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The ceasefire Pakistan brokered named no Houthi obligations and set no conditions on Yemen. What the militant group has done instead is begin screening ships transiting the Red Sea by political identity -- using the same selective-pressure formula Iran applied to the Strait of Hormuz.

6 significant alerts active. 36 significant earthquakes — strongest M6.0 near 90 km SE of Sarangani, Philippines. 25 conflict reports across 0 regions. 46 cyber intelligence items. 14 verified disclosure items from investigative sources. 13 humanitarian developments monitored. Data from 6 independen

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I'm happy to announce the general availability of watgo (https://github.com/eliben/watgo) - the WebAssembly Toolkit for Go. This project is similar to wabt (https://github.com/webassembly/wabt) (C++)

A federal judge ruled Thursday that the Pentagon cheated when it tried to block access to all reporters in order to keep The New York Times out of the building.

Mahmoud Khalil, the most prominent of the pro-Palestinian students the Trump administration targeted for deportation last year, has lost his deportation case after the Board of Immigration Appeals rejected his request for leniency Thursday.

Today's links look at the epidemic of bloated web pages, when you hit your ceiling on parallel agents, and how developer ramp-up time keeps getting shorter.

How verbal humor arose and how it protects us The post Survival of the Wittiest (https://nautil.us/survival-of-the-wittiest-1279720/) appeared first on Nautilus (https://nautil.us).

Tax refunds this season are up 24% compared with the four-year average of refunds before President Donald Trump took office, his administration said Thursday - a change credited to Republicans' tax legislation signed into law last year.

Anthropic's Managed Agents bring persistent, stateful AI workflows to developers by handling the hard parts of long-running agents. This shifts the automation landscape, pressuring no-code platforms like Zapier and Make.com while highlighting opportunities for self-hosted tools like n8n and sovereign AI builders.

The attorney for a man shot by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during an arrest in central California said Thursday that his client was recovering after three surgeries for multiple gunshot wounds and that he denies being a gang member.

A federal judge has denied a request from prediction market operator Kalshi to bar Arizona prosecutors from moving forward with a criminal case, alleging the company is operating an illegal betting platform in the state.

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Probing the mind’s eye The post The Biological Basis of Imagination (https://nautil.us/the-biological-basis-of-imagination-1279716/) appeared first on Nautilus (https://nautil.us).

Venezuelan lawmakers on Thursday approved a bill to regulate the country's mining as it seeks to attract leery foreign investors to a once-private industry that has long been exploited by criminal groups believed to have ties to the government.

U.S. Postal Service deliveries to a neighborhood in a Los Angeles-area town are indefinitely suspended following nearby coyote attacks.

A former ISIS supporter who entered Canada on a study permit and had plans to use automatic weapons to kill Jewish people in New York City has pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge in a U.S. courtroom. Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, a 21-year-old Pakistani national who had been living in Ontario, appeared before a federal judge [...]

My girlfriend and I put up with the crowds to spend a spring-like January afternoon hiking up Rattlesnake Ledge, one of the Seattle area’s best-known day hikes. The trail was a delightful conga

In my last post I explored how the construction of dams along the Cedar River led to Rattlesnake Lake swallowing the small town of Moncton in 1914. The dam-related disasters didn’t stop there, and

I realize I haven’t posted in almost a year now, but I promise I have a good reason. You see, last summer two very important new (to us) rocks came onto the scene. My wonderful hiking companion and

Like many of my Twin Trek posts, this is a two-parter: this is the travelogue post, with a geology post yet to come. Possibly multiple geology posts. In February 2023 I kicked into planning mode for

In my last post, I chronicled the 2023 backpacking trip to Deception Pass, Marmot Lake, Jade Lake, and Tuck Lake with my twin sister and OG hiking buddy, Heather. Now I get to nerd out about all the

When I first moved to Seattle, I bought a map of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness at REI and was so spoiled for choice that I barely looked elsewhere. But in summer 2023 some friends regaled me of their

For Part 1 of this series, check out my previous post on Goat Rocks Wilderness Backpacking. I brought up a laundry list of geology questions at the end of my last blog post about the Goat Rocks

In August 2025, work sent me on my most far-flung environmental due diligence site visit yet. I flew into Denver and drove four hours to the town nearest the site that had a hotel. This town was

Drawing ever closer to Earth, the Artemis II astronauts tidied up their lunar cruiser for the upcoming "fireball" return and reflected on their historic journey around the moon, describing it as surreal and profound.

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