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s England getting rid of jury trials? Yes. According to a plan put forward by justice minister David Lammy, England will no longer allow accused to have a trial by a jury of their peers for minor and mid-tier crimes.

Supposedly this move is needed to clear backlogs and prevent more serious cases from being delayed by the less serious ones. strangely, the proposal would not apply to Scotland or Northern Ireland with no explanation given as to why.

Critics, including actual practitioners, have cried foul noting that the backlogs could be fixed via simply funding pre-existing offices and that this is merely a pretext for stripping away one of the most fundamental of democratic rights.

This announcement comes on the heels of widely unpopular new English anti-free speech laws and arrests for “wrong think”, and the timing of this latest move has many UK citizens concerned.

Do you think that citizens should be stripped of the right to a jury trial? Let us know in the comments and head over to our Substack at WorldBriefZMC for the deep dive and be sure to cast your vote in the poll.

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Did Amazon’s web servers just take out a massive chunk of the internet?

Yes, and this isn’t an exaggeration. On October 20, 2025 a major outage in Amazon’s web server business (known as “AWS”), caused nearly every major online service to fail or malfunction.

Major names like Snapchat, Signal, WhatsApp, Lloyds of London, the Bank of Scotland, Venmo, Coinbase, Roblox, Fortnite, Hulu and Spotify (to name just a few) all reportedly experienced major malfunctions and disruptions over the course of several hours.

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Did Wikipedia just get dethroned?

Maybe, Grokipedia has just launched as a direct competitor to the original online, open source encyclopedia, but only time will tell if it kicks Wikipedia off its pedestal.

Elon Musk has touted Grokipedia for seeking “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”. To accomplish this, Grokipedia will purportedly use its AI namesake to act as a gatekeeper and will tell you if it will allow you to publish an entry.

Not everyone loves the idea -- we talk about why.

Will you be trying Grokipedia out and if so, for what? Let us know in the comments and for the deep dive head over to the Substack at WorldbriefZMC and be sure to vote in the poll!