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‘In the days of old, the world was safe’: West Bank family’s enduring unity Palestine

‘In the days of old, the world was safe’: West Bank family’s enduring unity

Khirbet al-Marajim, occupied West Bank — The metal door of the Masallam family home still bears the dents from a settler’s axe. Inside, the smell of freshly made cheese hangs beneath a stone-domed ceiling. Mattresses line the circular room, spread across carpets on the hard floor. Prayer beads hang from…
bubmag
May 8, 2026
EU enlargement: New horizons, from East to West Ukraine

EU enlargement: New horizons, from East to West

Nine countries are currently in the process of acceding to the European Union: North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia and Turkey. The European club seems to be growing ever more appealing, to the point where Iceland could also reintroduce a membership application.  While the Union's renewed popularity delights its current members, they…
bubmag
May 8, 2026
Judge Rules DOGE’s Cancellation Of NEH Grants Was Unconstitutional Times Square

Judge Rules DOGE’s Cancellation Of NEH Grants Was Unconstitutional

The Trump administration’s cancellation of more than $100 million in humanities grants to scholars, writers, research groups and other organizations was unconstitutional, and the Department of Government Efficiency had no authority to end the funding, a federal judge in New York ruled on Thursday. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in…
bubmag
May 8, 2026
YouTube app for Google TV, more revamps side menu with easier library access, recent channels [Gallery] Google

YouTube app for Google TV, more revamps side menu with easier library access, recent channels [Gallery]

The YouTube app for TVs, including Google TV, is rolling out a new design for the sidebar that makes it easier to access your library while also showcasing some of your recently-watched channels. Showing now for some users, this new sidebar design for YouTube on TV is a relatively minor,…
bubmag
May 8, 2026
Coinbase Points to Multi-Zone AWS Failures Behind Outage NASDAQ

Coinbase Points to Multi-Zone AWS Failures Behind Outage

Coinbase said AWS failures disrupted core trading services after errors spread across multiple zones. The company traced the outage to use1-az4 in AWS’s US-EAST-1 Region. Key Takeaways Coinbase linked the trading outage to failures across multiple AWS zones. The disruption interrupted core trading services despite built-in recovery systems. Coinbase plans…
bubmag
May 8, 2026
Best Gaming Headsets 2026 Censored Internet

Best Gaming Headsets 2026

As both a gamer and an audiophile, I recently set out to find the best gaming headsets—specifically those that deliver the type of high-fidelity spatial audio that feels like you’ve just been dropped into the middle of a battlefield. After testing 30 gaming headsets over the course of 380 hours,…
bubmag
May 8, 2026
Pedro Pascal is warming up VR

Pedro Pascal is warming up

Well, I guess here is one middle-aged heartthrob, though I don’t think we really talk about Pedro Pascal in those terms, but he is fifty-one now. He has that certain timelessness that comes almost exclusively for men who don’t get famous until their thirties. Like Mark Ruffalo has looked forty-two…
bubmag
May 8, 2026