# NuseReal

Meta lays off thousands of employees to offset AI investments: 8,000 staffers reportedly affected, around 10% of the company (LINK) — 21 May 2026

USA Today: Trump's $1.776 billion settlement fund is ripe for abuse: The fund will be administered by a five-person panel appointed by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, whose members can ultimately be removed by President Trump himself (LINK) — 21 May 2026

Catchup: Surrounded by the EU, neutral Switzerland is investing heavily in drones (LINK) — 18 May 2026

Scientists may have finally cracked why 90% of humans are right-handed — and the answer has nothing to do with our hands, it has to do with our legs (LINK) — 22 May 2026

— Space Daily: An Oxford team's approach was to test all the major hypotheses simultaneously against data from 41 different species, looking for which combination of factors actually explained the cross-species pattern in which humans are the extreme outlier. No single factor explained the pattern. No other primate species shows population-level handedness anywhere close to this scale. Chimpanzees, our closest relatives, show only mild handedness preferences, and the preferences are roughly evenly split between left and right across the population.

— The Oxford team found that two factors together accounted for the human anomaly. The first factor was brain size, specifically the dramatic expansion of brain size that occurred in the human lineage over the last several million years. The second factor was the ratio between arm length and leg length, which is a standard anatomical marker of bipedal locomotion. The 90 percent right-handedness figure was what their model predicted for an animal with our specific combination of brain size and bipedal commitment. The other primates, with smaller brains and more arboreal locomotion, were predicted by the model to have weaker handedness preferences, which is what the data show. The proposal is that bipedalism freed the hands from the task of locomotion. The specialization could include, among other things, the development of strong handedness, in which one hand becomes the dedicated tool-using and fine-manipulation hand while the other becomes the assisting hand.

Meta lays off thousands of employees to offset AI investments: 8,000 staffers reportedly affected, around 10% of the company (LINK) — 21 May 2026

Musk declares himself CEO for life (LINK) — 21 May 2026

Spotify and Universal sign musical licensing deal for AI covers and remixes: the label's roster includes Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Drake and Billie Eilish, though that does not imply any of them have agreed to participate (LINK) — 21 May 2026

Civil engineering professor Moussa Leblouba from the University of Sharjah (UAE)'s invention of a vibration-dissipation device could save a building in the event of an earthquake (LINK) — 21 May 2026

Gonet Geneva Tennis Open 2026: 17-23 May (LINK) — 13 May 2026

— Taylor Fritz, Alexander Bublik, Casper Ruud, Learner Tien, Cameron Norrie and Arthur Rinderknech are all in the Geneva field. Stan Wawrinka will lead the home charge. The prize money for the Gonet Geneva Open is €612,620. Winner: € 93,175, Finalist: €54,360.

Advancing universal health coverage through Traditional Medicine: 79th World Health Assembly, Geneva, Switzerland, 18–23 May 2026 (LINK) — 13 May 2026

The World Health Assembly, the main decision making body of the World Health Organization, is meeting this year in Geneva starting next Monday. "This meeting may represent the last chance for the U.S. to reverse course and remain a member of the WHO" (LINK) — 13 May 2026

25 to 27 October 2026: UNCTAD World Investment Forum 9: in Doha (LINK) — 22 January 2026

Road to the First International Conference of the Global Framework on Chemicals being held in Geneva on 16 to 20 November 2026 (LINK) — 11 February 2026

11 to 15 July 2027: International AIDS Society announces Geneva as host city for IAS 2027:: Around 5,000 people from more than 130 countries are expected to attend. Registration for IAS 2027 will open in November 2026 (LINK) — 22 January 2026