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The Download: murky AI surveillance laws, and the White House cracks down on defiant labs Project Maven

The Download: murky AI surveillance laws, and the White House cracks down on defiant labs

Plus: a satellite firm that exposed Iranian strikes has stopped sharing imagery This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Is the Pentagon allowed to surveil Americans with AI? The ongoing public feud…
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March 9, 2026
Learning amid war: 13-year-old Ukrainian becomes Europe’s youngest certified Oracle specialist Ukraine

Learning amid war: 13-year-old Ukrainian becomes Europe’s youngest certified Oracle specialist

Eurochild member Star for Life Ukraine shares Arsenii’s story, a child who improved his database and programming skills during the occupation and passed his IT exam in a school bomb shelter. Originally from a frontline village in the Sumy region, Arsenii achieved this remarkable milestone despite growing up amid war,…
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March 9, 2026
Payward partners with Nasdaq to develop xStocks-powered gateway connecting permissioned and permissionless tokenized equities markets NASDAQ

Payward partners with Nasdaq to develop xStocks-powered gateway connecting permissioned and permissionless tokenized equities markets

TL;DR Payward has partnered with Nasdaq to build an equities transformation gateway that connects tokenized equity capital markets with decentralized blockchain networks, combining Nasdaq’s regulated market infrastructure with Kraken’s xStocks framework to enable tokenized equities to move fluidly between permissioned institutional markets and permissionless DeFi ecosystems. xStocks, Kraken’s tokenized equity…
bubmag
March 9, 2026
Is Trump coming for Cuba? Maduro

Is Trump coming for Cuba?

We’re not even three months into 2026, and already it’s shaping up to be President Donald Trump’s year of regime change. He successfully removed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in January, he took the US to war with Iran late last month, and now he may be eying a new target:…
bubmag
March 9, 2026
AI war video in Hungary’s campaign sparks child rights concerns Moravec‘s Paradox

AI war video in Hungary’s campaign sparks child rights concerns

With the 2026 Hungarian parliamentary elections approaching, the Civil Coalition for Children's Rights issued recommendations based on minimum child-rights standards to guide political parties, candidates, and media on children's appearance and participation in campaigns. On February 18, 2026, the Fidesz Budapest Facebook page shared a video created with artificial intelligence…
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March 9, 2026