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Russian chess champion caught poisoning childhood rival with mercury (www.independent.co.uk)

The world of chess has been rocked after a Russian chess champion attempted to poison her childhood rival by covering her pieces in deadly mercury....

1 child killed after wind gust sends bounce house airborne at baseball game (apnews.com)

One child was killed and another was injured after a wind gust blew a bounce house into the air at a baseball game in Maryland on Friday night, local officials said....

[FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Internet access across HF radio #podcast (podcasts.itmaze.com.au)

In the mid 1980’s there was this thing called a Bulletin Board System or BBS. You would connect your computer to a gadget called an acoustic coupler that you would sit next to a telephone. You’d pick up the handset, dial a phone number and wait until there was a squeal in your ear. Then you’d push the handset into the...

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Winner Among Several Women Injured In Prison Protest Against Executions, Family Says. (www.rferl.org)

TIL about the Gell-Mann amnesia effect; when experts find articles published within their field to be full of errors, but trust articles about other fields in the same publication (en.m.wikipedia.org)

The man behind Australia's most viral meme dies at 82 (www.bbc.com)

The prison escapee and on-again off-again petty criminal – whose best-known alias was Jack Karlson – shot to fame in 2009, after a clip of his dramatic 1991 arrest outside of a Chinese restaurant in Brisbane was uploaded to the internet and enthralled the nation....

Gerasimov ignored warnings of Ukrainian troop buildup near border, Bloomberg reports (kyivindependent.com)

Estonia Starts Full Customs Controls At Border With Russia (www.rferl.org)

China’s C919 jet takes step closer EU approval (www.airport-technology.com)

uBlock Origin developer recommends switching to Firefox as Chrome flags the extension (www.neowin.net)

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Flooding from the remnants of Debby leads to high water rescues in New York, Pennsylvania (apnews.com)

Brazil plane crash in Sao Paulo state kills all 61 aboard, airline says | AP News (apnews.com)

What I Learned at the Police Academy: Officers are trained to see the world as a violent place—and then to act accordingly. (www.theatlantic.com)

No survivors from plane that crashed in Brazil with 61 people on board, officials say (www.theguardian.com)

The price of European natural gas is at its highest this year. (energywatch.com)

Developers Halt Louisiana Grain Elevator Project That Would Disrupt Black Historic Sites (www.propublica.org)

Open-Source AMD GPU Implementation Of CUDA "ZLUDA" Has Been Taken Down (www.phoronix.com)

One of Ukraine’s toughest and fastest Brigades has joined the invasion of Russia (www.forbes.com)

A column of armored vehicles rolling into southern Russia’s Kursk Oblast on the third day of Ukraine’s surprise attack into Russia confirms the involvement of one of Ukraine’s best-equipped and fastest-moving brigades: the 80th Air Assault Brigade....