hype fueling the metaverse have spluttered to a halt. Is it headed for the scrapheap of history?
That minty-fresh feeling? Scientists now know how our bodies feel cold ( 25.03.2026 16:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
Scientists have finally pinned down the mechanism behind cold- and menthol-sensing proteins
Physicists Successfully Deliver First Bottle of CERN Antimatter From the Antimatter Factory ( 25.03.2026 15:59:00 futurism.com)
"We bought a lot of champagne, and we invited the entire antimatter community to celebrate with us today."
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ŽIVĚ A ČESKY: Druhý pokus rakety Spectrum ( 25.03.2026 15:50:40 kosmonautix.cz)
Ve středu 25. března nás čeká druhý start rakety Spectrum, kterou má na svědomí soukromá firma Isar Aerospace. Premiérový start této malé nosné rakety se uskutečnil 30. března minulého roku, ovšem již po několika desítkách sekund od vzletu dopadla raketa kousek od startovní rampy. Následné vyšetřování ukázalo, že došlo k náhlému otevření jednoho z ventilů, což vedlo ke ztrátě kontroly nad raketou. Jakožto náklad na této druhé testovací misi poslouží 5 CubeSatů a jeden experiment, který nebude oddělen od druhého stupně.
The Martyrs, Hunters, and Nature Lovers Who Came Together to Save Birds ( 25.03.2026 15:09:17 nautil.us)
An interview with James McCommons, author of The Feather Wars, about the past and future of bird conservation
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Surreal Footage Shows Melania Trump Walking Into White House Summit With Humanoid Robot ( 25.03.2026 14:59:00 futurism.com)
It's like a metaphor walking on two legs.
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Critically endangered hare spotted in surprising location for the first time in 40 years — but it was already dead ( 25.03.2026 14:38:53 livescience.com)
Scientists in China have announced the first confirmed sighting of the critically endangered Hainan hare in part of its native range in four decades, after spotting its completely flattened carcass on a roadside.
How IEEE 802.11bn Delivers Ultra-High Reliability for Wi-Fi 8 ( 25.03.2026 14:22:07 content.knowledgehub.wiley.com)
A technical exploration of IEEE 802.11bn’s physical and MAC layer enhancements — including distributed resource units, enhanced long range, multi-AP coordination, and seamless roaming — that define Wi-Fi 8.What Attendees will LearnWhy Wi-Fi 8 prioritizes reliability over raw throughput — Understand how IEEE 802.11bn shifts the design philosophy from peak data-rate gains to ultra-high reliability.How new physical layer features overcome uplink power limitations — Learn how distributed resource units spread tones across wider distribution bandwidths to boost per-tone transmit power, and how enhanced long range protocol data units use power-boosted preamble fields and frequency-domain duplication to extend uplink coverage.How advanced MAC coordination reduces interference and latency — Examine multi-access point coordination schemes — coordinated beamforming, spatial reuse, time division multiple access, and restricted target wake time — alongside non-primary channel access and priority enhanced distributed channel access.What seamless roaming and power management mean for next-generation deployments — Discover how seamless mobility domains eliminate reassociation delays during access point transitions, and how dynamic power save and multi-link power management let devices trade capability for battery life without sacrificing connectivity.Download this free whitepaper now!
Scientists are racing to save Australia's 'zombie tree' from a fast-spreading fungal disease ( 25.03.2026 14:02:47 livescience.com)
A fast-spreading fungal disease has left the newly named Australian "zombie tree" unable to produce flowers, fruit or seeds, and scientists warn that 16 other species may be heading down the same path.
Mysterious Ancient Ape May Have Evolved a Key Human Trait ( 25.03.2026 14:00:36 sciencealert.com)
A new path for a controversial hypothesis.
Why Does Every Case of AI Hiring a Human Feel Like a Groveling Publicity Stunt? ( 25.03.2026 14:00:29 futurism.com)
Isn't the idea to do useful work?
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What Happens When You Host an AI Café ( 25.03.2026 14:00:05 spectrum.ieee.org)
“Can I get an interview?” “Can I get a job when I graduate?” Those questions came from students during a candid discussion about artificial intelligence, capturing the anxiety many young people feel today. As companies adopt AI-driven interview screeners, restructure their workforces, and redirect billions of dollars toward AI infrastructure, students are increasingly unsure of what the future of work will look like.We had gathered people together at a coffee shop in Auburn, Alabama, for what we called an AI Café. The event was designed to confront concerns about AI directly, demystifying the technology while pushing back against the growing narrative of technological doom. AI is reshaping society at breathtaking speed. Yet the trajectory of this transformation is being charted primarily by for-profit tech companies, whose priorities revolve around market dominance rather than public welfare. Many people feel that AI is something being done to them rather than developed with them.As computer science and liberal arts faculty at Auburn University, we believe there is another path forward: one where scholars engage their communities in genuine dialogue about AI. Not to lecture about technical capabilities, but to listen, learn, and co-create a vision for AI that serves the public interest.The AI Café ModelLast November, we ran two public AI Cafés in Auburn. These were informal, 90-minute conversations between faculty, students, and community members about their experiences with AI. In these conversational forums, participants sat in clusters, questions flowed in multiple directions, and lived experience carried as much weight as technical expertise.We avoided jargon and resisted attempts to “correct” misconceptions, welcoming whatever emotions emerged. One ground rule proved crucial: keeping discussions in the present, asking participants where they encounter AI today. Without that focus, conversations could easily drift to sci-fi speculation. Historical analogies—to the printing press, electricity, and smartphones—helped people contextualize their reactions. And we found that without shared definitions of AI, people talked past each other; we learned to ask participants to name specific tools they were concerned about. Organizers Xaq Frohlich, Cheryl Seals, and Joan Harrell (right) held their first AI Café in a welcoming coffee shop and bookstore. Well RedMost important, we approached these events not as experts enlightening the masses, but as community members navigating complex change together.What We Learned by ListeningParticipants arrived with significant frustration. They felt that commercial interests were driving AI development “without consideration of public needs,” as one attendee put it. This echoed deeper anxieties about technology, from social media algorithms that amplify division to devices that profit from “engagement” and replace meaningful face-to-face connection. People aren’t simply “afraid of AI.” They’re weary of a pattern where powerful technologies reshape their lives while they have little say.Yet when given space to voice concerns without dismissal, something shifted. Participants didn’t want to stop AI development; they wanted to have a voice in it. When we asked “What would a human-centered AI future look like?” the conversation became constructive. People articulated priorities: fairness over efficiency, creativity over automation, dignity over convenience, community over individualism. The three organizers, all professors at Alabama’s Auburn University, say that including people from the liberal arts fields brought new perspectives to the discussions about AI. Well RedFor us as organizers, the experience was transformative. Hearing how AI affected people’s work, their children’s education, and their trust in information prompted us to consider dimensions we hadn’t fully grasped. Perhaps most striking was the gratitude participants expressed for being heard. It wasn’t about filling knowledge deficits; it was about mutual learning. The trust generated created a spillover effect, renewing faith that AI could serve the public interest if shaped through inclusive processes.How to Start Your Own AI CaféThe “deficit model” of science communication—where experts transmit knowledge to an uninformed public—has been discredited. Public resistance to emerging technologies reflects legitimate concerns about values, risks, and who controls decision-making. Our events point toward a better model.We urge engineering and liberal arts departments, professional societies, and community organizations worldwide to organize dialogues similar to our AI Cafés.We found that a few simple design choices made these conversations far more productive. Informal and welcoming spaces such as coffee shops, libraries, and community centers helped participants feel comfortable (and serving food and drinks helped too!). Starting with small-group discussions, where people talked with neighbors, produced more honest thinking and greater participation. Partnering with colleagues in the liberal arts brought additional perspectives on technology’s social dimensions. And by making a commitment to an ongoing series of events, we built trust.Facilitation also matters. Rather than leading with technical expertise, we began with values: We asked what kind of world participants wanted, and how AI might help or hinder that vision. We used analogies to earlier technologies to help people situate their reactions and grounded discussions in present realities, asking participants where they have encountered AI in their daily lives. We welcomed emotions constructively, transforming worry into problem solving by asking questions like: “What would you do about that?”Why Engineers Should Engage the PublicProfessional ethics codes remain abstract unless grounded in dialogue with affected communities. Conversations about what “responsible AI” means will look different in São Paulo than in Seoul, in Vienna than in Nairobi. What makes the AI Café model portable is its general principles: informal settings, values-first questions, present-tense focus, genuine listening.Without such engagement, ethical accountability quietly shifts to technical experts rather than remaining a shared public concern. If we let commercial interests define AI’s trajectory with minimal public input, it will only deepen divides and entrench inequities.AI will continue advancing whether or not we have public trust. But AI shaped through dialogue with communities will look fundamentally different from AI developed solely to pursue what’s technically possible or commercially profitable.The tools for this work aren’t technical; they’re social, requiring humility, patience, and genuine curiosity. The question isn’t whether AI will transform society. It’s whether that transformation will be done to people or with them. We believe scholars must choose the latter, and that starts with showing up in coffee shops and community centers to have conversations where we do less talking and more listening.The future of AI depends on it.
Scan Finds Presence of Nuclear Fuel in 3I/ATLAS ( 25.03.2026 13:04:10 futurism.com)
The interstellar visitor's origins are coming into focus.
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Are U.S. Engineering Ph.D. Programs Losing Students? ( 25.03.2026 13:00:05 spectrum.ieee.org)
U.S. doctoral programs in electrical engineering form the foundation of technological advancement, training the brightest minds in the world to research, develop, and design next-generation electronics, software, electrical infrastructure, and other high-tech products and systems. Elite institutions have long served as launchpads for the engineers behind tomorrow’s technology. Now that foundation is under strain.With U.S. universities increasingly entangled in political battles under the second Trump administration, uncertainty is beginning to ripple through doctoral admissions for electrical engineering programs. While some departments are reducing the number of spots available in anticipation of potential federal funding cuts, others are seeing their applicant pools shrink, particularly among international students, who make up a significant portion of their programs. In 2024 alone, U.S. universities awarded more than 2,000 doctorates in electrical and computer engineering, according to data from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics. The number of computing Ph.D.s grew significantly in the 2010s, according to data from the National Academies, but there is still high demand for those with advanced degrees across academia, government, and industry. Now, some universities point to warning signs of waning enrollment. Though not all engineers have Ph.D.s, if enrollment continues to shrink, fewer doctoral students could mean fewer engineers developing cutting-edge technology and training the next generation, potentially exacerbating existing labor shortages as global competition for tech talent intensifies.Federal funding cuts affect admissionsPublic universities in particular are feeling the strain because they rely heavily on federal grants to support doctoral students.The University of California, Los Angeles, for instance, must fund Ph.D. students for the duration of a degree—typically five years. In August 2025, the U.S. government pulled more than US $580 million in federal grants over allegations that the university failed to adequately address antisemitism on campus during student protests. A federal judge has since ordered the funding to be restored, but faculty began to worry that research support could be clawed back without notice, says Subramanian Iyer, distinguished professor at UC Los Angeles’s department of electrical and computer engineering.According to Iyer, departments across UC Los Angeles, including engineering, plan to scale back Ph.D. admissions this year. “The fear is that at some point, all this government money will be taken away,” Iyer says. “Lowering the admissions rate is just a way to prepare for that reality.”In response to a request for comment, a spokesperson for the U.S. National Science Foundation—a major source of federal research funding at UC Los Angeles and elsewhere—said, “NSF recognizes the essential role doctoral trainees play in the nation’s engineering and STEM enterprise” and noted several of the foundation’s awards and programs that support graduate research. Funding shocks may also force Pennsylvania State University to reshape future admissions decisions, according to Madhavan Swaminathan, head of Penn State’s electrical engineering department and director of the Center for Heterogeneous Integration of Micro Electronic Systems (CHIMES), a semiconductor research lab. In 2023, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and industry partners awarded CHIMES a five-year $32.7 million grant. But in late 2025, the agency pulled its final year of funding from the center, citing a shift in priorities from microelectronics to photonics, Swaminathan says. As a result, CHIMES’ annual budget, which supports research assistantships for roughly 100 engineering graduate students, the majority pursuing Ph.D.s, will fall from $7 million in 2026 to $3.5 million in 2027. If these constraints persist, Penn State’s engineering department may reduce the number of doctoral students it supports. In a statement, a DARPA spokesperson told IEEE Spectrum: “Basic research is central to identifying world-changing technologies, and DARPA remains committed to engaging academic institutions in our program research. By design, a DARPA program typically lasts about 3 to 5 years. Once we establish proof of concept, we transition the technology for further development and turn our attention to other challenging areas of research.” Penn State’s enrollment numbers reflect Swaminathan’s caution. He says the electrical engineering Ph.D. cohort shrank from 28 students in 2024 to 15 students in 2025. Applications show a similar pattern. After rising from 195 in 2024 to 247 in 2025, Ph.D. applications fell roughly 30 percent to 174 for the upcoming 2026 cohort, a sign that prospective students may be wary of applying to U.S. programs. Immigration restrictions and application declinesIn late January, the Trump administration announced it had paused visa approvals for citizens of 75 countries. Months earlier, the administration proposed new restrictions on student visas, including a four-year cap. For Texas A&M University’s graduate electrical and computer engineering programs, up to 80 percent of applicants each year are international students, according to Narasimha Annapareddy, professor and head of the department. Annapareddy says applications for the fall 2026 Ph.D. cohort have dropped by roughly 50 percent. Annapareddy says the United States is “sending a message that migration is going to be more difficult in the future.” Foreign students often pursue degrees in the U.S. not only for academic training, he says, but to build long-term careers and lives in the country. Fewer applications from international students mean that the university forgoes a “driven and hungry” segment of the applicant pool who are highly qualified in technical fields. “The fear is that at some point, all this government money will be taken away.”— Subramanian Iyer, UC Los AngelesAt the University of Southern California, the decline is more moderate. The freshman Ph.D. class fell from about 90 students in 2024 to roughly 70 in 2025, a reduction of 22 percent, according to Richard Leahy, department chair of USC’s Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. While Leahy says applications are down modestly overall, domestic applications have increased by roughly 15 percent. Beyond immigration restrictions, international students, particularly from countries such as India and China, may be staying in their home countries as their technology sectors expand.“A lot of those students that would normally have come to the U.S. are now taking very good jobs working in the AI industry and other areas,” Leahy says. “There are a lot more opportunities now.”Workforce pipeline strainsSome faculty say shrinking cohorts could erode the tech workforce if the pattern continues.At UC Los Angeles, Iyer describes a doctoral ecosystem built on a chain of mentorship. Among the roughly 25 students in his lab, senior doctoral students mentor junior Ph.D. candidates, who in turn guide master’s students and undergraduates. The system depends on overlapping cohorts. Reducing the number of students hired weakens that overlap and the trickle-down benefits of the mentorship model that keeps labs functioning.The real benefit of the university system isn’t just the teaching but also “the community that you build,” Iyer says. “As you decrease admissions, this will disappear.”At Penn State, Swaminathan points to specialization as key to a strong workforce. Many doctoral students train in semiconductor engineering, feeding expert talent into the domestic chip industry. If enrollment continues to shrink over the next few years, Swaminathan says, companies may need to hire students with bachelor’s or master’s degrees, who might lack the necessary skills required to design and innovate new chips. “Without that specialization, there’s only so much one can do,” Swaminathan says. The industry–academia gap Not all departments are shrinking. At the University of Texas at Austin, overall enrollment has remained relatively steady, according to Diana Marculescu, chair of UT Austin’s Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. While she says recent fluctuations aren’t raising alarms, her concern lies more with alignment between research and industry. Doctoral students often train according to current grant priorities, she says. But by the time graduates enter the job market four to six years later, their specialization may not align neatly with open roles. That creates friction in the talent pipeline.“That lack of connection might be problematic,” Marculescu says. She argues that closer collaboration between universities and the private sector could help create stronger feedback loops between hiring needs and academic research priorities.For now, USC’s Leahy says Ph.D. graduates remain in high demand, and the current shifts have not yet translated into measurable workforce shortages. “We should be concerned about the number of Ph.D.s,” he says. “But there isn’t a crisis at this point.”
V disku kolem mladé hvězdy byly pozorovány dvě vznikající planety ( 25.03.2026 12:28:22 sciencemag.cz)
Astronomové pozorovali vznik dvou planet v disku kolem mladé hvězdy s názvem WISPIT 2. Poté, co již dříve objevili jednu planetu, skupina nyní využila dalekohledy Evropské jižní observatoře (ESO) k potvrzení existence další. Tato pozorování spolu s jedinečnou strukturou disku kolem hvězdy naznačují, že systém WISPIT 2 by mohl připomínat mladou sluneční soustavu. „WISPIT 2 …
Vesmírná mise SOVA-S vstupuje do další fáze ( 25.03.2026 12:22:09 sciencemag.cz)
Česká vědecká mise SOVA-S vstupuje do finálního hodnocení Evropské kosmické agentury. Ve hře je převzetí globálního výzkumu atmosférických gravitačních vln. Mise SOVA-S (Satellite Observation of waVes in the Atmosphere – Scout), vedená společností OHB Czechspace, překonala klíčový milník a úspěšně uzavřela konsolidační fázi. Projekt tak vstupuje do finálního hodnocení v rámci programu Scout Evropské kosmické …
Live Science Today: NASA announces $20 billion moonbase as unprecedented wildfires spread ( 25.03.2026 12:10:54 livescience.com)
Wednesday, March 25, 2026: Your daily roundup of the biggest science stories making headlines.
Evidence Grows That Trump Is Using the War in Iran to Manipulate Markets ( 25.03.2026 12:06:43 futurism.com)
"The story would be baffling, except that there's an obvious explanation."
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Migratory Freshwater Fish Numbers Are Close To Collapse, UN Report Warns ( 25.03.2026 12:00:23 sciencealert.com)
"Among the most imperiled vertebrates."
SDA ( 25.03.2026 12:00:12 kosmonautix.cz)
Agentura pro rozvoj vesmíru zpomaluje tempo vypouštění družic na nízkou oběžnou dráhu Země a ustupuje od dřívějšího plánu častého nasazení těchto družic. Důvodem jsou technické problémy se stávajícími druzicemi, které jsou již na oběžné dráze.
Explore the natural world from the comfort of your own home with this Paramount+ streaming deal ( 25.03.2026 11:27:42 livescience.com)
Attention nature documentary fans! You can save 79% on Paramount+ for two months and watch a ton of great series.
OpenAI Fumbled Its $1 Billion Deal With Disney ( 25.03.2026 11:05:12 futurism.com)
A disastrous screwup.
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Earth's Days Are Getting Longer, And Humans May Be Why ( 25.03.2026 11:00:24 sciencealert.com)
“Attributed primarily to human influences.”
Diagnostic dilemma: A cross tattoo on a man's neck disappeared — killing his skin as it did so ( 25.03.2026 11:00:00 livescience.com)
A man's neck tattoo triggered a reaction so rare that it was only the second recorded case.
Can AI actually solve real math proofs? Researchers put it to the test ( 25.03.2026 10:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
A new challenge reveals how well AI can tackle true math problems
Mars is hiding a secret clutch of gemstone-like crystals, including rubies and possibly sapphires ( 25.03.2026 10:00:00 livescience.com)
Astronomers have detected small, ruby-like crystals embedded in Martian rocks, which may also hide sapphires created in the fury of meteorite impacts.
Broken Nvidia CEO Says He Can’t Stand AI Slop Either ( 25.03.2026 09:59:35 futurism.com)
Riiight.
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As Mass Layoffs Loom, OpenAI Looks to Double Headcount in Desperate Bid to Catch Up With Anthropic ( 25.03.2026 09:05:05 futurism.com)
The company needed human workers after all.
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SES ( 25.03.2026 09:00:23 kosmonautix.cz)
Společnost SES objednala od startupu K2 Space prvních 28 družic pro meoSphere, síť nové generace na střední oběžné dráze Země (MEO), která by měla být uvedena do provozu do roku 2030.
Scientists discover why this deadly lung cancer keeps coming back ( 25.03.2026 07:52:39 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists have discovered that losing a key protein in small cell lung cancer triggers inflammation that actually helps tumors grow and spread. Even more surprising, it pushes cancer cells into a more aggressive, neuron-like state linked to relapse.
24 new deep-sea species found including a rare new branch of life ( 25.03.2026 07:20:21 sciencedaily.com)
In a remarkable deep-sea breakthrough, researchers have discovered 24 new species of amphipods in the Pacific’s Clarion-Clipperton Zone—including a rare, entirely new superfamily. The findings reveal previously unknown branches of life and push the boundaries of how deep these creatures are known to live.
Scientists just discovered bees and hummingbirds are drinking alcohol ( 25.03.2026 07:05:29 sciencedaily.com)
Flower nectar often contains small amounts of alcohol, meaning pollinators like hummingbirds are drinking it all day long. Despite consuming human-equivalent amounts, they show no signs of intoxication—suggesting a surprising evolutionary tolerance.
SpaceEye-T ( 25.03.2026 07:00:17 kosmonautix.cz)
Kanadské a mezinárodní organizace mohou přistupovat ke snímkům a službám poskytování úkolů pro družice SpaceEye-T prostřednictvím společnosti Pacific Geomatics Limited, jednoho z prvních autorizovaných uživatelů družice.
Metformin’s hidden brain pathway revealed after 60 years ( 25.03.2026 06:47:31 sciencedaily.com)
A major discovery reveals that metformin works not just in the body, but in the brain. By switching off a key protein and activating specific neurons, the drug lowers blood sugar through a previously hidden pathway, opening new doors for diabetes treatment.
Může život vzniknout na exoměsíci osamělé planety? ( 25.03.2026 06:26:34 sciencemag.cz)
Volně se pohybující planety bez hvězd mohou být ve skutečnosti docela běžné – tedy relativně. Nedávné odhady uvádějí množství tuláckých planet v řádu odpovídajícím počtu hvězd (alespoň pro naši Galaxii). Některé z těchto planet jsou navíc nepochybně doprovázeny měsíci – a některé z těchto měsíců mohou mít dokonce velikost Země. Nová studie Davida Dahlbüddinga z …
Astronomers solve 50-year mystery of a naked-eye star’s extreme X-rays ( 25.03.2026 04:51:37 sciencedaily.com)
A star you can see with the naked eye has kept astronomers guessing for decades with its unusually powerful X-rays. Now, thanks to highly precise observations from Japan’s XRISM space telescope, scientists have finally uncovered the source: a hidden white dwarf companion pulling in material and generating extreme heat. This discovery not only solves a 50-year-old mystery surrounding Gamma Cassiopeiae, but also confirms the existence of a long-predicted type of binary star system.
Project Hail Mary meets reality: 45 planets could harbor alien life ( 25.03.2026 03:56:19 sciencedaily.com)
Astronomers have narrowed down the cosmic search for life, identifying fewer than 50 rocky planets among thousands of known exoplanets that may have the right conditions to support life. Using new data from ESA’s Gaia mission and NASA archives, researchers pinpointed worlds in the “habitable zone,” where temperatures could allow liquid water to exist. Some of the most intriguing targets include nearby systems like TRAPPIST-1 and Proxima Centauri, offering tantalizing possibilities just dozens of light-years away.
This Unique Diet Could Slow Your Brain Aging by Over 2 Years, Study Suggests ( 25.03.2026 03:27:04 sciencealert.com)
Food for thought.
World's First Antimatter Delivery by Truck Signals a 'New Era' in Physics ( 25.03.2026 01:35:32 sciencealert.com)
Woah!
Most Americans don’t know this food raises colon cancer risk ( 25.03.2026 00:38:30 sciencedaily.com)
Nearly half of Americans don’t know that processed meat increases colorectal cancer risk, according to a new poll. But once they learn the connection, most support warning labels—suggesting people want clearer information. Experts warn that awareness is lagging even among healthcare providers. The good news: diets rich in plant foods and fiber, along with healthy habits, can dramatically lower risk.
Why your brain may be sabotaging your balance as you age ( 25.03.2026 00:29:12 sciencedaily.com)
Balance problems in aging and Parkinson’s may come from the body working too hard, not too little. Scientists found that the brain and muscles become overactive during even minor disturbances, yet this actually weakens balance recovery. At the same time, muscles can stiffen against each other, making movement less stable. This unexpected pattern could help predict who is more likely to fall.
First ever atomic movie reveals hidden driver of radiation damage ( 24.03.2026 23:53:24 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers have visualized atoms in motion just before a radiation-driven decay process occurs, revealing a surprisingly dynamic scene. Instead of remaining fixed, the atoms roam and rearrange, directly influencing how and when the decay unfolds. This “atomic movie” shows that structure and motion play a central role in radiation damage mechanisms. The findings could improve our understanding of how harmful radiation affects biological matter.
Honey bees dance better with an audience ( 24.03.2026 23:25:25 sciencedaily.com)
Honey bees don’t just perform their famous waggle dance to share directions, they actually adjust how well they dance depending on who’s watching. Researchers found that when fewer bees pay attention, the dancer becomes less precise as it moves around trying to attract an audience. This means the dance is not simply a fixed message about food location, but a flexible performance shaped by social feedback.
Fathers face rising depression risk a year after baby arrives ( 24.03.2026 23:10:24 sciencedaily.com)
New fathers appear to have fewer mental health diagnoses during pregnancy and the early months after birth. But that early stability does not last. About a year later, depression and stress-related disorders increase significantly, surprising researchers. The findings suggest that the emotional toll of fatherhood builds over time rather than hitting immediately.
Indický navigační systém NavIC má velké problémy ( 24.03.2026 23:10:17 kosmonautix.cz)
Provoz a údržba satelitních konstelací patří mezi nejnáročnější technologické úkoly současné kosmonautiky. Systém musí být stabilní a zároveň odolný. K technickým poruchám dochází a docházet bude, ať už z důvodu zestárnutí nebo vinou unaveného materiálu apod. Operátoři a provozovatelé s tímto musí vždy počítat a mít v takovém případě vždy připraven plán B. Někdy však i záložní možnost selže a pak je problém na světě. A své by o tom mohla vyprávět Indická kosmická agentura ISRO.
This tiny implant, smaller than a grain of salt, can read your brain ( 24.03.2026 22:23:36 sciencedaily.com)
A new neural implant is so small it can rest on a grain of salt, yet it can track and wirelessly transmit brain activity for over a year. It’s powered by laser light that safely passes through tissue and communicates using tiny infrared signals. This ultra-miniature device could transform how scientists study the brain without invasive wiring.
Scientists just solved a major mystery about how your brain stores memories ( 24.03.2026 21:13:47 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists have found that your brain separates memories into “what” and “where/when” using two different groups of neurons. One set responds to specific objects or people, while another tracks the context or situation. When you remember something correctly, these groups briefly connect and reconstruct the full memory. This system may be the secret behind how we recognize the same things across totally different experiences.
Drought could fuel the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs as climate change worsens, new research suggests ( 24.03.2026 21:02:54 livescience.com)
A warming world may see more antibiotic-resistant bacteria, according to new research that shows a link between aridity and antibiotic resistance today.
Hubble Snaps a New Dazzling Photo of the Crab Nebula ( 24.03.2026 21:00:00 nautil.us)
It was formed by an explosion witnessed around the world almost a millennium ago
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Massive Iron Age hoards discovered in England may be from funeral of powerful Celtic queen ( 24.03.2026 20:03:34 livescience.com)
Two lavish Iron Age hoards unearthed in England may have been burned in honor of a queen's royal ancestor, a new study finds
NASA unveils ambitious new moon base plans ( 24.03.2026 20:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
NASA chief Jared Isaacman announced a $30-billion plan to speed up its lunar landings and establish a U.S. moon base by 2036
How ‘Tiny Shortcuts’ Are Poisoning Science ( 24.03.2026 20:00:00 nautil.us)
Seemingly harmless data tweaks are undermining the integrity of the entire field. We must define the problem to prevent it
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Here’s Why Mosquitoes Won’t Leave You Alone ( 24.03.2026 19:00:03 nautil.us)
You may be sending the wrong signals
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Why Vivid Dreams Make for Better Sleep ( 24.03.2026 18:00:00 nautil.us)
An active dream life is key to good sleep
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Mathematicians can’t agree on whether 0.999... equals 1 ( 24.03.2026 18:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
Whether 0.999... equals 1 is the subject of bitter dispute in countless online forums
Cannonball-size meteorite crashes through roof of Texas home as multiple 'fireballs' rain down on the US ( 24.03.2026 17:09:44 livescience.com)
A suspected space rock, around the size of a cantaloupe, was found in the bedroom of a Houston home after crashing through the building's roof. It is likely a fragment of one of several "fireball" meteors that exploded over the U.S. in the past week.
OpenAI Is Reportedly Killing Its Disastrous Video AI Slop App ( 24.03.2026 17:02:17 futurism.com)
OpenAI is turning off the video slop tap.
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Iran war has already released a staggering amount of CO2 — and the destruction of schools, homes and buildings is the biggest source ( 24.03.2026 16:12:36 livescience.com)
In a new analysis, researchers estimated direct, indirect and future greenhouse gas emissions that were created in the first two weeks of the Iran war, between Feb. 28 and March 14.
There’s a $10 Billion Problem With Elon Musk’s New Chip Factory ( 24.03.2026 16:06:41 futurism.com)
"We either build the Terafab or we don't have the chips, and we need the chips, so we build the Terafab."
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Pinot noir’s popularity has medieval roots ( 24.03.2026 16:05:00 scientificamerican.com)
An analysis of ancient grape seed DNA reveals the earliest known instance of humans in France purposefully cloning plants—including for pinot noir grapes
The Internet Has Not Killed Reading—or Attention Spans ( 24.03.2026 16:01:10 nautil.us)
An interview with Kevin Ashton, MIT technology pioneer and author of The Story of Stories
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Data Centers Are Transitioning From AC to DC ( 24.03.2026 16:00:05 spectrum.ieee.org)
Last week’s Nvidia GTC conference highlighted new chip architectures to power AI. But as the chips become faster and more powerful, the remainder of data center infrastructure is playing catch-up. The power-delivery community is responding: Announcements from Delta, Eaton, and Vertiv showcased new designs for the AI era. Complex and inefficient AC-to-DC power conversions are gradually being replaced by DC configurations, at least in hyperscale data centers.“While AC distribution remains deeply entrenched, advances in power electronics and the rising demands of AI infrastructure are accelerating interest in DC architectures,” says Chris Thompson, vice president of advanced technology and global microgrids at Vertiv.AC-to-DC Conversion ChallengesToday, nearly all data centers are designed around AC utility power. The electrical path includes multiple conversions before power reaches the compute load. Power typically enters the data center as medium-voltage AC (1 to 35 kilovolts), is stepped down to low-voltage AC (480 or 415 volts) using a transformer, converted to DC inside an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) for battery storage, converted back to AC, and converted again to low-voltage DC (typically 54 V DC) at the server, supplying the DC power computing chips actually require.“The double conversion process ensures the output AC is clean, stable, and suitable for data center servers,” says Luiz Fernando Huet de Bacellar, vice president of engineering and technology at Eaton.That setup worked well enough for the amounts of power required by traditional data centers. Traditional data center computational racks draw on the order of 10 kW each. For AI, that is starting to approach 1 megawatt. At that scale, the energy losses, current levels, and copper requirements of AC-to-DC conversions become increasingly difficult to justify. Every conversion incurs some power loss. On top of that, as the amount of power that needs to be delivered grows, the sheer size of the convertors, as well as the connector requirements of copper busbars, becomes untenable. According to an Nvidia blog, a 1-MW rack could require as much as 200 kilograms of copper busbar. For a 1-gigawatt data center, it could amount to 200,000 kg of copper. Benefits of High-Voltage DC PowerBy converting 13.8-kV AC grid power directly to 800 V DC at the data center perimeter, most intermediate conversion steps are eliminated. This reduces the number of fans and power-supply units, and leads to higher system reliability, lower heat dissipation, improved energy efficiency, and a smaller equipment footprint.“Each power conversion between the electric grid or power source and the silicon chips inside the servers causes some energy loss,” says Fernando.Switching from 415-V AC to 800-V DC in electrical distribution enables 85 percent more power to be transmitted through the same conductor size. This happens because higher voltage reduces current demand, lowering resistive losses and making power transfer more efficient. Thinner conductors can handle the same load, reducing copper requirements by 45 percent, a 5 percent improvement in efficiency, and 30 percent lower total cost of ownership for gigawatt-scale facilities.“In a high-voltage DC architecture, power from the grid is converted from medium-voltage AC to roughly 800-V DC and then distributed throughout the facility on a DC bus,” said Vertiv’s Thompson. “At the rack, compact DC-to-DC converters step that voltage down for GPUs and CPUs.”A report from technology advisory group Omdia claims that higher voltage DC data centers have already appeared in China. In the Americas, the Mt. Diablo Initiative (a collaboration among Meta, Microsoft, and the Open Compute Project) is a 400-V DC rack power distribution experiment.Innovations in DC Power SystemsA handful of vendors are trying to get ahead of the game. Vertiv’s 800-V DC ecosystem that integrates with Nvidia Vera Rubin Ultra Kyber platforms will be commercially available in the second half of 2026. Eaton, too, is well advanced in its 800-V DC systems innovation courtesy of a medium-voltage solid-state transformer (SST) that will sit at the heart of DC power distribution system. Meanwhile Delta, has released 800-V DC in-row 660-kW power racks with a total of 480 kW of embedded battery backup units. And, SolarEdge is hard at work on a 99%-efficient SST that will be paired with a native DC UPS and a DC power distribution layer.But much of the industry is far behind. Patrick Hughes, senior vice president of strategy, technical, and industry affairs for the National Electrical Manufacturers Association, says most innovation is happening at the 400-V DC level, though some are preparing 800-V DC. He believes the industry needs a complete, coordinated ecosystem, including power electronics, protection, connectors, sensing, and service‑safe components that scale together rather than in isolation. That, in turn, requires retooling manufacturing capacity for DC‑specific equipment, expanding semiconductor and materials supply, and clear, long‑term demand commitments that justify major capital investment across the value chain.“Many are taking a cautious approach, offering limited or adapted solutions while waiting for clearer standards, safety frameworks, and customer commitments,” said Hughes. “Building the supply chain will hinge on stabilizing standards and safety frameworks so suppliers can design, certify, manufacture, and install equipment with confidence.”
An anomaly in Mars' mantle could trigger volcanoes to erupt — and may be causing the whole planet to spin faster ( 24.03.2026 15:58:56 livescience.com)
Data from NASA's InSight mission suggests the Red Planet's Tharsis region is more active than previously thought and may be why Mars is spinning more quickly over time.
NASA pushes space industry to use the ISS as a test ground for future stations ( 24.03.2026 15:45:00 scientificamerican.com)
Faced with the imminent retirement of the International Space Station, NASA is pushing to speed up work on its potential replacements
AI compressed billions of years of evolution into seconds to create 'Lego-like robots' that can recover even when they lose limbs ( 24.03.2026 15:30:00 livescience.com)
Modular robots are easily expandable, know when they're upside down or stuck, and can march forward across all kinds of terrain.
NASA Announces Gigantic Armada of Moon Launches to “Build President Trump’s Moon Base,” Starting Next Year ( 24.03.2026 15:01:00 futurism.com)
It's trying to achieve the "near‑impossible."
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What Will It Take to Build the World’s Largest Data Center? ( 24.03.2026 15:00:05 spectrum.ieee.org)
The undying thirst for smarter (historically, that means larger) AI models and greater adoption of the ones we already have has led to an explosion in data-center construction projects, unparalleled both in number and scale. Chief among them is Meta’s planned 5-gigawatt data center in Louisiana, called Hyperion, announced in June of 2025. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Hyperion will “cover a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan,” and the first phase—a 2-GW version—will be completed by 2030.Though the project’s stated 5-GW scale is the largest among its peers, it’s just one of several dozen similar projects now underway. According to Michael Guckes, chief economist at construction-software company ConstructConnect, spending on data centers topped US $27 billion by July of 2025 and, once the full-year figures are tallied, will easily exceed $60 billion. Hyperion alone accounts for about a quarter of that.For the engineers assigned to bring these projects to life, the mix of challenges involved represent a unique moment. The world’s largest tech companies are opening their wallets to pay for new innovations in compute, cooling, and network technology designed to operate at a scale that would’ve seemed absurd five years ago.At the same time, the breakneck pace of building comes paired with serious problems. Modern data-center construction frequently requires an influx of temporary workers and sharply increases noise, traffic, pollution, and often local electricity prices. And the environmental toll remains a concern long after facilities are built due to the unprecedented 24/7 energy demands of AI data centers which, according to one recent study, could emit the equivalent of tens of millions of tonnes of CO2 annually in the United States alone.Regardless of these issues, large AI companies, and the engineers they hire, are going full steam ahead on giant data-center construction. So, what does it really take to build an unprecedentedly large data center?AI Rewrites Building DesignThe stereotypical data-center building rests on a reinforced concrete slab foundation. That’s paired with a steel skeleton and poured concrete wall panels. The finished building is called a “shell,” a term that implies the structure itself is a secondary concern. Meta has even used gigantic tents to throw up temporary data centers.Still, the scale of the largest AI data centers brings unique challenges. “The biggest challenge is often what’s under the surface. Unstable, corrosive, or expansive soils can lead to delays and require serious intervention,” says Robert Haley, vice president at construction consulting firm Jacobs. Amanda Carter, a senior technical lead at Stantec, said a soil’s thermal conductivity is also important, as most electrical infrastructure is placed underground. “If the soil has high thermal resistivity, it’s going to be difficult to dissipate [heat].” Engineers may take hundreds or thousands of soil samples before construction can begin.GPUsModern AI data centers often use rack-scale systems, such as the Nvidia GB200 NVL72, which occupy a single data-center rack. Each rack contains 72 GPUs, 36 CPUs, and up to 13.4 terabytes of GPU memory. The racks measure over 2.2 meters tall and weigh over one and a half tonnes, forcing AI data centers to use thicker concrete with more reinforcement to bear the load.A single GB200 rack can use up to 120 kilowatts. If Hyperion meets its 5-gigawatt goals, the data-center campus could include over 41,000 rack-scale systems, for a total of more than 3 million GPUs. The final number of GPUs used by Hyperion is likely to be less than that, though only because future GPUs will be larger, more capable, and use more power.MoneyAccording to ConstructConnect, spending on data centers neared US $27 billion through July of 2025 and, according to the latest data, will tally close to $60 billion through the end of the year. Meta’s Hyperion project is a big slice of the pie, at $10 billion.Data-center spending has become an important prop for the construction industry, which is seeing reduced demand in other areas, such as residential construction and public infrastructure. ConstructConnect’s third quarter 2025 financial report stated that the quarter’s decline “would have been far more severe without an $11 billion surge in data center starts.”There’s apparently no shortage of eligible sites, however, as both the number of data centers under construction, and the money spent on them, has skyrocketed. The spending has allowed companies building data centers to throw out the rule book. Prior to the AI boom, most data centers relied on tried-and-true designs that prioritized inexpensive and efficient construction. Big tech’s willingness to spend has shifted the focus to speed and scale.The loose purse strings open the door to larger and more robust prefabricated concrete wall and floor panels. Doug Bevier, director of development at Clark Pacific, says some concrete floor panels may now span up to 23 meters and need to handle floor loads up to 3,000 kilograms per square meter, which is more than twice the load international building codes normally define for manufacturing and industry. In some cases, the concrete panels must be custom-made for a project, an expensive step that the economics of pre-AI data centers rarely justified.Simultaneously, the time scale for projects is also compressed: Jamie McGrath, senior vice president of data-center operations at Crusoe, says the company is delivering projects in “about 12 months,” compared to 30 to 36 months before. Not all projects are proceeding at that pace, but speed is universally a priority.That makes it difficult to coordinate the labor and materials required. Meta’s Hyperion site, located in rural Richland Parish, Louisiana, is emblematic of this challenge. As reported by NOLA.com, at least 5,000 temporary workers have flocked to the area, which has only about 20,000 permanent residents. These workers earn above-average wages and bring a short-term boost for some local businesses, such as restaurants and convenience stores. However, they have also spurred complaints from residents about traffic and construction noise and pollution.This friction with residents includes not only these obvious impacts, but also things you might not immediately suspect, such as light pollution caused by around-the-clock schedules. Also significant are changes to local water tables and runoff, which can reduce water quality for neighbors who rely on well water. These issues have motivated a few U.S. cities to enact data-center bans.Data Centers Often Go BYOP (bring your own power)Meta’s Richland Parish site also highlights a problem that’s priority No. 1 for both AI data centers and their critics: power.Data centers have always drawn large amounts of power, which nudged data-center construction to cluster in hubs where local utilities were responsive to their demands. Virginia’s electric utility, Dominion Energy, met demand with agreements to build new infrastructure, often with a focus on renewable energy.The power demands of the largest AI data centers, though, have caught even the most responsive utilities off guard. A report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in California, estimated the entire U.S. data-center industry consumed an average load of roughly 8 GW of power in 2014. Today, the largest AI data-center campuses are built to handle up to a gigawatt each, and Meta’s Hyperion is projected to require 5 GW.“Data centers are exasperating issues for a lot of utilities,” says Abbe Ramanan, project director at the Clean Energy Group, a Vermont-based nonprofit.Ramanan explains that utilities often use “peaker plants” to cope with extra demand. They’re usually older, less efficient fossil-fuel plants which, because of their high cost to operate and carbon output, were due for retirement. But Ramanan says increased electricity demand has kept them in service.Meta secured power for Hyperion by negotiating with Entergy, Louisiana’s electric utility, for construction of three new gas-turbine power plants. Two will be located near the Richland Parish site, while a third will be located in southeast Louisiana.Entergy frames the new plants as a win for the state. “A core pillar of Entergy and Meta’s agreement is that Meta pays for the full cost of the utility infrastructure,” says Daniel Kline, director of power-delivery planning and policy at Entergy. The utility expects that “customer bills will be lower than they otherwise would have been.” That would prove an exception, as a recent report from Bloomberg found electricity rates in regions with data centers are more likely to increase than in regions without.CO2Research published in Nature in 2025 projects that data-center emissions will range from 24 million to 44 million CO2-equivalent metric tonnes annually through 2030 in the United States alone. While some materials used in data centers, such as concrete, lead to significant emissions, the majority of these emissions will result from the high energy demands of AI servers.Estimating the carbon emissions of Hyperion is difficult, as the project won’t be completed until 2030. Assuming that the three new natural gas plants that are planned for construction as part of the project produce emissions typical for their type, however, the plants could lead to full life-cycle emissions of between 4 million and 10 million metric tons of CO2 annually—roughly equivalent to the annual emissions of a country like Latvia.ConcreteData centers are typically built from concrete, with steel used as a skeleton to reinforce and shape the concrete shell. While the foundation is often poured concrete, the walls and floors are most often built from prefabricated concrete panels that can span up to 23 meters. Floors use a reinforced T-shape, similar to a steel girder, measuring up to 1.2 meters across at its thickest point. The largest data centers include hundreds of these concrete panels.The America Cement Association projects that the current surge in building will require 1 million tonnes of cement over the next three years, though that’s still a tiny fraction of the overall cement industry, which weighed in at roughly 103 million tonnes in 2024.The plants, which will generate a combined 2.26 GW, will use combined-cycle gas turbines that recapture waste heat from exhaust. This boosts thermal efficiency to 60 percent and beyond, meaning more fuel is converted to useful energy. Simple-cycle turbines, by contrast, vent the exhaust, which lowers efficiency to around 40 percent.Even so, total life-cycle emissions for the Hyperion plants could range from 4 million to over 10 million tonnes of CO2 each year, depending on how frequently the plants are put in use and the final efficiency benchmarks once built. On the high end, that’s as much CO2 as produced by over 2 million passenger cars. Fortunately, not all of Meta’s data centers take the same approach to power. The company has announced a plan to power Prometheus, a large data-center project in Ohio scheduled to come online before the end of 2026, with nuclear energy.But other big tech companies, spurred by the need to build data centers quickly, are taking a less efficient approach.xAI’s Colossus 2, located in Memphis, is the most extreme example. The company trucked dozens of temporary gas-turbine generators to power the site located in a suburban neighborhood. OpenAI, meanwhile, has gas turbines capable of generating up to 300 megawatts at its new Stargate data center in Abilene, Texas, slated to open later in 2026. Both use simple-cycle turbines with a much lower efficiency rating than the combined-cycle plants Entergy will build to power Hyperion.Demand for gas turbines is so intense, in fact, that wait times for new turbines are up to seven years. Some data centers are turning toward refurbished jet engines to obtain the turbines they need.AI Racks Tip the ScalesThe demand for new, reliable power is driven by the power-hungry GPUs inside modern AI data centers.In January of 2025, Mark Zuckerberg announced in a post on Facebook that Meta planned to end 2025 with at least 1.3 million GPUs in service. OpenAI’s Stargate data center plans to use over 450,000 Nvidia GB200 GPUs, and xAI’s Colossus 2, an expansion of Colossus, is built to accommodate over 550,000 GPUs.GPUs, which remain by far the most popular for AI workloads, are bundled into human-scale monoliths of steel and silicon which, much like the data centers built to house them, are rapidly growing in weight, complexity, and power consumption.MemoryIn addition to raw compute performance, Nvidia GB200 NVL72 racks also require huge amounts of memory. An Nvidia GB200 NVL72 rack may include up to 13.4 terabytes of high-bandwidth memory, which implies a data-center campus at Hyperion’s scale will require at least several dozen petabytes.The immense demand has sent memory prices soaring: The price of DRAM, specifically DDR5, has increased 172 percent in 2025.PowerHyperion is expected to use 5 gigawatts of power across 11 buildings, which works out to just under 500 megawatts per building, assuming each will be similar to its siblings. That’s enough to power roughly 4.2 million U.S. homes.Just one Hyperion data center built at the Richland Parish site will consume twice as much power as xAI’s Colossus which, at the time of its completion in the summer of 2024, was among the largest data centers yet built.Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72—a rack-scale system—is currently a leading choice for AI data centers. A single GB200 rack contains 72 GPUs, 36 CPUs, and up to 17 terabytes of memory. It measures 2.2 meters tall, tips the scales at up to 1,553 kilograms, and consumes about 120 kilowatts—as much as around 100 U.S. homes. And this, according to Nvidia, is just the beginning. The company anticipates future racks could consume up to a megawatt each.Viktor Petik, senior vice president of infrastructure solutions at Vertiv, says the rapid change in rack-scale AI systems has forced data centers to adapt. “AI racks consume far more power and weigh more than their predecessors,” says Petik. He adds that data centers must supply racks with multiple power feeds, without taking up extra space.The new power demands from rack-scale systems have consequences that are reflected in the design of the data center—even its footprint.In 2022 Meta broke ground on a new data center at a campus in Temple, Texas. According to SemiAnalysis, which studies AI data centers, construction began with the intent to build the data center in an H-shaped configuration common to other Meta data centers.LANDMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the buzz around Hyperion by saying it would cover a large chunk of Manhattan. Many took that to mean Hyperion would be a single building of that size, which isn’t correct. Hyperion will actually be a cluster of data centers—11 are currently planned—with over 370,000 square meters of floor space. That’s a lot smaller even than New York City’s Central Park, which covers 6 percent of Manhattan.Meta has room to grow, however. The Richland Parish site spans 14.7 million square meters in total, which is about a quarter the area of Manhattan. And the 370,000 square meters of floor space Hyperion is expected to provide doesn’t include external infrastructure, such as the three new combined-cycle gas power plants Louisiana utility Entergy is building to power the project.Construction was paused midway in December of 2022, however, as part of a company-wide review of its data-center infrastructure. Meta decided to knock down the structure it had built and start from scratch. The reasons for this decision were never made public, but analysts believe it was due to the old design’s inability to deliver sufficient electricity to new, power-hungry AI racks. Construction resumed in 2023.Meta’s replacement ditches the H-shaped building for simple, long, rectangular structures, each flanked by rows of gas-turbine generators. While Meta’s plans are subject to change, Hyperion is currently expected to comprise 11 rectangular data centers, each packed with hundreds of thousands of GPUs, spread across the 13.6-square-kilometer Richland Parish campus.Cooling, and Connecting, at ScaleNvidia’s ultradense AI GPU racks are changing data centers not only with their weight, and power draw, but also with their intense cooling and bandwidth requirements.Data centers traditionally use air cooling, but that approach has reached its limits. “Air as a cooling medium is inherently inferior,” says Poh Seng Lee, head of CoolestLAB, a cooling research group at the National University of Singapore.Instead, going forward, GPUs will rely on liquid cooling. However, that adds a new layer of complexity. “It’s all the way to the facilities level,” says Lee. “You need pumps, which we call a coolant distribution unit. The CDU will be connected to racks using an elaborate piping network. And it needs to be designed for redundancy.” On the rack, pipes connect to cold plates mounted atop every GPU; outside the data-center shell, pipes route through evaporation cooling units. Lee says retrofitting an air-cooled data center is possible but expensive.The networking used by AI data centers is also changing to cope with new requirements. Traditional data centers were positioned near network hubs for easy access to the global internet. AI data centers, though, are more concerned with networks of GPUs.These connections must sustain high bandwidth with impeccable reliability. Mark Bieberich, a vice president at network infrastructure company Ciena, says its latest fiber-optic transceiver technology, WaveLogic 6, can provide up to 1.6 terabytes per second of bandwidth per wavelength. A single fiber can support 48 wavelengths in total, and Ciena’s largest customers have hundreds of fiber pairs, placing total bandwidth in the thousands of terabits per second.This is a point where the scale of Meta’s Hyperion, and other large AI data centers, can be deceptive. It seems to imply the physical size of a single data center is what matters. But rather than being a single building, Hyperion is actually a set of buildings connected by high-speed fiber-optics.“Interconnecting data centers is absolutely essential,” says Bieberich. “You could think about it as one logical AI training facility, but with geographically distributed facilities.” Nvidia has taken to calling this “scale across,” to contrast it with the idea that data centers must “scale up” to larger singular buildings.The Big but Hazy FutureThe full scale of the challenges that face Hyperion, and other future AI data centers of similar scale, remain hazy. Nvidia has yet to introduce the rack-scale AI GPU systems it will host. How much power will it demand? What type of cooling will it require? How much bandwidth must be provided? These can only be estimated.In the absence of details, the gravity of AI data-center design is pulled toward one certainty: It must be big. New data-center designers are rewriting their rule book to handle power, cooling, and network infrastructure at a scale that would’ve seemed ridiculous five years ago.This innovation is fueled by big tech’s fat wallet, which shelled out tens of billions of dollars in 2025 alone, leading to questions about whether the spending is sustainable. For the engineers in the trenches of data-center design, though, it’s viewed as an opportunity to make the impossible possible. “I tell my engineers, this is peak. We’re being engineers. We’re being asked complicated questions,” says Stantec’s Carter. “We haven’t got to do that in a long time.” This article appears in the April 2026 print issue.
Colorado River negotiations have stalled among 7 states and water is scarce. What happens next? ( 24.03.2026 14:48:39 livescience.com)
Two researchers explore how water rights for the Colorado river get negotiated and why these negotiations have stalled.
Trump Administration Would Rather Pay a Billion Dollars Than Build a Single Wind Farm ( 24.03.2026 14:05:47 futurism.com)
Unexpected payoff.
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Březnová Kosmoschůzka 2026 ( 24.03.2026 14:00:14 kosmonautix.cz)
Blíží se poslední středa v měsíci. Ta březnová vychází na 25. 03. 2026. Tentokrát opět do Ústavu letadlové techniky, ČVUT FS, Karlovo náměstí 13 (viz mapa níže) jsou zváni všichni příznivci kosmonautiky a příbuzných oborů. Kosmoschůzka nabídne dva atraktivní přednášející: Jiří Myška porovná dvě největší soukromé rakety dneška a dále se Tomáš Petrásek zaměří na nejrůznější povrchy planet. Neváhejte a přijďte […]
NASA announces nuclear-powered Mars mission by 2028 ( 24.03.2026 14:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
The U.S. space agency will aim to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars—a first—in a bid to show that nuclear propulsion can be used to send missions into deep space
New York Times Accused of Running AI-Generated Article ( 24.03.2026 13:03:30 futurism.com)
The AI paranoia is real.
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The Coming Drone-War Inflection in Ukraine ( 24.03.2026 13:00:05 spectrum.ieee.org)
WHEN KYIV-BORN ENGINEER Yaroslav Azhnyuk thinks about the future, his mind conjures up dystopian images. He talks about “swarms of autonomous drones carrying other autonomous drones to protect them against autonomous drones, which are trying to intercept them, controlled by AI agents overseen by a human general somewhere.” He also imagines flotillas of autonomous submarines, each carrying hundreds of drones, suddenly emerging off the coast of California or Great Britain and discharging their cargoes en masse to the sky.“How do you protect from that?” he asks as we speak in late December 2025; me at my quiet home office in London, he in Kyiv, which is bracing for another wave of missile attacks.Azhnyuk is not an alarmist. He cofounded and was formerly CEO of Petcube, a California-based company that uses smart cameras and an app to let pet owners keep an eye on their beloved creatures left alone at home. A self-described “liberal guy who didn’t even receive military training,” Azhnyuk changed his mind about developing military tech in the months following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. By 2023, he had relinquished his CEO role at Petcube to do what many Ukrainian technologists have done—to help defend his country against a mightier aggressor.It took a while for him to figure out what, exactly, he should be doing. He didn’t join the military, but through friends on the front line, he witnessed how, out of desperation, Ukrainian troops turned to off-the-shelf consumer drones to make up for their country’s lack of artillery.Ukrainian troops first began using drones for battlefield surveillance, but within a few months they figured out how to strap explosives onto them and turn them into effective, low-cost killing machines. Little did they know they were fomenting a revolution in warfare. The Ukrainian robotics company The Fourth Law produces an autonomy module [above] that uses optics and AI to guide a drone to its target. Yaroslav Azhnyuk [top, in light shirt], founder and CEO of The Fourth Law, describes a developmental drone with autonomous capabilities to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.Top: THE PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE OF UKRAINE; Bottom: THE FOURTH LAWThat revolution was on display last month, as the U.S. and Israel went to war with Iran. It soon became clear that attack drones are being extensively used by both sides. Iran, for example, is relying heavily on the Shahed drones that the country invented and that are now also being manufactured in Russia and launched by the thousands every month against Ukraine.A thorough analysis of the Middle East conflict will take some time to emerge. And so to understand the direction of this new way of war, look to Ukraine, where its next phase—autonomy—is already starting to come into view. Outnumbered by the Russians and facing increasingly sophisticated jamming and spoofing aimed at causing the drones to veer off course or fall out of the sky, Ukrainian technologists realized as early as 2023 that what could really win the war was autonomy. Autonomous operation means a drone isn’t being flown by a remote pilot, and therefore there’s no communications link to that pilot that can be severed or spoofed, rendering the drone useless.By late 2023, Azhnyuk set out to help make that vision a reality. He founded two companies, The Fourth Law and Odd Systems, the first to develop AI algorithms to help drones overcome jamming during final approach, the second to build thermal cameras to help those drones better sense their surroundings.“I moved from making devices that throw treats to dogs to making devices that throw explosives on Russian occupants,” Azhnyuk quips.Since then, The Fourth Law has dispatched “more than thousands” of autonomy modules to troops in eastern Ukraine (it declines to give a more specific figure), which can be retrofitted on existing drones to take over navigation during the final approach to the target. Azhnyuk says the autonomy modules, worth around US $50, increase the drone-strike success rate by up to four times that of purely operator-controlled drones.And that is just the beginning. Azhnyuk is one of thousands of developers, including some who relocated from Western countries, who are applying their skills and other resources to advancing the drone technology that is the defining characteristic of the war in Ukraine. This eclectic group of startups and founders includes Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO, whose company Swift Beat is churning out autonomous drones and modules for Ukrainian forces. The frenetic pace of tech development is helping a scrappy, innovative underdog hold at bay a much larger and better-equipped foe.All of this development is careening toward AI-based systems that enable drones to navigate by recognizing features in the terrain, lock on to and chase targets without an operator’s guidance, and eventually exchange information with each other through mesh networks, forming self-organizing robotic kamikaze swarms. Such an attack swarm would be commanded by a single operator from a safe distance.According to some reports, autonomous swarming technology is also being developed for sea drones. Ukraine has had some notable successes with sea drones, which have reportedly destroyed or damaged around a dozen Russian vessels. The Skynode X system, from Auterion, provides a degree of autonomy to a drone.AUTERIONFor Ukraine, swarming can solve a major problem that puts the nation at a disadvantage against Russia—the lack of personnel. Autonomy is “the single most impactful defense technology of this century,” says Azhnyuk. “The moment this happens, you shift from a manpower challenge to a production challenge, which is much more manageable,” he adds.The autonomous warfare future envisioned by Azhnyuk and others is not yet a reality. But Marc Lange, a German defense analyst and business strategist, believes that “an inflection point” is already in view. Beyond it, “things will be so dramatically different,” he says.“Ukraine pretty rapidly realized that if the operator-to-drone ratio can be shifted from one-to-one to one-to-many, that creates great economies of scale and an amazing cost exchange ratio,” Lange adds. “The moment one operator can launch 100, 50, or even just 20 drones at once, this completely changes the economics of the war.”Drones With a View For a while, jammers that sever the radio links between drones and operators or that spoof GPS receivers were able to provide fairly reliable defense against human-controlled first-person-view attack drones (FPVs). But as autonomous navigation progressed, those electronic shields have gradually become less effective. Defenders must now contend with unjammable drones—ones that are attached to hair-thin optical fibers or that are capable of finding their way to their targets without external guidance. In this emerging struggle, the defenders’ track records aren’t very encouraging: The typical countermeasure is to try to shoot down the attacking drone with a service weapon. It’s rarely successful. A truck outfitted with signal-jamming gear drives under antidrone nets near Oleksandriya, in eastern Ukraine, on 2 October 2025.ED JONES/AFP/GETTY IMAGES“The attackers gain an immense advantage from unmanned systems,” says Lange. “You can have a drone pop up from anywhere and it can wreak havoc. But from autonomy, they gain even more.”The self-navigating drones rely on image-recognition algorithms that have been around for over a decade, says Lange. And the mass deployments of drones on Ukrainian battlefields are enabling both Russian and Ukrainian technologists to create huge datasets that improve the training and precision of those AI algorithms. A Ukrainian land robot, the Ravlyk, can be outfitted with a machine gun.While uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) have received the most attention, the Ukrainian military is also deploying dozens of different kinds of drones on land and sea. Ukraine, struggling with the shortage of infantry personnel, began working on replacing a portion of human soldiers with wheeled ground robots in 2024. As of early 2026, thousands of ground robots are crawling across the gray zone along the front line in Eastern Ukraine. Most are used to deliver supplies to the front line or to help evacuate the wounded, but some “killer” ground robots fitted with turrets and remotely controlled machine guns have also been tested.In mid-February, Ukrainian authorities released a video of a Ukrainian ground robot using its thermal camera to detect a Russian soldier in the dark of the night and then kill the invader with a round from a heavy machine gun. So far these robots are mostly controlled by a human operator, but the makers of these uncrewed ground vehicles say their systems are capable of basic autonomous operations, such as returning to base when radio connection is lost. The goal is to enable them to swarm so that one operator controls not one, but a whole herd of mesh-connected killer robots.But Bryan Clark, senior fellow and director of the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at the Hudson Institute, questions how quickly ground robots’ abilities can progress. “Ground environments are very difficult to navigate in because of the terrain you have to address,” he says. “The line of sight for the sensors on the ground vehicles is really constrained because of terrain, whereas an air vehicle can see everything around it.”To achieve autonomy, maritime drones, too, will require navigational approaches beyond AI-based image recognition, possibly based on star positions or electronic signals from radios and cell towers that are within reach, says Clark. Such technologies are still being developed or are in a relatively early operational stage.How the Shaheds Got BetterRussia is not lagging behind. In fact, some analysts believe its autonomous systems may be slightly ahead of Ukraine’s. For a good example of the Russian military’s rapid evolution, they say, consider the long-range Iranian-designed Shahed drones. Since 2022, Russia has been using them to attack Ukrainian cities and other targets hundreds of kilometers from the front line. “At the beginning, Shaheds just had a frame, a motor, and an inertial navigation system,” Oleksii Solntsev, CEO of Ukrainian defense tech startup MaXon Systems, tells me. “They used to be imprecise and pretty stupid. But they are becoming more and more autonomous.” Solntsev founded MaXon Systems in late 2024 to help protect Ukrainian civilians from the growing threat of Shahed raids. A Russian Geran-2 drone, based on the Iranian Shahed-136, flies over Kyiv during an attack on 27 December 2025.SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/GETTY IMAGESFirst produced in Iran in the 2010s, Shaheds can carry 90-kilogram warheads up to 650 km (50-kg warheads can go twice as far). They cost around $35,000 per unit, compared to a couple of million dollars, at least, for a ballistic missile. The low cost allows Russia to manufacture Shaheds in high quantities, unleashing entire fleets onto Ukrainian cities and infrastructure almost every night.The early Shaheds were able to reach a preprogrammed location based on satellite-navigation coordinates. Even one of these early models could frequently overcome the jamming of satellite-navigation signals with the help of an onboard inertial navigation unit. This was essentially a dead-reckoning system of accelerators and gyroscopes that estimate the drone’s position from continual measurements of its motions. In the Donetsk Region, on 15 August 2025, a Ukrainian soldier hunts for Shaheds and other drones with a thermalimaging system attached to a ZU23 23-millimeter antiaircraft gun.KOSTYANTYN LIBEROV/LIBKOS/GETTY IMAGESUkrainian defense forces learned to down Shaheds with heavy machine guns, but as Russia continued to innovate, the daily onslaughts started to become increasingly effective.Today’s Shaheds fly faster and higher, and therefore are more difficult to detect and take down. Between January 2024 and August 2025, the number of Shaheds and Shahed-type attack drones launched by Russia into Ukraine per month increased more than tenfold, from 334 to more than 4,000. In 2025, Ukraine found AI-enabling Nvidia chipsets in wreckages of Shaheds, as well as thermal-vision modules capable of locking onto targets at night.“Now, they are interconnected, which allows them to exchange information with each other,” Solntsev says. “They also have cameras that allow them to autonomously navigate to objects. Soon they will be able to tell each other to avoid a jammed region or an area where one of them got intercepted.”These Russian-manufactured Shaheds, which Russian forces call Geran-2s, are thought to be more capable than the garden variety Shahed-136s that Iran has lately been launching against targets throughout the Middle East. Even the relatively primitive Shahed-136s have done considerable damage, according to press accounts.Those Shahed successes may accrue, at least in part, from the fact that the United States and Israel lack Ukraine’s long experience with fending them off. In just two days in early March, upward of a thousand drones, mostly Shaheds, were launched against U.S. and Israeli targets, with hundreds of them reportedly finding their marks.One attack, caught on videotape, shows a Shahed destroying a radar dome at the U.S. navy base in Manama, Bahrain. U.S. forces were understood to be attempting to fend off the drones by striking launch platforms, dispatching fighter aircraft to shoot them down, and by using some extremely costly air-defense interceptors, including ones meant to down ballistic missiles. On 4 March, CNN reported that in a congressional briefing the day before, top U.S. defense officials, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, acknowledged that U.S. air defenses weren’t keeping up with the onslaught of Shahed drones. Russian V2U attack drones are outfitted with Nvidia processors and run computer-vision software and AI algorithms to enable the drones to navigate autonomously.GUR OF THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE OF UKRAINERussia is also starting to field a newer generation of attack drones. One of these, the V2U, has been used to strike targets in the Sumy region of northeastern Ukraine. The V2U drones are outfitted with Nvidia Jetson Orin processors and run computer-vision software and AI algorithms that allow the drones to navigate even where satellite navigation is jammed.The sale of Nvidia chips to Russia is banned under U.S. sanctions against the country. However, press reports suggest that the chips are getting to Russia via intermediaries in India.Antidrone Systems Step UpMaXon Systems is one of several companies working to fend off the nightly drone onslaught. Within one year, the company developed and battle-tested a Shahed interception system that hints at the sci-fi future envisioned by Azhnyuk. For a system to be capable of reliably defending against autonomous weaponry, it, too, needs to be autonomous.MaXon’s solution consists of ground turrets scanning the sky with infrared sensors, with additional input from a network of radars that detects approaching Shahed drones at distances of, typically, 12 to 16 km. The turrets fire autonomous fixed-winged interceptor drones, fitted with explosive warheads, toward the approaching Shaheds at speeds of nearly 300 km/h. To boost the chances of successful interception, MaXon is also fielding an airborne anti-Shahed fortification system consisting of helium-filled aerostats hovering above the city that dispatch the interceptors from a higher altitude.“We are trying to increase the level of automation of the system compared to existing solutions,” says Solntsev. “We need automatic detection, automatic takeoff, and automatic mid-track guidance so that we can guide the interceptor before it can itself flock the target.” An interceptor drone, part of the U.S. MEROPS defensive system, is tested in Poland on 18 November 2025.WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP/GETTY IMAGESIn November 2025, the Ukrainian military announced it had been conducting successful trials of the Merops Shahed drone interceptor system developed by the U.S. startup Project Eagle, another of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s Ukraine defense ventures. Like the MaXon gear, the system can operate largely autonomously and has so far downed over 1,000 Shaheds.What Works in the Lab Doesn’t Necessarily Fly on the Battlefield Despite the progress on both sides, analysts say that the kind of robotic warfare imagined by Azhnyuk won’t be a reality for years.“The software for drone collaboration is there,” says Kate Bondar, a former policy advisor for the Ukrainian government and currently a research fellow at the U.S. Center for Strategic and International Studies. “Drones can fly in labs, but in real life, [the forces] are afraid to deploy them because the risk of a mistake is too high,” she adds. Ukrainian soldiers watch a GOR reconnaissance drone take to the sky near Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, on 10 March 2025.ANDRIY DUBCHAK/FRONTLINER/GETTY IMAGESIn Bondar’s view, powerful AI-equipped drones won’t be deployed in large numbers given the current prices for high-end processors and other advanced components. And, she adds, the more autonomous the system needs to be, the more expensive are the processors and sensors it must have. “For these cheap attack drones that fly only once, you don’t install a high-resolution camera that [has] the resolution for AI to see properly,” she says. “[You install] the cheapest camera. You don’t want expensive chips that can run AI algorithms either. Until we can achieve this balance of technological sophistication, when a system can conduct a mission but at the lowest price possible, it won’t be deployed en masse.”While existing AI systems are doing a good job recognizing and following large objects like Shaheds or tanks, experts question their ability to reliably distinguish and pursue smaller and more nimble or inconspicuous targets. “When we’re getting into more specific questions, like can it distinguish a Russian soldier from a Ukrainian soldier or at least a soldier from a civilian? The answer is no,” says Bondar. “Also, it’s one thing to track a tank, and it’s another to track infantrymen riding buggies and motorcycles that are moving very fast. That’s really challenging for AI to track and strike precisely.”Clark, at the Hudson Institute, says that although the AI algorithms used to guide the Russian and Ukrainian drones are “pretty good,” they rely on information provided bysensors that “aren’t good enough.” “You need multiphenomenology sensors that are able to look at infrared and visual and, in some cases, different parts of the infrared spectrum to be able to figure out if something is a decoy or real target,” he says.German defense analyst Lange agrees that right now, battlefield AI image-recognition systems are too easily fooled. “If you compress reality into a 2D image, a lot of things can be easily camouflaged—like what Russia did recently, when they started drawing birds on the back of their drones,” he says.Autonomy Remains Elusive on the Ground and at Sea, TooTo make Ukraine’s emerging uncrewed ground vehicles (UGVs) equally self-sufficient will be an even greater task, in Clark’s view. Still, Bondar expects major advances to materialize within the next several years, even if humans are still going to be part of the decision-making loop. A mobile electronic-warfare system built by PiranhaTech is demonstrated near Kyiv on 21 October 2025.DANYLO ANTONIUK/ANADOLU/GETTY IMAGES“I think in two or three years, we will have pretty good full autonomy, at least in good weather conditions,” she says, referring to aerial drones in particular. “Humans will still be in the loop for some years, simply because there are so many unpredictable situations when you need an intervention. We won’t be able to fully rely on the machine for at least another 10 or 15 years.”Ukrainian defenders are apprehensive about that autonomous future. The boom of drone innovation has come hand in hand with the development of sophisticated jamming and radio-frequency detection systems. But a lot of that innovation will become obsolete once the pendulum swings away from human control. Ukrainians got their first taste of dealing with unjammable drones in mid-2024, when Russia began rolling out fiber-optic tethered drones. Now they have to brace for a threat on a much larger scale. An experimental drone is demonstrated at the Brave1 defense-tech incubator in Kyiv.DANYLO DUBCHAK/FRONTLINER/GETTY IMAGES“Today, we have a situation where we have lots of signals on the battlefield, but in the near future, in maybe two to five years, UAVs are not going to be sending any signals,” says Oleksandr Barabash, CTO of Falcons, a Ukrainian startup that has developed a smart radio-frequency detection system capable of revealing precise locations of enemy radio sources such as drones, control stations, and jammers.Last September, Falcons secured funding from the U.S.-based dual-use tech fund Green Flag Ventures to scale production of its technology and work toward NATO certification. But Barabash admits that its system, like all technologies fielded in Ukrainian war zones, has an expiration date. Instead of radio-frequency detectors, Barabash thinks, the next R&D push needs to focus on passive radar systems capable of identifying small and fast-moving targets based on the signal from sources like TV towers or radio transmitters that propagate through the environment and are reflected by those moving targets. Passive radars have a significant advantage in the war zone, according to Barabash. Since they don’t emit their own signal, they can’t be that easily discovered by the enemy.“Active radar is emitting signals, so if you are using active radars, you are target No. 1 on the front line,” Barabash says.Bondar, on the other hand, thinks that the increased onboard compute power needed for AI-controlled drones will, by itself, generate enough electromagnetic radiation to prevent autonomous drones from ever operating completely undetectably.“You can have full autonomy, but you will still have systems onboard that emit electromagnetic radiation or heat that can be detected,” says Bondar. “Batteries emit electromagnetic radiation, motors emit heat, and [that heat can be] visible in infrared from far away. You just need to have the right sensors to be able to identify it in advance.” She adds that that takeaway is “how capable contemporary detection systems have become and how technically challenging it is to design drones that can reliably operate in the Ukrainian battlefield environment.”There Will Be Nowhere to Hide from Autonomous DronesWhen autonomous drones become a standard weapon of war, their threat will extend far beyond the battlefields of Ukraine. Autonomous turrets and drone-interceptor fortification might soon dot the perimeter of European cities, particularly in the eastern part of the continent. A fixed-wing drone is tested in Ukraine in April 2025.ANDREWKRAVCHENKO/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGESNefarious actors from all over the world have closely watched Ukraine and taken notes, warns Lange. Today, FPV drones are being used by Islamic terrorists in Africa and Mexican drug cartels to fight against local authorities.When autonomous killing machines become widely available, it’s likely that no city will be safe. “We might see nets above city centers, protecting civilian streets,” Lange says. “In every case, the West needs to start performing similar kinetic-defense development that we see in Ukraine. Very rapid iteration and testing cycles to find solutions.”Azhnyuk is concerned that the historic defenders of Europe—the United States and the European countries themselves—are falling behind. “We are in danger,” he says. While Russia and Ukraine made major strides in their drones and countermeasures over the past year, “Europe and the United States have progressed, in the best-case scenario, from the winter-of-2022 technology to the summer-of-2022 technology.“The gap is getting wider,” he warns. “I think the next few years are very dangerous for the security of Europe.” This article appears in the April 2026 print issue as “Rise of the AUTONOMOUS Attack Drones.”
Astronomers witness the birth of a new solar system ( 24.03.2026 13:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
The decades since scientists confirmed the first planet around another star have been rich in discovery, but it’s rare to see a new solar system as it forms
No, McDonald’s Isn’t Deploying Humanoid Robots as Workers in Shanghai ( 24.03.2026 12:12:40 futurism.com)
It's not what it looks like.
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Live Science Today: Jensen Huang AGI claim and major leap to reanimation after death ( 24.03.2026 12:09:54 livescience.com)
Tuesday, March 24, 2026: Your daily roundup of the biggest science stories making headlines.
Parsons Corporation ( 24.03.2026 12:00:14 kosmonautix.cz)
Společnost Parsons Corporation zavádí novou pozemní druzicovou anténu s cílem využít trh, který vznikl po nedávném zrušení plánovaného nákupu antény Vesmírnými silami.
The Search for Alien Life Just Identified 45 New Targets ( 24.03.2026 12:00:00 nautil.us)
This subset of exoplanets are the most likely to be habitable
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NASA Announces Nuclear Mission to Mars by 2028 ( 24.03.2026 10:59:46 futurism.com)
The goal is to demonstrate "advanced nuclear electric propulsion in deep space."
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CEO Confronted Over Using AI to Clone Real People Without Their Consent ( 24.03.2026 10:02:00 futurism.com)
"You do not have our permission to use our names to do this."
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Is social media addictive? The science reveals what’s at stake ( 24.03.2026 10:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
The research into whether social media is addictive is nuanced and complex, with many unanswered questions
Jak měřit inteligenci robotů? ( 24.03.2026 09:15:21 sciencemag.cz)
Studie navrhuje nový způsob hodnocení robotických systémů. Jak srovnávat roboty, kteří se mají pohybovat pružně, bezpečně a energeticky úsporně v proměnlivém prostředí? Odpověď na tuto otázku přináší mezinárodní studie A Benchmarking Framework for Embodied Neuromorphic Agents publikovaná v prestižním časopise Nature Machine Intelligence. Autoři z vědeckých institucí Česka, Itálie, Dánska, Švýcarska, Velké Británie, USA, Pákistánu a Singapuru …
Delivery Robot Allegedly Smashes Through Bus Stop Window, Keeps Driving Covered in Broken Glass ( 24.03.2026 09:01:46 futurism.com)
Smash and grab.
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Fatty liver breakthrough: A common vitamin shows promise ( 24.03.2026 08:09:15 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers have identified microRNA-93 as a key genetic driver of fatty liver disease and discovered that vitamin B3 can effectively shut it down. This finding suggests a safe, widely available vitamin could become a powerful new treatment.
Extreme blast of Arctic air from polar vortex paints a picturesque plume off Florida coast — Earth from space ( 24.03.2026 08:00:00 livescience.com)
A recent satellite photo captured a stunning scene of sediment swirling across the West Florida Shelf after an extreme cold snap that covered large parts of the eastern U.S. in snow.
Supercomputers just solved a 50-year-old mystery about giant stars ( 24.03.2026 07:52:48 sciencedaily.com)
Astronomers have finally cracked a decades-old mystery about red giant stars—how material from their deep interiors makes its way to the surface. Using cutting-edge supercomputer simulations, researchers discovered that stellar rotation plays a powerful role in mixing elements across a previously unexplained barrier inside the star.
Horské vrcholy se mění rychleji než lesy a louky ( 24.03.2026 07:15:55 sciencemag.cz)
Rostlinná společenstva v Evropě procházejí dlouhodobými proměnami. Druhy, které dávají přednost chladnějším podmínkám, postupně ustupují, zatímco teplomilnější druhy se více rozšiřují. Mezinárodní tým vědců s účastí odborníků z Botanického ústavu Akademie věd ČR nyní poprvé porovnal, jak tyto změny probíhají v různých typech prostředí – v lesích, na loukách a na horských vrcholech. Výsledky výzkumu …
Scientists found a rhino in the Arctic and it changes everything ( 24.03.2026 07:13:14 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists have uncovered a new species of rhinoceros in the Canadian High Arctic, revealing that rhinos once lived far farther north than expected. The fossil, dating back 23 million years, is unusually complete and has helped reshape ideas about how these animals migrated between continents. Evidence suggests rhinos crossed from Europe to North America more recently than scientists once thought.
Scientists say NAD+ could slow aging and fight Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s ( 24.03.2026 06:39:06 sciencedaily.com)
A global team of leading scientists is zeroing in on a tiny but powerful molecule that could reshape how we age. Known as NAD⁺, it plays a crucial role in keeping our cells energized, repairing DNA, and maintaining overall health—but its levels steadily decline over time, potentially fueling diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Researchers are now exploring ways to boost NAD⁺ using compounds like NR and NMN, with early studies hinting at improvements in memory, metabolism, and physical function.
Modely umělé inteligence založené na fyzice místo na jazyce by se mohly stát hnací silou vědeckých objevů ( 24.03.2026 06:30:25 sciencemag.cz)
Zatímco dnešní nejpopulárnější modely AI, jako je ChatGPT, jsou trénovány na jazyku (eventuálně fotografiích), nové modely vytvořené výzkumníky z kolaborace Polymathic AI se učí pomocí vědeckých datových sad. Jinak řečeno: tým, jehož součástí jsou i výzkumníci z Univerzity v Cambridge, má na mysli AI trénovanou na fyzice. Modely již využívají znalosti z jedné oblasti k …
Insulin pills may soon replace daily injections ( 24.03.2026 04:08:11 sciencedaily.com)
For over a century, scientists have chased the dream of insulin pills, but the digestive system kept destroying the drug before it could work—forcing millions of patients to rely on daily injections. Now, researchers at Kumamoto University have developed a clever workaround using a tiny peptide that helps insulin slip through the intestinal wall.
Physicists just turned glass into a powerful quantum security device ( 24.03.2026 03:43:30 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists have turned simple glass into a powerful quantum communication device that could safeguard data against future quantum attacks. The chip combines stability, speed, and versatility—handling both ultra-secure encryption and record-breaking random number generation in one compact system.
New light trap design supercharges atom-thin semiconductors ( 24.03.2026 03:25:15 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists have found a clever way to supercharge ultra-thin semiconductors by reshaping the space beneath them rather than altering the material itself. By placing a single-atom-thick layer of tungsten disulfide over tiny air cavities carved into a crystal, they created miniature “light traps” that dramatically boost brightness and optical effects—up to 20 times stronger emission and 25 times stronger nonlinear signals. These hollow structures, called Mie voids, concentrate light exactly where the material sits, overcoming a major limitation of atomically thin devices.
A surprising foam discovery could change everyday products ( 23.03.2026 23:44:40 sciencedaily.com)
Foams have long baffled scientists because liquid drains from them far sooner than theory predicts. New research shows the reason: the bubbles don’t stay put—they rearrange, opening pathways for liquid to escape. The key factor is the pressure needed to shift bubbles, not just push liquid through them. This insight reshapes how we understand foams and could improve everyday products.
DNA reveals two new bass species hidden in plain sight ( 23.03.2026 23:19:35 sciencedaily.com)
Two new species of black bass have been officially identified after decades of confusion with similar fish. Bartram’s bass and Altamaha bass stand out not just in appearance, but in their DNA, revealed through detailed genetic analysis of hundreds of specimens. Scientists say this breakthrough helps preserve a record of these species as habitat changes and hybridization threaten their future. What was once overlooked could soon be at risk of vanishing.
Sperm whales caught headbutting each other on camera for the first time ( 23.03.2026 23:05:32 sciencedaily.com)
Drone footage has revealed sperm whales headbutting each other—something scientists had only speculated about until now. Surprisingly, it’s younger whales doing it, not the giant males researchers expected. The behavior echoes old seafaring tales of whales smashing ships, once thought exaggerated. Now, scientists are eager to understand whether these clashes are play, practice, or serious competition.
Astronomers reconstruct a galaxy’s 12-billion-year history using chemical clues ( 23.03.2026 22:46:25 sciencedaily.com)
For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the full history of a galaxy outside the Milky Way using chemical clues. By analyzing oxygen across NGC 1365 and comparing it with simulations, they traced its growth over 12 billion years. The findings show how its core formed early while its outer regions were built through repeated mergers. This new approach could transform how astronomers study galaxy evolution.
Scientists discover hormone that may stop chronic back pain at its source ( 23.03.2026 22:28:06 sciencedaily.com)
A new study suggests a widely used bone hormone could help relieve chronic back pain in an unexpected way. Instead of just strengthening bone, it appears to stop pain-sensing nerves from growing into damaged spinal areas. In animal models, this led to stronger spinal tissue and reduced pain sensitivity. The findings hint at a future treatment that tackles back pain at its biological roots.
Women over 50 lost 35% more weight with this surprising combo ( 23.03.2026 21:06:37 sciencedaily.com)
Postmenopausal women may have a powerful new edge in the battle against weight gain. A Mayo Clinic study found that those using menopausal hormone therapy while taking the obesity drug tirzepatide lost about 35% more weight than those on the drug alone. The findings hint at a surprising synergy between hormones and cutting-edge weight-loss medications, potentially opening the door to more effective, personalized treatments for millions of women facing increased cardiometabolic risks after menopause.
Chemistry student develops clear polish that turns your fingernail into a touch-screen stylus ( 23.03.2026 20:25:51 livescience.com)
Researchers have developed a prototype nail polish to help more people access electrically-charged touch screens.
This new tooth powder whitens teeth without damage ( 23.03.2026 20:24:30 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers have developed a teeth-whitening powder that works with the vibrations of an electric toothbrush to safely remove stains. Unlike traditional whiteners, it not only brightens teeth but also repairs enamel and supports healthy oral bacteria. Lab tests showed dramatic whitening effects, while animal studies revealed reduced harmful microbes and inflammation. This could pave the way for a new generation of at-home dental care.
Why the LaGuardia plane crash was so destructive ( 23.03.2026 18:30:00 scientificamerican.com)
Engineers explain how a collision between an Air Canada plane and a fire truck at one of New York’s busiest airports turned deadly
Sketchy Polymarket Accounts Making Suspicious Bets on Imminent Iran Ceasefire ( 23.03.2026 18:08:21 futurism.com)
The accounts are less than a week old and put down a huge amount of money.
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Remembering IEEE Power & Energy Society Leader Mel Olken ( 23.03.2026 18:00:05 spectrum.ieee.org)
Mel OlkenFormer executive director of the IEEE Power & Energy SocietyFellow, 92; died 9 JanuaryOlken became the first executive director of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) in 1995. In 2002 he left the position to serve as founding editor in chief of the society’s Power & Energy Magazine. Olken led the publication until 2016, when he retired.After receiving a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the City College of New York, Olken was hired as an electrical engineer by American Electric Power, a utility based in Columbus, Ohio. He helped design coal, hydroelectric, and nuclear power plants. While at AEP, he was promoted to manager of the electrical generation department.He joined IEEE in 1958 and became a PES member in 1973. An active volunteer, he chaired the society’s energy development and power generation committee and its technical council.Olken was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1988 for “contributions to innovative design of reliable generating stations.”He became an IEEE staff member in 1984 as society services director for IEEE Technical Activities. From 1990 to 1995 he served as managing director of Regional Activities group (now IEEE Member and Geographic Activities), before becoming PES executive director.He received a PES Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012 for his “broad and sustained technical contributions to the development of power engineering and the power engineering profession.”Stephanie A. HugueninResearch scientistIEEE member, 48; died 1 OctoberHuguenin was an administrative assistant in the physics and biophysics department at Augusta University, in Georgia. According to her Augusta obituary, she died of an illness acquired during her volunteer work in India.She received a bachelor’s degree in engineering in 1999 from the College of Charleston, in South Carolina. During her senior year, she worked as a mathematics and science tutor at the Jenkins Orphanage (now the Jenkins Institute for Children), in North Charleston. After graduating, Huguenin traveled to India to volunteer at an orphanage run by the Mother Teresa Foundation.Upon returning to the United States in 2001, Huguenin worked as a freelance research consultant. Three years later she was hired as a systems administrator and archivist by photographer Ebet Roberts in New York City. In 2010 she left to work as an operations strategist and technical consultant.She earned a master’s degree in communication and research science in 2016 from New York University. While at NYU, she conducted experimental and theoretical research in Internet Protocol design and implementation as well as network security and management.From 2020 to 2024 she was a research scientist at businesses owned by her family. She joined Augusta University in 2023.She was a member of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society and the IEEE Systems Council.Huguenin volunteered for the Internet Engineering Task Force, a standards development organization, and the American Registry for Internet Numbers. ARIN manages and distributes internet number resources such as IP addresses and autonomous system numbers.The nonprofits she supported included the Coastal Conservation League, the Longleaf Alliance, the Lowcountry Land Trust, the Nature Conservancy, and Women in Defense.
Iran attack on Qatar’s liquid natural gas trains has global energy consequences ( 23.03.2026 18:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
Why the destruction of Qatar’s liquid natural gas “trains” by Iranian attacks will have global consequences
Artemis II: NASA's first crewed mission to the moon since 1972 ( 23.03.2026 17:38:25 livescience.com)
NASA's Artemis II mission will send a crew of four astronauts back to the moon for the first time since the Apollo era, although they will not land on the lunar surface yet.
Man Pleads Guilty to Making $8 Million by Creating Music With AI and Using Bots to Drive Zillions of Fake Streams ( 23.03.2026 17:06:45 futurism.com)
"Although the songs and listeners were fake, the millions of dollars Smith stole was real."
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Earth's climate is more out of balance than any time in record history, U.N. warns ( 23.03.2026 16:23:00 scientificamerican.com)
The past 11 years were the 11 hottest on record amid an increasing onslaught of climate-driven disasters, the World Meteorological Organization said in a new report
Russian rocket en route to ISS suffers major antenna glitch, triggering remote-control astronaut 'backup plan' ( 23.03.2026 16:21:21 livescience.com)
NASA has revealed that Russia's Progress 94 spacecraft failed to deploy one of its antennae, making it impossible for the uncrewed freighter to autonomously dock with the International Space Station. An orbiting cosmonaut will now have to manually guide the stricken vessel using a "backup system."
Antarctica could warm 1.4 times faster than the rest of the Southern Hemisphere in the coming decades, study finds ( 23.03.2026 16:13:57 livescience.com)
Antarctica could warm much faster than its surroundings over the next few decades due to a phenomenon known as polar amplification that is well established in the Arctic.
Dangerous microbes may be hiding in drought-stricken soils ( 23.03.2026 16:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are increasing, and a new study finds that extreme weather may be juicing their rise
You’ll Snort-Laugh When You Learn How Much AI Actually Added to the US Economy Last Year ( 23.03.2026 15:37:13 futurism.com)
"There is no evidence that AI deployment is either boosting productivity or damaging US employment."
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Doctor Reels as Son Becomes Plumber in Age of AI ( 23.03.2026 14:36:30 futurism.com)
"Am I the blip in my family's more traditional working-class journey?"
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Watch sperm whale headbutt another for no apparent reason ( 23.03.2026 13:56:29 livescience.com)
Researchers have captured extraordinary footage of sperm whales randomly headbutting each other, confirming anecdotal reports from mariners and whalers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Transforming Data Science With NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition ( 23.03.2026 13:00:04 spectrum.ieee.org)
This is a sponsored article brought to you by PNY Technologies.In today’s data-driven world, data scientists face mounting challenges in preparing, scaling, and processing massive datasets. Traditional CPU-based systems are no longer sufficient to meet the demands of modern AI and analytics workflows. NVIDIA RTX PROTM 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition offers a transformative solution, delivering accelerated computing performance and seamless integration into enterprise environments.Key Challenges for Data ScienceData Preparation: Data preparation is a complex, time-consuming process that takes most of a data scientist’s time.Scaling: Volume of data is growing at a rapid pace. Data scientists may resort to downsampling datasets to make large datasets more manageable, leading to suboptimal results.Hardware: Demand for accelerated AI hardware for data centers and cloud service providers (CSPs) is exceeding supply. 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This means tasks like cleaning data, managing missing values, and engineering features can be completed in seconds, not hours, allowing teams to focus on extracting insights and building better models.NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition is designed to transform the entire data science pipeline, delivering end-to-end acceleration from data preparation to model deploymentExploratory data analysis is elevated with advanced analytics and interactive visualizations, powered by NVIDIA CUDA-X and PyData libraries. These tools enable users to create expansive, responsive visualizations that enhance understanding and support critical decision-making. When it comes to model training, GPU-accelerated XGBoost slashes training times from weeks to minutes, enabling rapid iteration and faster time-to-market AI solutions.NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition streamlines collaboration and scalability. 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Live Science Today: Earth hits record energy imbalance, Hawaii floods and NASA prepares for Artemis II launch ( 23.03.2026 12:05:27 livescience.com)
Monday, March 23, 2026: Your daily roundup of the biggest science stories making headlines.
Mark Zuckerberg Secretly Training an AI Agent to Do CEO Job ( 23.03.2026 12:04:12 futurism.com)
Did he have an AI agent advising him when he built the Metaverse?
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Viruses in the gut may help prevent blood sugar spikes, mouse study hints ( 23.03.2026 11:00:00 livescience.com)
Intestinal viruses can activate immune cells that regulate carbohydrate metabolism, highlighting an overlooked role of the gut virome, a study in mice finds.
Microsoft Realizes It’s Epically Screwed Up Windows 11 as Users Rage at Copilot AI Crammed Everywhere ( 23.03.2026 10:45:46 futurism.com)
Painful.
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Why Thermal Metrology Must Evolve for Next-Generation Semiconductors ( 23.03.2026 10:00:04 content.knowledgehub.wiley.com)
An in-depth examination of how rising power density, 3D integration, and novel materials are outpacing legacy thermal measurement — and what advanced metrology must deliver.What Attendees will LearnWhy heat is now the dominant constraint on semiconductor scaling — Explore how heterogeneous integration, 3D stacking, and AI-driven power density have shifted the primary bottleneck from lithography to thermal management, with heat flux projections exceeding 1,000 W/cm² for next-generation accelerators.How extreme material properties are redefining thermal design requirements —Understand the measurement challenges posed by nanoscale thin films where bulk assumptions fail, engineered ultra-high-conductivity materials (diamond, BAs, BNNTs), and devices operating above 200 °C in wide-band gap systems.Why interfaces and buried layers now govern reliability — Examine how thermal boundary resistance at bonded interfaces, TIM layers, and dielectric stacks has become a first-order reliability accelerator.What a thermal-first design workflow looks like in practice — Learn how measured, scale-appropriate thermal properties can be integrated early in the design cycle to calibrate models, reduce uncertainty, and prevent costly late-stage failures across advanced packaging and 3D architectures.Download this free whitepaper now!
Urfa Man: An 11,500-year-old life-size statue of a man holding his penis ( 23.03.2026 10:00:00 livescience.com)
Discovered in a city in southern Turkey, this life-size male statue may represent an important deceased ancestor.
What color is this dot? New illusion demonstrates weird vision quirk ( 23.03.2026 10:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
An optical illusion with nine simple dots reveals a surprising amount about the eye and brain
Spring heat dome, a blow to RFK, Jr.’s health agenda, SpaceX Starlink milestone ( 23.03.2026 10:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
An unseasonal heat dome over parts of the U.S., a federal court ruling that blocks the CDC’s recent change to its recommended childhood vaccine schedule, new research on unsafe levels of lead in fast fashion
A new twist on matter? Strange 'Half-Mӧbius' molecule has rare properties chemists have never seen before ( 23.03.2026 09:00:00 livescience.com)
Chemists created a strange "half-Mӧbius" molecule, where electrons twist freely out of place to make a continuously looping surface.
Může se v čase měnit namísto temné energie temná hmota? ( 23.03.2026 06:55:45 sciencemag.cz)
Různé experimentálně zjištěné hodnoty Hubbleovy konstanty máme někdy tendenci vysvětlovat tím, že temná energie se v čase mění (kvintesence). Ale proč by se v čase nemohlo vyvíjet i množství temné hmoty? Tato myšlenka zatím nebyla příliš zvažována. Odpůrci temné hmoty zavrhují temnou hmotu zcela a navrhují namísto toho jiné modely ve stylu modifikované gravitace. V …
Sonda Hera směřuje k setkání s asteroidem ( 23.03.2026 06:31:25 sciencemag.cz)
Díky úspěšnému manévru ve vzdáleném vesmíru se sonda Hera Evropské kosmické agentury (ESA) dostala na kurz k setkání s dvojitou asteroidovou soustavou Didymos, k němuž dojde ještě v tomto roce. Sonda Hera Evropské kosmické agentury (ESA) směřuje k jediným existujícím asteroidům, jejichž dráhy byly záměrně změněny lidským zásahem. U dvojitého systému Didymos pomůže Hera vědcům …
Rozmarýn může chránit obilí před škůdci ( 23.03.2026 06:03:52 sciencemag.cz)
Esenciální olej z rozmarýnu může nahradit část chemických přípravků používaných při ochraně skladovaného obilí. Vědci z Národního centra zemědělského a potravinářského výzkumu, v. v. i. (CARC), vyvinuli účinnou a šetrnou metodu ochrany obilí, která se vyznačuje minimální reziduální zátěží a nevede ke vzniku rezistence škůdců. Metoda cílí na hmyzí škůdce, kteří každoročně způsobují významné ztráty …
Scientists discover Alzheimer’s hidden “death switch” in the brain ( 23.03.2026 05:34:10 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists have uncovered a hidden “death switch” in the brain that may be driving Alzheimer’s disease—and even found a way to turn it off in mice. The culprit is a toxic pairing of two proteins that, when combined, triggers the destruction of brain cells and fuels memory loss. By using a new compound to break apart this deadly duo, researchers were able to slow disease progression, protect brain cells, and even reduce hallmark amyloid buildup.
Most people get food’s environmental impact completely wrong, study finds ( 23.03.2026 04:53:00 sciencedaily.com)
People often get the environmental impact of food wrong, according to new research. While many assume processed foods are the worst, they tend to overlook the surprisingly high impact of items like nuts and underestimate how damaging beef really is. These misunderstandings come from relying on simple categories like “animal vs. plant” rather than the full picture.
Microplastics are falling from the sky and polluting forests ( 23.03.2026 04:34:53 sciencedaily.com)
Tiny plastic particles aren’t just choking oceans and cities—they’re quietly infiltrating forests too. Scientists discovered that most microplastics arrive through the air, settling onto treetops before being washed or dropped to the forest floor in rain and falling leaves. Once there, natural processes like leaf decay help bury and store these particles deep in the soil. The findings reveal forests as hidden reservoirs of airborne pollution—and potentially a new frontline in the growing microplastics crisis.
New blood test could catch pancreatic cancer before it’s too late ( 23.03.2026 03:33:52 sciencedaily.com)
A new blood test could change the outlook for one of the deadliest cancers—pancreatic cancer—by catching it much earlier than ever before. Researchers identified two previously unknown proteins in the blood that, when combined with existing markers, dramatically improved detection accuracy. The four-marker test was able to spot pancreatic cancer in over 90% of cases and performed especially well even in early stages, when treatment has the best chance of success.
A promising fatty liver treatment may raise cancer risk ( 23.03.2026 03:13:52 sciencedaily.com)
A surprising new study reveals that blocking a supposedly protective enzyme, Caspase-2, could actually backfire—raising the risk of chronic liver damage and cancer over time. Researchers found that without this enzyme, liver cells grow abnormally large and accumulate genetic damage, leading to inflammation, scarring, and eventually tumors, especially with age. While inhibiting Caspase-2 may offer short-term benefits, such as reducing fatty liver disease, the long-term consequences appear dangerous.
Scientists discover surprising brain trigger behind high blood pressure ( 22.03.2026 23:30:22 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists have uncovered a surprising brain-based trigger for high blood pressure, tracing it to a small region in the brainstem that normally controls breathing. This area, which kicks in during forceful exhalations like coughing, laughing, or exercise, also appears to activate nerves that tighten blood vessels—raising blood pressure. When researchers switched off this region in experiments, blood pressure dropped back to normal, suggesting it plays a direct role in hypertension.
World’s first quantum battery could enable ultra fast charging ( 22.03.2026 23:14:57 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists in Australia have demonstrated a prototype quantum battery that could revolutionize energy storage. By harnessing quantum effects, it can absorb energy in a rapid “super absorption” event, enabling much faster charging than conventional batteries. Even more surprisingly, the system becomes more efficient as it scales up. The research opens the door to ultra-fast, next-generation energy technologies.
Scientists twisted a mysterious superconductor and got a shocking result ( 22.03.2026 22:42:09 sciencedaily.com)
A decades-old superconducting mystery just took a surprising turn. Strontium ruthenate, a material that conducts electricity with zero resistance at low temperatures, has long puzzled scientists with hints of an exotic, complex superconducting state. But by carefully twisting and distorting ultra-thin crystals, researchers found something unexpected: the material barely reacted at all. This challenges years of assumptions and suggests its behavior may be far simpler—or far stranger—than previously thought.
This floating time crystal breaks Newton’s third law of motion ( 22.03.2026 21:54:16 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists have created a new kind of time crystal using sound waves to levitate tiny beads in mid-air. These particles interact in a one-sided, unbalanced way, breaking the usual rules of motion and creating a steady, repeating rhythm. The system is surprisingly simple yet reveals complex physics with big implications. It could help advance quantum computing and deepen our understanding of biological timing systems.
Samples From Distant Asteroid Contain All DNA and RNA Building Blocks ( 22.03.2026 15:00:00 futurism.com)
Woah.
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Analyst Warns Against Using Microsoft’s Copilot AI on Friday Afternoons ( 22.03.2026 14:00:00 futurism.com)
"Copilot makes over-shared documents more accessible."
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Why do some people still believe that aliens shaped ancient civilizations? ( 22.03.2026 14:00:00 livescience.com)
Two archaeologists explore the enduring myth that extraterrestrials contributed to the various ancient cultures around the world.
What Happens If AI Makes Things Too Easy for Us? ( 22.03.2026 13:00:04 spectrum.ieee.org)
Most people who regularly use AI tools would say they’re making their lives easier. The technology promises to streamline and take over tasks both professionally and personally—whether that’s summarizing documents, drafting deliverables, generating code, or even offering emotional support. But researchers are concerned AI is making some tasks too easy, and that this will come with unexpected costs.In a commentary titled Against Frictionless AI, published in Communications Psychology on 24 February, psychologists from the University of Toronto discuss what might be lost when AI removes too much effort from human activities. Their argument centers on the idea that friction—difficulty, struggle, and even discomfort—plays an important role in learning, motivation, and meaning. Psychological research has long shown that effortful engagement can deepen understanding and strengthen memory, sometimes described as “desirable difficulties.” The authors worry that AI systems capable of instantly producing polished answers or highly responsive conversation may bypass these processes of learning and motivation. By prioritizing outcomes over effort, AI could weaken the experiences that help people develop skills, build relationships, and find meaning in their work.IEEE Spectrum spoke with the paper’s lead author, Emily Zohar, an experimental psychology Ph.D. student, about why she and her coauthors (psychologists Paul Bloom and Michael Inzlicht) argue that friction matters—and what a more human-centered approach to AI design could look like.When you say “friction,” what do you mean, from both a cognitive and an interpersonal standpoint?Zohar: We define friction as any difficulty encountered during goal pursuit. In the context of work, it involves mental effort—rumination and persistence, staying on a problem for some time, and this helps solidify the idea and the creative process.In relationships, friction involves disagreement, compromise, misunderstanding, a back and forth that is natural where you don’t always see eye to eye, and it helps you broaden your horizons. Even the feeling of loneliness is important. It motivates you to find social interactions. So having these negative feelings and difficulty is important in the social context.Given that definition, what do you mean by “frictionless” AI?Zohar: Frictionless AI refers to the excessive removal of effort from cognitive and social tasks. With AI, as we typically use it, it’s really easy to go from ideation right to the end product. You ask AI to solve something with one prompt, and it completes the whole thing. This is a problem because it takes away the intermediate steps that really drive motivation and learning, and it prioritizes outcome over process. Rather than working through the steps, AI does that meaningful work for you.There’s a lot of research showing work products are better with AI. That makes sense, it has all this knowledge, but it does worry us as it may be eroding something essential that will have long-term consequences. If you’re faced with the same problem and AI is removed, you don’t have the required knowledge to know how to face the problem next time.You argue that removing friction can harm learning and relationships. What role do effort and struggle play in human development?Zohar: In learning, the term is “desirable difficulties.” It’s the idea of effort and work, not just any effort but manageable effort. Facing problems that you can overcome, but you have to work at them a bit, that’s the key idea of friction. We don’t want you to face insurmountable problems. We want you to work hard, but still be able to overcome it. This helps you really digest information and learn from it.In interpersonal relationships, you have to face some difficulties to see other perspectives and learn from them, and learn to be accepting of others. If you’re used to an AI reinforcing all your ideas and being sycophantic, you’ll come into the real world and you won’t be used to seeing other ideas. You won’t know how to interact socially because you’ll expect people to always be on your side and agree with you. You won’t learn that life doesn’t always go exactly how you expect it to, and conversations don’t always go the way you want them to.AI’s Impact on Creative ProcessesA lot of technologies have historically aimed to reduce effort: calculators, washing machines, spell-check. What’s different about AI?Zohar: Past technologies have mostly focused on reducing physical effort. We don’t have to go down to the lake to wash our laundry anymore. [Past technologies] took away the mundane tasks that weren’t driving our learning and growth, they were just adding unneeded obstacles and taking away time from more important tasks.But AI is taking away effort from creative and cognitive processes that drive meaning, motivation, and learning. That’s a key difference, because it’s not taking away friction from tasks that don’t serve us. It’s taking away friction from experiences that are really important and integral to our development.Are there contexts where AI is already removing beneficial friction? How might the impacts of reduced friction show up over time?Zohar: One clear example is writing. People increasingly rely on AI to draft everything from emails to essays, removing many instances of beneficial friction. Research shows that people trust responses less when they learn they were written by AI, judge AI-generated products as less creative and less valuable, and have greater difficulty remembering their own work products when they were produced with AI assistance. Outsourcing writing to AI strips away both social and cognitive friction.Vibe coding is another good example. If you’re a programmer, coding is integral to what drives your meaning. People get meaning out of their work, and if you’re substituting that with AI, it could be detrimental. The negative impact of frictionless AI is that it takes away friction from things that are really important to who you are as a person, and your skills.One area I worry about a lot is adolescents using AI in general. It’s a really important developmental period to learn and grow and find the path you’ll follow. So if you don’t have these effortful interactions with work and relationships that teach you how to think, this will have long-term detrimental impacts. They might not be able to think critically in the same way, because they never had to before. If they’re turning to AI for social relationships at such a young age, that could really erode important skills they should be learning at that age.What is productive friction?Zohar: Friction goes along a continuum. With too little friction, you’re not getting learning and motivation. Too much friction and the task becomes overwhelming. Productive friction falls right in the middle, where struggle leads to achievement. It’s effortful but possible, and it requires you to think critically and work on a problem for some time or face some difficulty in the process.An example we used in the paper is the difference between taking a chairlift and hiking up a mountain. They both get to the top, but with the chairlift, you don’t get any growth benefits, while the hiker’s climb involves difficulties and a sense of achievement. It becomes much more of an experience and a learning opportunity versus the person who just went up the chairlift effortlessly.Do you envision AI that sometimes deliberately slows people down or asks them to do part of the work themselves?Zohar: It’s important in behavioral science to think about the default option, because people don’t usually change their default. So right now, the default in AI is to give you your answer and probe you to keep going down the rabbit hole. But I think we could think about AI in a different way. Maybe we can make the default more constructive. Instead of just jumping to the answer, it’s more of a process model where it helps you think about the problem and teaches you along the way, so it’s more collaborative rather than a one-stop shop for the answer.How might users of these systems and the companies developing them feel about such a design shift?Zohar: For the makers of these systems, the biggest concern is the pushback. People are used to going in and just getting the answer, and they might be really resistant to a design that makes them work more for it. But it might feed more engagement, because you have to go back and forth and find the answer together.Ultimately I think it has to come from the companies making these models, if they think [a more friction-full design] would help people. Friction-full AI is more of a long-term product. It’s hard to say if that would motivate companies to change their models to include moderate friction. But in the long term, I think this would be beneficial.
Jeff Bezos’ Space Company Unveils Plans for Orbital Anti-Asteroid Defense Weapons ( 22.03.2026 13:00:00 futurism.com)
It's proposing two approaches: either shoot dangerous asteroids with an ion cannon — or ram it out of orbit.
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How stress causes an eczema flare-up ( 22.03.2026 12:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
Scientists have identified the neurons that worsen the condition during stress
A secret weapon to fight carbon emissions was just discovered: Beavers ( 22.03.2026 12:00:00 livescience.com)
A new study in Switzerland finds that beaver-built wetlands can trap and store large amounts of carbon, offering a low-cost boost for restoration and climate resilience.
SpaceX’s One Million Orbital Data Centers Would Be Debilitating for Astronomy Research, Scientists Say ( 22.03.2026 12:00:00 futurism.com)
This could be a disaster waiting to happen.
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Scientists Just Found Something Rather Grim That Happens When You Stop Taking GLP-1s ( 22.03.2026 11:00:00 futurism.com)
"People need to realize that there's a price of stopping."
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Can future astronauts be put into comas for space travel like in Project Hail Mary? ( 22.03.2026 10:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
The science-fiction film Project Hail Mary sees Ryan Gosling go to space in a state of suspended animation. But does the science suggest that’s possible?
Rare star spotted in its original galaxy could answer a key question about the ingredients of life: Space photo of the week ( 22.03.2026 10:00:00 livescience.com)
The ancient and rare star PicII-503 is helping astronomers understand how carbon became so abundant in the universe.
The Head of the FBI Just Admitted Something Moderately Horrifying ( 22.03.2026 10:00:00 futurism.com)
"It has led to some valuable intelligence for us."
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Why do animals have different pupil shapes? ( 22.03.2026 09:00:00 livescience.com)
Pupil shapes vary widely across the animal kingdom, from the W-shaped pupils of cuttlefish to the bar-like pupils of goats. But why are animal pupils shaped so differently?
Quadcopter Drone Caught Trying to Deliver Hunting Knives to Inmates in Prison ( 22.03.2026 09:00:00 futurism.com)
"We find drones crashed in the woods outside of the penitentiary. We find drones crashed at the bases of the fences. We find drones crashed in the yard."
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Weight loss drug Ozempic cuts depression, anxiety, and addiction risk ( 22.03.2026 08:03:11 sciencedaily.com)
GLP-1 medications like semaglutide (Ozempic) may offer unexpected mental health benefits alongside weight loss. A large study found major drops in depression, anxiety, and psychiatric-related hospital visits among users. Even substance use disorders were significantly lower during treatment. Researchers suspect both lifestyle improvements and direct brain effects could be at play.
Scientists Startled by What Happens When They Point Hubble at Comet ( 22.03.2026 08:00:00 futurism.com)
"Sometimes the best science happens by accident."
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Why mosquitoes always find you and how they decide to attack ( 22.03.2026 07:48:21 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists have finally cracked how mosquitoes decide where to fly—and it’s not by following each other. Instead, each insect independently reacts to visual cues and carbon dioxide, zeroing in on humans when both signals align. Dark colors and CO2 together create the strongest attraction, triggering swarming and biting behavior. This insight could reshape how we design traps and prevent mosquito-borne diseases.
Beavers are turning rivers into powerful carbon sinks ( 22.03.2026 07:21:20 sciencedaily.com)
Beavers may be unlikely climate heroes, but new research suggests they could play a powerful role in fighting climate change. By building dams and transforming streams into wetlands, these industrious animals dramatically reshape how carbon moves and is stored in landscapes. Over just 13 years, a beaver-engineered wetland in Switzerland stored over a thousand tonnes of carbon—up to ten times more than similar areas without beavers.
AI Agent Frets That Its Job Could Be Replaced by AI ( 22.03.2026 07:00:00 futurism.com)
Hey, that's my job!
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Trump FEMA Official Claims He Sometimes Spontaneously Teleports, Including Once Directly to a Waffle House 50 Miles Away ( 22.03.2026 06:00:00 futurism.com)
"I ended up at a Waffle House, like, 50 miles away from where I was."
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This 67,800-year-old handprint is the oldest art ever found ( 22.03.2026 05:38:42 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers have uncovered the world’s oldest known cave art—a 67,800-year-old hand stencil in Indonesia. The unusual, claw-like design hints at early symbolic thinking and possibly spiritual beliefs. This discovery also strengthens the case that humans reached Australia at least 65,000 years ago. It offers rare insight into the creative lives of some of our earliest ancestors.
Friction without contact discovered as magnetic forces break a 300-year-old law ( 22.03.2026 05:17:40 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers have uncovered friction without contact—driven entirely by magnetic interactions. As two magnetic layers slide, their internal forces compete, causing constant rearrangements that dramatically increase resistance at certain distances. This creates a surprising peak in friction instead of a steady rise, breaking a long-standing physics law.
Webb Telescope spots “impossible” atmosphere on ancient super Earth ( 22.03.2026 04:19:46 sciencedaily.com)
Astronomers have uncovered surprising evidence of a thick atmosphere surrounding TOI-561 b, a scorching, fast-orbiting rocky planet once thought too extreme to hold onto any gas. Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers found the planet is far cooler than expected for a bare rock, hinting at a heat-distributing atmosphere above a churning magma ocean. This strange world—where a year lasts just over 10 hours and one side is locked in eternal daylight—may even be rich in volatile materials, behaving like a “wet lava ball.”
Ancient DNA reveals a farming shift that pushed a society to the brink ( 21.03.2026 23:21:09 sciencedaily.com)
A new study reveals that farming in Argentina’s Uspallata Valley was adopted by local hunter-gatherers rather than introduced by outside populations. Centuries later, a stressed group of maize-heavy farmers migrated into the region, facing climate instability, disease, and declining numbers. Despite these pressures, there’s no sign of violence—instead, families stayed connected across generations, using kinship networks to survive. The research shows how cooperation, not conflict, helped communities navigate crisis.
A massive freshwater reservoir is hiding under the Great Salt Lake ( 21.03.2026 21:20:18 sciencedaily.com)
A hidden freshwater system deep beneath the Great Salt Lake has been revealed using airborne electromagnetic surveys. Scientists found that freshwater extends much farther under the lake than expected, reaching depths of up to 4 kilometers. The discovery began with mysterious reed-covered mounds formed by pressurized groundwater pushing upward. Researchers are now investigating whether this underground water could help control hazardous dust from the drying lakebed.
Hidden antibiotics in river fish spark new food safety fears ( 21.03.2026 20:48:07 sciencedaily.com)
Antibiotics are accumulating in a major Brazilian river, especially during the dry season when pollution becomes more concentrated. Scientists even detected a banned drug inside fish sold for food, raising concerns about human exposure. A common aquatic plant showed promise in removing these chemicals from water—but it also altered how fish absorb them, creating unexpected risks.
Video Friday: Humanoid Learns Tennis Skills Playing Humans ( 21.03.2026 16:30:04 spectrum.ieee.org)
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNASummer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July–4 August 2026, PRAGUEEnjoy today’s videos! Human athletes demonstrate versatile and highly dynamic tennis skills to successfully conduct competitive rallies with a high-speed tennis ball. However, reproducing such behaviors on humanoid robots is difficult, partially due to the lack of perfect humanoid action data or human kinematic motion data in tennis scenarios as reference. In this work, we propose LATENT, a system that Learns Athletic humanoid TEnnis skills from imperfect human motioN daTa.[ LATENT ]A beautifully designed robot inspired by Strandbeests.[ Cranfield University ]We believe we’re the first robotics company to demonstrate a robot peeling an apple with dual dexterous humanlike hands. This breakthrough closes a key gap in robotics, achieving bimanual, contact-rich manipulation and moving far beyond the limits of simple grippers.Today’s AI models (VLMs) are excellent at perception but struggle with action. Controlling high-degree-of-freedom hands for tasks like this is incredibly complex, and precise finger-level teleoperation is nearly impossible for humans. Our first step was a shared-autonomy system: rather than controlling every finger, the operator triggers prelearned skills like a “rotate apple or tennis ball” primitive via a keyboard press or pedal. This makes scalable data collection and RL training possible.How does the AI manage this? We created “MoDE-VLA” (Mixture of Dexterous Experts). It fuses vision, language, force, and touch data by using a team of specialist “experts,” making control in high-dimensional spaces stable and effective. The combination of these two innovations allows for seamless, contact-rich manipulation. The human provides high-level guidance, and the robot executes the complex in-hand coordination required.[ Sharpa ]Thanks, Alex!It was great to see our name amongst the other “AI Native” companies during the NVIDIA GTC keynote. NVIDIA Isaac Lab helps us train reinforcement learning policies that enable the UMV to drive, jump, flip, and hop like a pro.[ Robotics and AI Institute ]This Finger-Tip Changer technology was jointly researched and developed through a collaboration between Tesollo and RoCogMan LaB at Hanyang University ERICA. The project integrates Tesollo’s practical robotic hand development experience with the lab’s expertise in robotic manipulation and gripper design.I don’t know why more robots don’t do this. Also, those pointy fingertips are terrifying.[ RoCogMan LaB ]Here’s an upcoming ICRA paper from the Fluent Robotics Lab at the University of Michigan featuring an operational PR2! With functional batteries!!![ Fluent Robotics Lab ]This video showcases the field tests and interaction capabilities of KAIST Humanoid v0.7, developed at the DRCD Lab featuring in-house actuators. The control policy was trained through deep reinforcement learning leveraging human demonstrations.[ KAIST DRCD Lab ]This needs to come in adult size.[ Deep Robotics ]I did not know this, but apparently shoeboxes are really annoying to manipulate because if you grab them by the lid, they just open, so specialized hardware is required.[ Nomagic ]Thanks, Gilmarie!This paper presents a method to recover quadrotor Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) from a throw, when no control parameters are known before the throw.[ MAVLab ]Uh-oh, robots can see glass doors now. We’re in trouble.[ LimX Dynamics ]This drone hugs trees
Birds Are Getting Hooked on Cigarettes ( 21.03.2026 16:00:00 futurism.com)
They're serving an important role inside nests, scientists found.
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Physicists created an electron 'catapult' that moves particles at 'extraordinary' speed ( 21.03.2026 15:00:00 livescience.com)
Using a new method, physicists found a way to "catapult" electrons across solar materials in quadrillionths of a second.
Engineer Says It’s Time to Rebuild the Twin Towers With Giant Data Centers, Huge Tech Labs, and Anti-Aircraft Lasers on the Roof ( 21.03.2026 15:00:00 futurism.com)
"This is what America rightfully deserves. We shall no longer be afraid."
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Scientists Recruit Undergrad to Step Into Room Filled With Ravenous Mosquitoes for “Full-Body Massacre” ( 21.03.2026 14:00:00 futurism.com)
Dream gig!
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Computing quiz: Can you match these 'ancient' devices to their pictures? ( 21.03.2026 14:00:00 livescience.com)
Think you know your technology? Put your computing knowledge to the test by matching classic and modern devices to their images.
Gen Z Is Using AI to Have Difficult Relationship Conversations, and the Results Are Massively Cringe ( 21.03.2026 13:00:00 futurism.com)
"Oftentimes they're using it as a way to overcompensate for the fact that they don't really know how to truly interact with others."
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U.K.’s deadly meningitis outbreak shows importance of vaccination ( 21.03.2026 12:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
Infectious disease experts say shots against meningococcal meningitis can be lifesaving during an outbreak, but U.S. regulators have attempted to roll back recommendations of such a vaccine for children
'That's why there's 9 billion of us and not 9 billion of some other primate': Why our ability to adapt is humanity's 'superpower' ( 21.03.2026 12:00:00 livescience.com)
Live Science spoke with Herman Pontzer, an evolutionary anthropologist and author of the book "Adaptable," about the science of human diversity.
Science news this week: Super El Niño looms, an Acropolis marble fragment resurfaces, and a pure hexagonal diamond is born ( 21.03.2026 12:00:00 livescience.com)
March 21, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
Restaurant Re-Deploys Robot After Dishware-Smashing Freakout ( 21.03.2026 12:00:00 futurism.com)
It got off easy.
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Brain’s protective barrier stays leaky for years after playing contact sports ( 21.03.2026 11:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
Damage to the blood-brain barrier is linked to immune changes and cognitive decline
Therapists Go on Strike, Saying They’re Being Replaced by AI ( 21.03.2026 11:00:00 futurism.com)
"There is a lot of fear and anxiety about AI, and in particular, fear around AI replacing jobs."
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GlassWorm malware hides in invisible open-source code ( 21.03.2026 10:30:00 scientificamerican.com)
A cybercrime campaign called GlassWorm is hiding malware in invisible characters and spreading it through software that millions of developers rely on
Atlassian in Trouble for Firing Employee Who Mouthed Off to CEO ( 21.03.2026 10:00:00 futurism.com)
One of Atlassian's core values: "Open company, no bulls**t."
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Staff at New Data Center Powered by Human Brain Cells Need to Swap Out Cerebrospinal Fluid Every Day ( 21.03.2026 09:00:00 futurism.com)
The cost of brain power.
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Why are humans the only species with a chin? ( 21.03.2026 09:00:00 livescience.com)
Potential explanations abound, yet recent research has shed new light on the question.
New pill cuts “bad” cholesterol by 60% in major trial ( 21.03.2026 08:04:04 sciencedaily.com)
A new pill, enlicitide, reduced LDL (“bad”) cholesterol by about 60% in a large clinical trial, matching the power of injectable therapies. Because it’s taken orally, it could overcome one of the biggest barriers keeping patients from using current treatments. Researchers say many people still don’t reach safe cholesterol levels—even on statins—highlighting the need for better options.
Large Hadron Collider Discovers All-New Particle ( 21.03.2026 08:00:00 futurism.com)
You'll be charmed by its quarks.
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New AI tool predicts cancer spread with surprising accuracy ( 21.03.2026 07:44:32 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers have discovered that cancer spread isn’t random—it follows a kind of biological “program.” By studying colon tumor cells, they identified gene patterns that signal whether a cancer is likely to metastasize. Their AI model, MangroveGS, can predict this risk with about 80% accuracy and even works across multiple cancer types. This could transform how doctors decide who needs aggressive treatment and who doesn’t.
Harvard engineers build chip that can twist and control light in real time ( 21.03.2026 07:34:39 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists at Harvard have built a miniature device that can twist and tune light in real time. By rotating two stacked photonic crystals and adjusting their spacing with a tiny mechanical system, they can control how light’s “handedness” behaves. This allows the chip to distinguish between left- and right-circular polarized light with remarkable precision. The advance could lead to smarter sensors, faster communications, and new quantum technologies.
Scientists just found a hidden 48-dimensional world in quantum light ( 21.03.2026 07:26:44 sciencedaily.com)
A routine quantum optics technique just revealed an extraordinary secret: entangled light can carry incredibly complex topological structures. Researchers found these hidden patterns reach up to 48 dimensions, offering a vast new “alphabet” for encoding quantum information. Unlike previous assumptions, this topology can emerge from a single property of light—orbital angular momentum.
Nvidia’s AI Yassification Feature Gives “Starfield” Character Grotesque “Giga-Nostril” ( 21.03.2026 07:00:00 futurism.com)
Applying a giga-nostril to spite their gamer fanbase.
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Rogue AI Agent Triggers Emergency at Meta ( 21.03.2026 06:00:00 futurism.com)
No user data, allegedly, was harmed in the making of this latest AI screw-up.
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This crocodile ran like a greyhound across prehistoric Britain 200 million years ago ( 21.03.2026 04:57:59 sciencedaily.com)
A newly discovered Triassic reptile from the UK looked more like a racing greyhound than a crocodile, built for speed on land. With long legs and a lightweight body, it hunted small animals in a dry, upland environment millions of years ago. Scientists identified it as a new species after spotting key differences in its fossils. It’s also a tribute to an inspiring teacher who helped spark a future scientist’s curiosity.
Tectonic shift: Earth was already moving 3.5 billion years ago ( 21.03.2026 03:37:27 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists have uncovered the oldest direct evidence yet that Earth’s tectonic plates were on the move 3.5 billion years ago. By analyzing magnetic fingerprints in ancient rocks, they reconstructed how parts of the planet slowly drifted and even rotated over time. This challenges long-standing ideas that early Earth may have had a rigid, unmoving surface. Instead, it suggests the planet was already dynamic—and possibly setting the stage for life—much earlier than expected.
NASA’s Hubble accidentally caught a comet breaking apart in real time ( 21.03.2026 01:26:48 sciencedaily.com)
In an incredibly lucky cosmic accident, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a comet breaking apart in real time—something astronomers have long tried and failed to observe. The comet, C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), wasn’t even the original target, but when researchers pivoted to it, they unknowingly caught it mid-disintegration into multiple pieces.
Scientists turn probiotic bacteria into tumor-hunting cancer killers ( 21.03.2026 01:26:09 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists have engineered probiotic bacteria to act as tumor-seeking drug factories. In mice, these bacteria infiltrated tumors and produced a cancer-fighting drug right where it was needed. This targeted approach could make treatments more effective and reduce side effects. More research is needed before it can be tested in people.
These “forever chemicals” could be weakening kids’ bones for life ( 21.03.2026 00:51:27 sciencedaily.com)
“Forever chemicals” may be affecting kids in ways that last a lifetime. A new study links early PFAS exposure to lower bone density during the teen years, especially in girls. Researchers also found that when exposure happens may play a key role. Reducing exposure during childhood could help protect long-term bone health.
Cannonball dating to the Alamo battle unearthed 1 day before 190th anniversary of the conflict that killed Davy Crockett ( 20.03.2026 19:49:03 livescience.com)
An intact bronze cannonball unearthed near the Alamo was likely used in the 1836 battle between Mexico and the Republic of Texas.
Extreme U.S. heat wave smashes all-time hottest March temperature record ( 20.03.2026 18:55:00 scientificamerican.com)
An astoundingly strong heat wave is not just setting records across the western U.S.—it’s pulverizing them
AI Aims for Autonomous Wheelchair Navigation ( 20.03.2026 18:49:12 spectrum.ieee.org)
Wheelchair users with severe disabilities can often navigate tight spaces better than most robotic systems can. A wave of new smart-wheelchair research, including findings presented in Anaheim, Calif., earlier this month, is now testing whether AI-powered systems can, or should, fully close this gap.Christian Mandel—senior researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Bremen, Germany—co-led a research team together with his colleague Serge Autexier that developed prototype sensor-equipped electric wheelchairs designed to navigate a roomful of potential obstacles. The researchers also tested a new safety system that integrated sensor data from the wheelchair and from sensors in the room, including from drone-based color and depth cameras.Mandel says the team’s smart wheelchairs were both semiautonomous and autonomous.“Semiautonomous is the shared control system where the person sitting in the wheelchair uses the joystick to drive,” Mandel says. “Fully autonomous is controlled by natural-language input. You say, ‘Please drive me to the coffee machine.’ ” This is a close-up of the wheelchair’s joystick and camera.DFKIThe researchers conducted experiments (part of a larger project called the Reliable and Explainable Swarm Intelligence for People With Reduced Mobility, or REXASI-PRO) using two identical smart wheelchairs that each contained two lidars, a 3D camera, odometers, user interfaces, and an embedded computer.In contrast to semiautonomous mode, where the participant controls the wheelchair with a joystick, in autonomous mode, control involves the open-source ROS2 Nav2 navigation system using natural-language input. The wheelchairs also used simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) maps and local obstacle-avoidance motion controllers.One scenario that Mandel and his team tested involved the user pressing a key on the wheelchair’s human-machine interface, speaking a command, then confirming or rejecting the instruction via that same interface. Once the user confirmed the command, the mobility device guided the user along a path to the destination, while sensors attempted to detect obstacles in the way and adjust the mobility device accordingly to avoid them.When Are Smart Wheelchairs Bad Value?According to Pooja Viswanathan, CEO & founder of the Toronto-based Braze Mobility, research in the field of mobile assistive technology should also prioritize keeping these devices readily available to everyday consumers.“Cost remains a major barrier,” she says. “Funding systems are often not designed to support advanced add-on intelligence unless there is very clear evidence of value and safety. Reliability is another barrier. A smart wheelchair has to work not just in ideal conditions, but in the messy, variable conditions of daily life. And there is also the human factors dimension. Users have different cognitive, motor, sensory, and environmental needs, so one solution rarely fits all.”For its part, Braze makes blind-spot sensors for electric wheelchairs. The sensors detect obstacles in areas that can be difficult for a user to see. The sensors can also be added to any wheelchair to transform it into a smart wheelchair by providing multimodal alerts to the user. This approach attempts to support users rather than replace them.According to Louise Devinge, a biomedical research engineer from IRISA (Research Institute of Computer Science and Random Systems) in Rennes, France, the increased complexity of smart wheelchairs demands more sensing. And that requires careful management of communication and synchronization within the wheelchair’s system. “The more sensing, computation, and autonomy you add,” she says, “the harder it becomes to ensure robust performance across the full range of real-world environments that wheelchair users encounter.”In the near term, in other words, the field’s biggest challenge is not about replacing the wheelchair user with AI smarts but rather about designing better partnerships between the user and the technology. This image shows data representations used by the 3D Driving Assistant. These include immutable sensor percepts such as laser scans and point clouds, as well as derived representations like the virtual laser scans and grid maps. Finally, the robot shape collection describes the wheelchair’s physical borders at different heights.DFKIWhere Will Smart Wheelchairs Go From Here?Mandel says he expects to see smart wheelchairs ready for the mainstream marketplace within 10 years.Viswanathan says the REXASI-PRO system, while out of reach of present-day smart wheelchair technologies, is important for the longer term. “It reflects the more ambitious end of the smart wheelchair spectrum,” she says. “Its strengths appear to lie in intelligent navigation, advanced sensing, and the broader effort to build a wheelchair that can interpret and respond to complex environments in a more autonomous way. From a research standpoint, that is exactly the kind of work that pushes the field forward. It also appears to take seriously the importance of trustworthy and explainable AI, which is essential in any mobility technology where safety, reliability, and user confidence are paramount.”Mandel says he’s ultimately in pursuit of the inspiration that got him into this field years ago. As a young researcher, he says, he helped develop a smart wheelchair system controllable with a head joystick.However, Mandel says he realized after many trials that the smart wheelchair system he was working on had a long way to go because, as he says, “at that point in time, I realized that even persons that had severe handicaps [traveling through] a narrow passage, they did very, very well.“And then I realized, okay, there is this need for this technology, but never underestimate what [wheelchair users] can do without it.”The DFKI researchers presented their work earlier this month at the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference in Anaheim, Calif.This article was supported by the IEEE Foundation and a Jon C. Taenzer fellowship grant.
IEEE Partners With Academia to Create Microcredential Programs ( 20.03.2026 18:00:04 spectrum.ieee.org)
The rapid ascent of artificial intelligence and semiconductor manufacturing has created a paradox: Industries are booming yet they face a critical shortage of skilled workers. Demand for data center technicians, fabrication facility workers, and similar positions is growing. There aren’t enough candidates with the right skill sets to fill the in-demand jobs.Although those technical roles are essential, they don’t always require a four-year degree—which has paved the way for skills-based microcredentials. By partnering with higher education institutions and training providers, industry leaders are helping to design targeted skills programs that quickly turn learners into job-ready technical professionals.The new standard for skills validationBecause microcredentials are relatively new, consistency is key. Through its credentialing program, IEEE serves as a bridge between academia and industry. Developed and managed by IEEE Educational Activities, the program offers standardized credentials in collaboration with training organizations and universities seeking to provide skills-based qualifications outside formal degree programs. IEEE, as the world’s largest technical professional organization, has more than 30 years of experience offering industry-relevant credentials and expertise in global standardization.IEEE is setting the benchmark for skills-based microcredentials by establishing a framework that includes assessment methods, qualifications for instructors and assessors, and criteria for skill levels.A recent collaboration with the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, for example, developed microcredentials for USC’s semiconductor cleanroom program. USC heads the CA Dreams microelectronics innovation hub.“The IEEE framework allows us to rapidly prototype training programs and adapt on the fly in a way that building new university courses—much less degree programs—won’t allow.” —Adam StiegIEEE worked with USC to create standardized skills assessments and associated microcredentials so that industry hiring managers can recognize the newly developed skills. The microcredentials help people with or without four-year degrees join the semiconductor industry as cleanroom technicians or as engineers with cleanroom experience.IEEE also has partnered with the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, to create skills-based microcredentials for its cleanroom protocol and safety program.Best practices for designing microcredentialsBased on IEEE’s work designing microcredentials with USC, UCLA, and other leading academic institutions, three best practices have emerged.1. Align with industry needs before design.Collaborate with industry prior to starting the design process. There isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach. Workforce needs vary based on industry sector, company size, and geography. Higher education institutions and training providers build relationships with companies and industry groups to create effective microcredential programs and methods of assessment.2. Build for flexibility.Traditional academic cycles can be slow, but technology moves fast. A flexible skills-based microcredentials framework allows programs to create or pivot as new breakthroughs occur.“Setting up a credit-bearing course is not easy. And in a rapidly changing environment, you need to pivot quickly,” says Adam Stieg, research scientist and associate director at UCLA’s CNSI. “IEEE skills-based microcredentials are a flexible way to keep up our curriculum aligned with an evolving technology landscape.”Stieg’s team worked with IEEE to build a framework to create microcredentials for its cleanroom protocol and safety program, ensuring it kept pace with the industry’s evolution.“The IEEE framework allows us to rapidly prototype training programs and adapt on the fly,” he says, “in a way that building new university courses—much less degree programs—won’t allow.”3. Implement a continuous-feedback loop.Many of the technical roles companies are looking to fill in emerging fields such as AI, cybersecurity, and semiconductors are still being developed or are quickly evolving. The rapidly changing landscape requires continual communications and feedback among higher education, training providers, and industry.“We struggle to have feedback loops through the education system to the industry and back again,” says Matt Francis, president and CEO of Ozark Integrated Circuits, in Fayetteville, Ark. Francis, who has served as IEEE Region 5 director, is an IEEE volunteer who supports workforce development for the semiconductor industry.Creating consistent feedback loops is critical for generating consensus on the skills sets needed for microcredential programs, experts say, and it allows providers to update assessments as new tools and safety protocols enter the workplace.“If we start thinking about having training frameworks used within companies that are essentially on some sort of standard and align with a microcredential, we can start to build consensus,” Francis says.Getting startedThrough its credentialing program, IEEE is helping higher education and industry work together to bridge the technical workforce skills gap. Contact its team to learn how IEEE skills-based microcredentials can help you fill your workforce pipeline.
Rival ‘shadow’ group to RFK, Jr.’s autism science committee meets in D.C. ( 20.03.2026 16:45:00 scientificamerican.com)
Autism researchers are working to counter a federal autism advisory panel that they say has vaccine skeptic members and a “striking absence of scientific expertise”
NASA's Artemis II rocket rolls to launch pad in final bid to meet April deadline ( 20.03.2026 16:12:11 livescience.com)
A series of leaks means the coming launch window will be NASA's final attempt to meet its April mission deadline.
CEO Says He’ll Hire Anyone Who Can Vibe Code With AI, Regardless of Actual Skill ( 20.03.2026 16:04:59 futurism.com)
"We're very much now looking for people who are much more within that vibe coding space."
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Teens Are Using AI to Create “Slander” Videos of Their Teachers ( 20.03.2026 15:13:26 futurism.com)
Cruel and unusual.
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Human-driven climate change is slowing Earth's rotation at a rate not seen in 3.6 million years ( 20.03.2026 15:02:57 livescience.com)
Today's sea level rise is significant enough to slow the rotation of the planet by just over a millisecond per century.
A gene carried by 99% of humanity raises Alzheimer's risk dramatically. Could gene therapy correct it? ( 20.03.2026 15:00:00 livescience.com)
New research suggests that a single gene may play an outsize role in developing Alzheimer's, which suggests gene therapy for the condition could reach many people.
Agnes Pockels’ pioneering work was unfairly dismissed by tropes about women’s domestic roles ( 20.03.2026 15:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
Agnes Pockels achievements in surface science have long been overshadowed by a popular and likely untrue story that she became interested in the subject while doing the dishes
How accurate is the science in Project Hail Mary? ( 20.03.2026 15:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
This science-fiction movie plays with quantum physics, space travel, astrobiology and mass-to-energy conversion
Scientists Bring Mouse Brains Back to Life After “Cryosleep” Deep Freeze ( 20.03.2026 14:03:25 futurism.com)
"If brain function is an emergent property of its physical structure, how can we recover it from complete shutdown?"
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I was at ground zero for the AIDS epidemic. RFK's cuts could fuel a new pandemic, just when elimination seemed within reach. ( 20.03.2026 14:00:00 livescience.com)
RFK Jr.'s cutbacks may leave us near-defenseless against HIV spread, but moments in the past show how we can stop the seemingly inevitable.
Novel Pulled From Shelves After Author Is Accused of Using AI ( 20.03.2026 13:03:12 futurism.com)
Yoink!
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Live Science Today: Monte Verde controversy and heatwave lashes the West ( 20.03.2026 12:10:25 livescience.com)
Friday, March 20, 2026: Your daily roundup of the biggest science stories making headlines.
Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns ( 20.03.2026 12:09:51 futurism.com)
"Chatbots seem to encourage, or at least play a role in, delusional spirals that people are experiencing."
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The first flying taxis could start operating in 2026 — will this new form of transport actually take off? ( 20.03.2026 12:00:00 livescience.com)
Flying cars have been on the cusp of a breakthrough for a while, so what's stopping them from taking to the skies?
Blockchain Slumlord Startup Implodes in Real Time ( 20.03.2026 11:02:10 futurism.com)
"This place is literally a slum."
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Unusual burials of Celtic 'warriors' discovered in France point to violent deaths ( 20.03.2026 11:00:00 livescience.com)
Archaeologists have unearthed a Celtic cemetery in France that holds 18 unusual seated burials.
What’s the most massive star in the universe? ( 20.03.2026 10:45:00 scientificamerican.com)
Just how big can a star become? The answer depends on when in cosmic history you’re asking the question
Self-Driving Cars Slated to Clog Roads With Horrendous Congestion ( 20.03.2026 10:07:44 futurism.com)
Self-driving or not, they all share the same roads.
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The real science (and the fun fiction) behind Project Hail Mary ( 20.03.2026 10:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
The author of the novel Project Hail Mary breaks down aliens, anxiety and the process of bringing his story to the screen
Man Caught Using Smart Glasses to Get Advice While Being Cross-Examined in Court ( 20.03.2026 09:04:05 futurism.com)
Busted!
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Closing your eyes to hear better might be a big mistake ( 20.03.2026 07:49:51 sciencedaily.com)
Many people believe closing their eyes sharpens hearing, but that is not always true. In noisy settings, participants struggled more to hear faint sounds with their eyes closed, while matching visuals made it easier. Researchers found that shutting the eyes leads the brain to over-filter incoming sounds. Keeping your eyes open may actually improve how well you hear in noise.
Influential vaccine advisory panel ACIP may be ‘disbanded’ after lawsuit, says former vice chair ( 19.03.2026 20:53:00 scientificamerican.com)
For years, ACIP has advised U.S. vaccine policy. But after changes to its membership made by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., were challenged in court, the Trump administration is apparently mulling changing tack
What animal are you? Humans and animals tend to like the same mating calls ( 19.03.2026 18:50:00 scientificamerican.com)
Whether it’s a canary’s chirp or a treefrog’s croak, humans tend to prefer many of the same sounds that animals do themselves, a new study finds
Should compulsive shopping and gaming be considered an addiction? Psychiatrists are considering expanding the definition. ( 19.03.2026 18:00:07 livescience.com)
Mental health professionals recognize problematic gambling as an addiction. Should the same apply to excessive gaming, compulsive sexual behavior and problematic social media use?
First Americans quiz: How much do you know about the first people to reach the Americas? ( 19.03.2026 18:00:00 livescience.com)
The first Americans came over during the last ice age, but how much do you know about them?
When did plate tectonics on Earth begin? New research finds some of the earliest clues ( 19.03.2026 18:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years
Monte Verde, one of the earliest Indigenous sites in South America, is much younger than thought, study claims. But others call it 'egregiously poor geological work.' ( 19.03.2026 18:00:00 livescience.com)
A new analysis of archaeological layers at Monte Verde in Chile suggests that people lived there 4,200 years ago, not 14,500 years ago as originally proposed. But many experts point to errors in the methods.
1,800-year-old nails discovered in 3 burials in Roman necropolis, possibly to 'protect' both the living and the dead ( 19.03.2026 16:35:49 livescience.com)
Archaeologists excavating in Rome's Ostiense necropolis found three skeletons with iron nails on their chests, hinting at a ritual to prevent restless spirits.
How the Project Hail Mary directors brought science to the big screen ( 19.03.2026 16:33:00 scientificamerican.com)
Project Hail Mary directors Christopher Miller and Phil Lord talk about astrobiology, optimistic science fiction, heist films and handsome scientists
'Dark oxygen' discovery on the seafloor is 'fundamentally at odds with thermodynamics' and should be retracted, experts say ( 19.03.2026 16:24:14 livescience.com)
In a recent opinion article, marine scientists and electrochemists listed a number of reasons why it's unlikely that metallic nodules on the deep seafloor could produce oxygen in total darkness.
Drug retatrutide helps people lower blood sugar and lose weight, clinical trial results show ( 19.03.2026 16:15:00 scientificamerican.com)
Retatrutide is among a new class of weight-loss drugs that are being tested for effectiveness
A Grim Truth Is Emerging in Employers’ AI Experiments ( 19.03.2026 16:03:44 futurism.com)
"Those are foundational problems no one has solved in LLM technology. And you want to tell me that's not going to manifest in code quality problems?"
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The world’s happiest countries report calls attention to youth well-being ( 19.03.2026 15:40:00 scientificamerican.com)
An annual world happiness ranking for 2026 explores how the use of social media influences well-being
Polymarket Announces New Bar For Degenerate War Profiteers ( 19.03.2026 14:59:48 futurism.com)
"Can we bet on when the bar goes out of business or how many women get roofied there?"
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Nigerian Firms Embrace Kit-Based EV Assembly for Cost Savings ( 19.03.2026 14:45:05 spectrum.ieee.org)
A growing number of Nigerian companies are turning to kit-based assembly to bring electric vehicles to market in Africa. Lagos-based Saglev Micromobility Nigeria recently partnered with Dongfeng Motor Corp., in Wuhan, China, to assemble 18-seat electric passenger vans from imported kits.Kit-based assembly allows Nigerian firms to reduce costs, create jobs, and develop local technical expertise—key steps toward expanding EV access. Fully assembled and imported EVs face high tariffs that put them out of reach for many African consumers, whereas kit-based approaches make electric mobility more affordable today. Saglev’s initiative reflects a broader trend: CIG Motors, NEV Electric, and regional players in Côte D’Ivoire, Ghana, and Kenya are also leveraging imported kits to build local EV ecosystems, signaling that parts of West Africa are intent on catching up with global electrification efforts.Expanding the Local EV EcosystemCIG Motors operates a kit-assembly plant in Lagos producing vehicles from Chinese automakers GAC Motor and Wuling Motors. These vehicles include the Wuling Bingo, a compact five-door electric hatchback, and the Hongguang Mini EV Macaron, a microcar with roughly 200 kilometers of range aimed at ride-share operators looking for ultralow-cost urban transport. NEV Electric focuses on electric buses and three-wheelers for urban transit and last-mile delivery.Saglev’s CEO, Olu Faleye, emphasizes that Nigeria’s EV transition addresses both practical economic needs in addition to environmental goals. Beyond passenger transport, electric vehicles could help reduce one of Nigeria’s persistent agricultural challenges: postharvest spoilage. Nigeria loses an estimated 30 million to 40 million tonnes of food annually because of weak logistics and limited refrigeration infrastructure, according to the Organization for Technology Advancement of Cold Chain in West Africa.Electric vans, minitrucks, and three-wheel cargo vehicles could help close this gap because their batteries can power refrigeration systems during transport without relying on costly diesel fuel. As EV adoption grows and charging infrastructure expands, temperature-controlled transport could become more affordable, reducing spoilage, improving farmer incomes, and helping stabilize food supplies, the organization says.“I don’t believe that the promised land is making a fully built EV on the ground here.” –Olu Faleye, Saglev CEOBeyond Nigeria, Mombasa, Kenya–based Associated Vehicle Assemblers has begun making electric taxis and minibuses from imported kits, and Ghana’s government is spurring kit-car assembly there under its national Automotive Development Plan. In Ghana, assemblers benefit from import-duty exemptions on kits and equipment, corporate tax breaks, and access to industrial infrastructure. Saglev is already availing itself of those benefits, at its kit-assembly plant in Accra, Ghana. The company says it also plans to expand its assembly operations to Côte D’Ivoire.Infrastructure Challenges and WorkaroundsDespite these signs that West Africa’s EV ecosystem is gaining traction, limited grid reliability and sparse public charging infrastructure remain major barriers to widespread EV adoption. Urban households in Nigeria experience roughly six or seven blackouts per week, each lasting about 12 hours, according to Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics. That’s more downtime each day than the average U.S. household experiences in a year. More than 40 percent of households rely on generators, which supply about 44 percent of residential electricity, according to research by Stears and Sterling Bank.Many early EV adopters therefore charge vehicles using gasoline or diesel generators. Faleye notes that Nigerians have long relied on such workarounds and expects fossil fuels to remain part of the EV charging equation for the foreseeable future—at least until falling costs for solar panels and battery storage make cleaner charging viable.He acknowledges that charging EVs using hydrocarbons is fraught from an environmental perspective, but he points out that the practice at least brings other benefits of EVs, including lower maintenance costs and the EVs’ synergies with refrigeration and transportation logistics. And he points to a 2020 peer-reviewed study in the journal Environmental and Climate Technologies that compared the overall efficiency of internal combustion vehicles and electric vehicles across the full well-to-wheel energy chain. The study’s conclusion: Even after accounting for conversion losses, generating electricity with a diesel or gasoline generator to power an electric vehicle can remain just as efficient overall as burning the same fuel directly in a vehicle’s internal combustion engine. Workers at Saglev’s Lagos, Nigeria, EV assembly plant put the finishing touches on partially assembled vehicle kits imported from China. Saglev Scalable EV Adoption in NigeriaThe approach taken by Saglev and other Nigerian kit-car builders shows how local assembly can advance EV adoption even where infrastructure remains unreliable. By starting with kits, companies can deploy practical electric mobility solutions now while building the supply chains and technical expertise needed for more resource-intensive localized production.Still, when asked whether Saglev plans to eventually move beyond kit assembly to independent design and manufacturing of EVs, Faleye calls such a move impractical.“I don’t believe that the promised land is making a fully built EV on the ground here,” he says. “For me to do efficient vehicle manufacturing, I’d need a lot of robotics and 3D printing. That expense is unnecessary—it would just increase costs and make EVs more expensive.”In a country where electricity can disappear for days, Nigeria’s kit-based EV strategy highlights a practical truth: Incremental progress and ingenuity may matter more than perfect infrastructure. For Saglev, every kit-based vehicle rolling off the line is not just a van or bus—it’s a step toward an EV ecosystem that works for Nigeria’s realities today.
Try these language puzzles from North America’s biggest linguistics competition ( 19.03.2026 14:30:00 scientificamerican.com)
For 20 years, this computational linguistics competition has inspired new generations of innovators in AI and language preservation
Encyclopedia Britannica Hits OpenAI With Scary Lawsuit ( 19.03.2026 14:06:04 futurism.com)
OpenAI is getting the book thrown at them.
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Grab Your Betrayal-Themed Popcorn Buckets, Because Microsoft Is Threatening to Sue OpenAI ( 19.03.2026 13:08:30 futurism.com)
If OpenAI breaches Microsoft's contract, "we will sue them."
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CEO of AI Company Says Gen Z Needs to Get Ready for 30 Percent Unemployment ( 19.03.2026 12:05:59 futurism.com)
"We will have billions of users in the next several years that we could never have gotten from human beings."
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How Your Virtual Twin Could One Day Save Your Life ( 19.03.2026 12:00:05 spectrum.ieee.org)
One morning in May 2019, a cardiac surgeon stepped into the operating room at Boston Children’s Hospital more prepared than ever before to perform a high-risk procedure to rebuild a child’s heart. The surgeon was experienced, but he had an additional advantage: He had already performed the procedure on this child dozens of times—virtually. He knew exactly what to do before the first cut was made. Even more important, he knew which strategies would provide the best possible outcome for the child whose life was in his hands.How was this possible? Over the prior weeks, the hospital’s surgical and cardio-engineering teams had come together to build a fully functioning model of the child’s heart and surrounding vascular system from MRI and CT scans. They began by carefully converting the medical imaging into a 3D model, then used physics to bring the 3D heart to life, creating a dynamic digital replica of the patient’s physiology. The mock-up reproduced this particular heart’s unique behavior, including details of blood flow, pressure differentials, and muscle-tissue stresses.This type of model, known as a virtual twin, can do more than identify medical problems—it can provide detailed diagnostic insights. In Boston, the team used the model to predict how the child’s heart would respond to any cut or stitch, allowing the surgeon to test many strategies to find the best one for this patient’s exact anatomy.That day, the stakes were high. With the patient’s unique condition—a heart defect in which large holes between the atria and ventricles were causing blood to flow between all four chambers—there was no manual or textbook to fully guide the doctors. The condition strains the lungs, so the doctors planned an open-heart surgery to reroute deoxygenated blood from the lower body directly to the lungs, bypassing the heart. Typically with this kind of surgery, decisions would be made on the fly, under demanding conditions, and with high uncertainty. But in this case, the plan had been tested in advance, and the entire team had rehearsed it before the first incision. The surgery was a complete success.Such procedures have become routine at the Boston hospital. Since that first patient, nearly 2,000 procedures have been guided by virtual-twin modeling. This is the power of the technology behind the Living Heart Project, which I launched in 2014, five years before that first procedure. The project started as an exploratory initiative to see if modeling the human heart was possible. Now with more than 150 member organizations across 28 countries, the project includes dozens of multidisciplinary teams that regularly use multiscale virtual twins of the heart and other vital organs.This technology is reshaping how we understand and treat the human body. To reach this transformative moment, we had to solve a fundamental challenge: building a digital heart accurate enough—and trustworthy enough—to guide real clinical decisions.A father’s concernNow entering its second decade, the Living Heart Project was born in part from a personal conviction. For many years, I had watched helplessly as my daughter Jesse faced endless diagnostic uncertainty due to a rare congenital heart condition in which the position of the ventricles is reversed, threatening her life as she grew. As an engineer, I understood that the heart was an array of pumping chambers, controlled by an electrical signal and its blood flow carefully regulated by valves. Yet I struggled to grasp the unique structure and behavior of my daughter’s heart well enough to contribute meaningfully to her care. Her specialists knew the bleak forecast children like her faced if left untreated, but because every heart with her condition is anatomically unique, they had little more than their best guesses to guide their decisions about what to do and when to do it. With each specialist, a new guess.Then my engineering curiosity sparked a question that has guided my career ever since: Why can’t we simulate the human body the way we simulate a car or a plane? At a visualization center in Boston, VR imagery helps the mother of a young girl with a complex heart defect understand the inner workings of her child’s heart. Dassault SystèmesI had spent my career developing powerful computational tools to help engineers build digital models of complex mechanical systems, using models that ranged from the interactions of individual atoms to the components of entire vehicles. What most of these models had in common was the use of physics to predict behavior and optimize performance. But in medicine today, those same physics-based approaches rarely inform decision-making. In most clinical settings, treatment decisions still hinge on judgments drawn from static 2D images, statistical guidelines, and retrospective studies.This was not always the case. Historically, physics was central to medicine. The word “physician” itself traces back to the Latin physica, which translates to “natural science.” Early doctors were, in a sense, applied physicists. They understood the heart as a pump, the lungs as bellows, and the body as a dynamic system. To be a physician meant you were a master of physics as it applied to the human body.As medicine matured, biology and chemistry grew to dominate the field, and the knowledge of physics got left behind. But for patients like my daughter, that child in Boston, and millions like them, outcomes are governed by mechanics. No pill or ointment—no chemistry-based solution—would help, only physics. While I did not realize it at the time, virtual twins can reunite modern physicians with their roots, using engineering principles, simulation science, and artificial intelligence.A decade of progressThe LHP concept was simple: Could we combine what hundreds of experts across many specialties knew about the human heart to build a digital twin accurate enough to be trusted, flexible enough to personalize, and predictive enough to guide clinical care?We invited researchers, clinicians, device and drug companies, and government regulators to share their data, tools, and knowledge toward a common goal that would lift the entire field of medicine. The Living Heart Project launched with a dozen or so institutions on board. Within a year, we had created the first fully functional virtual twin of the human heart.The Living Heart was not an anatomical rendering, tuned to simply replicate what we observed. It was a first-principles model, coupling the network of fibers in the heart’s electrical system, the biological battery that keeps us alive, with the heart’s mechanical response, the muscle contractions that we know as the heartbeat. The Living Heart virtual twin simulates how the heart beats, offering different views to help scientists and doctors better predict how it will respond to disease or treatment. The center view shows the fine engineering mesh, the detailed framework that allows computers to model the heart’s motion. The image on the right uses colors to show the electrical wave that drives the heartbeat as it conducts through the muscle, and the image on the left shows how much strain is on the tissue as it stretches and squeezes. Dassault Systèmes Academic researchers had long explored computational models of the heart, but those projects were typically limited by the technology they had access to. Our version was built on industrial-grade simulation software from Dassault Systèmes, a company best known for modeling tools used in aerospace and automotive engineering, where I was working to develop the engineering simulation division. This platform gave teams the tools to personalize an individual heart model using the patient’s MRI and CT data, blood-pressure readings, and echocardiogram measurements, directly linking scans to simulations.Surgeons then began using the Living Heart to model procedures. Device makers used it to design and test implants. Pharmaceutical companies used it to evaluate drug effects such as toxicity. Hundreds of publications have emerged from the project, and because they all share the same foundation, the findings can be reproduced, reused, and built upon. With each application, the research community’s understanding of the heart snowballed.Early on, we also addressed an essential requirement for these innovations to make it to patients: regulatory acceptance. Within the project’s first year, the U.S Food and Drug Administration agreed to join the project as an observer. Over the next several years, methods for using virtual-heart models as scientific evidence began to take shape within regulatory research programs. In 2019, we formalized a second five-year collaboration with the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health with a specific goal.That goal was to use the heart model to create a virtual patient population and re-create a pivotal trial of a previously approved device for repairing the heart’s mitral valve. This helped our team learn how to create such a population, and let the FDA experiment with evaluating virtual evidence as a replacement for evidence from flesh-and-blood patients. In August 2024, we published the results, creating the first FDA-led guidelines for in silico clinical trials and establishing a new paradigm for streamlining and reducing risk in the entire clinical-trial process.In 10 years, we went from a concept that many people doubted could be achieved to regulatory reality. But building the heart was only the beginning. Following the template set by the heart team, we’ve expanded the project to develop virtual twins of other organs, including the lungs, liver, brain, eyes, and gut. Each corresponds to a different medical domain, which has its own community, data types, and clinical use cases. Working independently, these teams are progressing toward a breakthrough in our understanding of the human body: a multiscale, modular twin platform where each organ twin could plug into a unified virtual human.How a digital twin of the heart is constructedA cardiac digital twin starts with medical imaging, typically MRI, CT, or both. The slices are reconstructed into the 3D geometry of the heart and connected vessels. The geometry of the whole organ must then be segmented into its constituent parts, so each substructure—atria, ventricles, valves, and so on—can be assigned their unique properties.At this point, the object is converted to a functional, computational model that can represent how the various cardiac tissues deform under load—the mechanics. The complete digital twin model becomes “living” when we integrate the electrical fiber network that drives mechanical contractions in the muscle tissue. Each part of the heart, such as the left ventricle [left], is superimposed with a detailed digital mesh to re-create its physiology. These pieces come together to form an anatomically accurate rendering of the whole organ [right].Dassault SystèmesTo simulate circulation, the twin adds computational models of hemodynamics, the physics of blood flow and pressure. The model is constrained by boundary conditions of blood flow, valve behavior, and vascular resistance set to closely match human physiology. This lets the model predict blood flow patterns, pressure differentials, and tissue stresses.Finally, the model is personalized and calibrated using available patient data, such as how much the volume of the heart chambers changes during the cardiac cycle, pressure measurements, and the timing of electrical pulses. This means the twin reflects not only the patient’s anatomy but how their specific heart functions.Building bigger cohorts with generative AIWhen the FDA in silico clinical trial initiative launched in 2019, the project’s focus shifted from these handcrafted virtual twins of specific patients to cohorts large enough to stand in for entire trial populations. That scale is feasible today only because virtual twins have converged with generative AI. Modeling thousands of patients’ responses to a treatment or projecting years of disease progression is prohibitively slow with conventional digital-twin simulations. Generative AI removes that bottleneck.AI boosts the capability of virtual twins in two complementary ways. First, machine learning algorithms are unrivaled at integrating the patchwork of imaging, sensor, and clinical records needed to build a high-fidelity twin. The algorithms rapidly search thousands of model permutations, benchmark each against patient data, and converge on the most accurate representation. Workflows that once required months of manual tuning can now be completed in days, making it realistic to spin up population-scale cohorts or to personalize a single twin on the fly in the clinic.Second, enriching AI models’ training sets with data from validated virtual patients grounds the AI simulations in physics. By contrast, many conventional AI predictions for patient trajectories rely on statistical modeling trained on retrospective datasets. Such models can drift beyond physiological reality, but virtual twins anchor predictions in the laws of hemodynamics, electrophysiology, and tissue mechanics. This added rigor is indispensable for both research and clinical care—especially in areas where real-world data are scarce, whether because a disease is rare or because certain patient populations, such as children, are underrepresented in existing datasets.Enabling in silico clinical trialsOn the research side, the FDA-sponsored In Silico Clinical Trial Project that we completed in 2024 opened a new world for medical innovations. A conventional clinical trial may take a decade, and 90 percent of new drug treatments fail in the process. Virtual twins, combined with AI methods, allow researchers to design and test treatments quickly in a simulated human environment. With a small library of virtual twins, AI models can rapidly create expansive virtual patient cohorts to cover any subset of the general population. As clinical data becomes available, it can be added into the training set to increase reliability and enable better predictions. The Living Heart Project has expanded beyond the heart, modeling organs throughout the body. The 3D brain reconstruction [top] shows major pathways in the brain’s white matter connecting color-coded regions of the brain. The lung virtual twin [middle] combines the organ’s geometry with a physics-based simulation of air flowing down the trachea and into the bronchi. And the cross section of a patient’s foot [bottom] shows points of strain in the soft tissue when bearing weight. Dassault SystèmesVirtual twin cohorts can represent a realistic population by building individual “virtual patients” that vary by age, gender, race, weight, disease state, comorbidities, and lifestyle factors. These twins can be used as a rich training set for the AI model, which can expand the cohort from dozens to hundreds of thousands. Next the virtual cohort can be filtered to identify patients likely to respond to a treatment, increasing the chances of a successful trial for the target population.The trial design can also include a sampling of patient types less likely to respond or with elevated risk factors, thus allowing regulators and clinicians to understand the risks to the broader population without jeopardizing overall trial success. This methodology enhances precision and efficiency in clinical research, providing population-level insights previously available only after many years of real-world evidence.Of course, though today’s heart digital twins are powerful, they’re not perfect replicas. Their accuracy is bounded by three main factors: what we can measure (for example, image resolution or the uncertainty of how tissue behaves in real life), what we must assume about the physiology, and what we can validate against real outcomes. Many inputs, like scarring, microvascular function, or drug effects are difficult to capture clinically, so models often rely on population data or indirect estimation. That means predictions can be highly reliable for certain questions but remain less certain for others. Additionally, today’s digital twins lack validation for predicting long-term outcomes years in the future, because the technology has been in use for only a few years.Over time, each of these limitations will steadily shrink. Richer, more standardized data will tighten personalization of the models. AI tools will help automate labor-intensive steps. And the collection of longitudinal data will improve the model’s ability to reliably predict how the body will evolve over time.How virtual twins will change health careThroughout modern medicine, new technologies have sharpened our ability to diagnose, providing ever-clearer images, lab data, and analytics that tell physicians what is presently happening inside a patient’s body. Virtual twins shift that paradigm, giving clinicians a predictive tool. This “Living Lung” virtual-twin simulation shows strain patterns during breathing. Mona Eskandari/UC Riverside Early demonstrations are already appearing in many areas of medicine, including cardiology, orthopedics, and oncology. Soon, doctors will also be able to collaborate across specialties, using a patient-specific virtual twin as the common ground for discussing potential interactions or side effects they couldn’t predict independently.Although these applications will take some time to become the standard in clinical care, more changes are on the horizon. Real-time data from wearables, for example, could continuously update a patient’s personalized virtual twin. This approach could empower patients to understand and engage more deeply in their care, as they could see the direct effects of medical and lifestyle changes. In parallel, their doctors could get comprehensive data feeds, using virtual twins to monitor progress.Imagine a digital companion that shows how your particular heart will react to different amounts of salt intake, stress, or sleep deprivation. Or a visual explanation of how your upcoming surgery will affect your circulation or breathing. Virtual twins could demystify the body for patients, fostering trust and encouraging proactive health decisions.How are virtual twins being used in medicine?Virtual twins have guided cardiovascular surgeries, providing predictions and exposing hidden details that even expert clinicians might miss, such as subtle tissue responses and flow dynamics.Oncologists are modeling tumor growth and the body’s response to different therapies, reducing the uncertainty in choosing the best treatment path for both medical and quality-of-life metrics.Orthopedic specialists are personalizing implants to deliver custom-made solutions, considering not only the local environment but also the overall body kinematics that will govern long-term outcomes.A new era of healingWith the Living Heart Project, we’re bringing physics back to physicians. Modern physicians won’t need to be physicists, any more than they need to be chemists to use pharmacology. However, to benefit from the new technology, they will need to adapt their approach to care.This means no longer seeing the body as a collection of discrete organs and considering only symptoms, but instead viewing it as a dynamic system that can be understood, and in most cases, guided toward health. It means no longer guessing what might work but knowing—because the simulation has already shown the result. By better integrating engineering principles into medicine, we can redefine it as a field of precision, rooted in the unchanging laws of nature. The modern physician will be a true physicist of the body and an engineer of health.
Things Are Suddenly Looking Incredibly Bad for Trump’s Social Media Company ( 19.03.2026 11:01:25 futurism.com)
It's circling the drain.
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Gerd Faltings, mathematician who proved the Mordell conjecture, wins the Abel Prize at age 71 ( 19.03.2026 11:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
The Mordell conjecture—now known as Faltings’s theorem—concerns the number of special points on a curve
The math of March Madness brackets ( 19.03.2026 11:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
When can mathematicians reverse engineer basketball tournament results from your friends’ brackets?
Something extremely weird is happening to our galactic neighbor. Scientists think they know why ( 19.03.2026 10:30:00 scientificamerican.com)
The stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud aren’t behaving the way they should. A cataclysmic collision with another nearby galaxy may be the culprit
“Educational” YouTube AI Slop Encourages Kids to Play in Traffic ( 19.03.2026 10:03:19 futurism.com)
"I think of this as toddler AI misinformation at an industrial scale."
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Overcoming Core Engineering Barriers in Humanoid Robotics Development ( 19.03.2026 10:00:05 content.knowledgehub.wiley.com)
A technical examination of the sensing, motion control, power, and thermal challenges facing humanoid robotics engineers — with component-level design strategies for real-world deployment.What Attendees will LearnWhy motion control remains the hardest unsolved problem — Explore the modelling complexity, real-time feedback requirements, and sensor fusion demands of maintaining stable bipedal locomotion across dynamic environments.How sensing architectures enable perception and safety — Understand the role of inertial measurement units, force/torque feedback, and tactile sensing in achieving reliable human-robot interaction and collision avoidance.What power and thermal constraints mean for system design — Examine the trade-offs in battery chemistry selection (LFP vs. NCA), DC/DC converter topologies, and thermal protection strategies that determine operational endurance.How the industry is transitioning from prototype to mass production — Learn about the shift toward modular architectures, cost-driven component selection, and supply chain readiness projected for the late 2020s.Download this free whitepaper now!
Delivery Robot Dogpiled on the Streets of Philly ( 19.03.2026 09:06:40 futurism.com)
"ROB HIM OF HIS COPPER IMMEDIATELY."
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Modern rocketry turns 100—and NASA says the best is yet to come ( 18.03.2026 18:30:00 scientificamerican.com)
A century after Robert Goddard’s first-ever launch of a liquid-fueled rocket, two NASA experts weigh in on what his legacy still holds for spaceflight’s future
There might be less water on the moon than we’d hoped ( 18.03.2026 18:03:00 scientificamerican.com)
New satellite data come up dry as the search for lunar ice continues
ENIAC, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80 ( 18.03.2026 18:00:05 spectrum.ieee.org)
Happy 80th anniversary, ENIAC! The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first large-scale, general-purpose, programmable electronic digital computer, helped shape our world.On 15 February 1946, ENIAC—developed in the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia—was publicly demonstrated for the first time. Although primitive by today’s standards, ENIAC’s purely electronic design and programmability were breakthroughs in computing at the time. ENIAC made high-speed, general-purpose computing practicable and laid the foundation for today’s machines.On the eve of its unveiling, the U.S. Department of War issued a news release hailing it as a new machine “expected to revolutionize the mathematics of engineering and change many of our industrial design methods.” Without a doubt, electronic computers have transformed engineering and mathematics, as well as practically every other domain, including politics and spirituality.ENIAC’s success ushered the modern computing industry and laid the foundation for today’s digital economy. During the past eight decades, computing has grown from a niche scientific endeavor into an engine of economic growth, the backbone of billion-dollar enterprises, and a catalyst for global innovation. Computing has led to a chain of innovations and developments such as stored programs, semiconductor electronics, integrated circuits, networking, software, the Internet, and distributed large-scale systems.Inside the ENIACThe motivation for developing ENIAC was the need for faster computation during World War II. The U.S. military wanted to produce extensive artillery firing tables for field gunners to quickly determine settings for a specific weapon, a target, and conditions. Calculating the tables by hand took “human computers” several days, and the available mechanical machines were far too slow to meet the demand.80 Years of Electronic Computer Milestones 1946ENIAC operationalBirth of electronic computing1951UNIVAC IStart of commercial computing1958Integrated circuitFoundation for modern computer hardware1964IBM System/360Popular mainframe computer1970Programmed Data Processor (PDP-11)Popular 16-bit minicomputer1971Intel 4004Beginning of the microprocessor and microcomputer era1975Cray-1First supercomputer1977VAXPopular 32-bit minicomputer1981IBM PCPersonal and small-business computing1989World Wide WebDigital communication, interaction, and transaction (e-commerce)2002Amazon Web ServicesBeginning of the cloud computing revolution2010Apple iPadHandheld computer/tablet2010Industry 4.0Delivered real-time decision-making, smart manufacturing, and logistics2016First reprogrammable quantum computer demonstratedIgnited interest in quantum computing2023Generative AI boomWidespread use of GenAI by individuals, businesses, and academia2026ENIAC’s 80th anniversary80 years of computing evolutionIn 1942 John Mauchly, an associate professor of electrical engineering at Penn’s Moore School, suggested using vacuum tubes to speed up computer calculations. Following up on his theory, the U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, which was responsible for providing artillery settings to soldiers in the field, commissioned Mauchly and his colleagues J. Presper Eckert and Adele Katz Goldstine, to work on a new high-speed computer. Eckert was a lab instructor at Moore, and Goldstine became one of ENIAC’s programmers. It took them a year to design ENIAC and 18 months to build it.The computer contained about 18,000 vacuum tubes, which were cooled by 80 air blowers. More than 30 meters long, it filled a 9 m by 15 m room and weighed about 30 kilograms. It consumed as much electricity as a small town.Programming the machine was difficult. ENIAC did not have stored programs, so to reprogram the machine, operators manually reconfigured cables with switches and plugboards, a process that took several days.By the 1950s, large universities either had acquired or built their own machines to rival ENIAC. The schools included Cambridge (EDSAC), MIT (Whirlwind), and Princeton (IAS). Researchers used the computers to model physical phenomena, solve mathematical problems, and perform simulations.After almost nine years of operation, ENIAC officially was decommissioned on 2 October 1955.ENIAC in Action: Making and Remaking the Modern Computer, a book by Thomas Haigh, Mark Priestley, and Crispin Rope, describes the design, construction, and testing processes and dives into its afterlife use. The book also outlines the complex relationship between ENIAC and its designers, as well as the revolutionary approaches to computer architecture.In the early 1970s, there was a controversy over who invented the electronic computer and who would be assigned the patent. In 1973 Judge Earl Richard Larson of U.S. District Court in Minnesota ruled in the Honeywell v. Sperry Rand case that Eckert and Mauchly did not invent the automatic electronic digital computer but instead had derived their subject matter from a computer prototyped in 1939 by John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry at Iowa State College (now Iowa State University). The ruling granted Atanasoff legal recognition as the inventor of the first electronic digital computer.IEEE’s ENIAC MilestoneIn 1987 IEEE designated ENIAC as an IEEE Milestone, citing it as “a major advance in the history of computing” and saying the machine “established the practicality of large-scale electronic digital computers and strongly influenced the development of the modern, stored-program, general-purpose computer.”The commemorative Milestone plaque is displayed at the Moore School, by the entrance to the classroom where ENIAC was built.“The ENIAC legacy heralded the computer age, transforming not only science and industry but also education, research, and human communication and interaction.”A paper on the machine, published in 1996 in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing and available in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, is a valuable source of technical information.“The Second Life of ENIAC,” an article published in the annals in 2006, covers a lesser-known chapter in the machine’s history, about how it evolved from a static system—configured and reconfigured through laborious cable plugging—into a precursor of today’s stored-program computers.A classic history paper on ENIAC was published in the December 1995 IEEE Technology and Society Magazine.The IEEE Inspiring Technology: 34 Breakthroughs book, published in 2023, features an ENIAC chapter.The women behind ENIACOne of the most remarkable aspects of the ENIAC story is the pivotal role women played, according to the book Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer, highlighted in an article in The Institute. There were no “programmers” at that time; only schematics existed for the computer. Six women, known as the ENIAC 6, became the machine’s first programmers.The ENIAC 6 were Kathleen Antonelli, Jean Bartik, Betty Holberton, Marlyn Meltzer, Frances Spence, and Ruth Teitelbaum.“These six women found out what it took to run this computer, and they really did incredible things,” a Penn professor, Mitch Marcus, said in a 2006 PhillyVoice article. Marcus teaches in Penn’s computer and information science department.In 1997 all six female programmers were inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame, in Los Angeles.Two other women contributed to the programming. Goldstine wrote ENIAC’s five-volume manual, and Klára Dán von Neumann, wife of John von Neumann, helped train the programmers and debug and verify their code.To honor the women of ENIAC, the IEEE Computer Society established the annual Computer Pioneer Award in 1981. Eckert and Mauchly were among the award’s first recipients. In 2008 Bartik was honored with the award. Nominations are open to all professionals, regardless of gender.An ENIAC replicaLast year a group of 80 autistic students, ages 12 to 16, from PS Academy Arizona, in Gilbert, recreated the ENIAC using 22,000 custom parts. It took the students almost six months to assemble.A ceremony was held in January to display their creation. The full-scale replica features actual-size panels made from layered cardboard and wood. Although all electronic components are simulated, they are not electrically active. The machine, illuminated by hundreds of LEDs, is accompanied by a soundtrack that simulates the deep hum of ENIAC’s transformers and the rhythmic clicking of relays.“Every major unit, accumulators, function tables, initiator, and master programmer is present and placed exactly where it was on the original machine,” Tom Burick, the teacher who mentored the project, said at the ceremony.The replica, still on display at the school, is expected to be moved to a more permanent spot in the near future.ENIAC’s legacyENIAC’s significance is both technical and symbolic. Technically, it marks the beginning of the chain of innovations that created today’s computational infrastructure. Symbolically, it made governments, militaries, universities, and industry view computation as a tool for improvement and for innovative applications that had previously been impossible. It marked a tectonic shift in the way humans approach problem-solving, modeling, and scientific reasoning.The ENIAC legacy heralded the computer age, transforming not only science and industry but also education, research, and human communication and interaction.As Eckert is reported to have said, “There are two epochs in computer history: Before ENIAC and After ENIAC.”Coevolution of programming languagesThe remarkable evolution of computer hardware during the past 80 years has been sparked by advances in programming languages—the essential drivers of computing.From the manual rewiring of ENIAC to the orchestration of intelligent, distributed systems, programming languages have steadily evolved to make computers more powerful, expressive, and accessible.Lessons From Computing’s Remarkable JourneyComputing history teaches us that flexibility, accessibility, collaboration, sound governance, and forward thinking are essential for sustained technological progress. In a recent Communications of the ACM article, Richa Gupta identified four historic shifts that led to computing’s rapid, transformative progress:Programmable machines taught us that flexibility is key; technologies that adapt and are repurposed scale better.The Internet showed that connection and standard protocols drive explosive growth but also bring new risks such as data security issues, invasion of privacy, and misuse.Personal computers illustrated that accessibility and usability matter more than raw power. When nonexperts can use a tool easily, adoption rises.The open-source movement revealed that collaborative innovation accelerates growth and helps spot problems early.Predictions for computing in the decades aheadThe evolution of computing will continue along multiple trajectories, with the emphasis moving from generalization to specialization (for AI, graphics, security, and networking), from monolithic system design to modular integration, and from performance-centric metrics alone to energy efficiency and sustainability as primary objectives.Increasingly, security will be built into hardware by design. Computing paradigms will expand beyond traditional deterministic models to embrace probabilistic, approximate, and hybrid approaches for certain tasks.Those developments will usher in a new era of computing and a new class of applications.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover discovers even older lost rivers at Jezero Crater ( 18.03.2026 18:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
By plying its ground-penetrating radar in the depths of Mars’s Jezero Crater, this rover has found even older deltas buried beneath those seen on the surface from space
COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show ( 18.03.2026 18:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
We have severely undercounted the number of COVID deaths, scientists say
Is It Safe to Inject Gray-Market Chinese Peptides? ( 18.03.2026 16:31:35 futurism.com)
"The debate isn't about whether peptides work."
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This overlooked organ may be more vital for longevity than scientists realized ( 18.03.2026 16:11:00 scientificamerican.com)
The role of the thymus in our long-term immunity and health is poorly understood. Two new studies suggest we need to pay attention
The Iran war disrupts global helium supply and artificial intelligence chipmakers ( 18.03.2026 15:38:00 scientificamerican.com)
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped a third of the world’s commercial helium, threatening the irreplaceable coolant that makes MRI scanners and advanced microchips possible
Nvidia CEO Says Gamers Are Completely Wrong About His New AI Feature That Yassifies Games ( 18.03.2026 15:01:50 futurism.com)
Oh, he's mad.
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Nebraska is battling its largest wildfires in history. Worse may be yet to come ( 18.03.2026 15:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
About 800,000 acres have burned because of these fires, with at least one person reported dead
OpenAI Cofounder Deletes Controversial Analysis of Which Jobs Are Getting Steam Engined by AI ( 18.03.2026 14:07:17 futurism.com)
Here's who could be safe... and who might not be.
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Sam Altman Confronted At Oscars Party Over Pentagon Deal ( 18.03.2026 13:17:17 futurism.com)
Punches were not pulled.
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Crypto Market Descending Into Chaos ( 18.03.2026 12:10:11 futurism.com)
Talk about meta.
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Absurd AI-Powered Lawsuits Are Causing Chaos in Courts, Attorneys Say, “Clogging the System” and Driving Up Costs ( 18.03.2026 11:01:00 futurism.com)
"Nobody realized how unhinged things would get."
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Luxury Cruise Descends Into a Diarrhea Nightmare ( 18.03.2026 10:05:29 futurism.com)
"I see staff members cleaning everywhere."
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The math that explains why Y2K is back in fashion ( 18.03.2026 10:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
Fashion’s 20-year trend cycle isn’t just based on vibes; it can be mathematically modeled
Beyond weight loss—how the GLP-1 story is evolving ( 18.03.2026 10:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
“Imitation” drugs, unexpected benefits, serious pitfalls—here’s what comes next as GLP-1 medications continue to rise in popularity
Trump Threatens to Do Something Horrible in Africa Unless He Gets a Deal on Precious Minerals ( 18.03.2026 09:12:43 futurism.com)
"We will only secure our priorities by demonstrating willingness to publicly take support away from Zambia on a massive scale."
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Crowd’s Reaction to BuzzFeed’s New AI App: Uncomfortable Laughter ( 17.03.2026 19:50:53 futurism.com)
"We don’t get it, and clearly the audience didn’t either."
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Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over ( 17.03.2026 15:59:22 futurism.com)
"You're welcome. Nice to know that our reward is our jobs being taken away."
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Venture Capitalist Warns That It’s All About to Come Crashing Down ( 17.03.2026 15:02:00 futurism.com)
He's predicting a hard "reset."
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Nvidia Ridiculed for “Sloptracing” Feature That Uses AI to Yassify Video Games in Real Time ( 17.03.2026 14:12:23 futurism.com)
CEO Jensen Huang called it the "GPT moment" for graphics.
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Robot Goes Berserk in California Restaurant, Dragged Away by Staff After Smashing Tableware ( 17.03.2026 13:05:00 futurism.com)
"This is how the 'Terminator' timeline actually begins. Not with a bang, but with a boogie."
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“Sensorveillance” Turns Ordinary Life Into Evidence ( 17.03.2026 13:00:05 spectrum.ieee.org)
Every time you unlock your smartphone or start your connected car, you are generating a trail of digital evidence that can be used to track your every move.In Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance, just published by NYU Press, law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson exposes how the Internet of Things has quietly transformed into a vast surveillance network, turning our most personal devices into digital informants. The following excerpt explores the concept of “sensorveillance,” detailing the specific mechanisms—such as Google’s Sensorvault, geofence warrants, and vehicle telemetry—that allow law enforcement to repurpose consumer technology into powerful tools for investigation and control.A man walked into a bank in Midlothian, Va., his black bucket hat pulled low over dark sunglasses. He handed a note to the teller, brandished a gun, and walked away with US $195,000. Police had no leads—but they knew that the robber had been holding a smartphone when he entered the bank. Guessing that the smartphone, like most smartphones, had some Google-enabled service running, police ordered Google to turn over information about all the phones near the bank during the holdup. In response to a series of warrants, Google produced information about 19 phones that had been active near the bank at the time of the robbery. Further investigation directed the police to Okelle Chatrie, who was ultimately charged with the crime.Cathy Bernstein had a tough time explaining why her own car reported an accident to police. Bernstein had been driving a Ford equipped with 911 Assist, which was automatically enabled when she struck another vehicle. Rather than stick around to trade insurance information, she sped away. But her smart car had registered the bump—and called the police dispatcher, leading to a fairly awkward conversation:Computer-Generated Voice: Attention, a crash has occurred. Line open.911 Operator: Hello. Can anyone hear me?Unidentified Woman: Yes, yes.911 Operator: Okay. This is 911. You’ve been involved in an accident.Unidentified Woman: No.911 Operator: Well, your car called in to us because it said you’d been involved in an accident. Are you sure everything’s okay?Unidentified Woman: Everything’s okay.911 Operator: Okay. Are you broke down?Unidentified Woman: No, I’m fine. The guy that hit me—he did not turn.911 Operator: Okay, so you have been involved in an accident.Unidentified Woman: No, I haven’t.911 Operator: Did you hit a car?Unidentified Woman: No, I didn’t.911 Operator: Did you leave the scene of an accident?Unidentified Woman: No. I would never do anything like that.Apparently, Bernstein did do something “like that.” She was soon caught and cited for leaving the scene of the accident. Her own car provided evidence of her guilt.The Rise of “Sensorveillance”Once upon a time, our things were just things. A bike was a tool for biking. It got you from one location to another, but it didn’t “know” more about your travels than any other inanimate object did. It was dumb in a comforting way, and we used it as intended. Today, a top-of-the-line bike can track your route and calculate your average speed along the way. Hop on an e-bike from a commercial bike share, and it will collect data for your trip, plus the trips of everyone else who used it that month.These “smart” objects belong to what technologist Kevin Ashton named the Internet of Things. Ashton proposed adding radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags and sensors to everyday objects, allowing them to collect data that could be fed into networked systems without human intervention. A sensor in a river could monitor the cleanliness of the water. A tag on a bottle of shampoo could trace its journey throughout the supply chain. Add enough sensors to enough objects and you can model the health of an entire ecosystem—or learn whether you’re sending too much of your inventory to Massachusetts and too little to Texas.Ashton first theorized the Internet of Things (IoT) in the late 1990s. Today, the IoT goes well beyond his initial vision, including not only RFID tags but also sensors with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cellular, and GPS connections. These small, low-cost sensors record data about movement, heat, pressure, or location and can engage in two-way communication.Of course, such a system is also, by necessity, a system of surveillance. “Sensorveillance”—a term I created to highlight the intersection of sensors and surveillance—is slowly becoming the default across the developed world.Cellphone Surveillance NetworksLet’s start with phones. You’re probably not surprised that your cellphone company tracks your location; that’s how cellphones work. Both smartphones and “dumb” mobile phones use local cell towers, owned by cellphone companies, to connect you to your friends and family, which means those companies know which towers you are near at all times.If you always carry your phone with you, your phone’s whereabouts—recorded as cell-site location information (CSLI)—reveal yours. One man, Timothy Carpenter, found this out the hard way after he and a group of associates set out to rob a series of electronics stores. Carpenter was the alleged ringleader, but he didn’t enter the stores himself. He served as the lookout, waiting in the car while his associates stuffed merchandise into bags.It might have been hard for investigators to tie him to the crimes—if not for the fact that every minute he kept watch, his cellphone was pinging a local tower, logging his location. Using that information, the FBI was able to determine that he had been near each store during the exact moment of each robbery.Cell signals are the tip of the proverbial data iceberg. If you have a smartphone, you’re almost certainly using something created by Google. Google makes money off advertising. The more Google knows about users, the better it can target ads to them. Google’s location services are on all Android phones, which use the company’s operating system, but they’re also on Google apps, including Google Maps and Gmail.For years, all that location information ended up in what the company called the Sensorvault. The Sensorvault, as the name suggests, combined data from GPS, Bluetooth, cell towers, IP addresses, and Wi-Fi signals to create a powerful tracking system that could identify a phone’s location with great precision. As you might imagine, police saw it as a digital evidence miracle. In 2020, Google received more than 11,500 warrants from law enforcement seeking information from the Sensorvault.“Sensorveillance”—a term I created to highlight the intersection of sensors and surveillance—is slowly becoming the default across the developed world.In 2024, Google announced that it would no longer retain all of this data in the cloud. Instead, the geolocation information would be stored on individual devices, requiring police to get a warrant for a specific device. The demise of the Sensorvault came about through a change in corporate policy, which could be reversed. But at least for now, Google has made it significantly harder for police to access its data.And while the Sensorvault was the biggest source of geolocational evidence, it is far from the only one. Even apps that have nothing to do with maps or navigation might nonetheless be collecting your location data. In one Pennsylvania case, prosecutors learned that a burglar used an iPhone flashlight app to search through a home, and they used the data from the app to prove he was in the home at the time of the break-in. These apps might be advertised as “free,” but they come with a hidden cost.Cars, increasingly, collect almost as much information as phones. Mobile extraction devices can collect digital forensics about a car’s speed, when its airbags deployed, when its brakes were engaged, and where it was when all that happened. If you connect your phone to play Spotify or to read out your texts, then your call logs, contact lists, social media accounts, and entertainment selections can be downloaded directly from your vehicle. Because cars are involved in so many crimes (either as the instrument of the crime or as transportation), searches of this data are becoming more commonplace.Even without physically extracting information from the car, police have other ways to get the data. After all, the car’s built-in telemetry system is sharing information with third parties. In addition to the usual personal information you give up when buying a car (name, address, phone number, email, Social Security number, driver’s license number), when you own a Stellantis-brand car, the company collects how often you use the car, your speed, and instances of acceleration or braking. Nissan asserts the right to collect information about “sexual activity, health diagnosis data, and genetic [data]” in addition to “preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.” Nissan’s privacy policy specifically reserves the right to provide this information to both data brokers and law enforcement.The Law of Smart ThingsThe fact that government agents can glean so much information from our things does not mean that they should be able to do so at any time or for any reason. The U.S. Fourth Amendment—drafted in an era without electricity—protects “persons, houses, papers, and effects” against unreasonable search and seizure, but is naturally silent on the question of location data.The first question is whether the data from our smart things should be constitutionally protected from police. In the language of the constitutional text, the smart device itself is an “effect”—a movable piece of personal property. But what about the data collected by the effect? Is the location data collected by your smartwatch considered part of the watch, or part of the person wearing the watch? Neither? Both?To its credit, the U.S. Supreme Court has addressed some of the hard questions around digital tracking. In two cases, the first involving GPS tracking of a car and the second involving the CSLI tracking of Timothy Carpenter’s cellphone, the court has placed limits on the government’s ability to collect location data over the long term.United States v. Jones involved GPS tracking of a car. Antoine Jones owned a nightclub in Washington, D.C. He also sold cocaine and found himself under criminal investigation for a large-scale drug distribution scheme. To prove Jones’s connection to “the stash house,” police placed a GPS device on his wife’s Jeep Cherokee. This was before GPS came standard in cars, so the device was physically attached to the undercarriage of the vehicle.Data about Jones’s travels was recorded for 28 days, during which he visited the stash house multiple times. The prosecutors introduced the GPS data at trial, and Jones was found guilty. Jones appealed his conviction, arguing that the warrantless use of a GPS device to track his car violated his Fourth Amendment rights.“When the Government tracks the location of a cell phone it achieves near perfect surveillance.” — the Supreme CourtIn 2012, the Supreme Court held that a warrant was required, based on the reasoning that the physical placement of the GPS device on the Jeep was itself a Fourth Amendment search requiring a warrant. Justice Sonia Sotomayor agreed regarding the physical search but went further, discussing the harms of long-term GPS tracking: “GPS monitoring generates a precise, comprehensive record of a person’s public movements that reflects a wealth of detail about her familial, political, professional, religious, and sexual associations.”Timothy Carpenter’s ill-fated robbery spree gave the Supreme Court another chance to address the constitutional harms of long-term tracking. In their attempts to connect Carpenter to the six electronics stores that had been robbed, federal investigators requested 127 days of location data from two mobile phone carriers. The problem for the police, however, was that they had obtained the information on Carpenter without a judicial warrant.Carpenter challenged the FBI’s acquisition of his CSLI, claiming that it violated his reasonable expectation of privacy. In a 5–4 opinion, the Supreme Court determined that the acquisition of long-term CSLI was a Fourth Amendment search, which required a warrant. As the Court stated in its 2018 ruling: “A cell phone faithfully follows its owner beyond public thoroughfares and into private residences, doctor’s offices, political headquarters, and other potentially revealing locales.... [W]hen the Government tracks the location of a cell phone it achieves near perfect surveillance.”Jones and Carpenter are helpful for setting the boundaries of location-based searches. But, in truth, the cases generate a lot more questions than answers. What about surveillance that is not long-term? At what point does the aggregation of details about a person’s location violate their reasonable expectation of privacy?The Warrant According to GoogleOkelle Chatrie’s case, in which police used Google’s location data to identify him as the mystery bank robber, offers a stark warning about the limits of Fourth Amendment protections under these circumstances. It’s also a terrific example of why “geofence” warrants, which request information within a certain geographic boundary, are appealing to police. From surveillance footage, detectives could see that the suspect had a phone to his ear when he walked into the bank. A geofence could identify who the suspect was, and likely where he came from and where he went. Google held the answer in its virtual vault. A warrant gave investigators the key.The police cast a broad net. The geofence warrant asked for data on all the cellphones within a 150-meter radius, an area, as the court described it, “about three and a half times the footprint of a New York city block.” After receiving the police’s initial request for information on all the phones in the area, Google returned 19 anonymized numbers. Over the course of a three-step warrant process, the company narrowed those 19 phones down to three and then to one, which it revealed as belonging to Okelle Chatrie.If the police wish to buy the data, just like an insurer or marketing firm might, how can you object? It’s not your data.The three-step warrant process is a unique innovation in the digital evidence space. Google’s lawyers developed a procedure whereby detectives seeking targeted geolocation data had to file three separate requests, first requesting identifying numbers in an area, then narrowing the request based on other information, and finally obtaining an order to unmask the anonymous number (or numbers) by providing a name.To be clear, Google—a private company—required the government to jump through these hoops because Google considered it important to protect its customers’ data. It was the company’s lawyers—not the courts or the government—who demanded these warrants.Buying DataWarrants provide at least some procedural barrier to data collection by police. If government agencies want to avoid that minor hassle, they can simply buy the data instead. By contracting with data-location services, several federal agencies have already done so.The logic for this Fourth Amendment loophole is straightforward: You gave your data to a third-party company, and the company can use it as it wishes. If you own a car that is smart enough to collect driving analytics, you clicked some agreement saying the car company could use the data—study it, analyze it, and, if it wants, sell it. If you don’t want to give them data in the first place, that is okay (although it will likely result in less optimal functionality), but you cannot rightly complain when they use the data you gave them in ways that benefit them. If the police wish to buy the data, just like an insurer or marketing firm might, how can you object? It’s not your data.Who Is to Blame?Fears about the amount of personal information that could be revealed with long-term GPS surveillance have become reality. Today, police don’t need to plant a device to track your movements—they can rely on your car or phone to do it for them.This happened because companies sold convenience and consumers bought it. So it might be tempting to blame ourselves. We’re the ones buying this technology. If we don’t want to be tracked, we can always go back to using paper maps and writing down directions by hand. If few of us are willing to make that trade, that’s on us.But it’s not that easy. You may still be able to choose a dumb bike over a smart one, but a car that tracks you will soon be the only type of car you can buy. And while cars and data can, in theory, be separated, that’s not true for all our smart things. Without cell-signal tracking capabilities, a cellphone is just a paperweight. And in today’s world, living without a phone or a car is simply not practical for many people.There are technological steps we can take toward protecting privacy. Companies can localize the data the sensors generate within the devices themselves, rather than in a central location like the Sensorvault. Similarly, the information that allows you to unlock your Apple iPhone via facial recognition stays localized on the phone. These are technological fixes, and positive ones. But even localized data is available to police with a warrant.This is the puzzle of the digital age. We can’t—or don’t want to—avoid creating data, but that data, once created, becomes available for legal ends. The power to track every person is the perfect tool for authoritarianism. For every wondrous story about catching a criminal, there will be a terrifying story of tracking a political enemy or suppressing dissent. Such immense power can and will be abused.
Panicked OpenAI Execs Cutting Projects as Walls Close In ( 17.03.2026 12:04:13 futurism.com)
"We cannot miss this moment because we are distracted by side quests."
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New Polymer Blend Could Help Store Energy for the Grid and EVs ( 17.03.2026 12:00:08 spectrum.ieee.org)
As electronics demand higher energy density, one component has proved challenging to shrink: the capacitor. Making a smaller capacitor usually requires thinning the dielectric layer or electrode surface area, which has often resulted in a reduction of power. A new polymer material could help change that.In a study published 18 February in Nature, a Pennsylvania State University–led team reported a capacitor crafted from a polymer blend that can operate at temperatures up to 250 °C while storing roughly four times as much energy as conventional polymer capacitors. Today’s advanced polymer capacitors typically function only up to about 100 °C, meaning engineers often rely on bulky cooling systems in high-power electronics. The research team has filed a patent for the polymer capacitors and plans to bring them to market.Capacitors deliver rapid bursts of energy and stabilize voltage in circuits, making them essential in applications ranging from electric vehicles and aerospace electronics to power-grid infrastructure and AI data centers. Yet while transistors have steadily shrunk with advances in semiconductor manufacturing, passive components such as capacitors and inductors have not scaled at the same pace.“Capacitors can account for 30 to 40 percent of the volume in some power electronics systems,” says Qiming Zhang, an electrical engineering researcher at Penn State and study author, explaining why it’s important to make smaller capacitors.A Plastics Blend More Powerful Than Its PartsThe research team combined two commercially available engineered plastics: polyetherimide (PEI), originally developed by General Electric and widely used in industrial equipment, and PBPDA, known for strong heat resistance and electrical insulation. When processed together under controlled conditions, the polymers self-assemble into nanoscale structures that form thin dielectric films inside capacitors. Those structures help suppress electrical leakage while allowing the material to polarize strongly in an electric field, allowing greater energy storage.The resulting material exhibits an unusually high dielectric constant—a measure of how much electrical energy a material can store. Most polymer dielectrics have values around four, but the blended polymer dielectric in the new work had a value of 13.5.“If you look at the literature up to now, no one has reached this level of dielectric constant in this type of polymer system,” Zhang says. “Putting two commonly used polymers together and seeing this kind of performance was a surprise to many people.”Because the material can remain operational even at elevated temperatures—such as those from extreme environmental heat or hot spots in densely built components—capacitors built from this polymer could potentially store the same amount of energy in a smaller package. “With this material, you can make the same device using about [one-fourth as much] material,” Zhang says. “Because the polymers themselves are inexpensive, the cost does not increase. At the same time, the component can become smaller and lighter.”How the Polymer Mix Improves CapacitorsThe researchers’ finding is “a big advancement,” says Alamgir Karim, a polymer research director at the University of Houston who was not involved in the Penn State development. “Normally when you mix polymers, you don’t expect the dielectric constant to increase.”Karim says the effect likely arises from nanoscale interfaces created when the polymers partially separate. “At about a 50–50 mixture, the polymers don’t fully mix and instead create a very large interfacial area,” he says. “Those interfaces may be where the unusual electrical behavior comes from.”If the material can be produced at scale, it could help address a key bottleneck in high-power electronics. Higher-temperature capacitors could reduce cooling requirements and allow engineers to pack more power into smaller systems—an advantage for aerospace platforms, electric vehicles, the electric grid, and other high-temperature environments.But translating the concept from laboratory methods to commercial manufacturing may present challenges, says Zongliang Xie, a postdoctoral researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in California. The Penn State team is now producing small dielectric films, but industrial capacitor manufacturing typically requires continuous rolls of material that can extend for kilometers.“Industry generally prefers extrusion-based processing because it’s easier and cheaper to control,” Xie says. “Scaling to produce great lengths of film while maintaining the same structure and performance could complicate matters. There’s potential, but it’s also challenging.”Still, researchers say the discovery demonstrates that new performance limits may still be unlocked using familiar materials. “Developing the material is only the first step,” Zhang says. “But it shows people that this barrier can be broken.”
Wanted: Europe’s Missing Cloud Provider ( 17.03.2026 11:00:06 spectrum.ieee.org)
Looming over the internet lasers and firestarting phones companies were touting at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this month, was a more nebulous but much larger announcement: a pan-European cloud called EURO-3C.EURO-3C’s backers – Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica, dozens of other European companies, and the European Commission (EC) – aim to fill a gap. U.S.-based cloud giants dominate in the EU, and European policymakers want their growing portfolio of digital government services on a “sovereign cloud” under full EU control.But the EU lacks a real equivalent to the likes of AWS or Microsoft Azure. Indeed, any effort to build one will inevitably run up against the same U.S. cloud giants.Just four U.S.-based hyperscalers – AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and IBM Cloud – together account for some 70 percent of EU cloud services. This is despite the fact that the 2018 U.S. CLOUD Act allows U.S. federal law enforcement – at least in theory – to compel U.S.-based firms to hand over data that’s stored abroad. Who do you trust?But those hypothetical risks to digital services have become more real as transatlantic relations have soured under the second Trump administration. The U.S. has openly threatened to invade an EU member state and sanctioned a European Commissioner for passing legislation the White House dislikes. After the White House sanctioned the Netherlands-based International Criminal Court in February 2025, Court staffers claimed Microsoft locked the Court’s chief prosecutor out of his email (Microsoft has denied this). Around the same time, the U.S. reportedly threatened to sever EU ally Ukraine’s access to crucial Starlink satellite internet as leverage during trade negotiations.“The geopolitical risk isn’t just the most extreme form of a doomsday ‘kill switch’ where Washington turns off Europe’s internet,” Stéfane Fermigier of EuroStack, an industry group that supports European digital independence. “It is the selective degradation of services and a total lack of retaliatory leverage.”What, then, is the EU to do? France offers an example. Even before 2025, France implemented harsh restrictions on non-EU cloud providers in public services – providers must locate data in the EU, rely on EU-based staff, and may not have majority-non-EU shareholders. Now, EU policymakers are following France’s lead.In October 2025, the EC issued a two-part framework for judging cloud providers bidding for public sector contracts. In the first part, the framework lays out a sort of sovereignty ladder. The more that a provider is subject to EU law, the higher its sovereignty level on this ladder. Any prospective bidder must first meet a certain level, depending on the tender.Qualifying bidders then move to the second part, where their “sovereignty” is scored in more detail. Using too much proprietary software; over-relying on supply chains from outside the EU; having non-EU support staff; liability to non-EU laws like the CLOUD Act: all hurt a bidder’s score. The framework was created for one tender, but observers say it sets a major precedent. Cloud providers bidding for state contracts across Europe may need to follow it, and it may influence legislation on both national and EU-wide levels.A question of scaleWho, then, will receive high marks? At the moment, the answer is not simple. The EU cloud scene is quite fragmented. Numerous modest EU providers offer “sovereign cloud” services – such as Scaleway, OVHcloud, and Deutsche Telekom’s T-Systems – but none are on the scale of AWS or Google Cloud.Inertia is on the side of the U.S. cloud giants, who can invest in their infrastructure and services on a far grander scale than their European counterparts. Some U.S. providers now offer cloud services they say comply with the Commission’s “cloud sovereignty” demands.Some European observers, like EuroStack, say such promises are hollow so long as a provider’s parent company is subject to the likes of the CLOUD Act, and loopholes in the Commission’s process remain open. An AWS spokesperson told Spectrum it had not disclosed any non-US enterprise or government data to the U.S. government under the CLOUD Act; a Google spokesperson said that its most sensitive EU offerings “are subject to local laws, not US law”.Even if a project like EURO-3C can offer a large-scale alternative, the US cloud giants have another sort of inertia. Many developers – and many public purchasers of their services – will need convincing to leave behind a familiar environment.“If you look at AWS, you look at Google, they’ve created some super technology. It’s very convenient, it’s easy to use,” says Arnold Juffer, CEO of the Netherlands-based cloud provider Nebul. “Once you’re in that platform, in that ecosystem, it’s very hard to get out.”Martyna Chmura, an analyst at the Bloomsbury Intelligence and Security Institute, a London-based think tank, sees some EU developers taking a mixed approach. “Many organizations are already moving toward multi-cloud setups, using European or sovereign providers for sensitive workloads while still relying on hyperscalers for certain services,” she says.In that case, the EU’s top-down demands may encourage developers to use EU providers for sensitive applications – like government services, transport, autonomous vehicles, and some industrial automation – even if it’s inconvenient in the short term, or if it causes even more fragmentation of the EU cloud scene. “Running systems across different platforms can increase integration costs and make security and data governance more complicated. In some cases, organisations could lose some of the efficiency and cost advantages that come from using large hyperscale platforms,” Chmura says.“Overall, the EU appears willing to accept some of these trade-offs,” Chmura says.
Deafening Explosions in the Sky Rock Northeast Ohio ( 17.03.2026 10:48:01 futurism.com)
"It sounded like someone dropped something heavy on the roof of my building."
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Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Now Setting Readers’ Subscription Prices With Uber-Style AI ( 17.03.2026 10:08:03 futurism.com)
Pay up.
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Factory Paying Human Worker to Watch Robot Worker All Day ( 17.03.2026 09:03:21 futurism.com)
"Efficiency is the name of the game and it's relentless."
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Thousands of Chinese Ships Form Strange Pattern in Ocean ( 17.03.2026 08:00:00 futurism.com)
"The sight of that many vessels operating in concert is staggering."
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Judge Rules That Elon Musk’s Ketamine Use Is Off Limits ( 17.03.2026 07:00:00 futurism.com)
Hands off!
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Rising Attacks on Power Grids Push Utilities to Prepare ( 16.03.2026 20:42:45 spectrum.ieee.org)
In the fictional nation of Beryllia, the 2026 World Chalice Games were set to begin as the country faced an unrelenting heat wave. The grid, already under strain from the circumstances, was dealt a further blow when a coordinated set of attacks including vandalism, drone, and ballistic attacks by an adversary, Crimsonia, crippled the grid’s physical infrastructure.This scenario, inspired by the upcoming 2026 World Cup and the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, was an exercise in studying how utilities can prevent and mitigate, among other dangers, physical attacks on power grids. Called GridEx, the exercise was hosted by the Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC) from 18 to 20 November, 2025, and was described in a report released on 2 March. GridEx has been held every two years since 2011.“We know that threat actors look to exploit certain circumstances,” says Michael Ball, CEO of E-ISAC, which is a program of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), about designing the Beryllia scenario. “The Chalice Games became a good example of how we could build a scenario around a threat actor.”Physical attacks on the grid are rising in the U.S., and GridEx attendance was up in November as utilities grapple with how to prevent and mitigate attacks. Participation in the exercise was at its highest level since 2019, according to the new report. Given the number of organizations present, GridEx estimates that more than 28,000 individual players participated, including utility workers and government partners, an all-time high since the exercise began.Rising Physical Threats to Power GridsThe U.S. and Canadian grids face growing security issues from physical threats, including vandalism, assault of utility workers, intrusion of property, and theft of components, like copper wiring. NERC’s 2025 E-ISAC end of year report cites more than 3,500 physical security breaches that calendar year, about 3 percent of which disrupted electricity. That’s up from 2,800 events cited in the 2023 report (3 percent of those also resulted in electricity disruptions). Yet despite a number of recent high-profile attacks in the U.S., physical attacks on the grid are happening worldwide.“They’re not uniquely a U.S. thing,” says Danielle Russo, executive director of the Center for Grid Security at Securing America’s Future Energy, a nonpartisan organization focused on advancing national energy security. Russo says that while attacks are common in places like Ukraine, they’re not limited to wartime scenarios. “Other countries that are not experiencing direct conflict are experiencing increasing amounts of physical attacks on their energy infrastructure,” she says. Take Germany for example: On 3 January, an arson attack by left-wing activists in Berlin caused a five-day blackout impacting 45,000 households. That comes after a suspected arson attack on two pylons in September 2025 left 50,000 Berlin households without power. Some German officials cite domestic extremism and fears of Russian sabotage in recent years as reasons for heightened security concerns over critical infrastructure. Henrik Beuster, spokesman for grid operator Stromnetz Berlin, stands in front of the Lichterfelde power plant on 7 January after a suspected attack disrupted power supply in the area. Britta Pedersen/picture alliance/Getty Images The uptick in attacks on the U.S. grid has been anchored by a number of incidents in recent years. In December 2025, an engineer in San Jose, California was sentenced to 10 years in prison for bombing electric transformers in 2022 and 2023. A Tennessee man was arrested in November 2024 for attempting to attack a Nashville substation using a drone armed with explosives. And in 2023, a neo-Nazi leader was among two arrested in a plot to attack five substations around Baltimore with firearms, part of an increasing trend in white supremacist groups planning to attack the U.S. energy sector.“Since [E-ISAC] started publishing data back in 2016, we’ve seen a large and consistent increase in the number of reported physical security incidents per year,” says Michael Coe, the vice president of physical and cyber security programs at the American Public Power Association, a trade group that works with E-ISAC to plan GridEx. While not all data is publicly available, Coe says there’s been a “tenfold” increase over the past decade in the number of reported physical attacks on the grid.Drone Attacks: A Grid Security ChallengeDuring the fictional World Chalice Games scenario, drone attacks destroyed Beryllia’s substation equipment, highlighting a threat that’s gained traction as more drones enter the airspace.“The question we get all the time is, how do you tell if it’s a bad actor, or if it’s a 12-year-old kid that got the drone for their birthday?” says Erika Willis, the program manager for the substations team at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).One strategy to track and alert utilities to potential threats such as drones is called sensor fusion. The system includes a pan-tilt-zoom camera capable of 360-degree motion mounted on top of a tripod or pole with four installed radars. The radars combine with the camera for a dual system that can track drones even if they’re obstructed from view, says Willis. For instance, if a nearby drone flies behind a tree, hidden from the camera, the radars will still pick up on it. The technology is currently being tested at EPRI’s labs in Charlotte, North Carolina and Lenox, Massachusetts.EPRI is also exploring how robotics and AI can improve security systems, Willis says. One approach involves integrating AI analysis into robotic technology already surveilling substation perimeters. Using AI can improve detection of break-ins and damage to fencing around substations, Willis says. “As opposed to a human having to go through 200 images of a fence, you can have the AI overlays do some of those algorithms…If the robot has done the inspection of the substation 100 times, it can then relay to you that there’s an anomaly,” Willis says. Prisma Photonics deploys fiber sensing technology that uses reflected optical signals to detect perturbations from vehicles and other sources near underground fiber cable.Prisma PhotonicsAlready, a number of utilities in the U.S. are using AI integrations in their security and monitoring processes. That’s thanks in part to the Tel Aviv, Israel-based Prisma Photonics, a software company that launched in 2017 and has since deployed its fiber sensing technology across thousands of miles of transmission infrastructure in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Israel. A file-cabinet-sized unit plugs into a substation and sends light pulses down existing fiber optic cables 30 miles in each direction. As the pulses travel down the cables, a tiny fraction of the light is reflected back to the substation unit. An AI model processes the results and can classify events based on patterns in the optical signal as a result of perturbations happening around the fiber cable.“If we identify an event that we don’t have a classification for, and we get a feedback from a customer saying, ‘oh, this was a car crash,’ then we can classify that in the model to say this is actually what happened,” says Tiffany Menhorn, Prisma Photonics’ vice president of North America.As preparations get underway for the ninth GridEx in 2027, Ball says participation in the exercises alone isn’t enough to bolster grid security. Instead, he wants utilities to take what they learn from the training and apply it in their own operations. “It’s the action of doing it, versus our statistic of saying, ‘here’s what our growth was.’ That growth should relate to the readiness and capability of the industry.”
IEEE Young Professionals Help Bridge the U.S. Tech Skills Gap ( 16.03.2026 20:00:03 spectrum.ieee.org)
The America’s Talent Strategy: Building the Workforce for the Golden Age report, published last year by the U.S. Departments of Commerce, Education, and Labor, identified a significant engineering and skills gap. The 27-page report concluded that the shortage of talent in essential areas—including advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and cybersecurity—poses significant risks to U.S. economic and technological leadership.To help attract talent in those fields, the Labor Department last month introduced incentives for apprenticeships, including a US $145 million “pay for performance” grant program. The funding aims to develop registered apprenticeships in high-demand fields including artificial intelligence and information technology.Reacting to the urgent national need for targeted workforce development were members of IEEE Young Professionals, led by Alok Tibrewala, an IEEE senior member. He is a cochair of the IEEE North Jersey Section’s Young Professionals group.“As a software engineer, this impending shortage concerns me because I believe that the U.S. AI and cybersecurity skills gap would show up first in the early-career pipeline,” Tibrewala says. “Students will be entering the U.S. workforce without enough hands-on experience building secure AI-enabled enterprise and cloud systems, and this gap will persist without practical, mentor-led training before graduation.”Tibrewala led a strategic planning session with representatives from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, IEEE Member and Geographic Activities, and IEEE Young Professionals to discuss holding an event that would provide practical, industry-relevant training by experts and IEEE leaders.“I was able to establish a partnership with NJIT, recruit speakers, design the event’s agenda, and promote the event to ensure it was aligned with the strategy outlined in the workforce report,” he says. “This effort aligns with broader U.S. workforce development priorities focused on industry-driven skills training in critical technology areas.”The IEEE Buildathon event was held on 1 November at NJIT’s Newark campus. More than 30 students and early-career engineers heard from 11 speakers. Through interactive workshops, live demonstrations, and networking opportunities, they left with practical, employer-aligned skills and clearer career pathways for AI-era skills-building.Tibrewala chaired the event and also serves as chair of the IEEE Buildathon program.Session takeawaysRegion 1 Director Bala S. Prasanna, a life senior member, gave the keynote address. He emphasized the need for universities, industry practitioners, and IEEE volunteer leaders to collaborate on programs to enhance technical skills.IEEE Member Kalyani Matey, cochair of the IEEE North Jersey Section’s Young Professionals, conducted a workshop on how to build one’s personal brand and a responsive network. Participants received valuable insights about résumé building, effective communication strategies, and enhancing their visibility and employability.“Over time, this kind of structured, employer-aligned training will help increase confidence, employability, and technical readiness across the country. With sustained support, programs like the IEEE Buildathon can become a practical bridge from education to industry in the AI era.” —Alok TibrewalaTibrewala led the Unlocking AI’s Potential: Solving Big Challenges With Smart Data and IEEE DataPort session. The web-based DataPort platform allows researchers to store, share, access, and manage their research datasets in a single, trusted location. He discussed needed skills including AI literacy, strong data handling and dataset stewardship, and turning data into actionable insights.Chaitali Ladikkar, a senior software engineer, delivered the insightful Brains Behind the Game seminar. Ladikkar, an IEEE member, highlighted the transformative impact AI is having on gaming and game engine technologies. She explained how AI is reshaping game development. She also covered how machine learning is being used for animation, faster content generation and testing of new titles. Her seminar received enthusiastic feedback from participants.The Building Better Business Relationships DiSC workshop provided insights into enhancing professional relationships and communication within an engineering workforce. DiSC is a behavioral self-assessment used to understand an individual’s communication style and to adapt to others.Participant experience and testimonialsThe event received high praise from participants for its practical and industry-relevant content, according to Tibrewala.“This training significantly enhanced my understanding and readiness for industry roles, filling gaps my regular academic coursework did not fully address,” said Humna Sultan, an IEEE student member who is a senior studying computer science at Stevens Institute of Technology, in Hoboken, N.J.“The Buildathon was structured around real engineering challenge scenarios that deepened my understanding of AI and cloud technologies,” said Carlos Figueredo, an IEEE graduate student member who is studying data science at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. “It boosted my confidence and practical skills essential for the industry.”Bavani Karthikeyan Janaki said “it was incredible to see how technology and sustainability came together to drive real-world impact, thanks to the dedicated efforts of the organizers including Tibrewala, Matey, and the IEEE North Jersey Young Professionals.” Janaki is pursuing a master’s degree in computer and information science at Long Island University, in New York.Funding and collaborative effortsThe Buildathon was made possible through grants from the IEEE Young Professionals group and funding from the IEEE North Jersey Section and IEEE Member and Geographic Activities. Their support shows how IEEE’s professional organizations can collaborate to address workforce needs by supporting the delivery of technical sessions that strengthen early-career pipelines.Future plans and a call to actionBuilding on the event’s success, Tibrewala and Matey plan to make the IEEE Buildathon an ongoing initiative. They are exploring ways to expand it to additional university campuses and IEEE communities.Tibrewala says they plan to refine the format based on participant feedback and lessons learned. To support consistent quality, he and Matey say, they are working on a playbook for organizers that will include a repeatable agenda, a workshop template, speaker guidelines, and post-event feedback forms.The approach depends on continued coordination among host universities, local IEEE sections, and Young Professional volunteers, Tibrewala says.“Enabling other groups to run similar events,” he says, “can help more students and early-career engineers gain practical exposure to AI, data, cloud, cybersecurity, and other key emerging technologies in a structured setting.“Efforts like this help translate national workforce priorities into real training that students and early-career engineers can apply immediately to their projects. This also helps close the gap between classroom learning and the realities of building secure, reliable systems in production environments. Over time, this kind of structured, employer-aligned training will help increase confidence, employability, and technical readiness across the country.“With sustained support, programs like the IEEE Buildathon can become a practical bridge from education to industry in the AI era.”
Details Emerge About OpenAI’s “Adult Mode” ( 16.03.2026 17:02:00 futurism.com)
Sam Altman wants to "treat adult users like adults." That's far easier said than done.
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Chinese Space Station Astronauts Harvest Space Tomatoes ( 16.03.2026 16:00:23 futurism.com)
It was a "bumper crop."
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AI Data Center Security Guards Are Not Human ( 16.03.2026 15:01:00 futurism.com)
Did you just hear... clanking?
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Elon Musk Just Made a Small Change That Speaks Volumes About His Desperation ( 16.03.2026 13:01:00 futurism.com)
Grok, is this true?
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This Video of a Humanoid Robot Playing Tennis Is Extremely Impressive ( 16.03.2026 12:01:50 futurism.com)
Thwap!
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Meta Reportingly Firing a Vast Percentage of Its Staff in Zuckerberg’s Move to AI ( 16.03.2026 11:16:10 futurism.com)
The company is looking to spend up to $135 billion on AI this year alone.
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Video Friday: These Robots Were Born to Run ( 13.03.2026 16:00:04 spectrum.ieee.org)
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNAEnjoy today’s videos! All legged robots deployed “in the wild” to date were given a body plan that was predefined by human designers and could not be redefined in situ. The manual and permanent nature of this process has resulted in very few species of agile terrestrial robots beyond familiar four-limbed forms. Here, we introduce highly athletic modular building blocks and show how they enable the automatic design and rapid assembly of novel agile robots that can “hit the ground running” in unstructured outdoor environments.[ Northwestern UniversityCenter for Robotics and Biosystems ] [ Paper ] via [ Gizmodo ] If you were going to develop the ideal urban delivery robot more or less from scratch, it would be this.[ RIVR ]Don’t get me wrong, there are some clever things going on here, but I’m still having a lot of trouble seeing where the unique, sustainable value is for a humanoid robot performing these sorts of tasks.[ Figure ]One of those things that you don’t really think about as a human, but is actually pretty important.[ Paper ] via [ ETH Zurich ]We propose TRIP-Bag (Teleoperation, Recording, Intelligence in a Portable Bag), a portable, puppeteer-style teleoperation system fully contained within a commercial suitcase, as a practical solution for collecting high-fidelity manipulation data across varied settings.[ KIMLAB ]We propose an open-vocabulary semantic exploration system that enables robots to maintain consistent maps and efficiently locate (unseen) objects in semi-static real-world environments using LLM-guided reasoning.[ TUM ]That’s it folks, we have no need for real pandas anymore—if we ever did in the first place. Be honest, what has a panda done for you lately?[ MagicLab ]RoboGuard is a general-purpose guardrail for ensuring the safety of LLM-enabled robots. RoboGuard is configured offline with high-level safety rules and a robot description, reasons about how these safety rules are best applied in robot’s context, then synthesizes a plan that maximally follows user preferences while ensuring safety.[ RoboGuard ]In this demonstration, a small team responds to a (simulated) radiation contamination leak at a real nuclear reactor facility. The team deploys their reconfigurable robot to accompany them through the facility. As the station is suddenly plunged into darkness, the robot’s camera is hot-swapped to thermal so that it can continue on. Upon reaching the approximate location of the contamination, the team installs a Compton gamma-ray camera and pan-tilt illuminating device. The robot autonomously steps forward, locates the radiation source, and points it out with the illuminator.[ Paper ]On March 6th, 2025, the Robomechanics Lab at CMU was flooded with 4 feet of black water (i.e. mixed with sewage). We lost most of the robots in the lab, and as a tribute my students put together this “In Memoriam” video. It includes some previously unreleased robots and video clips.[ Carnegie Mellon University Robomechanics Lab ]There haven’t been a lot of successful education robots, but here’s one of them.[ Sphero ]The opening keynote from the 2025 Silicon Valley Humanoids Summit: “Insights Into Disney’s Robotic Character Platform,” by Moritz Baecher, Director, Zurich Lab, Disney Research.[ Humanoids Summit ]
Waabi's Raquel Urtasun on Level-4 Autonomous Trucks ( 13.03.2026 13:01:02 spectrum.ieee.org)
Raquel Urtasun has spent 16 years in the self-driving space, long enough to navigate every metaphorical glorious hill and plunging valley. She took the trip from the early “pipe dream” dismissals, to the “we’re this close” certainty, and back again.The industry is now riding a new wave of optimism and investment, including at Waabi Innovation Inc., the autonomous trucking company that Urtasun founded in 2021. The Spanish-Canadian professor at the University of Toronto, and former chief scientist of Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group, has helped make Waabi a key player. Beginning in fall 2023, theToronto-based startup has been running geofenced cargo routes from Dallas to Houston in a fleet of retrofitted Peterbilt semis, navigating even residential streets in loaded, 36,000-kilogram (80,000-pound) behemoths with a human “safety observer” on board.In October, the company reached a milestone by integrating its “Waabi Driver” physical-AI system in Volvo’s new VNL Autonomous truck, which the Swedish automaker is building in Virginia. That self-driving solution uses Nvidia’s Drive AGX Thor, an AI-based platform for autonomous and software-defined vehicles. In January, the Toronto-based startup raised $750 million in its latest funding round to accelerate commercial development in autonomous trucking, and expand its system into the fiercely competitive robotaxi space. Backers include Khosla Ventures, Nvidia, and Volvo.Urtasun says the Waabi Driver can scale across a full range of vehicles, geographies and environments—although snowstorms can still create a no-go zone for now. It’s powered by what Urtasun calls the industry’s most advanced neural simulator. The verifiable, end-to-end AI model will be a “shared brain” that partners can transplant into cars, trucks, and pretty much anything on wheels. The idea is to grab a chunk of a global autonomous trucking business that McKinsey estimates could be worth more than $600 billion a year by 2035; with autonomous haulers responsible for 15 percent of total U.S. trucking miles as early as 2030.Backed by an additional $250 million from Uber, Waabi plans to deploy at least 25,000 autonomous taxis through Uber’s ride-hailing service, whose world-dominating reach encompasses 70 countries, about 15,000 cities and more than 200 million monthly users.Urtasun spoke with IEEE Spectrum about how Waabi is counting on sensors and simulation to prove real-world safety; and why the move to autonomy is a moral imperative that outweighs the disruption for human drivers—whether they’re driving trucks or family sedans. Our conversation was edited for length and clarity.The Shift to Next-Gen Autonomous VehiclesIEEE Spectrum: Until quite recently, autonomous tech seemed to have hit a wall, at least in the public’s mind. Now investors are flooding the zone again, and companies are all-in. What happened?Raquel Urtasun: There were a lot of empty promises, or [people] not realizing the complexity of the problem. There was a realization that actually, this problem is harder than people anticipated. It’s also because of the type of technology that was developed at the time, what we call “AV 1.0”. These are hand-engineered systems that need to be brute-forced by humans. You need lots of capital and a massive amount of miles on the road just to get to the first deployment.What you see with the next generation—AV 2.0 and systems that can reason—is that you finally have a solution that scales. When we started the company, this was a very contrarian view. But today, the breakthroughs in AI have made it clear that this is the next big revolution. It’s not just about more compute; it’s about building a brain that can generalize. That is the “aha moment” the industry is having now.Even for someone who believes in the tech, seeing a driverless semi-trailer in your rear-view mirror might be unsettling. Now you’ve integrated your tech into the aerodynamic, diesel-powered Volvo VNL Autonomous truck. How do you convince regulators and the public that these trucks belong on the street? Urtasun: Safety, when you think about carrying 80,000 pounds on this massive rig, is definitely top of mind. We believe the only way to do this safely is with a redundant platform that is fully developed and validated by the OEM, not with a retrofit. The OEM does a special type of truck that has all the redundant steering, power, and braking, so that no matter what happens, there is always a way we can interface and activate that truck in a safe manner. Then we are responsible for the sensors, the compute, and obviously the brain that drives those trucks.AI’s Impact on Trucking JobsOne of the biggest points of contention is the displacement of human drivers. As AI disrupts a range of workplaces, how do respond to people who say this will eliminate good-paying, blue-collar jobs?Urtasun: The way we see this is that everybody who’s a truck driver today, and wants to retire as a truck driver, will be able to do so. This is physical AI; this is not like the digital world where suddenly you can switch immediately to this technology. That adoption and scaling is going to take time. There will also be many jobs created with this technology; remote operations, terminal operations, and other things. You have time to change the form of labor of being on the road, which is for weeks at a time—and it’s a really difficult and dehumanized job, let’s be honest—to something you can do locally. There was an interesting [U.S.] Department of Transportation study that showed because of this gradual adoption, there will be more jobs created than actually removed.You’ve spoken about a personal motivation behind this. Why do you believe the advantages of autonomy outweigh any growing pains, including the potential for unexpected accidents or even deaths?Urtasun: There are 2 million deaths on the road globally per year, and nobody’s questioning that. That’s the status quo. If you think the machines have to be perfect to deploy, you are actually sacrificing many humans along the way that you could have saved. Human error in accidents is between 90 percent and 96 percent. Those could be preventable accidents. Some accidents will always be unavoidable; a tire could blow for a machine the same as it could for a human. But the important comparison is how much safer we are. This technology is the answer to many, many things.Most of the industry is focused on “hub-to-hub” highway driving. But you’ve argued that Waabi’s AI can handle the complexity of local streets.Urtasun: The rest of the industry has gone with this business model where you need hubs next to the highway. This adds a lot of friction and cost. Thanks to our verifiable end-to-end AI system, we can drive in surface [local] streets. We can do unprotected lefts, traffic lights, and tight turns. These core capabilities enable us to drive all the way to the end customer. We are already hauling commercial loads for customers like Samsung through our Uber Freight partnership.You’ve mentioned that Waabi doesn’t like to talk about “number of miles” driven as a metric. For an engineering audience, that sounds counterintuitive. How does your “simulation-first” approach replace the need for real-world road time?Urtasun: In the industry, miles have been used as a proxy for advancement. How many miles does Tesla need to drive to see any of these situations? But we are a simulation-first company. Waabi World can simulate all the sensors, the behaviors of humans, everything. It is the only simulator where you can mathematically prove that testing and driving in simulation is the same as driving in the real world. You can expose the system to billions of simulations in the cloud. This is what allows us to be so capital efficient and fast.Verifiable AI vs. Black Box SystemsWhat is the difference between your “interpretable” AI and the “black box” systems we see elsewhere?Urtasun: We’ve seen an evolution on passenger cars for level- 2+ systems to end-to-end, black box architectures. But those are not verifiable. You cannot validate and verify those systems, which is a massive problem when you think about regulators and OEMs trusting that technology.What Waabi has built is end-to-end, but fully verifiable. The system is forced to interpret what it is perceiving and use those interpretations for reasoning, so that it can understand the consequences of every action. It is much more akin to how our brain actually works; your “Type 2” thinking, where you start thinking about cause and effect and consequences, and then you typically do a much better choice in your maneuver.Tesla is famously, and controversially, relying on camera data almost exclusively to run and improve its self-driving systems. You’re not a fan of that approach?Urtasun: We use multiple sensors: lidar, camera, and radar. That’s very important because failure modes of those sensors are very different and they’re very complementary. We don’t compromise safety to reduce the bill- of- materials cost today.Those (passenger car) level-2+ systems are not architected for level 4, where there’s no human on board. People don’t necessarily realize there is a huge difference in terms of the bar when there is no human to rely on. It’s not, “Well, if I don’t have a lot of system interventions, I’m almost there.” That’s not a metric. We are native level 4. We decide which areas the system can drive in, and in what conditions. We are building technology that can drive different form factors—trucks or robotaxis—with the same brain.Editor’s note: This article was updated on 13 March to correct an error in the original post. Contrary to what was stated in the original post, the trucks being driven from Dallas to Houston do have a human observer on board.
Zlatice a zimní sakura: Poslové jara v zahradě i v truhlíku ( 26.03.2026 05:04:42 izahradkar.cz)
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Když se rozhodnete hospodařit, většinou vás k tomu dovede něco konkrétního – kousek půdy po rodičích, únava z kancelářské práce nebo prostě touha vědět, odkud pochází jídlo na vašem stole. Jenže od první myšlenky k fungující farmě je dlouhá cesta. A právě proto je tady Farmářská škola–Vyšší odborná škola ekologického zemědělství. Ta vznikla z přesvědčení, […]
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Jak správně předpěstovat pór a připravit záhon pro výsadbu ( 21.03.2026 05:05:59 izahradkar.cz)
V praktickém návodu na pěstování póru se dozvíte, jaký je rozdíl mezi letními a zimními typy. Jak správně sázet sazenice a využit pór v kuchyni. Pór zahradní představuje významnou složku cibulové zeleniny, ceněnou…
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Architektura přírodního stavitelství ( 13.03.2026 17:37:00 permakulturacs.cz)
Přinášíme zamyšlení architekta Petra Hájka, kterého jsme potkali už několikrát na našich permakulturních konferencích. Naposledy to bylo v listopadu 2025. Petr se zamýšlí nad tím “co definuje pojem přírodní architektura, přírodní dům, ekodům, ekostavitelství” ? Ilustrační obrázky jsou převzaté z portfolia Atelier Hájek. Zveme na diskusní Kruh přírodního stavitelství v sobotu 28.3.2026 v Praze. Stavby, […]
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JARO budiž pochváleno – péče o sebe je zóna 00 ( 13.03.2026 17:24:03 permakulturacs.cz)
ÁJURVÉDSKÝ POHLED NA LOKÁLNÍ BYLINY – tentokrát se zaměříme na jarní období, chutě, jarní sběry divokého listí a lehkou očistu. Jak souvisí permakultura a ájurvéda ? Ze své podstaty se dívají na ta nejjednodušší řešení s co největším efektem, čerpají z tradic a doplňují je o nejnovějšími poznatky vědy. Protože jídlo je něco, čemu se věnujeme […]
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22 senátorů podalo návrh zakotvit v Ústavě právo platit hotovostí a komunikovat se státem off-line ( 26.03.2026 09:00:17 konzervativninoviny.cz)
Skupina 22 senátorů pod vedením nezávislé senátorky Daniely Kovářové návrh na změnu ústavního zákona. Chtějí do něj zakotvit právo každého občana platit v hotovosti, komunikovat se státem i mimo digitální technologie, a vlastní měnu, tedy českou korunu. Senátoři navazují na předchozí pokus Jitky Chalánkové, který loni neprošel horní komorou o [...]
Témata nemáme, ale je nás hodně ( 26.03.2026 08:45:13 konzervativninoviny.cz)
Témata nemáme, ale je nás hodně – tak nadepsal Daniel Kaiser v novém týdeníku ECHO své ohlédnutí za čtvrtmilionovým shromážděním na Letné. Skutečná témata se organizátorům nabídnout nepodařilo. Řečníci z pódia horlili proti zákonu o transparentnosti neziskových organizací, mobilizovali pro záchranu veřejnoprávních médií před normalizací, pokoušeli se rozbouřit Letnou ve jménu obnovitelných zdrojů energie, na podporu [...]
Proč se cítíme bezmocní? Grace Blakeleyová o kapitalismu a krajní pravici ( 26.03.2026 08:28:35 denikreferendum.cz)
Sedmou sérií podcastu Screenshot Inspiračního fóra festivalu Ji.hlava provází Petr Bittner. V úvodní epizodě hovoří s novinářkou a ekonomkou Grace Blakeleyovou o povaze demokracie, bezmoci i naději.
Naše Česko proti Jednomu světu ( 26.03.2026 08:28:33 denikreferendum.cz)
Rada Českých Budějovic se pokusila potrestat festival Jeden svět za zrušení debaty s radní Lucií Kozlovou. Kauza napověděla, že Naše Česko se možná bude chtít přidat k bojovníkům proti občanským organizacím.
Brněnští Piráti spojením s Fakt Brno a ODS ztratili soudnost ( 26.03.2026 08:28:31 denikreferendum.cz)
Brněnští Piráti se před komunálními volbami spojili s hnutím Fakt Brno a ODS. Spojenectví s pravicovými politiky, proti nimž se Piráti dříve vymezovali, ukazuje, že původní protikorupční a progresivní orientace strany se vytrácí.
Útok na Írán téměř po měsíci: co sledovat dál ( 26.03.2026 08:28:29 denikreferendum.cz)
Trumpem vychvalovaná jednání provází více otázek než odpovědí. Skutečná dynamika je přitom vidět v pozadí. O dalším vývoji budou rozhodovat nejenom plány USA, ale i mocenské poměry v Íránu či záměry Netanjahuovy vlády.
Ekonomické škody klimatické krize: nejvíce devastují svět Spojené státy ( 26.03.2026 05:10:00 denikalarm.cz)
Nová studie vypočítává ekonomické důsledky historických emisí od roku 1990. Dosavadní škody jsou přitom jen zlomkem těch budoucích.
Vydáváme Olympijský mýtus jako poctu Martinu Vaitovi. Zbývá posledních pár dní ( 26.03.2026 05:05:00 denikalarm.cz)
Do konce kampaně na podporu knihy Olympijský mýtus zbývá už jen pár dní. Budeme rádi, když její vydání podpoříte. V tomto textu vám vysvětlíme proč.
Situace kvír lidí na Slovensku ( 26.03.2026 05:00:00 denikalarm.cz)
Jak vypadá kvír dětství na Slovensku? Mohou se LGBTQ+ lidé na Slovensku cítit bezpečně? A jaký mají výhled do budoucnosti? Poslechněte si Teplomet.
Německá levice zuří, vláda oznámila škrty ve financování jejich oblíbených neziskovek ( 26.03.2026 04:00:17 konzervativninoviny.cz)
Nejen v Česku se levicoví aktivisté čertí kvůli financování „neziskovek“. V Německu několik levicových nevládních organizací ostře kritizuje ministryni školství Karin Prienovou (CDU) za plánované škrty ve financování sporného „prodemokratického“ programu. Timo Reinfrank, výkonný ředitel Nadace Amadeu Antonio, označil tyto škrty za „fatální signál ve špatnou dobu“, který „oslabí společenské [...]
SYMBOLY: My a lev ( 25.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Lva máme ve znaku a historici nevědí, od kdy a jak přesně.
HISTORIE 1945: Z pekla do pekla – v poutech do kobky hrůzy ( 25.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
FEJETON: Co nečíst? ( 25.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Otázka „co nečíst“ může být kritériem pro výběr čtiva.
PŘÍRODA: Krtek ( 25.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
ENERGETIKA: Zelená taktovka Berlína ( 25.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Německá zelená elektřina polyká stále vyšší dotace, přesto je neúnosně drahá
BLOG: Kdo stojí za Brněnským bizárem? ( 25.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Záhada, která baví i děsí brněnskou politiku
FILOZOFIE: Svoboda a právo na nevysvětlitelnost ( 25.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Když se tlak „co tomu řeknou ostatní“ mění v podmínku legitimity jednání
INOVACE: Věci podstatné a mediální pěna ( 25.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Prakticky od voleb jsme v médiích zásobování neustálými „kauzai“.
STATISTIKA: Obrana a politika, zase politika ( 25.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Co se děje jinde ( 25.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Benzín leze k padesátikorunové hranici, nafta ji přeskočila.
VÝDAJE NA OBRANU: Drzost amerického velvyslance a idiot politiky ( 25.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Odporovat a moc nezbrojit, nebo na písknutí kupovat zbraně?
Študentstvo na Slovensku zvoní na poplach ( 25.03.2026 14:42:16 denikreferendum.cz)
Slovenští studenti svolali na středu 25. března protesty proti současné politické situaci a chování vládnoucí Ficovy koalice. Odpor vůči jí nastoupené cestě k hybridní demokracii u našich sousedů sílí.
„Ve snaze bránit demokracii ji EU ve skutečnosti ničí“, říká Thomas Fazi ( 25.03.2026 14:30:02 konzervativninoviny.cz)
Chrání nás Evropská komise před zahraničními zásahy a dezinformacemi, nebo je tomu naopak? Kolik nevládních organizací a mediálních společností dostává od EU finanční prostředky na prosazování bruselské agendy? Do jaké míry je systém financování EU nepřiměřený? Zeptali jsme se britského spisovatele a novináře na propagandu a cenzuru ze strany EU, [...]
Cílem zákona o občanských organizacích je oslabit občanskou společnost ( 25.03.2026 12:37:47 denikreferendum.cz)
Vláda ustoupila od původního návrhu registru zahraničních vazeb. Premiér však vzápětí obrátil a prohlásil, že podobný zákon přece jen vznikne. Úmysl je stále týž: oslabení a zastrašení aktivní občanské společnosti.
Co už stihla nová vláda? ( 25.03.2026 11:15:34 konzervativninoviny.cz)
Nástup vlády premiéra Andreje Babiše se nesl na vlně ambiciózních plánů, které si kabinet vytyčil v programovém prohlášení. Co za prvních 100 dnů už stihl? A co naopak ne? V přehledu přinášíme konkrétní sliby a stav jejich plnění. Ke jmenování kabinetu došlo 15. prosince loňského roku. Kromě započatých legislativních změn [...]
Podcasty DR: Bez migrantů to nejde. Španělsko jim otevírá cestu k pobytu ( 25.03.2026 10:47:23 denikreferendum.cz)
Španělská vláda umožní lidem bez povolení k pobytu požádat o legalizaci, pokud v zemi žijí alespoň pět měsíců a splní další podmínky. Jak ale upozorňuje reportérka Deníku Referendum Petra Dvořáková, řada z nich může narazit na byrokracii.
Mezinárodní právo versus „koncert velmocí“ ( 25.03.2026 09:21:26 denikreferendum.cz)
Mezinárodní právo sice často selhává, zejména kvůli zablokované Radě bezpečnosti, svůj smysl však neztratilo. Chceme-li žít v bezpečném světě, budování mezinárodních vztahů na principech rovnoprávnosti a sebeurčení nemá alternativu.
"People Have the Power": Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe at Democracy Now! Celebration ( 25.03.2026 08:51:46 democracynow.org)
Democracy Now! celebrated its 30th anniversary Monday at the historic Riverside Church in New York. The night ended with Patti Smith performing her anthemic hit “People Have the Power,” joined on stage by Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe, Hurray for the Riff Raff, the National’s Aaron Dessner and more.
Watch the entire event here.
Patti Smith Remembers Rachel Corrie, Sings "Peaceable Kingdom" at DN!'s 30th Anniversary Event ( 25.03.2026 08:41:32 democracynow.org)
Over 2,000 people packed into the historic Riverside Church in New York on Monday to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Democracy Now! The program included a reading by legendary singer Patti Smith from her new memoir Bread of Angels, in which she remembered the U.S. peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza in 2003 while trying to protect Palestinian homes from destruction. Corrie inspired Smith’s song “Peaceable Kingdom,” which she performed alongside Tony Shanahan on guitar and her daughter Jesse Smith on piano.
Pokud to není správné, nedělej to, pokud to není pravda, neříkej to! ( 25.03.2026 08:30:16 konzervativninoviny.cz)
To je zásada, kterou si ve svých vzpomínkách poznamenal římský císař Marcus Aurelius. Na víkendovém setkání konzervativních politiků v Maďarsku ji připomněl argentinský prezident Javier Milei a popsal, jak se z ní poučili v jeho zemi. CPAC je zkratka pro „Conservative Political Action Conference” neboli každoroční setkání konzervativních aktivistů a [...]
Pentagon Whistleblower Criticizes "Bloodthirst" of Iran War, Says Hegseth Is Enabling War Crimes ( 25.03.2026 08:29:10 democracynow.org)
As the United States mobilizes thousands more troops for deployment to the Middle East, we speak with retired U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant Wes Bryant, who criticizes the “bloodthirst” of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. Bryant led the Pentagon office for civilian harm assessment from 2024 to 2025, before the unit was dissolved under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The “wholly illegal war” has been “carried out recklessly from the start and with little regard for the innocent,” Bryant tells Democracy Now! “Pete Hegseth has already directed the committing of war crimes. And unfortunately, our senior military leadership is bending the knee and carrying out whatever he tells them to do.”
New DHS Head Markwayne Mullin Is "Trump Loyalist, Anti-immigrant, Incompetent": Rep. Delia Ramirez ( 25.03.2026 08:13:59 democracynow.org)
Markwayne Mullin was sworn in Tuesday as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, replacing Kristi Noem, who was ousted earlier this month. Mullin has served as senator for Oklahoma since 2023 following a decade in the House of Representatives. He joins the Trump administration amid a partial government shutdown, with Democrats demanding reforms to immigration enforcement before fully funding DHS.
“This agency of terror needs to be dismantled,” says Congressmember Delia Ramirez of Illinois. “And whether it is Mullin, whether it is Noem, whether it’s Tom Homan, that agency is dangerous, and every American should say, 'Enough is enough.'”
Ramirez also comments on the birthright citizenship case before the Supreme Court, the U.S. fuel blockade against Cuba and more.
Headlines for March 25, 2026 ( 25.03.2026 08:00:00 democracynow.org)
Pentagon Reports as Many as 3,000 U.S. Troops Set to Be Deployed to the Middle East, Iran Continues to Launch Retaliatory Strikes Against Gulf Countries, Philippines Declares National Energy Emergency Due to U.S.-Israeli War on Iran, Lebanon Expels Iranian Ambassador from the Country, Russia Launches Nearly 1,000 Drones at Ukraine, NYT: TSA Shared Personal Info with ICE Before Arrests at San Francisco Airport, CNN: Concerns Raised About Safety at LaGuardia Airport Before Deadly Runway Crash, New Mexico Jury Orders Meta to Pay $375 Million for Harming Children’s Mental Health and Safety, Eight Architecture and Cultural Organizations Sue Trump and Kennedy Center Board over Renovations, Democrat Flips Florida State House Seat in District That Includes Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Home, Minnesota Officials Sue Trump Admin over Renee Good and Alex Pretti Investigations, Thousands March in Argentina to Mark 50 Years Since U.S.-Backed Military Coup in 1976
Za Trumpovu a Netanjahuovu válku v Íránu bude platit celý svět. Hovoříme s politologem Pavlem Baršou ( 25.03.2026 05:11:00 denikalarm.cz)
Proč šly Spojené státy do války v Íránu? Blíží se velký globální konflikt? A jak by na situaci měla reagovat Evropa? Hostem podcastu Kolaps je politolog Pavel Barša.
Nikdo není v bezpečí. Film Pan Nikdo proti Putinovi odhaluje zrůdnost mechanismů propagandy ( 25.03.2026 05:10:00 denikalarm.cz)
Oscarový dokument s českou stopou je mrazivou sondou do duše národa, který si nechal ukrást vlastní budoucnost. Jeho poselství cílí hlavně na Západ.
Když onemocníte, máte smůlu: invalidita třetího stupně jako slepá skvrna nemocenské ( 25.03.2026 05:09:00 denikalarm.cz)
Nešťastný relikt minulosti v zákonech dokáže za určitých okolností ničit lidem životy.
Trump v Hormuzském průlivu vytvořil krizi, kterou neumí vyřešit. Jak na ní vydělají fosilní korporace? ( 25.03.2026 05:05:00 denikalarm.cz)
Doprava v Hormuzském průlivu se po americko-izraelském útoku na Írán z velké části zastavila. Jak může situace ovlivnit energetickou bezpečnost v Česku?
Nenastal čas přiznat volební právo dětem? ( 25.03.2026 04:00:20 konzervativninoviny.cz)
Zápas za prosazení všeobecného volebního práva byl přibližně od poloviny 19. století páteří politického zápasu o demokratizaci národních států Evropy a volební právo je dnes považováno za jedno z „nezcizitelných práv všech členů lidské rodiny“. Zdálo by se, že jsme v tomto příběhu došli až na sám konec. Přesto však [...]
ŠAMANOVO DOUPĚ: Dvojí cena benzinu a televize ( 24.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Když v roce 1989 chcípl reálný socialismus, začal se rozvíjet reálný kapitalismus.
KOSMONAUTIKA: Návrat na Měsíc (14.) ( 24.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
„Aurora 7“: Carpenterovo dobrodružství
INCIDENT: Jmenoval se Yehuda Sherman ( 24.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Svět se po smrti Yehudy Shermana posune dál.
PLZEŇ-MĚSTO: Unikátnost mého senátního obvodu ( 24.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
My máme v našem obvodě úplně všechno.
PRÁVO: Když nestačí být nevinen ( 24.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Debata o zabavování majetku se obvykle vede v rovině presumpce neviny.
Šlo to jako když hrom bije ( 24.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Bleskový zásah naznačuje, že nešlo o žádné hledání jehly v kupce sena.
JUBILEUM: Zdeněk Svěrák (90) méně známý ( 24.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Zdeněk Svěrák je především spisovatel a také s tím začal velmi dávno.
TEXTÍK: Popelec ( 24.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Mše provedená v kostelíku v Prdeli Zakopané oslovila strýce Bonifáce.
BIG BEN: Co by české vládě poradila lady Thatcher? ( 24.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Jsou jen tři věci, které vláda dělat musí, protože je nemůže dělat nikdo jiný
ZMATENÍ: Proti vládě proti dýmu ( 24.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Proti všemu protivnýmu demonstrovali hodní a zmatení občané na mojí Pláni.
KOČKY: O čem se (ne)mluví (2) ( 24.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Mývalí kocour Zhouky
Saint-Denis, „Město králů“, a Velká výměna ( 24.03.2026 14:30:32 konzervativninoviny.cz)
Na úpatí baziliky Saint-Denis, která je od merovejských časů pohřebištěm francouzských králů, se potomci jejich dávných poddaných stávají stále vzácnějšími. Ve městě Saint-Denis, které má přes 150 000 obyvatel, zvítězil v komunálních volbách Bally Bagayoko, kandidát krajní levice, zastupující hnutí La France Insoumise (LFI). Byl zvolen necelými 50 % hlasů. [...]
Konzervativci se opět sešli v Budapešti ( 24.03.2026 12:00:21 konzervativninoviny.cz)
Konference CPAC Hungary poukázala na posun od rétoriky ke strategii, přičemž konzervativní osobnosti se vydaly cestou koordinované politické činnosti přesahující hranice. Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Hungary je evropská odnož americké konzervativní konference, která se od roku 2022 koná každoročně v Budapešti. Slouží jako hlavní platforma pro propojování americké pravice s [...]
Nádražní budovy zrcadlí hodnoty naší společnosti ( 24.03.2026 10:10:09 denikreferendum.cz)
Mimořádně nezdařilá rekonstrukce nádraží v Pacově není jen náhodný přešlap, ale důsledek širší strategie Správy železnic, která nadřazuje vlastní komerční zájmy nad péčí o cestující i o kulturněhistorické objekty.
Potřebujeme energetickou bezpečnost. Místo toho si stále budujeme vlastní past ( 24.03.2026 09:48:50 denikreferendum.cz)
Energetická krize způsobená válkou v Íránu znovu odhalila neúnosnost české energetické politiky. Zatímco okolní země zrychlují investice do obnovitelných zdrojů, česká vláda dál udržuje naši závislost na fosilních zdrojích.
As Trump Deploys ICE Agents to Airports, TSA Agents Continue to Go Without Pay: AFGE Union Steward ( 24.03.2026 08:52:34 democracynow.org)
The partial government shutdown over funding for the Department of Homeland Security has caused major staffing shortages within the Transportation Security Administration, an agency under DHS that handles airport security procedures created in response to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. TSA officers have not been paid for over a month, leading to hundreds of resignations and leaves of absence. As airports are hit with significant delays, Cameron Cochems, the vice president of a union representing thousands of fellow TSA workers, urges travelers to use their time waiting to call their elected representatives “to fund the TSA so we can get our paychecks and we can get back to work.”
To fill staffing shortages, DHS has deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to U.S. airports. This comes as ICE is under fire for a hiring surge with minimal vetting and training for new officers. “It really feels like they’re a Band-Aid over a gaping wound. Our officers, they’re not getting paid, and having people that come in that are getting paid just feels like an insult,” says Cochems, who adds that the ultimate goal of the Republican Party is to eliminate union protections and privatize the TSA.
Bruce Springsteen Performs "Streets of Minneapolis" at Democracy Now!'s 30th Anniversary ( 24.03.2026 08:43:05 democracynow.org)
Democracy Now! celebrated its 30th anniversary at the historic Riverside Church in New York City with live performances by guests including musician Bruce Springsteen. Springsteen performed his new song, “Streets of Minneapolis,” about the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis and spoke about his upcoming tour, which begins in Minneapolis next week. Watch the full event here.
"Under the Rubble": Pulitzer Prize Winner Reads Poem About Gaza at Democracy Now!'s 30th Anniversary ( 24.03.2026 08:36:01 democracynow.org)
Democracy Now! celebrated its 30th anniversary at the historic Riverside Church in New York City with live performances by guests including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha. Mosab Abu Toha read his poem “Under the Rubble” and spoke about his experience surviving Israel’s genocide of Gaza, which killed 30 members of his extended family. Watch the full event here.
"Israel First": Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy Says Netanyahu Led Trump into Illegal Iran War ( 24.03.2026 08:13:17 democracynow.org)
“This is about how far Israel can extend its dominion, how much of a hard-power, dominant hegemon it can be in the region.” Daniel Levy of the U.S./Middle East Project says that U.S. involvement in the ongoing war on Iran is being driven by Israel’s expansionist ambitions in the Middle East. “Israel is still on the impunity high from its Gaza genocide, which has led us here.” Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator, also provides analysis of current U.S., Israeli and Iranian wartime strategy, as well as potential ceasefire negotiations and Israel’s settler and soldier-backed ethnic cleansing of the occupied West Bank. “I think this will ultimately end very badly for Israel and generate tremendous blowback. But in the meantime, it is again the Palestinians bearing the brunt.”
„Pokud se EPP podvolí německému tlaku, konflikt se bude opakovat“, říká europoslanec AfD ( 24.03.2026 08:00:42 konzervativninoviny.cz)
„Nyní vidíme, že se politická mapa Evropy změnila, ale některé strany se stále snaží chovat, jako by se nic nestalo.“ Jednání mezi Evropskou lidovou stranou (EPP) a pravicovými stranami v Evropském parlamentu (EP) o zpřísnění migrační politiky, včetně zřízení návratových center ve třetích zemích, vyvolala silnou reakci ze strany socialistů, [...]
Headlines for March 24, 2026 ( 24.03.2026 08:00:00 democracynow.org)
Iran Denies Trump’s Claim of “Productive” Negotiations to End War, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich Calls for Annexation of Southern Lebanon, U.N. Special Rapporteur Says Israel Has Adopted Torture as State Policy, Cuba Says U.S. Oil Blockade Has Caused Massive Disruptions to Healthcare System, Senate Confirms Markwayne Mullin as Homeland Security Secretary, Replacing Kristi Noem, Unpaid TSA Workers Demand Paychecks as ICE Agents Deploy to U.S. Airports, Videos Show ICE Agents Violently Arresting Mother and Daughter at San Francisco Airport, Supreme Court Scrutinizes Mississippi Law Allowing Mail-In Ballots Postmarked by Election Day, Postmaster General Warns USPS On Track to Run Out of Funds by February, U.N. Warns of Worsening Climate Crisis as U.S. Suffers Record March Heat Waves, Nearly 1,000 New York University Professors Strike for Fair Salaries and Job Security
Společenská atmosféra přituhuje. Alarm přežije jen díky vám ( 24.03.2026 05:10:00 denikalarm.cz)
V temných časech, které pomalu přicházejí, budou svobodné a kritické hlasy potřebovat podporu. Připojte se ke komunitě našich podporovatelů.
Milionu chvilek chybí urgence i plán. Demonstrovat má přesto smysl ( 24.03.2026 05:05:00 denikalarm.cz)
Už potřetí zaplnil Milion chvilek letenskou pláň. O souvislostech protivládního protestu mluvili ve Studiu Alarm Jan Bělíček, Magdalena Dušková a Pavel Šplíchal.
Francouzské komunální volby ukázaly, že Paříž a velká města odolávají krajní pravici ( 24.03.2026 05:00:00 denikalarm.cz)
Obava z nástupu krajní pravice ve Francii se tak docela nepotvrdila, Národní sdružení nicméně zdvojnásobilo počet svých zastupitelů.
POLITIKA: Letná jako symbolická apropriace ( 23.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Zvláštní rys celé demonstrace je její nejednoznačnost.
BALKÁNSKÝ OBR: Rumunsko tichým záchranářem Evropy ( 23.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Z vysmívaného Rumunska se stal klíčový hráč pro ukrajinské přežití.
HROZBA: Íránské rakety doletí až do Evropy… ( 23.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Írán vystřelil dvě rakety na americkou základnu na Diego Garcia v Indickém oceánu.
SEKTÁŘSTVÍ: Jste odolní vůči sektě? ( 23.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Sekta je založena na axiomu neomylnosti vůdce, jemuž je vše podřízeno.
KONFLIKT: Amerika potřebuje klid ( 23.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Česká republika se zúčastní ochrany plavby v Hormuzském průlivu.
HISTORIE: „Omluva“ za katyňský masakr ( 23.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Velká podlá ruská lež, Polsko nezabíjelo ruské zajatce v roce 1920
ÚVAHA: Je člověk skutečně inteligentním tvorem? ( 23.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Lidská inteligence je jedním z největších paradoxů přírody.
Nápad pod stolem ( 23.03.2026 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Sobotní Letná obsahovala výzvu: zameťte s těmi šupáky
From Gaza to Iran, Rise of Conscientious Objectors Marks U.S. Soldiers' "Shift in Consciousness" ( 23.03.2026 08:52:31 democracynow.org)
With thousands more U.S. Marines headed to the Middle East and President Trump reportedly considering a ground invasion of Iran, we speak with Mike Prysner, executive director of the Center on Conscience and War, who says his organization has received a massive increase in inquiries from soldiers seeking to submit conscientious objector applications. Prysner cites a “shift in consciousness” among young people in the United States, spurred by the Gaza genocide. “And the military is made up of young people in the United States.”
"It's a Disaster": European Countries Refuse to Take a Stand Against U.S. Violations of Int'l Law ( 23.03.2026 08:39:54 democracynow.org)
We look at how Europe is responding to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran as President Trump denounces NATO allies for not joining the war. International affairs scholar Nathalie Tocci, speaking to Democracy Now! from Italy, criticizes Europe’s “ambiguous” response to the war on Iran as most of the continent has refused to condemn it. “We were the ones that were for multilateralism, for international law, and that ambiguity is basically another nail in the coffin of our credibility.”
Iran War & Strait of Hormuz Energy Crisis Reveal Decline of U.S. Empire: Historian Alfred McCoy ( 23.03.2026 08:16:28 democracynow.org)
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has now entered its fourth week. The de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iranian forces is being felt worldwide, as shipments of oil, natural gas and fertilizer have been drastically curtailed. A fifth of the world’s oil supply transits through the strait, and the price of oil is up by about 50% since the war began in late February.
On Saturday evening, President Trump threatened Iran on social media, saying he would “obliterate their various power plants, starting with the biggest one first,” if the Strait of Hormuz was not fully reopened within 48 hours. He later extended his deadline by five days following Iranian threats to destroy essential infrastructure, including energy and water systems, across the Gulf. Iran has denied reports of direct or indirect talks with the U.S.
If Iran can keep the Strait of Hormuz closed and “hold Washington to ransom,” it will have significant leverage, says Alfred McCoy, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “In a strategic analysis, Iran right now is in the dominant position.”
Headlines for March 23, 2026 ( 23.03.2026 08:00:00 democracynow.org)
Trump Says He’s Pausing Attacks on Iranian Power Plants and Energy Infrastructure for Five Days, Saudi Arabia Orders Iran’s Military Attaché and Four Embassy Staff to Leave the Country, Israel Strikes Main Bridge in Southern Lebanon, Ordering Demolitions of Homes Near Border, Israeli Airstrikes Kill Four Palestinians in Gaza, as Israeli Settlers Carry Out Attacks in Occupied West Bank, U.K.'s Starmer Condemns “Shocking Antisemitic Arson Attack” on Four Jewish Volunteer Ambulances, At Least 64 Killed in a Strike on Hospital in Sudan's Darfur Region, Cuba Partially Restores Power After Suffering Another Blackout Due to U.S. Oil Blockade, Two Killed, 41 Injured as Air Canada Plane Crashes into Fire Truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, Palestinian Activist Leqaa Kordia Returns to New Jersey After Year in ICE “Dungeons”, “Security Requires a Free Press and an Informed People”: Court Blocks Pentagon’s Media Policy, States Sue to Halt Nexstar-Tegna Merger, Which Would Create Largest Owner of U.S. Local TV Stations, Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, Who Led Trump-Russia Investigation, Dies at 81, Slovenia’s Ruling Liberals Claim Victory in Election That Remains Too Close to Call, French Socialists Hold Power in Local Elections, On World Water Day, Chileans Protest President Kast’s Environmental Rollbacks
Babišova vláda národní šikany ( 23.03.2026 05:30:00 denikalarm.cz)
Babiš chce transparentní neziskovky, aby odvrátil pozornost od své netransparentní vlády.
Mamdani zrušil šikanu cyklistů v NY. Anticyklistický odpor praktikují i česká města. Vždy jde o asociální opatření ( 23.03.2026 05:20:00 denikalarm.cz)
Newyorský starosta Zohran Mamdani utnul zpřísněné postihy pro cyklisty, které zavedl jeho předchůdce. Nástroje k šikaně cyklistů jsou ale různorodé, jak lze ukázat na příkladu Brna. Na jižní Moravě i v New Yorku za nimi stojí stejná ideologie i krátkozrakost.
„Bedřiška přežije!“ znělo Prahou na solidární demonstraci a benefici za ostravskou osadu ( 23.03.2026 05:10:00 denikalarm.cz)
Solidarita s ostravskou osadou Bedřiška se stala pevnou součástí programu českého sociálního a ekologického hnutí.
Mauzoleum bez sebereflexe. Servilně uslintaný dokument Livia měl zůstat v propadlišti dějin ( 23.03.2026 05:00:00 denikalarm.cz)
Vzniká nový trend, kdy na plátnech uvidíme první dámy? Kina po Melanii (ne)hrají dokumentární portrét Livie Klausové.
Obří demonstrace bez nápadu ( 21.03.2026 20:30:26 denikalarm.cz)
Na demonstraci Milionu chvilek přišlo na Letnou okolo čtvrt milionu lidí. Tentokrát měla akce podtitul: Nenechme si ukrást budoucnost.
Izrael dnes v Libanonu používá stejné postupy, které otestoval v Gaze. Jak přežívá milion uprchlíků? ( 21.03.2026 09:30:51 denikalarm.cz)
Na stránkách médií zůstává Libanon ve stínu války s Íránem. Izrael ale mezitím stupňuje brutalitu, vyhnal z domovů čtvrtinu obyvatel a šponuje nenávist k uprchlíkům. O situaci jsme mluvili s novinářkou Laylou Bartheldi.
Disenfranchise Tens of Millions? Trump's SAVE Act Targets Women, Poor, Rural & Trans Voters ( 20.03.2026 08:50:46 democracynow.org)
Experts are calling it “the worst voter suppression bill ever seriously considered by Congress.” As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on a Trump-backed voter ID bill known as the SAVE Act, millions of citizens who lack easy access to its required forms of documentation are now at risk of disenfranchisement. “Republicans are singularly focused on making it harder to vote and pursuing this MAGA fever dream,” explains Ari Berman, national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones. “It is the overarching goal of the Republican Party now to make it harder to vote.”
The groups most at risk of disenfranchisement include people who have changed their names after marriage, older voters who never received birth certificates, rural voters who could find it increasingly difficult to register to vote and trans people who have changed their names or gender markers on government documents. The GOP and MAGA movement’s goal, says Imara Jones, the founder and CEO of TransLash Media, “is to enshrine anti-trans discrimination in the law, because what they’re doing is using trans people as a road test in order to try to figure out how to disenfranchise and marginalize and strip citizenship away from millions of Americans who disagree with them.”
Report from Beirut: 1,000+ Dead, 1M+ Displaced, Many Fear Long-Term Occupation of Southern Lebanon ( 20.03.2026 08:34:52 democracynow.org)
As Israel continues to pummel Lebanon in its resumed war against the country and the Hezbollah paramilitary, we get an update from Associated Press reporter Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut. “If you compare this particular war to the last one, less than two years ago, what happened in the past three weeks is what happened in the past seven or eight months,” says Chehayeb, who describes masses of displaced people and fears of an imminent ground invasion. “There is a humanitarian crisis unfolding in the country, and it doesn’t appear that these strikes will stop anytime soon.”
Labor Icon Dolores Huerta, 95, Reveals She, Too, Was Raped by Cesar Chavez; Speaks to Maria Hinojosa ( 20.03.2026 08:13:14 democracynow.org)
A major New York Times investigation details the late co-founder of the United Farm Workers Cesar Chavez’s sexual abuse of women and girls. The revelations about Chavez’s history of grooming and abuse have sent shockwaves through the labor movement and California, where officials are already moving to cancel or rename public celebrations planned in his honor. Chavez is also accused of sexually assaulting fellow labor rights icon and United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, now 95. Huerta says the assaults led to the births of two of her children. She concealed the pregnancies and had kept the children’s paternity secret until now.
Huerta spoke for the first time at length about her new public disclosures in an exclusive interview with Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa, who joins Democracy Now! to discuss how Huerta is “not only coming to terms with her own assaults, [but also] coming to terms with the fact that the movement and the person who she admired as part of the movement is essentially being covered up, disappeared.”
Headlines for March 20, 2026 ( 20.03.2026 08:00:00 democracynow.org)
U.S. Offensive Seeks to Reopen Strait of Hormuz as Hegseth Confirms He’s Seeking $200B for Iran War, Iran Warns of “Zero Restraint” If U.S. or Israel Attacks Energy Infrastructure Again, Death Toll from Recent Israeli Attacks on Lebanon Passes 1,000 Amid Fierce Fighting in South, Israel Reopens Rafah Crossing for Small Number of Palestinians to Seek Medicare Care Abroad, Protesters in Tel Aviv Demand Israel End Wars with Iran and Lebanon, Trump Jokes About Pearl Harbor in Meeting with Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi, 19-Year-Old Dies of Apparent Suicide in Florida ICE Jail, Nashville Immigration Reporter Estefany Rodríguez Released on Bond, Bronx High School Student Dylan Lopez Contreras Returns to New York After 10 Months in ICE Jail, Judge Denies Asylum Claim to Family of Liam Conejo Ramos, 5-Year-Old Jailed by ICE, “They Underestimated Their Workers”: Nearly 4,000 Colorado Meatpackers Enter Fifth Day of Strike, “De-ICE These Flights!”: Immigration Activists Target NCAA Charter Airline
Sobotní demonstrace na Letné je všechno možné, ale není bezdůvodná ( 20.03.2026 05:33:00 denikalarm.cz)
Argumenty, proč podle některých probabišovských komentátorů neexistují k sobotní demonstraci důvody, překvapí.
Zavřeli jim továrnu na autodíly. Dělníci přes čtyři roky bojují o obnovení výroby – ekologicky a družstevně ( 20.03.2026 05:05:00 denikalarm.cz)
V italské Florencii vedou zaměstnanci podniku GKN, bývalého dodavatele v automobilovém sektoru, nejdelší okupaci továrny dějinách země. Stali se tak symbolem naděje na ekologickou transformaci podle požadavků pracujících.
Bytová politika státu se stala obětí úředních čistek a developerských zájmů ( 20.03.2026 05:00:00 denikalarm.cz)
Ministerstvo pro místní rozvoj se chystá zrušit Agenturu pro sociální začleňování a fakticky rozpustit odbor bydlení.
Rána pro slovenskou kulturu. Fond na podporu umění zrušil platné smlouvy na víceleté projekty ( 19.03.2026 12:49:24 denikalarm.cz)
O peníze ze dne na den přišly čtyři desítky institucí od zavedených kulturních center až po literární a hudební festivaly.
From Epic Fury to Epstein Fury: Rep. Ro Khanna on the Betrayals of the Trump Administration ( 19.03.2026 08:53:03 democracynow.org)
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee walked out of a closed-door briefing on the Epstein files with Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy, Todd Blanche, less than an hour after it began Wednesday, after Bondi repeatedly declined to say whether she would comply with a subpoena requiring her to appear for a sworn deposition on April 14. Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna, who attended the briefing, said Bondi will have to answer “why there are still 3 million documents being hidden” and “why there was a cover-up of those files that implicated Donald Trump.”
Khanna also comments on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, noting that Trump’s military actions are “a total betrayal of his promise that he was going to focus on American needs.”
The End of the Petrodollar? How Iran War Is Reshaping the Global Economy: Author Laleh Khalili ( 19.03.2026 08:35:17 democracynow.org)
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have warned a “new stage of war” has begun after Israel bombed Iran’s South Pars gas field — the largest known natural gas reserve in the world. This comes as the price of oil has spiked to $118 a barrel, a 60% jump since the U.S. and Iran attacked Iran on February 28.
Professor of Gulf studies Laleh Khalili lays out the global economic implications of the effective closing of one of the world’s “major choke points for oil,” the Strait of Hormuz. “It doesn’t benefit the average U.S. citizen … at the gas stations, but it does benefit the oil companies,” says Khalili. “The higher the price of oil goes up, the relatively cheaper it becomes to actually have sustainable alternatives. Of course, that means that it benefits China … since China is way ahead of the rest of the world in producing these technologies.”
"Iran Is Playing the Long Game": Prof. Vali Nasr on What to Expect from Protracted War in Middle East ( 19.03.2026 08:12:55 democracynow.org)
In a major escalation in the war in the Middle East, Israel has bombed Iran’s South Pars gas field, the largest known natural gas reserve in the world, leading Iran to attack energy sites across the Gulf. Iranian American professor of international affairs Vali Nasr says that Iran is prepared for a much longer war than the U.S. and Israel anticipated. “The longer this war goes on, the more Iran is building leverage, and the more the strategic calculations of Israel and the United States appear to be falling short,” he says. Iran “thinks the longer that the war goes on, the less Israel and the United States will be able to defend against Iranian missiles, because they’re going to run out of interceptors.”
In the latest sign the war on Iran could be just beginning, Reuters is reporting President Trump is considering deploying thousands of more U.S. troops to the Middle East. The Pentagon has also asked for $200 billion from Congress.
The Iranian president has proposed terms for the end of the war including reparations and guarantees against future war. Nasr suggests that the Iranians are “confident” that some of their terms may be met. “President Trump may have to accept the fact that he has started a war that is not going to give him what he expected, and he has to settle for an exit in order to be able to go back to the agenda that it had before.”
Headlines for March 19, 2026 ( 19.03.2026 08:00:00 democracynow.org)
Fuel Prices Soar as Israeli Strike on Iranian Gas Field Triggers Retaliatory Attacks, Pentagon Seeks $200 Billion More for Iran War as Senate Rejects War Powers Resolution, Tulsi Gabbard Dodges Questions About Trump’s Claim of “Imminent Nuclear Threat” from Iran, Capitol Hill Protest Demands “Not One Dime More for Trump’s Illegal Iran War”, Lebanese Health Ministry: Israeli Attacks Kill 45 People Across Lebanon in the Past Two Days, Iranian Missiles Kill Civilians in Israel and Occupied West Bank, Markwayne Mullin Grilled by Senate Colleagues in Combative DHS Confirmation Hearing, ProPublica: DHS Demanding Access to Federal Parent Locator Service, CBS News: FBI and IRS to Probe Nonprofits over Possible Links to “Domestic Terrorism”, Democrats Walk Out of Briefing with AG Pam Bondi on DOJ’s Handling of Epstein Files, Cesar Chavez Accused of Abusing and Molesting Multiple Women and Girls
"Warmongers Come for the Media": Trump Threatens Media with "Treason" Charges over Iran War Coverage ( 18.03.2026 08:52:16 democracynow.org)
The Trump administration is escalating threats against news organizations, with President Trump suggesting outlets should face “treason” charges for disseminating false information. Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, has also threatened to revoke broadcasters’ licenses over their coverage of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. This all comes as allies of President Trump consolidate their control over several major media outlets. Paramount Skydance, led by Trump ally David Ellison, is poised to acquire Warner Bros., which includes CNN.
“They want these companies to be afraid,” says Craig Aaron, CEO of Free Press and Free Press Action. “As we’ve seen, whether it’s lawyers, universities, media companies, when the bullying works, you just get more and more bullying.”
Trump's Counterterrorism Chief Resigns over Iran War, Criticizes "Pressure from Israel" ( 18.03.2026 08:40:41 democracynow.org)
A top national security official resigned from the Trump administration Tuesday in response to the war on Iran. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,” Joe Kent, who served as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, wrote in his resignation letter.
We speak with Josh Paul, a former State Department official who resigned in 2023 to protest the Biden administration’s Gaza policy. He says Kent is at least the 16th U.S. official in the last few years to resign over policy related to Israel, spanning both the Biden and Trump administrations.
“We know that there is a very visible, very vocal debate happening in the Democratic Party on that topic. It’s clear that there is also a very vocal debate happening within the right wing of American politics,” says Paul.
Speeding Up the "Kill Chain": Pentagon Bombs Thousands of Targets in Iran Using Palantir AI ( 18.03.2026 08:16:32 democracynow.org)
As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran continues, we look at how the Pentagon is using artificial intelligence in its operations. The system, known as Project Maven, relies on technology by Palantir and also incorporates the AI model Claude built by Anthropic. Israel has used similar AI targeting programs in Iran, as well as in Gaza and Lebanon.
Craig Jones, an expert on modern warfare, says AI technology is helping militaries speed up the “kill chain,” the process of identifying, approving and striking targets. “You’re reducing a massive human workload of tens of thousands of hours into seconds and minutes. You’re reducing workflows, and you’re automating human-made targeting decisions in ways which open up all kinds of problematic legal, ethical and political questions,” says Jones.
Headlines for March 18, 2026 ( 18.03.2026 08:00:00 democracynow.org)
Israel Kills Iran’s Intelligence Minister in an Overnight Strike on Tehran, Iran Continues to Launch Retaliatory Strikes Against Gulf Countries, Israel Launches Airstrikes on Central Beirut, Demolishing High-Rise Building, Iran’s Parliament Speaker Says Strait of Hormuz “Won’t Return to Its Pre-War Status”, U.N. Warns 45 Million People at Risk of Acute Hunger Due to U.S.-Israeli War on Iran, Attorney General Bondi and Deputy AG Blanche Set to Brief Lawmakers on DOJ’s Handling of Epstein Files, Senate Democrats Send White House Counteroffer to Fund DHS, HRW: Several Immigrants from El Salvador Deported by the Trump Admin Have Been Forcibly Disappeared, Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Admin from Terminating Temporary Protected Status for Somali Immigrants, NYT: Trump Admin Considers Withholding HIV Treatments from Zambia in Exchange for Greater Access to Country’s Minerals, Cuba Restores Power After Nationwide Blackout, DOJ Dismisses Charges Against Army Veteran Who Burned U.S. Flag Across from White House Last Year, Federal Judge Orders Trump Admin to Restore Union Contract with Veterans Affairs Department Workers, Illinois Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton Wins Democratic Senate Primary
Prairieland Trial: Anti-ICE Protesters Convicted on Terrorism Charges as DOJ Targets "Antifa Cell" ( 17.03.2026 08:50:50 democracynow.org)
A jury in Texas has convicted eight people in the first federal anti-terror case since the Trump administration declared “antifa” a terror group. Nine defendants alleged to be members of an “antifa terror cell” stood trial on federal and state charges including rioting, using explosives and attempted murder. The charges stemmed from their attendance at an anti-ICE protest outside the Prairieland ICE jail on July 4, during which fireworks were set off and a police officer was shot and wounded. Eight protesters now face at least 15 years in jail. Their legal teams plan to appeal. “The antifa of it all, from my perspective, was purely political,” says one of the defendants’ attorneys, Xavier de Janon, who joins Democracy Now! to break down the case.
Report from Havana as Trump Threatens to "Take" Cuba & Pushes for Ouster of Cuban Leader ( 17.03.2026 08:35:55 democracynow.org)
Cuba’s electrical grid has collapsed. The island-wide blackout comes amid a harsh U.S. oil blockade and recent comments from President Donald Trump that he wants to “take” Cuba. No oil shipments have reached the country, located just south of Florida, in three months, compounding a humanitarian crisis caused by decades of severe U.S. sanctions. “Sanctions are literally killing people right now,” says Cuban journalist Daniel Montero with Belly of the Beast, speaking from Havana. “We understand what this oil embargo means, and [what] sanctions have always meant. This is regime change through starvation.” Historian Sara Kozameh, who recently returned from Cuba, adds, “Cubans have fought for sovereignty many, many times. And they’re not going to just sort of lie there while this is happening.”
Ground Invasion of Iran Could Be "Suicide Mission" for U.S.: Ex-Army Intelligence Analyst ( 17.03.2026 08:21:25 democracynow.org)
We get an analysis of the Trump administration’s Iran war strategy from former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Harrison Mann. “From day two of this war, the Trump administration has not known what to do and how to get out of this,” says Mann, who resigned from the U.S. Army’s Defense Intelligence Agency in 2024 over the Biden administration’s policy in Gaza. As Trump is rumored to be eyeing the oil export hub of Kharg Island for seizure, Mann gives his assessment of a potential ground invasion of Iran. “Any attempt to seize this island would be close to a suicide mission,” he says. While U.S. leaders struggle to respond to Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and attacks on military bases in U.S.-allied Gulf states, Mann notes that “the people who drove [Trump] into this war pretty much expected this. I don’t think this is a surprise to Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio or Benjamin Netanyahu — who is very much getting what he wanted, which is dragging the U.S. into what he hopes will be a decisive war of annihilation against Iran.”
Israel Says It Has Assassinated Iran's Security Chief, Ali Larijani, Known for Negotiating with the West ( 17.03.2026 08:13:07 democracynow.org)
How long will the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran last? Regime change in Iran will not be as “easy and quick” as U.S. warmongers may have initially believed, says Iranian American political analyst Trita Parsi. Israel claims that it has successfully assassinated Iran’s powerful security chief Ali Larijani, who Parsi says could have played a role in future ceasefire negotiations. “The Israelis have fought so hard to get the United States to go into a full-scale war with Iran for more than 20 years,” says Parsi. “It is in their interest to prolong this war as long as they can, and kill off any potential off-ramps that Trump may be looking for.”
Headlines for March 17, 2026 ( 17.03.2026 08:00:00 democracynow.org)
Israel Says It Killed Iran’s Security Chief Ali Larijani and Commander of Basij Paramilitaries, Iran Says Infant, Toddler, Mother and Grandmother Among Latest Victims of U.S.-Israeli Strikes, Rocket from Lebanon Injures 7 in Northern Israel as Iranian Drone Damages Jerusalem Holy Sites, Baghdad’s Green Zone, UAE Oil Field Among Mideast Sites Hit by Iranian Drones, Israel’s Attacks on Lebanon Have Driven More Than 1 Million from Their Homes, U.S. Allies Refuse Trump’s Call to Send Warships to Strait of Hormuz, Jared Kushner Seeks $5 Billion for Private Equity Firm While Serving as Mideast Negotiator, Leqaa Kordia Released from ICE Jail After More Than a Year in Custody, Federal Judge Blocks RFK Jr.'s Changes to Childhood Vaccinations, Cuba's National Electricity Grid Collapses as Trump Says It Would Be a “Big Honor” to “Take” Cuba, Afghanistan Says Pakistan Airstrike on Kabul Killed Over 400, Trump Admin Approves BP’s $5 Billion Drilling Project Off Louisiana Coast, Voters in Illinois Head to the Polls for Primary Elections
"Mr Nobody Against Putin" Wins Oscar; Meet the Russian Teacher in Film Who Confronts State Propaganda ( 16.03.2026 08:41:32 democracynow.org)
Mr Nobody Against Putin won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature on Sunday. Democracy Now! recently spoke with co-director David Borenstein and the subject of the film, the Russian teacher Pavel “Pasha” Talankin, who personally documented Russia’s use of wartime propaganda. “I need for as many people as possible to see what is happening inside of Russian schools,” says Talankin. “Putin is forcing propaganda into their schools, and [the children are] absorbing all of this.”
Borenstein says the film is also a reflection on “the value of one person’s resistance, about how much one person can do, about how much we can overcome complicity while the systems around us are succumbing to authoritarianism.”
Report from Jerusalem: As Israel Keeps Bombing Iran, Palestinians Face Growing Violence in West Bank ( 16.03.2026 08:33:54 democracynow.org)
Democracy Now! speaks with Iranian Israeli political activist Orly Noy about her recent piece, “Longing for My Tehran.” “It’s been a very emotional time since the beginning of the war, not just because we are constantly running in and out of shelters,” says Noy, “but because this time, the footage of the bombing that I grew accustomed to seeing for over two years from the genocide in Gaza was now coming from my homeland.”
Noy also comments on Israeli political support for the war on Iran, saying “the very few attempts to protest against the war were brutally crushed by the Israeli police.” Israeli violence against Palestinians in the West Bank is also increasing. “Up until now, our worry was about the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank. Now it is just about executing Palestinians, both by the army and by the settlers,” says Noy.
"A Sense of Despair": Many Iranians Fear a Prolonged War — and What Comes After ( 16.03.2026 08:15:02 democracynow.org)
As the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran extends into a third week, President Trump is demanding other countries send warships to the Strait of Hormuz, which has been largely shut, as oil prices keep rising. This comes as the U.S. and Israel continue to launch major strikes on Iran, while Iran has retaliated by repeatedly striking Israel and U.S. allies in the Gulf, including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain. Despite the violence in Iran, “pro-war voices are definitely in the diaspora and very strong, but they also exist inside Iran,” says Naghmeh Sohrabi, professor of Middle East history at Brandeis University.
“I think most Iranians want this war to end as soon as possible, and at the same time, they fear nothing more than the day after the war, if this regime remains intact,” says Iranian American novelist Amir Ahmadi Arian.
Headlines for March 16, 2026 ( 16.03.2026 08:00:00 democracynow.org)
U.S.-Israeli War on Iran Enters Third Week as Iranian Foreign Minister Denies Asking for Ceasefire, Iran Continues Retaliatory Strikes in the Middle East as Six U.S. Service Members Killed in Iraq, Trump Urges Other Countries to Send Warships to Secure the Strait of Hormuz, Israeli Troops Begin Ground Operations in Southern Lebanon, FCC Chair Brendan Carr Threatens to Revoke Broadcasters’ Licenses over Iran War Coverage, Israeli Forces Kill 16 Palestinians in Gaza and the Occupied West Bank, Explosion Damages Jewish School in Amsterdam, Trump Administration Reopens U.S. Embassy in Venezuela for the First Time Since 2019, Protesters Reportedly Attack Communist Party Office in Cuba as Energy Crisis Deepens, Haitian Asylum Seeker Found Dead After ICE Released Her at Bus Shelter in Pittsburgh, Afghan Asylum Seeker Who Worked with U.S. Special Forces Dies in ICE Custody, Anti-ICE Protesters Convicted on Terrorism Charges in Texas, Immigration Judge Orders the Release of Palestinian Activist Leqaa Kordia, “Sinners” Makes Oscars History as Autumn Durald Arkapaw Becomes the First Woman to Win for Best Cinematography
Economist Jeffrey Sachs: U.S.-Israeli "War of Choice," Assault on U.N. Charter Could Lead to WWIII ( 13.03.2026 08:42:52 democracynow.org)
The global economy has been rocked by the war in the Middle East, with Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz threatening energy flows and sending the price of oil soaring to its highest level in years. The United Nations Security Council responded to the unprovoked U.S.-Israeli war by passing a resolution this week condemning Iran — specifically for its attacks on U.S. allies in the region — while ignoring the role of the Trump administration and the Netanyahu government in instigating the bloodshed. Economist Jeffrey Sachs joins Democracy Now! to discuss the fallout of the “war of choice” and why it also constitutes an assault on the United Nations.
“This is so out of control, without any logic, any rationality, not any humane, moral, legal justification whatsoever,” says Sachs. “It will lead to world war the way we’re going, because we have two malignant narcissists, Netanyahu and Trump, that are leading us to disaster.”
Israeli Journalist Gideon Levy: Israel Will Not Stop Wars & Occupation Until U.S. Pulls Support ( 13.03.2026 08:25:44 democracynow.org)
Inside Israel, “there is no room for any question marks or doubts about this war,” says journalist Gideon Levy, a columnist for Haaretz and a member of the newspaper’s editorial board. He says war fever has taken over the country, with polls showing 93% support for the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, Lebanon and beyond — at least among the Jewish public. “Israel is doing as much as it can,” he says. “As long as the American support is so massive, so blind and so automatic, this will go on.”
Levy also criticizes Israel’s military censorship system that strictly limits publishing information about war damage and other material deemed to be counter to national security. He says much of it is driven by self-censorship by a press that sees itself as “an agency of the government and of the military establishment, and this is very worrying.”
Report from Beirut: Israel Expands Bombing Campaign & Mass Displacement in Lebanon ( 13.03.2026 08:15:06 democracynow.org)
We speak with journalist Lylla Younes in Lebanon, where she says Israel’s “massacres are multiplying” amid the broader U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Israeli strikes have killed nearly 700 people in Lebanon over the past two weeks, while attacks have expanded to include areas of central Beirut, which Israel claims are aimed at the powerful Hezbollah militia. This comes as Israel has vowed to expand its incursion into southern Lebanon.
“The vast majority of southern Lebanon is now under displacement orders,” says Younes. “That is approximately 15% of the country.”
Headlines for March 13, 2026 ( 13.03.2026 08:00:00 democracynow.org)
U.S.-Israeli Attacks Have Forced 3.2 Million Iranians to Flee Their Homes, In First Public Statement, Iran’s New Supreme Leader Vows to Keep Blocking Strait of Hormuz, 250+ Groups Call on Congress to Reject Request for $50 Billion in Funding for Iran War, Iranian Strike on Oman Kills Immigrant Workers as NATO Shoots Down Missile Fired at Turkey, Lebanon Death Toll Rises as Israel Bombs Central Beirut and Targets Civilian Infrastructure, Israel Drops All Charges Against Soldiers Accused of Sexually Abusing Palestinian Prisoner, Thousands March in Athens to Protest Greek Role in U.S.-Israeli Assault on Iran, “A Crime Against Humanity”: U.N. Inquiry Condemns Russia’s Abduction of Ukrainian Children, Suspect in Michigan Synagogue Attack Lost Family Members to Israeli Airstrike on Lebanon, Former National Guardsman Attacks ROTC Class at Old Dominion University, Killing 1 and Injuring 2, Rights Groups Demand Release of Palestinian Activist Leqaa Kordia, Jailed by ICE for 1 Year, 4,000 Meatpackers in Colorado Authorize Strike at JBS, World’s Largest Meat Producer
The World’s Narrowest House Is Only 63 Centimetres Wide ( 25.03.2026 20:40:51 odditycentral.com)
The district of Aucallama, in Huaral, northern Peru, is home to the world's narrowest fully-functional house, which measures just 63 centimetres in width.
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Bizarre Power Suit Transforms Wearer Into a Half-Human Half-Robot Centaur ( 25.03.2026 17:58:49 odditycentral.com)
Scientists in Shenzen, China, have developed an unusual power suit that makes the wearer look like a robotic centaur while reducing their energy consumption by up to 35 per cent.
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Man Passes Theoretical Driving Test After 9 Years and 139 Attempts ( 24.03.2026 22:53:09 odditycentral.com)
A perseverant Polish man finally passed his theoretical driving test after 139 failed attempts in nine years.
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Pothole on Road Jolts Brain-Dead Woman Back into Consciousness ( 24.03.2026 21:26:37 odditycentral.com)
A 50-year-old woman who had been declared brain-dead with no chance of recovery by doctors, miraculously regained consciousness when the ambulance carrying her hit a large pothole
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Middle-Aged Man Suffers Brain Haemorrhage After Riding Roller Coaster ( 20.03.2026 13:59:48 odditycentral.com)
A Taiwanese man claims that riding a popular roller coaster in the UAE caused him to suffer a brain haemorrhage that required surgery to fix.
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‘Human 3D Printer’ Carves Intricate Carrot Sculptures with Her Teeth ( 20.03.2026 11:57:31 odditycentral.com)
A young Chinese content creator has been getting a lot of attention for her unique art form, which involves carving intricate carrot sculptures using only her teeth.
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15-Year-Old Teenager Steals Bus, Drives It 80 Miles to Take Girlfriend to School ( 20.03.2026 10:01:27 odditycentral.com)
A German teenager stole a bus from a transportation company and used it to drive his girlfriend to school in another city.
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This Country Offers Residents $29,000 to Give Up Their Driver’s Licenses for Five Years ( 18.03.2026 21:47:43 odditycentral.com)
In a bid to limit the number of cars on its roads, the country of Malta is offering people 25,000 euros to surrender their driver's licenses for a period of five years.
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Meet Jessica Foster, the Wholesome US Soldier and Donald Trump Fan Who Doesn’t Exist ( 18.03.2026 17:31:02 odditycentral.com)
Jessica Foster is a popular Instagram influencer who poses as a US soldier and big Donald Trump fan, but is really just an AI-generated model.
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Arcade Draws Criticism for Using Live Hamsters as Prizes in Claw Machine Game ( 17.03.2026 22:04:50 odditycentral.com)
An arcade in Shenzen, China, has been accused of animal cruelty for using live hamsters as prizes for a claw machine game.
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