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Canadian ostrich cull: The Government of Canada kills 314 ostriches after H5N8 is detected in an ostrich farm in Edgewood, BC.

2025

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Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces launch an offensive to capture the ISIL-held city of Raqqa.

2016

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Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.

2012

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An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing seven and injuring 120.

2004

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Jiang Lijun is detained by Chinese police for signing the Open Letter to the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.

2002

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A Fokker 50 crashes near Luxembourg Airport, killing 20 and injuring three.

2002

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Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore.

1995

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Lancang–Gengma earthquakes: At least 730 are killed after two powerful earthquakes rock the China–Myanmar border in Yunnan Province.

1988

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Sumburgh disaster: A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.

1986

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Colombian conflict: leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá.

1985

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The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.

1977

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Uttawar forced sterilisations: Mass vasectomy of nearly 800 men of Uttawar village, Palwal district, Haryana during India's Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi.

1976

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The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.

1971

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Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ is appointed to head the South Vietnamese government by General Dương Văn Minh's junta, five days after the latter deposed and assassinated President Ngô Đình Diệm.

1963

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Following pressure by US president Eisenhower, Great Britain announces a ceasefire in the Suez crisis, one day after it landed paratroopers together with France at key locations.

1956

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Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut on NBC Television.

1947

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World War II: The 1st Ukrainian Front liberates Kyiv from German occupation.

1943

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Spanish Civil War: The republican government flees from Madrid to Valencia, leading to the formation of the Madrid Defense Council in its stead.

1936

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President William McKinley is re-elected, along with his vice-presidential running mate, Governor Theodore Roosevelt of New York.

1900

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In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6–4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.

1869

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Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States with only 40% of the popular vote, defeating John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas in a four-way race.

1860

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Battle of Jemappes in the French Revolutionary Wars.

1792

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The Charter of the Forest is sealed at St Paul's Cathedral, London by King Henry III, acting under the regency of William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke which re-establishes for free men rights of access to the royal forest that had been eroded by William the Conqueror and his heirs.

1217

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Synod of Rome: Emperor Otto I calls a council at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Pope John XII is deposed on charges of an armed rebellion against Otto.

963

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Caliph Umar is assassinated in Mecca.

644

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A powerful earthquake destroys large portions of the Walls of Constantinople, including 57 towers.

447

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AO3 Down for Maintenance

Welcome to Organization for Transformative Works's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

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Bunny CDN Security Incident

bunny.net's Status Page - Security update regarding one of our infrastructure providers.

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Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace

Phorion has detected a backdoor in the official Claude Code for VS Code extension bundle on the Cursor Marketplace that drops a persistent SSH backdoor across macOS, Linux, and Windows. This write-up …

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Infinite Mac: BeOS

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The federated code forge

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Breaking the open web won't stop the bad bots

Policymakers should resist treating anonymity as something wrong in and of itself, argue Lila Bailey and Tess Vartanian.

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Northflank Breached

Northflank Status

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The oldest ice disappears and the Stone Age emerges from it

'We have been at the edge of the ice. We have seen it happening. And we are witnesses to a rapidly changing archaeological landscape,' write the glacial archaeologists. Finds from the Viking Age are becoming scarce, while 6,000-year-old arrowheads are now emerging from the melting ice.

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Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights

An NES CPU compiled into the weights of a stock Qwen3.5 model - dbreunig/nesformer

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AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them

When AI handles 95% of your incident response, do you get worse at handling the 5% that actually matters?

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Tree-mounted machines connect to web app to let users knock on wood remotely

knock on wood is an internet-connected device that lets users perform the superstition remotely when no wood is nearby.

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Jules Verne's Lost Novel

Jules Verne’s lost novel got the machines of 1960 right. He never imagined that Paris would keep its poets

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An Arrogant Way of Killing (2016)

A journey to understand how a real-estate agent in the Philippines became the target of a criminal mastermind.

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Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone says

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Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX

Procedurally generated Delft-blue floral page margins for LuaLaTeX, with plants and visitors sampled from genomes and a TikZ library that also draws them under pdfLaTeX - kevinraymond/florilegium

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A Pickpocket's Guide to New York

Preparing to play a petty thief in a new movie, John Turturro learned the moves—“reefing the kick” among them—from Apollo Robbins, and observed how much stealing has in common with acting. Michael Schulman reports.

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Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises

In my previous blog posts, Azure’s Weakest Link? and Azure’s Weakest Link - Full Cross-Tenant Compromise, I gave an overview of the severely insecure architecture behind API Connections in Azure, a part of Azure Logic Apps, and an instance of a full cross-tenant compromise using these inherent flaws. Now I am back with some more vulnerabilities in this system, each giving the same primitives to the attacker. In total, the vulnerabilities here netted me a cool $200,000. I also held a talk detailing this at Blue Hat Asia 2026, and when the recordings are out, I will add a link here. TL;DR API Connections allow anyone to fully compromise any other connection worldwide, giving full access to the connected backend. This includes cross-tenant com

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My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii

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Building an AI-native engineering org

Building an AI-native engineering org

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Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man

Patrick Stewart's most famous character showed a generation of youth a complex character who strived to do what was right.

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