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TikTok expands Manage Topics, a feature that lets users customize how often specific topics appear in the For You feed, and adds AI-powered keyword filtering (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/678779/tiktok-for-you-feed-manage-…

TikTok gives everyone more control over what’s on their For You page
TikTok is rolling out Manage Topics globally, a feature that lets you control how often you see certain kinds of videos in your For You feed, such as those related to sports, travel, humor, or dance.

Globality and Regions
Hector Gramaglia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01664 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.01664

Globality and Regions
We obtain a characterization of global variables by unifying abstraction with region abstraction in a region-based language. More precisely, in a previous work a language called global was presented, whose virtue is to provide a conceptually clear way of introducing imperative operations in a functional language. Memory safety is provided by the concept of linear protection, which connects the global system to a linear one. In this paper we show that the concept of global variable provided by t…

Catholic bishops from Global South call for ambitious climate action ahead of COP30
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/catholic-bishops-from-global-south-call-for-ambitious-climate-action-ahead-of-cop30/

From Mario to the barrio: Globalization explained through the Nintendo Switch 2 (El País)
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-06-03/from-mario-to-the-barrio-globalization-explained-through-the-nintendo-switch-2.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p27#a250603p27

UK-based BBC Persian journalists say their families in Iran are being terrorised and punished by the Iranian regime, with a sharp escalation in 2025 (Tom Levitt/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/global-dev…

Google rolls out its Veo 3 video generation model to Google's AI Pro subscribers in more than 159 countries, with a cap of three videos per day (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/google-rolls-out-its-new-…

Google rolls out its new Veo 3 video-generation model globally | TechCrunch
Google on Thursday said it has begun rolling out its Veo 3 video generation model to Gemini users in more than 159 countries.

Recent Droughts Are 'Slow-Moving Global Catastrophe' - UN Report - Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/02/1754237/recent-droughts-are-slow-moving-global-catastrophe---un-report?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Israeli soldiers on Monday blocked an international media tour organized by No Other Land directors in the West Bank, citing the need to maintain order (Nick Vivarelli/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/global/no-…

'No Other Land' Press Tour of West Bank Village Halted by Israeli Army
The Israeli army has blocked journalists from visiting the village featured in Palestinian Oscar winner 'No Other Land' amid escalating violence.

Tibetan leaders in Tokyo expose China's oppression, call for global support - IndiaPost NewsPaper
https://indiapost.com/tibetan-leaders-in-tokyo-expose-chinas-oppression-call-for-global-support/