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Ansar Allah fight extracts heavy cost from Pentagon (thehill.com)

Why Iran and Russia can dodge Western sanctions (www.dw.com)

Iran has been living with Western sanctions for almost 40 years, and never have so many sanctions been imposed so quickly as against Russia. Although their effect is limited, there is little alternative....

A System to Remove Real-World Reflections from RAW Photos (arxiv.org)

“We describe a system to remove real-world reflections from images for consumer photography. Our system operates on linear (RAW) photos, with the (optional) addition of a contextual photo looking in the opposite direction, e.g., using the selfie camera on a mobile device, which helps disambiguate what should be considered the...

Found some really beautiful penguin photos (davidcschultz.com)

AIPAC is spending millions to take down the Squad. The Working Families Party is fighting back. (www.motherjones.com)

Meet ‘goldene’: this gilded cousin of graphene is also one atom thick (www.nature.com)

Alabama lawmakers advance bill that could lead to prosecution of librarians (apnews.com)

Alabama lawmakers on Thursday advanced legislation that could see librarians prosecuted under the state’s obscenity law for providing “harmful” materials to minors, the latest in a wave of bills in Republican-led states targeting library content and decisions....

Police arrest [far-right] Finns Party MP over nightclub shooting [in Helsinki, Finland] (yle.fi)

Edited a shorter ChatGPT summary due comment:...

Boston police forcibly remove pro-Palestinian tent encampment at Emerson College; more than 100 arrested (www.bostonglobe.com)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/emerson-encampment-cleared/

SteamVR Beta gets Linux fixes, plus Beta updates for Desktop and Steam Deck (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Photo-sharing community EyeEm will license users' photos to train AI if they don't delete them (techcrunch.com)

Trump Allies Draw Up Plans to Blunt Fed’s Independence (www.wsj.com)

Qatari official: Jews are murderers of prophets; October7 is only a 'prelude' (m.jpost.com)

Essa Al-Nassr, a member of the Qatari legislative Shura council, spoke on Monday at an Arab League session, received ovation making bigoted accusations against Jews and promising the end of Israel.

Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on designated 'safe zones' (www.nbcnews.com)

Ben-Gvir, Israeli far-right minister, in car accident (www.bbc.com)

'Marketing's dead, and I can back this s**t up': Larian's publishing director says players 'just want to be spoken to, and they don't want to be bamboozled' (www.pcgamer.com)

WeTransfer beta will allow payment per download (feddit.it)

It reads: News! Set a price for your file and got the payment before they will be downloaded...

The new class war: A wealth gap between millennials (www.cnbc.com)

There may be another factor creating so much wealth among millennials: inheritances. In what’s known as “the great wealth transfer,” baby boomers are expected to pass down between $70 trillion and $90 trillion in wealth over the next 20 years. Much of that is expected to go to their millennial children. High-net-worth...