WAO ART #169

Warner Bros has apologized after the Barbie Movie account replied to atomic bomb memes. The memes featured images of Margot Robbie with a mushroom cloud hairstyle and Cillian Murphy carrying Robbie through a burning city. The replies from the Barbie movie account sparked outrage on social media, especially in Japan.

A researcher from Wintermute has found potential ties between the developer of the Bald memecoin and Alameda Research. The researcher discovered that an older wallet connected to Alameda had used the same FTX deposit address as the Bald deployer.

NASA has lost contact with its Voyager 2 probe, which is billions of miles away from Earth, after sending it the wrong command. The spacecraft tilted its antenna away from Earth and has since stopped receiving commands or sending data. NASA hopes communication will resume when the probe resets in October.

Brookfield Asset Management and Reliance Industries have signed a memorandum to explore manufacturing renewable energy and decarbonisation equipment in Australia. The MoU aims to accelerate Australia's energy transition by locally producing PV modules, long duration battery storage, and wind energy components.

France is evacuating its citizens from Niger due to anti-French sentiment. The French embassy in Niger was attacked, prompting Germany and Italy to also organize evacuations. Burkina Faso and Mali warned that any attempt to restore the ousted president would be seen as a declaration of war.

A skyscraper in Moscow has been attacked by a drone for the second time in two days, with the building's glass facade being damaged. Russia's defence ministry has blamed Ukraine for the attack. Two more Ukrainian drones were shot down in the Moscow region, and Moscow's Vnukovo airport was briefly closed.

More than 25 Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) were signed between Saudi Arabia and Brazil during the Brazil-Saudi Investment Forum in Sao Paulo. The MoUs covered various sectors including petrochemicals, health, defense, food, real estate, tourism, water desalination and treatment, and agriculture.