More than half of “long-shot” bets on military action made on Polymarket are successful, according to a new report that suggests prediction markets could pose a bigger threat than previously recognized to the security of sensitive information.

Analysis by the Anti-Corruption Data Collective, a non-profit research and advocacy group, found that long-shot bets—defined as wagers of $2,500 or more at odds of 35 percent or less—on the platform had an average win rate of around 52 percent in markets on military and defense actions.

That compares with a win rate of 25 percent across all politics-focused markets and just 14 percent for all markets on the platform as a whole.

The research is likely to add to growing concerns among regulators and lawmakers about insiders placing bets on the timing and success of military actions, amid fears that this could reveal classified information in advance.

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The Port of Churchill sits idle for most of the year, blanketed by snow and frozen by the bitter cold climate of Canada's sub-Arctic. It's only operational in the summer for four months, sometimes five.

But where weather is a hindrance, it has geography on its side - the northern Manitoba port sits on the Hudson Bay, a vast body of water with a direct route through the Bay's strait into the Labrador Sea and the north Atlantic Ocean.

From there, cargo ships sail more quickly to Europe, and can reach Africa and South America, delivering goods ranging from food to critical minerals, and even – Canada's leaders hope – liquified natural gas (LNG).

For decades, ambitions of expanding the Port of Churchill have fallen short — derailed, locals argue, under years of poor management as experts openly questioned whether an Arctic port makes good economic sense. Canada is now hoping to change that, guided by the inevitability of climate change, the challenge of US tariffs, and Europe's energy shortage fuelled by ongoing global conflicts.

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The port has already attracted some international support. Its operators signed an agreement earlier this year with the Port of Antwerp-Bruges in Belgium to collaborate on design, business development and future trade.

Spence, the mayor of Churchill, said the interest from Europe is a sign of the major geopolitical shifts that have been spurred by President Donald Trump's return to the White House.

The last year, Spence said, has also woken up Canada to start looking at the rest of the world.

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The various interventions have, over the past five years, halved incidents of human-carnivore conflict across three districts where WCA works, Mbizah says. In at least two wards, conflict has been eradicated almost entirely. This year, her organization started working in a fourth conflict-prone district, Hurungwe, whose northern end juts into the Zambezi Valley.

Mbizah says that women are proving themselves especially effective as community guardians.

“You have to be that kind of person who really cares about people, who really cares about the communities, and you are constantly interacting with people,” she says. “Even when they give the advice to the farmers, [women] give it in a way that the farmers would understand.”

Press freedom in the Americas has continued to deteriorate, falling 14 points in the World Press Freedom Index since 2022 — the same downward trend seen in the world’s two most difficult regions for journalism, Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

Journalism in this zone has long been strained due to the economic fragility of the media market and, in Latin America, persistent violence against the press. Now, in 2026, there is a marked trend of authorities across the region adding to these pressures through hostile rhetoric, legal and administrative constraints, restricted access to public information and the instrumentalisation of legal systems to quash reporting. Journalism is being criminalised, muzzled by gag lawsuits and, in countries plagued by cartel violence, made ever more dangerous by the lack of protection for news workers.

In the United States (which ranks 64th out of 180 countries and territories) journalists who were already fighting against economic headwinds and dealing with a crisis of public trust — among other challenges — now also contend with President Donald Trump’s systematic weaponisation of state institutions, including funding cuts to public broadcasters such as NPR and PBS, political interference in media ownership, and politically motivated investigations targeting disfavoured journalists and media outlets. Since his return to office,

So, we're now in the middle third of countries. Fabulous.

Many people are hoping—nay, praying—that the potential AI bubble will burst soon.

But to hear Google tell it, generative AI is the future, and the company’s products have to change to keep up with the technical reality. As a result, Gemini is seeping into every nook and cranny of the Google ecosystem. Generative AI feeds on data, and Google has a lot of your data in products like Gmail and Drive. What does that mean for your privacy, and what happens if you don’t want Gemini peeking over your shoulder? Well, it’s kind of a mess.

The amount of data Gemini retains depends on how you access the AI, and opting out of data collection can mean running straight into so-called “dark patterns,” UI elements that work against the user’s interest.

This is the future?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/41974591

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also a good blog post about it https://xint.io/blog/copy-fail-linux-distributions

Last month, MEE reported that a panel of judges appointed by the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), the ICC’s governing body, to review the UN investigation had concluded it had not established any "misconduct or breach of duty" by Khan.

But the chief prosecutor has still not returned to his duties. MEE later reported that a group of disproportionately western and European states voted at a bureau meeting to disregard the panel of judges and make their own assessment, based on the UN report.

In the interview with Hasan, published on Wednesday, Khan said he had thought the judges' conclusion "was the end of the matter. I thought obviously it would be closed straight away". "And I was really perplexed that the bureau didn't close it straight away."

Khan added, "I cooperated with the process, and the process exonerated me. I'm just concerned that…why is it not being closed straight away?"

Pressed on the sexual misconduct allegations against him, Khan said, "I've read the findings of the judges, and in the UN report, there are 137 findings.

The investigation into Khan has unfolded against the backdrop of an intensifying intimidation campaign targeting the prosecutor and the ICC itself over his office's ongoing efforts to bring Gaza war crimes prosecutions against Israeli leaders.

Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure is a blend of Automation and Real Time Strategy for both the die-hard fans of the Automation genre and the Automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!

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