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The world’s first 3D-printed neighborhood is set to begin construction within months. The concept is being brought to life via a collaboration between ICON, an Austin-based construction tech startup, New Story, a San Francisco-based housing nonprofit, and Fuseproject, a San Francisco-based design firm.

Mueller’s team warns that the “Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion.” Among the report’s most alarming findings are its revelations about the scope of Russian hacking.

Volume I of the Mueller Report, which “describes the factual results of the Special Counsel’s investigation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election and its interactions with the Trump Campaign,” confirms that WikiLeaks played an important role in disseminating stolen information. 

Russian meddling in U.S. politics via social media was a major topic of the report. Unfortunately, Attorney General William Barr chose to redact large portions of this section of the report, citing “Harm to Ongoing Matters.” These redacted sections include information on “Project Lakhta,” the larger Russian scheme of which 2016 election interference was one part.

This morning marked the end of a seven-year standoff as embattled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was pulled from London’s Ecuadorian embassy and taken into custody by UK authorities. London police were “invited into the embassy by the ambassador, following the Ecuadorean government’s withdrawal of asylum” just days after WikiLeaks tweeted that Assange was facing expulsion from the embassy that had sheltered him since 2012.