$16 bn or lives of Ukrainians: Kyiv is furious after EU took two of Russia’s richest men off its sanctions list
The EU locked in its sanctions on Russia for an unprecedented three years this week, and paid for it by letting two of the country’s richest men off the list. Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman were delisted at the insistence of Slovakia, France, and Luxembourg, DW reported. France pushed toContinue Reading
How A $1.1 Billion Upgrade Just Turned A Remote Australian Airbase Into The US Air Force’s Answer To Guam
On September 1, US Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bombers landed at Royal Australian Air Force Base Tindal. The arrival looked like routine training at first glance. What it truly represents is that the newly expanded airfield is becoming the primary alternative to a long-standing bomber. The USAF can no longerContinue Reading
How A Single FAA Phraseology Rule Explains The Level-Off Every Passenger Feels At 10,000 Feet
Many passengers experience take-off as a familiar sequence: the engines roar to life, the aircraft accelerates down the runway, takes off, and climbs steeply. However, it is often just as noticeable when the aircraft suddenly levels off while still at a relatively low altitude. In the United States, a commonContinue Reading
PeppermintOS Is Moving From Xorg to XLibre to Avoid Wayland
If you run a lightweight distro and you do not like the fact that Wayland will probably become the default, PeppermintOS has some news you should know about. It’s switching its display server from the soon-to-be-retired Xorg to XLibre for its next round of ISO refreshes. It may look likeContinue Reading
Organizations Are Now Reaching for OpenSearch for AI, Not Just Search
That’s very interesting to see considering OpenSearch began as a fork. When Elastic relicensed Elasticsearch and Kibana in 2021, AWS built an open alternative, keeping it under the Apache 2.0 license. Three years later, the project moved to neutral governance after the Linux Foundation launched the OpenSearch Software Foundation inContinue Reading
Xubuntu 26.04 LTS: Best New Features
Xubuntu 26.04 LTS is here – a fast, lightweight, and beautiful release featuring Xfce 4.20 and special 20th anniversary wallpapers. Xubuntu 26.04 LTS codenamed ‘Resolute Raccoon’ released on April 23, 2026. This lightweight flavour of Ubuntu brings the stable Xfce 4.20 desktop along with three years of support until AprilContinue Reading
Curiosity Blog, Sols 5010-5015: Checking out the Bands
Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 3 minContinue Reading
NASA, SpaceX Move to Final Crew-13 Prelaunch Prep for Oct. 1 Liftoff
The SpaceX Crew-13 members pose for a portrait in their pressure suits during a preflight training session at the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California. From left are, Roscosmos Sergey Teteryatnikov, NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk. SpaceX NASA and SpaceX areContinue Reading
Generating scenarios for extreme events, without extreme data
Can a city’s seawall stand up to a blockbuster storm? Will a region’s power grid hold against record-breaking heat? And can a town’s fire-fighting resources contain a major wildfire? To answer these questions, communities will first need to know how such extreme events could unfold. How far is a wildfireContinue Reading
White House unveils state-run ‘TrumpenführerTV’ media channel, drawing Iran comparisons
The Traitor TV’s 24/7 stream will include “top videos, major remarks, and must-see highlights,” but it’s not yet clear if it will air live events.Continue Reading
Does bipartisan mean politically neutral? Invited influencers reflect on ‘pro-human’ rally organized by AI lobbying network
Content creators at a “pro-human” event found its bipartisanship unfocused, revealing the funding network’s push for AI policy aligned with corporate goals.Continue Reading
‘You should not be here,’ The Traitor tells CNN’s Kaitlan Collins at the UN
President Traitor 47 confronted CNN’s Kaitlan Collins as he walked into the United Nations Tuesday, telling her, “You should not be here,” while wrongly claiming the network said it wouldn’t cover him. CNN was among three outlets recently barred by The Traitor from White House grounds. Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more:Continue Reading
Iran flights to Baghdad, Muscat cancelled ahead of US aviation sanctions
Iran’s aviation officials negotiate with Oman and Iraq as US’s Bessent targets carriers seven months into the conflict., Iran’s aviation officials negotiate with Oman and Iraq as Secretary Bessent targets carriers seven months into the conflict. Flights from Iran to Baghdad and Muscat will be cancelled starting at midnight aheadContinue Reading