Baffling Malfunctions Plague Datasphere
The recent rash of problems plaguing the datasphere intensified yesterday, decreasing global pipestream efficiency to the lowest level in thirty years. Experts estimate more than a thousand people were killed, most of them in transit fatalities or medical accidents. Economic damage is likely to climb into the tens of millions of dollars. Full Story

Circuit Mystery Part 1: Troubles at the Cathedrium
As you probably know, AIT-Brooks remains a leading source of new gladmech tech, and our labs have done much to help sculpt the development of the stuff that makes the Circuit so successful. This story comes from one of our well-placed friends on the arena road, who brings us some wild, troubling news in his own entertaining prose. It's a scandal in the making, so remember you heard it here first…Full Story

Circuit Mystery Part 2: S2 on Trident and the TP-Web
The Sportsphere scarcely had a chance to digest my brother's scoop (see previous article) before our eye on the Circuit delivered another installment in the "gladmech glitch" saga. It'll especially appeal to those of you who find comfort in that oh so familiar state of paranoia…Full Story

Robots' Feelings About Mankind:
Startling New Survey Results
In the aftermath of the passage of the Mann Act II, the Minneapolis-based polling and election information network, Poli-Pulse, conducted a broad-spectrum survey of robots. The simple question: "Do you feel the world would be better off without mankind?" The simple answer: "Maybe!" Full Story

Senator Julia Mann Shot
American officials are confirming that Senator Julia Mann was shot while getting out of a car on her way to address a meeting at the Chicago Commodities Exchange. Full Story

Mann Act II Passes on Fast Track
Well, it's official! America's public will go to the polls to determine whether non-biological beings will receive citizenship and voting rights. Full Story

Mann Act II Introduced Into Senate
After Passage in House, Bill Still Faces Difficult Trial
The Great Debate is about to hit high gear in America's most hallowed halls. Not since the days when John Caldwell Calhoun dueled Daniel Webster some two centuries ago, has there been such a polarized and electrified senate stage. After its passage through the House of Representatives, the Mann Act II has arrived on the floor of the august United States Senate: Full Story

AIT ANNOUNCES FIRST MISSION TO THE STARS!
The famous silence of AIT's Tranquility campus was broken with a shout this week as mankind's first interstellar ship left on the greatest mission of discovery ever! Full Story

Again Spinoza Speaks!
AIT is happy to welcome its Ethical Intelligence back to campus, where he offers the following thoughts: Full Story

EUSC's Alexis Announces Hearings
Irvin Alexis, on leave from his post as the Khalil Picasso Professor of Ocean Surface Dynamics at AIT-Zaragosa, has assumed his duties as the Scientific Director of the European Union Storm Commission's Midlatitude Winds Task Force. Full Story

AIT-Brooks Djinn Caught Passing Top Secret Code
The Computational Psychology Djinn at AIT-Brooks was bottled last week after a heightened security sweep, initiated in the aftermath of the Loki disaster, caught it passing on top-secret combat sub-routines. Full Story

AIT-UB's Yakutia Study Uncovers Ruse
Tarquin Lubsen, Toghril, Firoozeh Parchni, Dan Cardona, Möngke, Elan Stewart, and the Black Tongue form this year's East Yakutia Study Unit, which is sponsored by AIT-Ulan Bator. Their multi-faceted mission has kept them in eastern Yakutia and western Magadan since last autumn. Full Story

AIT-Brooks Without Conscience
Suquah Little Dear is looking for her lost confidant. Her buddy, her soulful advisor mysteriously evaporated in the middle of their last conversation! One moment, they were discussing the morality of multiple brain fusion; the next moment her friend uttered a sharp cry, acted stunned, slurred some words, conveyed a blast of dull impulses, and then broadcast a dark image of a quintet of restless jocks who had apparently terminated themselves at a weird slumber party. When the picture disappeared like warm, sticky oatmeal cookie fresh out of grandma's oven, Ms. Little Dear sensed her trusty confidant had made an ugly departure. She was left alone, abandoned in an hour of need to nothing but troubling daydreams. Full Story

AIT-Zaragosa's Alexis Appointed to EU's Storm Commission
Irvin Alexis, the Khalil Picasso Professor of Ocean Surface Dynamics at AIT-Zaragosa, has been appointed Scientific Director of the recently reorganized Midlatitude Winds Task Force of the EU's Storm Commission. Full Story

AIT Investigates Band of Tweaks
AIT has announced that it has opened a global inquiry into the activities of the "Band of Tweaks," an organization purportedly composed of students with similar, linked forefinger implants. The group is accused of being engaged in everything from casual chicanery to international test-rigging, and gambling fraud. Full Story

AIT Completes AI System for ECO
AIT recently completed the installation of a brand-new, office AI system for the European Coroners Office. According to project leader Jan Zurkowski, chairman of the Industrial AI department at AIT-Brooks, “This should put ECO on the cutting edge of AI-assisted office management. As you might imagine, this kind of help is essential for an organization with the massively complex kind of mandate that ECO has been given by the European Union.”
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AIT Implants Give Accident Victims “New Legs”
Researchers at the main AIT campus in Zaragosa recently revealed that they have been able to give certain types of paraplegic and quadriplegics back nearly total control over their limbs. While microneurosurgeons have made great strides in repairing spinal cord and other nervous system injuries over the years, there has always been a class of patient whose injuries or congenital have been so extensive as to be declared untreatable-until now.
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New Gladiator Routines Bring Oilshed to New Level
In the world of gladiatorial combat, it’s no secret that what sells is violence. The messier it is, the better. As legendary promoter-announcer Vic Traynor likes to say, “There’s nothing that gets your heart pumping like watching a gladiator get blasted straight back into the stands.”
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AIT Sports Roundup
AIT-Z men’s football goes through to ECAT final; innovations in field hockey equipment; Mara Finnerty editorializes on the glories of unenhanced sport. “Spare me your IntelliSticks,” she writes. “I want athletes.”
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