Marketed as travel companions, Chinese online retailers are selling miniature lifelike heads capable of tricking Tesla’s facial-recognition cameras. The doll head’s main purpose is to make it appear as though the driver is paying attention.
While it’s never a good idea to bypass the system to take a nap or stream videos while your car drives itself, it is, however, refreshing to see people finding ways to outsmart surveillance-state-like infrastructure.
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Lead:Â When War Has No Rules
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About 10,000 people across nearly two dozen villages in southern Iran were left without access to drinking water after a U.S. strike destroyed a desalination plant in the village of Bonji near the Strait of Hormuz.
The U.S. just targeted a facility whose primary function is to provide drinking water to the civilian population. Wouldn’t this be considered a war crime? Under Article 54 of international humanitarian law, intentionally attacking civilian infrastructure, such as drinking water installations, is prohibited unless it’s being used for military purposes, which it wasn’t.
As if taking out the region’s water supply were not enough, the attack came during an excessive heat warning, making the loss of water even more dangerous.
How did Iran respond to the incident and the other clear breaches of the recent MOU?
Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Kazem Gharibabadi, stated, “The U.S. has violated and suspended all its commitments within the framework of the Islamabad MOU.We also likewise have suspended all of our commitments as a result; we are no longer implementing those commitments.”
He added that Tehran is now “busy defending the country.”
Meanwhile, the Iranian Embassy in India released footage showing the destruction of a bridge. It also condemned the U.S. strike on a maritime surveillance tower at Chabahar Port, an attack Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth publicly celebrated on social media.
Since Wednesday, U.S. strikes have reportedly hit nine bridges, two airports, a railroad junction, and a road tunnel. Iranian authorities say at least 41 people have been killed and 408 wounded this month, including three women and one child.
In a powerful statement, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei responded to these U.S. strikes:
“For a state that once cast itself as the global champion of order, liberalism, and the war on terrorism, proudly displaying images of destroyed bridges and civilian infrastructure has become its only remaining victory. Yet with the collapse of every bridge, every tower, and every civilian facility, it is not merely steel and concrete that is being reduced to rubble. It is America’s moral standing—along with the entire architecture of international law and the civilizational claims of the West—that is crumbling before the world’s eyes.”
None of that seems to matter, though, because Washington will defend its actions, as it always does.
In the end, destroying civilian infrastructure appears to be acceptable, just as long as it’s done by the U.S. or Israel.
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Spain is trending after defeating Argentina in the 2026 FIFA World Cup final on Sunday. The match ended 1-0 after Ferran Torres scored the game’s only goal in the closing moments.
Usha Vance is trending because she and Vice President J.D. Vance just welcomed their fourth child, a baby boy. It’s the first time in more than 150 years that a second lady has given birth while her husband is in office.
Canada is trending after President Trump threatened to impose tariffs over unhealthy air drifting into the United States from an estimated 955 wildfires burning across the country.
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