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• A group of Russian fraudsters created two pyramid schemes, called Recyclix and Juicy Fields, swindling victims out of €700 million.
• They rehearsed their scheme in Poland. At the height of their activity, they were featured in the media and even took photos with Polish president Andrzej Duda.
• After eight years of investigation, the Polish prosecutor’s office charged only a front man — and then let him go free. We later discovered that he became a GRU saboteur who sent out explosive devices that caused fires in Poland, Germany, and the UK.

Part 2: Marijuana Cowboys: The Medical Weed Scam That Swept Across Europe

1. Schools have turned to AI to detect guns and prevent mass shootings, but concerns about reliability and false alarms persist.
2. Critics argue that investing in technology like ZeroEyes diverts money from addressing the human causes of violence.
3. Kansas lawmakers funded ZeroEyes-style tech with $10 million to boost school security efforts.

• NIST scientists have published results establishing a new atomic clock, NIST-F4, as one of the world’s most accurate timekeepers, priming the clock to be recognized as a primary frequency standard — the ultimate source of time.
• The NIST-F4 clock was carefully and painstakingly assembled and tested over the last few years.
• By joining a small group of elite clocks run by a handful of countries, NIST-F4 makes the foundation of global time more stable and secure.

The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has spotted an unusual family of stars all strangely eager to leave home – a family we couldn’t have discovered without the star-surveying spacecraft, and one unlike all others we have spotted to date.