US condemns 'unnecessary escalation' after Israeli airstrikes on Syrian airbase

The United States has issued a rare rebuke of Israel after reports emerged it struck a Syrian military airbase near the Turkish border, calling the attack an "unnecessary escalation".

Eight airstrikes hit the Abu Duhur airport runway and storage facility on Tuesday, according to Syrian state TV, although there were no reports of injuries.

Israel, while not commenting on the strikes directly, said Syria "was on the verge of breaching" the security status quo, accusing Damascus of allowing Turkish troops to deploy to the airbase.

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Tempo unveil Dot the Arctic Hare and Dez the Snapping Turtle as mascots

An arctic hare and a snapping turtle are the new faces of the Toronto Tempo.

The lone Canadian WNBA franchise unveiled Dot the Arctic Hare and Dez the Snapping Turtle as the team’s two official mascots on Tuesday.

The mascots were revealed during halftime of the Tempo’s game against the Indiana Fever.

The Tempo are in the midst of their inaugural season and now have two figures that will be forever associated with the team.

“From the beginning, we wanted our mascots to feel distinctly Tempo – rooted in who

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Tumbler Ridge school demolition 'new chapter' in recovery after shooting, residents say

Residents in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., gathered for an emotional milestone this week as the site of February’s mass shooting is torn down and returned to grass.


Modular's Mojo Language Now Open-Source Following Qualcomm Acquisition

Modular, the AI startup founded by Chris Lattner of LLVM and Swift fame, has open-sourced their Mojo systems programming language! This comes following the recent acquisition of Modular by Qualcomm.

Modular had previously open-sourced the Mojo standard library. With the recent Qualcomm acquisition I didn't expect to see much on the open-sourcing side given Qualcomm's mixed history, but following last week's Mojo 1.0 release, Mojo is now available under an Apache 2.0 license.

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China’s LandSpace beats SpaceX with steel-booster recovery after orbital launch

In a global first, China’s leading commercial rocket company LandSpace has recovered a stainless-steel booster after an orbital launch, marking a major step in the country’s efforts to develop lower-cost, reusable rockets. Photo: CCTV

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In a global first, China’s leading commercial rocket company LandSpace has recovered a stainless-steel booster after an orbital launch, marking a major step in the country’s efforts to develop lower-cost, reusable rockets.

The successful mission makes Zhuque-3 China’s first commercial rocket to both reach


COSMIC Epoch 1.6 Released With Per-App Volume Control, Remote Desktop Preparations

COSMIC Epoch 1.6 was released this evening as the latest milestone for this open-source, Rust-based desktop environment led by System76 as part of the work on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution.

The COSMIC Epoch 1.6 compositor added support for the Wayland wl-dmabuf-v6 protocol, now takes presentation feedback from fullscreen surfaces, and also added EI protocol support. The emulated input (EI) support is part of the COSMIC effort for remote desktop support. COSMIC Epoch 1.
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Amazon傳拆卸珍本書,以取得AI模型訓練資料集

404 Media報導 ,以賣書起家的Amazon購入大量珍本書籍,將拆卸開來掃描,用以訓練AI模型。

404 Media是以調查報導方式,在書本內置入追蹤裝置,最後查到書本運抵Amazon於拉斯維加斯,名為VGT3的物流中心。

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Harvard agrees to pay millions after morgue manager sold body parts

Harvard has agreed to pay $53 million (£39 million) to resolve lawsuits from families who alleged the university mishandled the bodies of loved ones donated to its medical school.

The settlement, proposed in a Boston court on Monday, would end the suits filed against Harvard ​Medical School (HMS) after former morgue manager Cedric Lodge pleaded guilty to stealing and selling human remains on the black market.

Lodge, 58, took parts from cadavers and sold them online in a scheme that allegedly ran from 2


Natalie Harp, Trump’s ‘human printer’, in the spotlight after decoy plane incident

A close aide to Donald Trump is at the centre of an ugly clash between the White House and Senator Jon Ossoff, after the Democratic lawmaker drew the administration’s ire for highlighting the close nature of her relationship with the president.

Natalie Harp, a 35-year-old executive assistant to the president, is little known to the public but a constant presence at Trump’s side, both in the White House and during weekend trips to his golf properties. In her role, she is seen as a

US Senator Jon Ossoff during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in July. Photo: TNS