popes, pixels, and pancreatic breakthroughs

Monday, August 31, 2026

Svetovid

My white horse came back muddy every morning, though no one rode him.

  1. New drug doubles pancreatic cancer survival in late-stage trial
  2. Pope Leo XIV releases an encyclical on AI. More substantive than you’d expect
  3. China now viewed more favorably than the US in a Pew survey of 36 countries
  4. Sony arguing in court that you never owned your PlayStation downloads
  5. The strange survival of Matrox — Canada’s GPU company that outlasted everyone
  6. Berlin refuses to pay hackers who stole city government data

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