TIL that the longest javelin throw was 99.52 meters using a now illegal technique that was considered "out of control". No one has broken this record with modern javelin rules. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Brazilian airliner crashes, all 62 on board killed (www.reuters.com)
Video shared on social media showed what appeared to be the ATR-made plane spinning out of control as it plunged down behind a cluster of trees near houses, followed by a large plume of black smoke. The video of the mid-afternoon crash also appeared to show clear weather, though the forecast for the area called for light...
STOPKILLINGAMES EU petition: Finland the 1st one to reach it's quota, and growing [meet requirement so far: 1/7 countries, 222k/1mil. signatures] (eci.ec.europa.eu)
Oxford scientists are generating solar power without panels (electrek.co)
Netanyahu says ‘victory’ over Hamas is in sight. The data tells a different story (edition.cnn.com)
Nearly half of Hamas’ military battalions in northern and central Gaza have rebuilt some of their fighting capabilities despite more than nine months of Israel’s brutal offensive, according to analyses by the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project, the Institute for the Study of War and CNN....
‘It’s torture’: brutal heat broils Texas prisons, killing dozens of inmates (www.theguardian.com)
Hackers For Harris Donate $150,000 To Kamala Harris’ Campaign (www.forbes.com)
Elon Musk’s X just sued a nonprofit advertising group out of existence (www.cnn.com)
The group, Global Alliance for Responsible Media, also known as GARM, is a voluntary ad-industry initiative run by the World Federation of Advertisers that aims to help brands avoid having their advertisements appear alongside illegal or harmful content. GARM confirmed it is still planning to defend itself in court....
Iran’s new president battles revolutionary guard to stop all-out war with Israel (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Corsair is moving away from 80 PLUS certification for PSUs, embraces Cybenetics (www.tweaktown.com)
Signal messenger blocked in Russia, says Roskomnadzor (www.reuters.com)
An Initial Benchmark Of Bcachefs vs. Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. F2FS vs. XFS On Linux 6.11 (www.phoronix.com)
Canonical Moves To Shipping Very Latest Upstream Kernel Code For Ubuntu Releases (www.phoronix.com)
‘We were surrounded by fire’: Duhok villagers battle blazes blamed on Turkish bombs (www.rudaw.net)
Syrian army bombing kills 11 in Deir ez-Zor, says SDF (www.rudaw.net)
Exclusive: Iran to deliver hundreds of ballistic missiles to Russia soon, intel sources say (www.reuters.com)
Iraq Proposes Law To Reduce Legal Age Of Marriage For Girls To 9 (www.ndtv.com)
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A summary of recent events (i.imgur.com)
Israeli forces shoot US citizen in occupied West Bank (www.middleeasteye.net)
Israeli forces shot and injured an American citizen during a demonstration on Friday that was being held in Beita, a Palestinian village near the occupied West Bank town of Nablus, several Palestinian rights organisations have told Middle East Eye....
Earth systems critical to all life are on the verge of total collapse (www.earth.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/12214870
Your microwave oven has its own microbiome (www.nature.com)
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