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Minister 'confident in HK's insurance products'

Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Christopher Hui said he was confident in Hong Kong's insurance products. Shares in major insurers fell sharply on Thursday, a day after Beijing-based news website Caixin reported that tax authorities in the capital, as well as Hangzhou, began taxing residents' earnings from offshore…

World

Soldiers have to plan out every step just to reach Ukraine's deadly 'zero line.' A sergeant said it's like 'Mission Impossible.'

Ukrainian soldiers heading to the perilous part of the front nearest Russian soldiers need to coordinate their movements carefully.

  • Soldiers must meticulously plan every step to reach Ukraine's "zero line."
  • Sergeant Yankee compared mission to "Mission Impossible" due to dangers.
  • Zero line is a "death zone" with constant drone bombardment.

World

Bomb cyclone threatens southern Brazil

As a low-pressure system moves over northern Argentina and Paraguay beginning this Thursday (Aug. 6), it may develop into an extratropical cyclone with explosive intensification, known as a bomb…

  • Low-pressure system to move over northern Argentina and Paraguay
  • Potential to evolve into bomb cyclone from Thursday to Saturday
  • Strongest winds expected at 100 km/h along Brazilian coast

World

How video games can make young men feel less alone

Young American men are in trouble. They are the loneliest demographic in the Western world. Their social circles are shrinking. At all ages, they are significantly more likely to die by suicide than their female peers. But if there’s one place where young American men are likely to congregate, regardless of race or political beliefs, […]

Science

Lit Hub Daily: August 6, 2026

Why later in life is maybe the perfect time to read ancient classics (and why it’s never too late to love art for art’s sake). | Lit Hub Criticism Finding unexpected inspiration while writing from Ted Hughes’s childhood home: “The

Tech

VPN provider built a script to block Microsoft's hidden GDID tracking on Windows — Windscribe's "deGDID" erases existing identifiers and blocks new ones from being created

You can run the deGDID script on your computer to delete cached GDID keys and prevent Microsoft's servers from minting new ones in the background. The firewall you put up with this script will break certain Microsoft services and features, however, but you can always reverse it.

AI

Rise of the AI-ristocracy

Well before he became CEO of one of the most valuable startups of all time, Dario Amodei was a 26-year-old PhD student studying biophysics at Princeton, obsessing over how his money would leave its mark on the world. On what one might assume was likely a fairly modest academic stipend and with no discernible inheritance […]

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