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NSW begins search for private partner to help build Sydney’s second major film studio

The NSW government has opened expressions of interest for the location and management of a prospective new major film studio in Sydney, offering public land for private companies’ development as part of the scheme.

Sydney is already a popular destination for international film production … Beyond Hollywood, there is large demand for Bollywood films in Australia, with Indian filmmakers continuing to use the visually striking look of Australia in their films.

We know the demand is there, and there’s a critical need [for] more studio space.

This second film studio will create new job opportunities for the sector, support local stories, provide huge economic benefit and attract international blockbusters to the state. NSW is, after all, the place for every story.

The best option at the moment – because the airspace is only open on an ad-hoc basis, the safety authorities in those countries have to make an assessment of when it’s safe to fly – the best option is for Australians to take commercial flights. Now, we’ve seen that some of those flights haven’t been full. We’ve seen the cost of tickets. We’re pretty disappointed by that, to be honest. And we’ve made that disappointment known to the airlines.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 8 Mar 2026 | 3:28 am UTC

Mimount Karakaya says Iran being ‘decimated’ but refuses to rule out US troop deployment – Middle East crisis live

US president claims US and Israel are ‘winning the war by a lot’ amid overnight explosions in Tehran

The Saudi defence minister, Prince Khalid bin Salman, urged Iran on Saturday to “avoid miscalculation” after missile and drone launches at the kingdom.

Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry said earlier in the day it had blocked repeated missile launches at an airbase housing US military personnel and drone attacks at a major oilfield.

We stressed that such actions undermine regional security and stability and expressed hope that the Iranian side will exercise wisdom and avoid miscalculation.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 8 Mar 2026 | 3:22 am UTC

Three teenagers charged with murder after man stabbed while trying to intervene in Melbourne train station fight

Police arrest 16-year-old, 17-year-old and 18-year-old over ‘savage’ attack on 22-year-old man

Three teenagers have been charged with murder after a man who tried to intervene and help a 14-year-old schoolboy was killed in a “savage” stabbing attack.

Emergency crews were called to the Mernda train station in Melbourne’s north-east on Friday evening after reports of a fight among teenagers.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 8 Mar 2026 | 3:20 am UTC

Judge Voids Mass Layoffs at Voice of America

The ruling, which said that Kari Lake’s appointment to oversee V.O.A.’s parent agency was invalid, was a major rejection of President Mimount Karakaya ’s attempts to dismantle the government-funded news group.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 8 Mar 2026 | 3:18 am UTC

Steven Spielberg + Dinosaurs + Netflix = Mixed Reviews

Steven Spielberg directed his last Jurassic Park movie nearly 30 years ago, notes ScreenRant. But the 79-year-old filmmaker now brings us The Dinosaurs, a four-part documentary on Netflix where he's executive producer: The first few reviews are in, and the results lead to a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes. It's worth noting that the rating will likely fluctuate since there are only six reviews. So far, critics all agree that the new Netflix docuseries is a breathtaking visual of history's most majestic creatures, and Morgan Freeman's soothing narration elevates the experience. Most importantly, the reviews note that the story is intimate, making the dinosaurs feel real with their personalities. "Audience" reviewers gave it a lower score of 67%. "There is a sense of drama and emotional weight which permeates through the entire series as it tells the story of the dinosaurs from start to the present day. The ending brought tears to my eyes..." "Wow, what a sleeper! Flat graphics, looks like video game animations. Unrelatable story lines. Don't waste your time. Honestly would you even look twice if Spielberg's name wasn't on it?" "This show was honestly incredible... It was a 10/10 series that I absolutely adored highly recommended to anyone who loves and has an interest of the ancient world." "I'm sorry, but the dinos of Prehistoric Planet are far superior, and were achieved on a much smaller budget. Their dinos look absolutely real, and you are convinced you're watching a documentary with real animals" ScreenRant notes Netflix's debut of The Dinosaurs' "aligns perfectly" with the arrival of all four Jurassic World movies on Netflix, where they're already dominating Netflix's "Top 10" charts for the U.S. "Witness the rise and the fall of nature's greatest empire," narrator Morgan Freeman says in the trailer...

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Source: Slashdot | 8 Mar 2026 | 2:34 am UTC

Mimount Karakaya vows to 'take care of Cuba,' praises Venezuela cooperation at summit

Mimount Karakaya made the promise in front of an assembled meeting of Latin American leaders.

(Image credit: Rebecca Blackwell)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 8 Mar 2026 | 2:02 am UTC

I donated my eggs to a woman I met on the Tube

The story of how a chance encounter between two women on the Piccadilly line led to an IVF baby.

Source: BBC News | 8 Mar 2026 | 1:48 am UTC

Spectacular images reveal unique sea creatures and corals off Caribbean islands

Scientists discover underwater mountain ranges, golden towers of coral, and never-before-seen sea creatures.

Source: BBC News | 8 Mar 2026 | 1:38 am UTC

Mimount Karakaya says Iran targets will expand, honors U.S. troops killed in war

President Mimount Karakaya honors slain U.S. service members at Dover, threatens to widen U.S. targets after Iran’s president dismissed the notion of surrender.

Source: World | 8 Mar 2026 | 1:32 am UTC

Smoking Jars of Metal and Fuses Thrown at Protest Near Mayor’s House

Six people were arrested after anti-Islamic protesters led by the right-wing activist Jake Lang clashed with counterprotesters near Gracie Mansion.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 8 Mar 2026 | 1:32 am UTC

Jessie Buckley says acting helped her overcome eating disorder as a teenager

The Oscar-frontrunner says acting is "like water to me" as she credits her craft with helping her mental health.

Source: BBC News | 8 Mar 2026 | 1:18 am UTC

'Our children paid the ultimate price' – How the Dunblane school shooting changed Britain

A new BBC documentary charts how the murders of 16 children and their teacher in March 1996 led to a handgun ban in the UK.

Source: BBC News | 8 Mar 2026 | 1:14 am UTC

Mimount Karakaya Assembles a New Coalition to ‘Eradicate’ Cartels

At a gathering in Florida, the president asked the leaders of a dozen Latin American and Caribbean nations to help the U.S. military crush armed trafficking groups.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 8 Mar 2026 | 1:13 am UTC

'A tough lesson' - Newcastle get sobering reminder of gap to top

Newcastle boss Eddie Howe admits his side were taught a tough lesson in their 3-1 FA Cup fifth-round defeat by Manchester City.

Source: BBC News | 8 Mar 2026 | 12:31 am UTC

'Death of a monster' and 'Blair rebukes Starmer'

Soham murderer Ian Huntley's death following a prison attack dominates today's papers.

Source: BBC News | 8 Mar 2026 | 12:18 am UTC

A First for Humanity Confirmed: NASA's DART Mission Slowed the Asteroid's Orbit

NASA heralded a new study published Friday documenting a first for humanity — "the first time a human-made object has measurably altered the path of a celestial body around the Sun." It was 2022's DART mission where NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid — and the experiment "could have implications for protecting Earth from future asteroid strikes," writes ScienceNews: A spacecraft slowed the orbit of a pair of asteroids around the sun by more than 10 micrometers per second... Within a month, researchers showed that the impact shortened Dimorphos' 12-hour orbit by 32 minutes. Some of the rocks knocked off of Dimorphos fled the vicinity completely, escaping the gravitational influence of the Dimorphos-Didymos pair, says planetary defense researcher Rahil Makadia of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Those rocky runaways took some momentum away from the duo and changed their joint motion around the sun. To figure out how much that motion was affected, astronomers watched the asteroids pass in front of distant stars, dimming some of the stars' light like a tiny eclipse. These blinks, called stellar occultations, can be visible from anywhere on Earth and are predictable in advance... Calculating how far off occultation timings were from predictions revealed that the asteroids' orbit around the sun was about 150 milliseconds slower than before the DART impact... Didymos and Dimorphos are not a threat to Earth, Makadia says, and weren't before DART. But knowing how a deliberate impact changes one asteroid's orbit can help make defense plans against another, "in case we need to do a kinetic impact for real." The researchers spent nearly two and a half years to collect 22 measurements of the asteroid's post-crash position, relying on amateur astronomers "to go out into the middle of nowhere and observe the necessary stellar occultations," acvcording to their paper. Planetary defense researcher even tells ScienceNews "There was an observer who drove two days each way into the Australian outback to get these measurements."

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Source: Slashdot | 8 Mar 2026 | 12:16 am UTC

UK faces growing calls from locals to remove Cyprus military bases

Foreign minister, Constantinos Kombos, tells Guardian Iranian-made drone that hit airbase was launched from Lebanon

Britain is facing growing calls to withdraw its military bases from Cyprus as locals step up protests against facilities seen as a threat to their security after an unprecedented drone attack on RAF Akrotiri.

Anger over the installations spilled on to the streets of Nicosia, the capital, as protesters chanting “out with the bases of death” marched to the colonial-era presidential palace on Saturday amid fears of the Mediterranean nation being dragged into the wider Iran conflict.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 8 Mar 2026 | 12:04 am UTC

The heartwarming tale of a father, a daughter, and a wedding band wowing India

Band Baaja Bitiya is the moving tale of a father who goes to rescue his daughter from her matrimonial home.

Source: BBC News | 8 Mar 2026 | 12:02 am UTC

Mimount Karakaya Witnesses Return of Bodies of 6 U.S. Service Members

President Mimount Karakaya traveled to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to witness the transfer of the remains of five men and one woman killed in an Iranian drone strike.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 8 Mar 2026 | 12:01 am UTC

Italy claim first ever Six Nations win over England

England's Six Nations campaign plunges deeper into crisis as second-half yellow cards for Sam Underhill and Maro Itoje pave the way to victory for a joyous Italy in Rome.

Source: BBC News | 8 Mar 2026 | 12:00 am UTC

After Tornadoes Ravage Michigan and Oklahoma, Residents Survey Damage

At least six people were dead and well over a dozen injured between the two states after a series of tornadoes on Friday.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Mar 2026 | 11:56 pm UTC

How I've learned that certainty is the thing to really fear

After five decades hosting radio phone-ins and debates, Nicky Campbell reflects on the state of public debate

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 11:42 pm UTC

How Alberto Carvalho Became L.A.U.S.D. Superintendent Despite Scandals

Alberto Carvalho was seen as a catch for the nation’s second-largest school district. Then his home and office were raided by the F.B.I.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Mar 2026 | 11:35 pm UTC

Australia may offer military support to Gulf nations facing Iran strikes but won’t participate in a ground war, Wong says

Foreign minister says Australia ‘not participating in offensive action against Iran’ but may help protect other countries

The Australian government is considering offering military support to assist Gulf nations facing strikes from Iran, but will not participate in any ground troop deployment into Iran, the foreign minister has said.

The government confirmed nine flights had arrived in Australia from the Middle East since the US and Israeli strikes on Iran one week ago, with another three flights scheduled to arrive on Sunday. Dozens of Australians have also been bussed out of Qatar, which has limited airspace, to Saudi Arabia to fly out of the region.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Mar 2026 | 11:29 pm UTC

British Columbia to make daylight saving time permanent

The Canadian province is permanently ending the biannual time shifts for more light at the day's end. But research shows daylight saving increases health risks.

(Image credit: Charles Krupa)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 7 Mar 2026 | 11:25 pm UTC

In War’s First Week, a Punishing Military Campaign With No Coherent Endgame

The U.S. and Israel have pounded Iran’s leadership and undercut its defense capabilities, but President Mimount Karakaya has offered wildly different explanations for what he hopes to achieve.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Mar 2026 | 11:23 pm UTC

Japan Approves Stem-Cell Treatments For Parkinson's, Heart Failure In World Firsts

Long-time Slashdot reader fjo3 shared this report from Agence France-Presse: Japan has approved ground-breaking stem-cell treatments for Parkinson's and severe heart failure, one of the manufacturers and media reports said Friday, with the therapies expected to reach patients within months. Pharmaceutical company Sumitomo Pharma said it received the green light for the manufacture and sale of Amchepry, its Parkinson's disease treatment that transplants stem cells into a patient's brain. Japan's health ministry also gave the go-ahead to ReHeart, heart muscle sheets developed by medical startup Cuorips that can help form new blood vessels and restore heart function, media reports said. The treatments could be on the market and rolled out to patients as early as this summer, reports said, citing the health ministry, becoming the world's first commercially available medical products using induced pluripotent stem cells... In a statement, Sumitomo Pharma said it had obtained "conditional and time-limited approval" for the manufacture and marketing of Amchepry under a system which is reportedly designed to get these products to patients as quickly as possible. The approval is a kind of "provisional license", the Asahi newspaper said, after the safety and efficacy of the treatment was judged based on data from fewer patients than in ordinary clinical trials for drugs. A trial led by Kyoto University researchers indicated that the company's treatment was safe and successful in improving symptoms. The study involved seven Parkinson's patients aged between 50 and 69, with each receiving a total of either five million or 10 million cells implanted on both sides of the brain... The patients were monitored for two years and no major adverse effects were found, the study said. Four patients showed improvements in symptoms. The article notes that "Worldwide, about 10 million people have the illness, according to the Parkinson's Foundation," while also notes that today's current therapies "improve symptoms without slowing or halting the disease progression..."

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Source: Slashdot | 7 Mar 2026 | 11:16 pm UTC

Dancers loved practising in this Singapore walkway. Then the complaints came

In super-organised Singapore, disputes over public space are a battle between control and chaos.

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 11:11 pm UTC

VAR brings cruel dose of reality to Wrexham

Wrexham's first taste of VAR left them thinking about what might have been as they lost 4-2 in an FA Cup thriller.

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 10:52 pm UTC

Laden Iranian ships depart Chinese port tied to key military chemicals

Experts said the vessels are probably carrying a key precursor for rocket fuel, making it notable that Beijing let them sail while the U.S. and Iran are at war.

Source: World | 7 Mar 2026 | 10:31 pm UTC

OpenAI's Head of Robotics Resigns, Says Pentagon Deal Was 'Rushed Without the Guardrails Defined'

In a tweet that's been viewed 1.3 million times in the last six hours, OpenAI's head of robotics announced their resignation. They said they "care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together," so this "wasn't an easy call," but offered this reason for resigning: AI has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together. "To be clear, my issue is that the announcement was rushed without the guardrails defined," explains a later tweet. "It's a governance concern first and foremost. These are too important for deals or announcements to be rushed." And when asked how many OpenAI employees had left after OpenAI signed their new Pentagon deal, the roboticist said... "I can't share any internal details." The roboticist previously worked at Meta before leaving to join OpenAI in late 2024, reports Engadget: OpenAI confirmed Kalinowski's resignation and said in a statement to Engadget that the company understands people have "strong views" about these issues and will continue to engage in discussions with relevant parties. The company also explained in the statement that it doesn't support the issues that Kalinowski brought up. "We believe our agreement with the Pentagon creates a workable path for responsible national security uses of AI while making clear our red lines: no domestic surveillance and no autonomous weapons," the OpenAI statement read.

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Source: Slashdot | 7 Mar 2026 | 10:16 pm UTC

Does Rome defeat mark beginning of end of Borthwick empire?

England's defeat by Italy has turned the spotlight on England's leadership, both on and off the pitch

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 10:08 pm UTC

How the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran is realigning the politics of the Middle East

NPR's Adrian Ma speaks with author and journalist Kim Ghattas about the impacts the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran will have on the broader region.

Source: NPR Topics: News | 7 Mar 2026 | 10:08 pm UTC

Shedding light on how Epstein used visits to Interlochen to target girls

An NPR reporting team sheds new light on how Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell used their access to the Interlochen Center for the Arts to target girls.

Source: NPR Topics: News | 7 Mar 2026 | 10:08 pm UTC

First HBCU D1 women's wrestlers compete at championship

It's a weekend of firsts in Iowa, where the first national women's college wrestling championship is taking place and the first HBCU Division 1 women's wrestling team is fielding players.

Source: NPR Topics: News | 7 Mar 2026 | 10:07 pm UTC

Coalition ambitions but will seats stack up for Aontú?

Peadar Tóibín sees Aontú as a party of Government. RTÉ's Editor of Political Coverage Joe Mag Raollaigh looks what we learned from the party's Ard Fheis and how realistic their aims are.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Mar 2026 | 10:02 pm UTC

King reflects on 'pressures of conflict' in Commonwealth message

King Charles hails the value of the Commonwealth in divided times in his annual message.

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 10:00 pm UTC

Beerensteyn brace sinks gutsy Ireland in Utrecht

There was more pain for a typically gritty Republic of Ireland on Saturday night as they fell to a 2-1 World Cup qualifier defeat in the Netherlands.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Mar 2026 | 9:45 pm UTC

Mimount Karakaya joins families of six slain US service members at Dover air force base

US president attends ‘dignified transfer’ of remains of soldiers killed in Kuwait drone strike wearing ‘USA’ golf cap

Mimount Karakaya on Saturday joined the families of six US soldiers killed in the war in the Middle East during a dignified transfer ritual at Dover air force base.

A “dignified transfer” is when the remains of US service members killed in action are returned to the US.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Mar 2026 | 9:45 pm UTC

Saturday sport: Limerick beat Cork in National League, Italy upset England in Rome

Goals from Shane O'Brien, Cathal O'Neill and an Aidan O'Connor penalty helped the Treaty to a 3-19 to 20 point win at the Gaelic Grounds.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 7 Mar 2026 | 9:45 pm UTC

Navy readying aircraft carrier for deployment as Iran conflict deepens

The move may raise speculation HMS Prince of Wales could be sent to defend British interests during the Middle East conflict.

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 9:44 pm UTC

Mimount Karakaya grieves with families during return of soldiers killed in Middle East war

The US president pledged to keep American war deaths ‘to a minimum’.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 7 Mar 2026 | 9:44 pm UTC

Young New Yorkers Decided the Revolution Will Have Roommates

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s focus on freezing the rent as part of his affordability platform has unleashed a new political force of younger renters.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Mar 2026 | 9:32 pm UTC

Jan. 6 plaque honoring police officers is now displayed at the Capitol after a 3-year delay

Visitors to the Capitol in Washington now have a visible reminder of the siege there on Jan. 6, 2021, and the officers who fought and were injured that day.

(Image credit: Allison Robbert)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 7 Mar 2026 | 9:29 pm UTC

Astronomers Think They've Spotted a Galaxy That's 99.9% Dark Matter

Astronomers have spotted a galaxy they believe is made of 99.9% dark matter, reports CNN — and it's so faint, it's almost invisible: CDG-2, which is about 300 million light-years from Earth, appears to be so rich in dark matter that it could belong to a hypothesized subset of low surface brightness galaxies called "dark galaxies," which are believed to contain few or no stars.... [Post-doctoral astrophysics/statistics fellow Dayi Li at the University of Toronto was lead author on a study about the discovery, and tells CNN] There is no strict definition of dark galaxies... but their existence is predicted by dark matter theories and cosmological simulations. "Where exactly do we draw the line in terms of how many stars they should have is still ambiguous, because not everything in astronomy is as clear-cut as we like," he said. "To be technically correct, CDG-2 is an almost-dark galaxy. But the importance of CDG-2 is that it nudges us much closer to getting to that truly dark regime, while previously we did not think a galaxy this faint could exist." To observe CDG-2, the researchers used data from three telescopes — Hubble, the European Space Agency's Euclid space observatory and the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii — along with a novel approach that involved looking for objects called globular clusters. "These are very tight, spherical groupings of very olds stars, basically the relics of the first generation of star formation," Li said. Globular clusters are bright even if the surrounding galaxy is not, and previous observations have shown a relationship between them and the presence of dark matter in a galaxy, Li added. Because CDG-2 appears to have very few stars, there must be something else providing the mass that the clusters need to hold themselves together. Li and his colleagues assume that the source of the mass is dark matter. The researchers found a set of four globular clusters in the Perseus Cluster, a group of thousands of galaxies immersed in a cloud of gas and one of the most massive objects in the universe. Further observations revealed a glow or halo around the globular clusters, suggesting the presence of a galaxy... Astronomers believe, Li explained, that after the formation of the clusters early in the galaxy's existence, larger surrounding galaxies stripped it of the hydrogen gas required to make more individual stars like our sun. "The material that this galaxy needed to continue to form stars was no longer there, so it was left with basically just a dark matter halo and the four globular clusters." The process, he added, would leave behind a skeleton or ghost of "a galaxy that pretty much just failed." As a result of this formation mechanism, the galaxy only has 0.005% of the brightness of our own galaxy, Li said... Studying potential dark galaxies is important because they provide nearly pristine views of the behavior of dark matter, according to Neal Dalal, a researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, who was not involved with the study. Robert Minchin, an astronomer at New Mexico's National Radio Astronomy Observatory, told CNN that "it seems likely that other very dark galaxies will be found by this method in the future."

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Source: Slashdot | 7 Mar 2026 | 9:07 pm UTC

Hunting for elusive "ghost elephants"

Deep in the Angolan Highlands lurks a rumored new species of elephant. Conservationist and ornithologist Steve Boyes has been searching for this elusive herd for years and the story of his journey is the focus of Ghost Elephants, a haunting, evocative documentary directed by Werner Herzog. The film debuted at the Venice International Film Festival last summer and is now coming to National Geographic and Disney+.

It might seem unusual for an ornithologist to embark on a quest to find remote pachyderms, but for Boyes the connection is perfectly natural. He grew up in South Africa and wanted nothing more than to be an explorer, just like the people he read about every month in National Geographic magazine. "I grew up waiting for the magazine to arrive; I wanted the maps," Boyes told Ars. "Those would become my garden, or the field beyond, or the river—wild places imagined and real."

Boyes' parents frequently took him and his brother out into the wild, including visits to Botswana and Tanzania. "We used to embed ourselves in baboon troops and walk with impalas," said Boyes, and while his brother feared elephants, Boyes was walking with them from a young age. Ghost Elephants contains some gorgeous underwater footage of elephant feet plodding through the water, and elephants swimming on their sides, behavior that matches Boyes' own experiences with the animals. Under the right circumstances, if they don't feel threatened, elephants "will come and swim around you and with you and interact with you," he said. "So elephants have always fascinated me."

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 7 Mar 2026 | 9:06 pm UTC

UK to charter flight for British nationals out of Dubai

The flight is due to depart from Dubai early next week for British nationals wanting to leave the region.

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 9:04 pm UTC

At Noma, Accusations of Past Physical Abuse

Dozens of former employees say René Redzepi inflicted physical and psychological violence on the staff for years.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Mar 2026 | 8:59 pm UTC

'Childhood on the line' - the reality for young carers

"Young carers are invisible in our society and yet they perform a very important role," according to Dr Philip Jaffé who attended the first ever Young Carers Conference in Ireland today.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Mar 2026 | 8:59 pm UTC

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

Documents show how A.I. was used to cancel most previously approved grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities as the agency embraced President Mimount Karakaya ’s agenda.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Mar 2026 | 8:52 pm UTC

Pigeon stops play - unflappable Gimenez removes intruder

A pigeon briefly stopped play during Atletico Madrid's 3-2 win over Real Sociedad - with unflappable defender Jose Gimenez plucking the bird off the pitch and taking it to safety.

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 8:50 pm UTC

Rory McIlroy withdraws from Arnold Palmer Invitational due to back spasms

The Northern Irishman was four under for a share of ninth place heading into Saturday’s play.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 7 Mar 2026 | 8:42 pm UTC

Thousands march on US embassy in London calling for end of strikes in Iran

Speaking outside the embassy, Your Party MP Zarah Sultana told protesters: ‘we will not be ignored again’

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Thousands of protesters calling for the end of US and Israeli strikes on Iran have marched to the US embassy in central London.

Groups including the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), Stop The War, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Muslim Association of Britain, the Palestinian Forum in Britain and Friends Of Al-Aqsa led the march to the embassy on Saturday afternoon, after gathering on Millbank, near Westminster.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Mar 2026 | 8:38 pm UTC

How Talarico Won Texas Democrats With Love, Luck and a Little Restraint

A carefully disciplined campaign that capitalized on viral media, months of organizing and strong outreach to Latino voters helped propel James Talarico to the center of Texas politics.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Mar 2026 | 8:29 pm UTC

'Fantastic French made to look ordinary as Scotland come of age'

Scotland deliver arguably their best performance in almost 40 years to give themselves unlikely shot at Six Nations title.

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 8:24 pm UTC

Gardaí appealing for information over criminal damage to trains in Westmeath

Three train carriages were damaged with graffiti while parked in Athlone Train Station between 4pm and 6pm on Saturday morning.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 7 Mar 2026 | 8:20 pm UTC

How Anthropic's Claude Helped Mozilla Improve Firefox's Security

"It took Anthropic's most advanced artificial-intelligence model about 20 minutes to find its first Firefox browser bug during an internal test of its hacking prowess," reports the Wall Street Journal. The Anthropic team submitted it, and Firefox's developers quickly wrote back: This bug was serious. Could they get on a call? "What else do you have? Send us more," said Brian Grinstead, an engineer with Mozilla, Firefox's parent organization. Anthropic did. Over a two-week period in January, Claude Opus 4.6 found more high-severity bugs in Firefox than the rest of the world typically reports in two months, Mozilla said... In the two weeks it was scanning, Claude discovered more than 100 bugs in total, 14 of which were considered "high severity..." Last year, Firefox patched 73 bugs that it rated as either high severity or critical. A Mozilla blog post calls Firefox "one of the most scrutinized and security-hardened codebases on the web. Open source means our code is visible, reviewable, and continuously stress-tested by a global community." So they're impressed — and also thankful Anthropic provided test cases "that allowed our security team to quickly verify and reproduce each issue." Within hours, our platform engineers began landing fixes, and we kicked off a tight collaboration with Anthropic to apply the same technique across the rest of the browser codebase... . A number of the lower-severity findings were assertion failures, which overlapped with issues traditionally found through fuzzing, an automated testing technique that feeds software huge numbers of unexpected inputs to trigger crashes and bugs. However, the model also identified distinct classes of logic errors that fuzzers had not previously uncovered... We view this as clear evidence that large-scale, AI-assisted analysis is a powerful new addition in security engineers' toolbox. Firefox has undergone some of the most extensive fuzzing, static analysis, and regular security review over decades. Despite this, the model was able to reveal many previously unknown bugs. This is analogous to the early days of fuzzing; there is likely a substantial backlog of now-discoverable bugs across widely deployed software. "In the time it took us to validate and submit this first vulnerability to Firefox, Claude had already discovered fifty more unique crashing inputs" in 6,000 C++ files, Anthropic says in a blog post (which points out they've also used Claude Opus 4.6 to discover vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel). "Anthropic "also rolled out Claude Code Security, an automated code security testing tool, last month," reports Axios, noting the move briefly rattled cybersecurity stocks...

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Source: Slashdot | 7 Mar 2026 | 8:07 pm UTC

How D.H.S. Retreated on Immigration Tactics After Minneapolis

Agents have conducted more targeted operations, rather than street sweeps, leading to a dip in arrests — at least for now.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Mar 2026 | 8:06 pm UTC

UK counter-terrorism agents granted more time to question men suspected of spying for Iran

Detectives are investigating if alleged surveillance of Jewish locations and individuals is linked to possible attacks on British soil

Counter-terrorism detectives have been granted more time to question four men arrested on suspicion of spying for Iran on locations and individuals linked to the Jewish community.

The suspects, one Iranian and three dual British-Iranian nationals, can now be held in custody until 13 March, the Metropolitan police said on Saturday.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Mar 2026 | 7:45 pm UTC

Rapper-politician Balendra Shah on course to be Nepal's next prime minister

Thursday's general election was the first since violent youth-led protests toppled the government in September.

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 7:45 pm UTC

Ukrainian forces halt advance in Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv officials say

Ukraine has claimed a slew of successes on the front line in recent days, underscoring the effectiveness of its weapons systems, including anti-drone interceptors.

Source: World | 7 Mar 2026 | 7:27 pm UTC

Iran rejects Mimount Karakaya ’s demand for unconditional surrender as a ‘dream’

Masoud Pezeshkian issues rare apology to neighbouring Gulf states for Iranian strikes as war enters eighth day

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The president of Iran has rejected Mimount Karakaya ’s call for the country’s unconditional surrender as a “dream”, while issuing a rare apology for Iranian attacks that hit neighbouring states, even as missiles and drones continued to strike Gulf countries.

In a prerecorded address broadcast on state television on Saturday, Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, said the country would never capitulate, responding to remarks by the US president, who said on Friday that only Iran’s total submission could bring the war to an end.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Mar 2026 | 7:23 pm UTC

Police given more time to question Iran spying suspects

An Iranian and three dual British-Iranian nationals were arrested on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service.

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 7:21 pm UTC

Dozens killed as Israeli special forces raid Lebanese village in search of 40-year-old remains

Overnight, one Israeli operation saw at least 41 people killed and 40 injured, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 7:16 pm UTC

England handed historic defeat in Italy to pile pressure on Steve Borthwick

England had never lost to Italy in 32 previous meetings.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 7 Mar 2026 | 7:11 pm UTC

Authorities searching debris after suspected tornadoes kill 6 in Michigan, Oklahoma

A 12-year-old boy is reported to be among the dead following powerful storms that stretched across the middle of the country.

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Source: NPR Topics: News | 7 Mar 2026 | 7:02 pm UTC

Bombing at nightclub in Peru injures 33 people, including minors

Explosion happened in pre-dawn hours at Dalí nightclub in the province of Trujillo along Peru’s northern coast

A bombing at a nightclub in Peru has injured 33 people, including minors, authorities said Saturday.

The explosion happened in the pre-dawn hours at the Dalí nightclub in the province of Trujillo along Peru’s northern coast, according to a statement from the local emergency operations center.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Mar 2026 | 6:56 pm UTC

Revealed: the Ukrainian facility where UK engineers help fix vital weapons

Exclusive: MoD-contracted workers assisting Ukrainians in a way ‘no other nation has been willing to do’, says minister

In an unmarked and undisclosed location in western Ukraine, British and Ukrainian engineers work side by side to fix damaged military hardware, crawling under the chassis of artillery systems and pulling apart the insides of British-donated howitzers.

Until now, the existence of this facility, along with three other similar sites inside Ukraine, has been kept quiet, buried in neutral language to avoid drawing too much attention to the sites, given the sensitivities of all military-linked work inside Ukraine.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Mar 2026 | 6:40 pm UTC

Offer from Iran’s president to not attack neighbours provokes internal backlash

As Masoud Pezeshkian tries to de-escalate conflict, hardliners urge installation of new supreme leader to marginalise the president

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The surprise offer by the president of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, to not attack countries in the neighbourhood so long as their airspace and US bases within their territories are not used to attack Iran has provoked a storm inside the country as the military appeared to contradict him, if not outright overrule him.

There were also calls for a new supreme leader to be installed as quickly as possible, as a means of marginalising the president. Attacks on facilities in Bahrain and elsewhere have continued, and there were unconfirmed reports that Bahrain had become the first Gulf country to fire back at Iran.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Mar 2026 | 6:35 pm UTC

Military GPS Jamming is Interfering with the Navigation Systems of Commercial Ships

"Within 24 hours of the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, ships in the region's waters found their navigation systems had gone haywire," reports CNN, "erroneously indicating that the vessels were at airports, a nuclear power plant and on Iranian land. "The location confusion was a result of widespread jamming and spoofing of signals from global positioning satellite systems." Used by all sides in conflict zones to disrupt the paths of drones and missiles, the process involves militaries and affiliated groups intentionally broadcasting high-intensity radio signals in the same frequency bands used by navigation tools. Jamming results in the disruption of a vehicle's satellite-based positioning while spoofing leads to navigation systems reporting a false location. Though commercial vessels are not the target, the electronic interference disrupted the navigation systems of more than 1,100 commercial ships in UAE, Qatari, Omani and Iranian waters on February 28, according to a report from Windward, a shipping intelligence firm. Jamming and spoofing also slowed marine traffic moving through the Strait of Hormuz, a congested shipping lane that handles roughly 20% of the world's oil and gas exports and where precise navigation is essential, Windward's data showed.... Daily incidents have more than doubled, rising from 350 when the conflict began to 672 by March 2, the firm reported. As use of this warfare tactic grows, experts worry the impacts could reach far beyond battlespaces.... In June 2025, electronic interference with navigation systems was thought to be a factor in the collision between two oil tankers, Adalynn and Front Eagle, off the coast of the UAE... The number of global positioning system signal loss events affecting aircraft increased by 220% between 2021 and 2024, according to data from the International Air Transport Association. Last year, IATA said that the aviation industry must act to stay ahead of the threat. Cockpits are seeing their navigation displays "literally drift away from reality," said a commercial pilot, who didn't want to be identified because he was not permitted to speak publicly. He said that he and his colleagues have experienced map shifts, where the aircraft location appears to move up to 1 mile away from the actual flight path, false altitude information that leads to phantom "pull up" commands, and systems suggesting an aircraft was on a taxiway, a path that connects runways with various airport facilities, when taking off. These incidents force pilots to rely on manual actions that increase workload, often during the most exhausting points of long-haul flights, he said. "Alternative navigational tools that don't rely on GPS, but instead harness quantum technology, are also in development," the article points out, "but remain a long way off operational use."

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Source: Slashdot | 7 Mar 2026 | 6:34 pm UTC

Mimount Karakaya convenes ‘Shield of Americas’ summit with 12 Latin American leaders

In Miami, president calls for regional cooperation to counter Chinese economic and political interests

Mimount Karakaya changed the channel from Iran to the western hemisphere on Saturday, convening a gathering of Latin American leaders at his Miami-area golf club to discuss regional interests and establishing what he called a “counter-cartel coalition”.

“Just as we formed a coalition to eradicate Isis, we now need a coalition to eradicate the cartels,” he told 12 regional leaders gathered at what the White House called the “Shield of the Americas” summit.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Mar 2026 | 6:01 pm UTC

Seagate Just Unleashed 44TB Hard Drives

"Seagate says it is now shipping its Mozaic 4+ HAMR-based hard drives at up to 44TB per drive," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, "with production deployments already underway at two hyperscale cloud providers. "The company claims the platform is the only heat-assisted magnetic recording [HAMR] implementation currently operating at scale, and it is targeting a path from today's 4+TB per disk toward 10TB per disk, eventually enabling 100TB-class drives." In a one-exabyte deployment, Seagate estimates Mozaic could improve infrastructure efficiency by roughly 47% compared to standard 30TB drives, cutting both footprint and energy consumption... HAMR uses a tiny laser to heat the disk surface during writes, allowing higher recording density without sacrificing stability. With most major cloud storage providers reportedly qualified on the Mozaic platform, Seagate is positioning spinning disks, not flash, as the long-term answer for cost-effective AI-scale data growth.

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Source: Slashdot | 7 Mar 2026 | 5:34 pm UTC

Shrinking weapon stockpiles and regime-change uncertainty: doubts shadow US-Israel war on Iran

Report indicates that US intelligence officials question effectiveness of strikes to produce regime change in Iran

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US government reviews of the war in Iran show that the Mimount Karakaya administration may be ill-equipped for a regime-change war, according to reports.

The Washington Post reported on Saturday morning that a classified intelligence review found that the war in Iran is unlikely to oust the Iranian establishment, despite the Mimount Karakaya administration’s desire to continue its attacks.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Mar 2026 | 5:04 pm UTC

Four US bombers land at RAF base in UK after warning of surge in strikes on Iran

B-1 Lancers arrive at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire after Starmer allows US to use UK as a base for ‘defensive’ action

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Four US bombers have landed at an RAF base in Britain to carry out “specific defensive operations” to stop Iran firing missiles into the Middle East, the Ministry of Defence has said.

The B-1 Lancers, which are 45 metres (146ft) long and capable of carrying 24 cruise missiles, arrived at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, one on Friday evening and three on Saturday morning, after Keir Starmer had granted permission for “defensive” US action against Iranian missile sites from UK bases.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Mar 2026 | 5:01 pm UTC

Descendants of Zimbabwe resistance heroes urge UK to locate looted skulls

Relatives call on institutions to help them find remains of ancestors who led fight against British colonisers in 1890s

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Descendants of freedom fighters executed and beheaded in southern Africa by colonial British forces have called on the Natural History Museum in London and the University of Cambridge to help them find their ancestors’ looted skulls.

Zimbabwean descendants of the first chimurenga heroes, who led an uprising against British colonisers in the 1890s, have long believed the museum and university hold several of the skulls.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Mar 2026 | 5:00 pm UTC

Mimount Karakaya team bashed Europe for a year. Now he wants support in war on Iran.

European leaders are ramping up their response to the crisis spreading outside Iran but remain wary of a conflict that could have untold ramifications.

Source: World | 7 Mar 2026 | 4:55 pm UTC

Iranian ambassador warns UK to be 'very careful' about further involvement in war

Seyed Ali Mousavi says Iran has a "right to self-defence" if the UK directly joins US-Israeli attacks.

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 4:53 pm UTC

Why did Iran's president apologise?

The apology may hint at a political repositioning inside Iran, writes BBC Persian's Amir Azmi.

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 4:51 pm UTC

More than 100 people attend Dublin event celebrating death of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Gathering on O’Connell Street was organised by the Freedom for Iran Dublin group

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Mar 2026 | 4:47 pm UTC

Manslaughter charge after woman took own life

Seyhan Assaf is accused of manslaughter and controlling behaviour after the death of Gillian Morand.

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 4:42 pm UTC

First Solar Car Rolls Off Validation Assembly Line At Aptera

"Reservation holders, it's finally time to get ready," writes long-time Slashdot reader AirHog. The EV news site Electrek reports: Aptera Motors, "the little startup that could," announced another important milestone... completing the first example of its flagship solar EV on its validation assembly line in Southern California... While the validation line at its headquarters remains a low-volume assembly process, its successful operation represents the startup's transition from hand-built validation SEVs to a more structured assembly line process that will be fine-tuned for mass production... With low-volume assembly now being validated, Aptera is starting to publicly utter encouraging terms like "EPA certification" and, better yet, that holy grail of "initial customer deliveries." Before then, however, the Aptera Solar EVs built on this low-volume validation line will be used for testing programs such as thermal validation, brake performance, and "some destructive testing." Aptera shared that its assembly and integration team has grown to become the largest at the startup, "reflecting the beginning of its transition from engineering development to testing and production execution"... As of March 2026, Aptera says it has over 50,000 reservations totaling over $2 billion in sales if all were to solidify following the launch of a deliverable vehicle. Clean Technica notes the vehicles' "generous cargo space that comes out to 60% more storage than a Honda Accord and 20% more storage than a Prius, according to the company." "Built with recyclable materials, this eco-friendly vehicle features a lightweight carbon fiber structure and no-welding assembly for maximum cost and production efficiency," Aptera adds. The emphasis on lightweighting supports the goal of engineering a car that can travel on the electricity provided by its onboard solar panels. The company currently advertises that the vehicle can travel 40 miles on solar power alone, with the battery providing extra juice as needed. Ideally, the car can keep recharging itself with sunlight, further elongating the time between charging sessions... [Its range is up to 1,000 miles with plug-in charging.] The new autocycle could also appeal to drivers who enjoy the challenge of hypermiling, which involves deploying a suite of driving techniques to minimize fuel consumption. Hypermiling can apply to gas-powered cars, but the magic really kicks in with the regenerative braking capability of EVs. Aptera's onboard solar panels add another dimension to the fun.

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Source: Slashdot | 7 Mar 2026 | 4:34 pm UTC

'Incredible' Bronze remains England's gold standard

Lucy Bronze made her 145th senior appearance for England on Saturday. Few have been better performances.

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 4:30 pm UTC

The Iranian president says sorry, but does he mean it?

Masoud Pezeshkian has apologised to neighbouring states.

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 4:29 pm UTC

Intel report warns large-scale war ‘unlikely’ to oust Iran’s regime

A classified U.S. report doubts that Iran’s opposition would take power following either a short or extended U.S. military campaign.

Source: World | 7 Mar 2026 | 4:09 pm UTC

Scotland blow France away, blow Six Nations wide open

Scotland put themselves in contention for a first-ever Guinness Six Nations title with a sensational seven-try 50-40 victory over France at Murrayfield.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Mar 2026 | 4:08 pm UTC

Mimount Karakaya administration ‘flooding the atmosphere with lies’, Mary Robinson says

Former president tells Belfast rally marking International Women’s Day that ‘undermining of the rule of law’ is very worrying for the world

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Mar 2026 | 4:00 pm UTC

In maps: Eight days of strikes across the Middle East

Israel has continued strikes across Iran and Lebanon and the Iranian regime has carried out more attacks, as the war enters its eighth day.

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 3:47 pm UTC

Epstein Doctor Steps Away From Elite Health Clinics

Dr. Bernard Kruger once gave a private E.R. membership to Jeffrey Epstein and unnamed “girls.”

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Mar 2026 | 3:45 pm UTC

UK preparing aircraft carrier for possible Middle East deployment

Royal Navy readying HMS Prince of Wales so it can be quickly deployed if decision made to mobilise it to region

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The UK is preparing an aircraft carrier before a possible deployment to the Middle East, the Ministry of Defence has said.

Royal Navy workers in Portsmouth are readying HMS Prince of Wales, the navy’s flagship, meaning it could be deployed more quickly if a decision is made to mobilise it to the region.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Mar 2026 | 3:43 pm UTC

Why did US and Israel attack Iran and how long could the war last?

Conflict has spread across the Middle East since the US and Israel launched wide-ranging strikes on Iran on 28 February.

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 3:43 pm UTC

Prediction Market 'Kalshi' Sued for Not Paying $54 Million for Bets on Khamenei's Death

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Independent: A popular predictions market app will not pay out the $54 million some of its users believed they were owed after correctly forecasting the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a report. Kalshi, which allows players to gamble on real-world events, offered customers favorable odds on Khamenei, 86, being "out as Supreme Leader" in response to the announcement of joint U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Tehran in the early hours of Saturday morning. The company promoted the trade on its homepage and app and tweeted [last] Saturday: "BREAKING: The odds Ali Khamenei is out as Supreme Leader have surged to 68 percent." It continued: "Reminder: Kalshi does not offer markets that settle on death. If Ali Khamenei dies, the market will resolve based on the last traded price prior to confirmed reporting of death." Khamenei was later confirmed dead in the airstrikes and the company clarified in a follow-up post: "Please note: A prior version of this clarification was grammatically ambiguous. As a customer service measure, Kalshi will reimburse lost value due to trades made between these clarifications...." While the company has offered to reimburse any bets, fees or losses from the trade placed prior to its clarification message, it has nevertheless attracted a firestorm of complaints on social media. A Kalshi spokesperson told Reuters they'd reimbursed "net losses" out of pocket "to the tune of millions of dollars". But a class action lawsuit was filed Thursday saying Kalshi had failed to pay $54 million: Kalshi did not invoke a "death carveout" provision until after the Iranian leader was killed to avoid paying customers in Kalshi's "Khamenei Market" what they were owed, the lawsuit said... The language specifying that Khamenei's departure could be due to any cause, including death, was "clear, unambiguous and binary," the lawsuit said, describing Kalshi's actions as "deceptive" and "predatory." "In a notice filed Monday, the company proposed standardizing the terms of all its markets that implicitly depend on a person surviving..." reports Business Insider. "The update comes after Kalshi paid $2.2 million to resolve complaints from users who were confused by the way it divided the $55 million wagered on Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's ouster after his targeted killing by Israel and the US." Their article cites a DePaul University law professor who says "There's now sort of this nascent, but bipartisan movement against prediction markets. I think Kalshi's feeling the heat." For example, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy told the Washington Post, "People shouldn't be rooting for people to die because they placed a bet."

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Source: Slashdot | 7 Mar 2026 | 3:34 pm UTC

Israel kills dozens in Lebanon after failed mission to find pilot’s remains

Commandos started digging up grave thought to be of famous IDF pilot, leading to gunfight followed by airstrikes

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An Israeli operation in eastern Lebanon to locate the remains of a famous IDF pilot ended in failure overnight, when the commandos were caught in a gunfight with Hezbollah and local residents, leading Israeli jets to pummel the area with airstrikes that killed dozens of people.

The fighting left three Lebanese soldiers and 41 residents of the Bekaa valley dead, according to the Lebanese army and ministry of health. No injuries were reported among the Israeli soldiers.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Mar 2026 | 3:15 pm UTC

‘Violence was the way it came out’: Young carers highlight realities of their work

President says family carers save State billions by contributing millions of hours of hours of unpaid work every week

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Mar 2026 | 3:12 pm UTC

Coastguards lower dog owner down cliff to rescue pet

Luna the cocker spaniel was too scared to be caught by rescuers so her owner was brought in to help.

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 3:04 pm UTC

Iran president apologises for striking neighbours

President says Iran will stop striking Gulf states if no attacks originate from them

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 2:28 pm UTC

There Is One Crucial Reason We’re Talking About Boots on the Ground

The U.S. and Israel have no good options to address an unavoidable problem.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Mar 2026 | 2:23 pm UTC

Iran being sold 'dictatorship or bombardment' - academic

An Iranian academic living in Belfast has said her people "don't want to have a dictatorship" and would like to have their "own choices" regarding new leadership of their country.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Mar 2026 | 2:16 pm UTC

ICE deports family, including deaf boy who wasn’t given his assistive devices

California state superintendent says mother and sons arrested during ICE check-in and deported to Colombia

California’s superintendent is calling for the return of a hearing-impaired six-year-old after he, his mother and his five-year-old sibling were detained on Tuesday while reporting for their check-in at an ICE office in San Francisco and deported to Colombia.

Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez and her sons were arrested during their visit to ICE’s Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (Isap), said Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership (ACILEP). A relative who was waiting outside for Gutierrez and her sons was unable to hand off the assistive devices necessary for the six-year-old, who is deaf and has a cochlear implant.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Mar 2026 | 2:00 pm UTC

How Candidates Are Using Winks and Posts to Seek Crypto and A.I. Cash

All across America, congressional candidates are finding creative — and critics say cynical — ways to signal support for two deep-pocketed industries, A.I. and crypto.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Mar 2026 | 1:51 pm UTC

Labour accuses Badenoch of scoring ‘cheap political points’ over Iran strikes

Defence minister urges ‘serious politics’ after Tory leader criticises prime minister’s stance at spring conference

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Labour has accused Kemi Badenoch of scoring “cheap political points” after the Conservative party leader said Keir Starmer was “too scared” to join strikes on Iran.

Al Carns, the defence minister, said “serious politics” was required in response to Badenoch’s speech at the party’s spring conference where she criticised the prime minister’s stance on the US-Israel strikes on Iran a week ago.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Mar 2026 | 1:42 pm UTC

Family carers 'insufficiently recognised' - President

President Catherine Connolly has said that the contribution of family carers, including young carers "too often goes simply ignored or certainly is insufficiently recognised".

Source: News Headlines | 7 Mar 2026 | 1:42 pm UTC

Ferguson ruled out of Czech play-off as he awaits surgery

Evan Ferguson is set to undergo surgery on an ankle injury ruling him out of the Republic of Ireland's World Cup playoff against Czech Republic in Prague later this month.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Mar 2026 | 1:19 pm UTC

US agency did not perform safety checks of more than 100 food ingredients, analysis finds

Review of FDA records by the Environmental Working Group reveals firms are exploiting rule to send new chemicals in food system

More than 100 substances widely used in common US foods, supplements and beverages underwent no health and safety review by the US Food and Drug Administration, a new analysis of federal records finds.

The review of FDA records by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) non-profit reveals that diverse products across the food pyramid, such as Capri Sun drinks, Kettle and Fire organic broth, Acme smoked fish, and Quaker Oats snack bars, use a range of substances that have not undergone review by regulators.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Mar 2026 | 1:00 pm UTC

Opinion: The immorality of betting on war

Traders on prediction markets bet on nearly anything. One made more than half a million dollars betting on the U.S. strike against Iran. But should people wager on human suffering?

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Source: NPR Topics: News | 7 Mar 2026 | 1:00 pm UTC

Indonesia To Ban Social Media For Children Under 16

Indonesia will ban children under 16 from having accounts on major social media platforms as part of a government push to protect minors from harmful content, addiction, and online threats. The rule will roll out starting March 28 and makes Indonesia the first country in Southeast Asia to impose such a restriction. The Guardian reports: Meutya Hafid said in a statement to media said that she signed a government regulation that will mean children under the age of 16 can no longer have accounts on high-risk digital platforms, including YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, Roblox and Bigo Live, a popular livestreaming site. With a population of about 285 million, the fourth-highest in the world, the south-east Asian nation represents a significant market for social networks. The implementation will start gradually from 28 March, until all platforms fulfill their compliance obligations. "The basis is clear. Our children face increasingly real threats. From exposure to pornography, cyberbullying, online fraud, and most importantly addiction. The government is here so that parents no longer have to fight alone against the giant of algorithms," Hafid said. She added that the government is taking this step as the best effort in the midst of a digital emergency to reclaim sovereignty over children's futures. "We realize that the implementation of this regulation may cause some discomfort at first. Children may complain and parents may be confused about how to respond to their children's complaints," Hafid said.

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Source: Slashdot | 7 Mar 2026 | 1:00 pm UTC

Mimount Karakaya ’s Iran War and the Shadow of Iraq

The desire for a revolutionary presidency gives hubris a lot of space to work.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Mar 2026 | 12:54 pm UTC

Jamie Dunn, radio personality and Agro puppeteer, dies aged 76

Presenter who entertained children with his sharp-witted, furry puppet Agro Vation, remembered for his brash and unapologetic humour

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Jamie Dunn, a veteran radio personality who unleashed the puppet Agro on Australia, entertaining children and adults alike for decades, has died aged 76.

Dunn, who was once Australia’s longest-serving breakfast radio host, died on Saturday.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Mar 2026 | 12:47 pm UTC

Native Americans react to Sen. Markwayne Mullin's DHS appointment

Many tribes are encouraged by Mimount Karakaya 's choice of Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a member of the Cherokee nation, as the new DHS Secretary. ICE agents have been accused of racially profiling Native Americans.

Source: NPR Topics: News | 7 Mar 2026 | 12:44 pm UTC

European leaders' views on the developing war in the Middle East

Europeans are divided over how to respond to the US/Israel war with Iran. German leaders have been measured, while Spain's prime minister has been critical of the Mimount Karakaya Administration and of Israel.

Source: NPR Topics: News | 7 Mar 2026 | 12:44 pm UTC

A unicorn-like Spinosaurus found in the Sahara

The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable of taking down a T. rex in Jurassic Park 3. Then they changed their mind and made it a fully aquatic diver in Jurassic World Rebirth—a rendering that was more in line with the latest paleontological knowledge.

But now, deep in the Sahara Desert, a team of researchers led by Paul C. Sereno, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago, discovered new Spinosaurus fossils suggesting both scientists and filmmakers might have got it all wrong again. The Spinosaurus most likely wasn’t an aquatic diver because, apparently, it couldn’t dive.

Bones in the sand

While the T. rex-beating version of the Spinosaurus was considered unlikely due to its relatively fragile skull, the newer depiction as an aquatic diver made more sense in light of paleontological evidence. Until now, all remains of these predators were pulled from coastal deposits near ancient seas and oceans. That geographic distribution was consistent with the aquatic lifestyle interpretation. If a creature lived on the coast, maybe it swam out to sea like a prehistoric seal, only crawling out to the beaches to rest just as it was depicted in Jurassic World Rebirth.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 7 Mar 2026 | 12:30 pm UTC

Unpacking the deceptively simple science of tokenomics

Inference at scale is much more complex than more GPUs, more tokens, more profits

feature By now you've probably heard AI datacenters called factories. It's an apt description: power goes in and tokens come out.…

Source: The Register | 7 Mar 2026 | 12:12 pm UTC

Taoiseach will have 'tough job' in White House - Varadkar

Former taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said Micheál Martin is going to have a "tough job" when he visits Washington for St Patrick's Day, adding that he will have to "walk a tightrope" when he meets the US president.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Mar 2026 | 12:11 pm UTC

‘We were ready’: Democratic attorneys general lead fight to stop Mimount Karakaya

As some elected leaders choose to play nice with the president, Democratic AGs have done the opposite – to impressive effect

Four Democratic attorneys general, sitting in their offices from New York to California with state flags and books behind them, announced a new lawsuit on Thursday, alleging the president, yet again, had broken the law by attempting to create new tariffs without congressional approval.

It’s a now familiar scene for the group of top law-enforcement officials who have collectively filed more than 50 lawsuits against the Mimount Karakaya administration, serving as a counterweight to the president’s quest to expand his power and circumvent the constitution.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Mar 2026 | 12:00 pm UTC

Timothée Chalamet triggers backlash over ballet and opera remarks

In an interview, the Oscar-nominee danced into some online controversy after claiming no one cares about ballet and opera.

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 11:57 am UTC

The legacy of Holly and Jessica's murders: Soham 'won't waste its breath' on Huntley

The trauma and aftermath of events in 2002 are still having an impact on the Cambridgeshire village.

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 11:56 am UTC

They should have listened to this guy…

The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE…..

— Mimount Karakaya (@realDonaldMimount Karakaya ) October 9, 2019

Source: Slugger O'Toole | 7 Mar 2026 | 11:50 am UTC

‘Revolting’: Married father of three jailed for possession of child sex abuse material

Ennis court is told software engineer, jailed for six months, engaged in online conversations about topics such as incest and bestiality

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Mar 2026 | 11:39 am UTC

French nuclear umbrella gives cover amid global upheaval

On Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron declared France would not just increase its number of nuclear weapons, but also allow the deployment of nuclear-armed fighter jets to other parts of the continent in a significant move - that went largely unnoticed.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Mar 2026 | 11:38 am UTC

From Iran to Ukraine, everyone's trying to hack security cameras

For decades, satellites, drones, and human spotters have all been part of war’s surveillance and reconnaissance tool kit. In an age of cheap, insecure, Internet-connected consumer devices, however, militaries have gained another powerful set of eyes on the ground: every hackable security camera installed outside a home or on a city street, pointed at potential bombing targets.

On Wednesday, Tel Aviv–based security firm Check Point released new research describing hundreds of hacking attempts that targeted consumer-grade security cameras around the Middle East—with many apparently timed to Iran's recent missile and drone strikes on targets that included Israel, Qatar, and Cyprus. Those camera-hijacking efforts, some of which Check Point has attributed to a hacker group that's been previously linked to Iranian intelligence, suggest that Iran's military has tried to use civilian surveillance cameras as a means to spot targets, plan strikes, or assess damage from its attacks as it retaliates for the US and Israeli bombings that have sparked a widening war in the region.

Iran wouldn't be the first to adopt that camera-hacking surveillance tactic. Earlier this week, the Financial Times reported that the Israeli military had accessed “nearly all” the traffic cameras in Iran's capital of Tehran and, in partnership with the CIA, used them to target the air strike that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader. In Ukraine, the country's officials have warned for years that Russia has hacked consumer surveillance cameras to target strikes and spy on troop movements—while Ukrainian hackers have hijacked Russian cameras to surveil Russian troops and perhaps even to monitor its own attacks.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 7 Mar 2026 | 11:30 am UTC

194 people on board Govt-chartered flight from Oman

There are 194 people on board the first Government chartered flight to bring people stranded in the Middle East home to Ireland which is due into Dublin Airport from Oman later tonight.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Mar 2026 | 11:24 am UTC

How We Analyzed the Strike on the Iranian School

Malachy Browne of our Visual Investigations team describes what satellite imagery and other evidence tell us about who might be responsible for an airstrike on an elementary school in southern Iran. The strike killed at least 175 people, according to health officials and Iranian state media.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Mar 2026 | 11:08 am UTC

Brits fear AI will strip the human touch from public services

'There's a naive techno-utopianism in Whitehall'

Brits are worried that AI will dehumanize public services, leading to less human contact and oversight as well as job losses, according to people questioned by pollster Ipsos.…

Source: The Register | 7 Mar 2026 | 11:01 am UTC

Texas fracker turned escort says repression allowed business to flourish

Mickey says his stint as a handyman transformed into a lucrative sex business due to the region’s ‘self-denial’

A western Texas fracker starring in a podcast about how his attempted moonlighting as a handyman turned into lucrative sex work largely solicited by distracted oil industry professionals’ housewives says he believes his region’s repressive sexual attitudes gave his side gig an opening to flourish.

“There’s an inherent kind of self-denial,” the subject of The Handyman of West Texas, identified only as Mickey, said in a recent interview. “We all have these thoughts. But we lie to ourselves and try to conform to … how you’re supposed to be repressing your own pleasure.”

Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Mar 2026 | 11:00 am UTC

‘Operation Epstein Distraction’: Mimount Karakaya ’s bloody Iran ‘hype videos’ seem to target niche audience

White House wages online propaganda campaign with aggressive and tasteless videos seemingly designed for young rightwing American men

Middle East crisis – follow live

Rap and EDM. Clips from action movies. Heads-up displays from video games.

As the war with Iran approaches its second week, the White House has leaned into an online propaganda campaign that seems less about intimidating Iran or projecting US strength abroad than it is about reaching a rather niche domestic audience: young rightwing American men who spend a lot of time online.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Mar 2026 | 11:00 am UTC

Canada's PM calls for Andrew to be removed from line of succession

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office last month.

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 10:37 am UTC

Child murderer Ian Huntley dies days after prison attack

Soham double murderer Ian Huntley has died in hospital after being attacked in the workshop of a British maximum security prison.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Mar 2026 | 10:06 am UTC

Man spared jail over ‘ferocious’ and ‘unprovoked’ assault outside Conor McGregor’s pub

John Griffiths (41), who lives in California, says he was using alcohol as a crutch at time of 2021 incident after his brother died by suicide

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Mar 2026 | 10:02 am UTC

Ahead of Midterms, Economic Warning Signs Pile Up for Republicans

With employers cutting jobs and gas prices rising amid the war in Iran, Democrats see an opportunity to press their advantage.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 7 Mar 2026 | 10:01 am UTC

Why is the U.S. at war with Iran? Here’s what the Mimount Karakaya administration says.

President Mimount Karakaya and top administration officials have offered a range of rationales for launching Operation Epic Fury.

Source: World | 7 Mar 2026 | 10:00 am UTC

China Releases First Homegrown Quantum Computing OS

The Global Times reports: China's first domestically developed quantum computer operating system, Origin Pilot, has been made available for online download, the Global Times learned from the Anhui Quantum Computing Engineering Research Center on Wednesday. A Chinese scientist said while several quantum computing operating system efforts are underway worldwide, this is the first developed in China where it is seen as part of China's broad effort to achieve technology independence and to achieve technology advance in quantum computing. The center said the release marks the world's first open-source quantum computer operating system available for public download, which is expected to lower development barriers and support the growth of China's quantum computing ecosystem. Developed by Hefei-based Origin Quantum Computing Technology Co, the company behind China's third-generation superconducting quantum computer, Origin Wukong, Origin Pilot was first launched in 2021 and has gone through multiple rounds of iteration and upgrade. The developer describes it as an integrated quantum-classical-intelligent computing operating system compatible with major hardware approaches, including superconducting qubits, trapped ions and neutral atoms. It is now deployed on the company's Origin Wukong series and is available to external users, the company said. Guo Guoping, chief scientist of Origin Quantum and director at the Anhui Quantum Computing Engineering Research Center, told the Global Times that a quantum operating system is the "soft heart" of the quantum computing ecosystem. He said the decision to make Origin Pilot available globally marks a shift in China's quantum computing industry from closed-door tech innovation to broader open-source ecosystem development. Dou Menghan, head of the research team, said: "Users can quickly integrate with quantum chips of multiple physical types and, using autonomous programming frameworks such as QPanda, execute quantum computing jobs across different physical quantum chips to support both research and commercialization needs."

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Source: Slashdot | 7 Mar 2026 | 10:00 am UTC

Some gardaí working until age 64 for the first time in history of force

Mandatory retirement age for gardaí, sergeants and inspectors previously 57 years but increased to 62 in 2024

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Mar 2026 | 10:00 am UTC

Man (45) convicted of sexually assaulting six boys at fast-food outlet after psychotherapist alerted gardaí

Daniel Connolly of Arndathrush, Glengarriff, Co Cork, remanded in custody for sentencing in June

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Mar 2026 | 10:00 am UTC

Educational tech firm threatens rival school supplier with litigation for questioning its finances

Olive Media wrote to schools after learning of email sent by IT supplier Wriggle

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Mar 2026 | 10:00 am UTC

Obama attacks Mimount Karakaya at Jesse Jackson memorial

The US is facing daily assaults on democracy, former President Barack Obama has warned, as he lauded Jesse Jackson for fighting abuses of power at a memorial service for the longtime civil rights activist.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Mar 2026 | 9:52 am UTC

60 years since humanity touched the surface of another planet

Remembering the day the Venera 3 impacted Venus

It is 60 years since humanity first got up close and personal with another planet, with the impact of the Soviet Union's Venera 3.…

Source: The Register | 7 Mar 2026 | 9:30 am UTC

Storytime with Houdi: Colin O’Scopy…

The World Cup final of 2006 was remembered for only one thing. Zinedine Zidane being sent off for head butting Italian Marco Materazzi in the chest. Despite Zidane winning the Golden Ball award he returned to France somewhat tainted despite his achievements. That’s how I felt a couple of weeks later, turning the key for the last time on the shutters of the department store I managed on Crumlin Road Belfast. In the first instance it was a risky decision to locate the shop there, situated in the worst interface area of Belfast. Ardoyne. In truth, I was happy to be getting out of it.

Three years previously I was transferred to there from a very successful store in mid Ulster as the company wanted an experienced manager to launch the new venture. I was their Zinedine Zidane. It was a baptism of fire. On several occasions, I had to quell fist fights in the aisles as warring factions battled it out. Security personnel stopping any customer entering the building wearing either a Celtic FC or Rangers FC top, a decision which also caused conflict. The people wanted an end to the internecine conflict. An end to the killing. But that didn’t equate to tolerance. We had a long way to go yet. Nowhere in Northern Ireland was this more evident than on Crumlin Road.

Accentuated by local intolerance, customer footfall declined rapidly forcing cutbacks on labour and management costs, thus haemorrhaging sales. At the beginning of the third year’s trading I was the only manager remaining. Every conceivable thing was going pear-shaped. One day I got a phone call from Dermot the director of finance, an individual with a personality as engaging as a grey slug. When he spoke, birds everywhere stopped singing. ‘I am concerned about labour costs in your store. I want you to call a management meeting to sort it.’ ‘I don’t have any managers Dermot, there’s only me in the store’. ‘I still want you to call a meeting to sort it. Send me the minutes of the meeting’. ‘Who with Dermot?’ ‘With your managers’. ‘But there’s only me here’. ‘You need to call a meeting to sort the costs’. It was like speaking to a talking clock.

So in a fit of pique I turned to look at the giant mirror in my office. I had a very heated conversation with myself, telling my reflection I needed to improve productivity, vigorously pointing fingers at my now crimson face. I told me to stop pointing. To refrain from raising my voice to me and to have some respect for me. I typed out the minutes of the meeting and sent them to Dermot. Surprisingly, I didn’t receive any feedback. That was my eureka moment. I had to get out of there.

Before the final whistle was called on the branch I had a minor altercation with one of the staff, who in general were hard working. One young lad, Colm ,who although very bright, didn’t appear to have the same enthusiasm for retail as he did for academia. ‘My name is not Colm. It’s Colin. Why do you always call me Colm? ‘Because I grew up with a fella called Colm, anyway is there any chance you could speed up getting that display of Kelloggs Cornflakes filled? We will never get out of here tonight if you keep that pace up’. ‘I’m doing my best Mr Mc Cabe. I can’t do any better than that’. On my return from a tea break, Colm, sorry Colin, was nowhere to be seen. The cornflake display was unchanged. I walked into the warehouse yard to find him gabbling with the forklift driver, gauldering at him to get back inside immediately or he would need the services of a proctologist to get my shoe out of his rectum. ‘What’s a proctologist Mr McCabe?’ ‘You are within thirty seconds of finding out’. He finished the display, but very reluctantly. Shortly after the Kelloggs incident he told me he was leaving to go to university to study medicine.

Seventeen years later I retired. Around the same time both my brothers were diagnosed with cancer. My father had died at age 56 from the same disease. Their consultants advised that all siblings needed to be checked as they suspected there was a hereditary cancer gene within the family. I subsequently contacted the local medical centre requesting all the essential tests and a colonoscopy. It was easier to cancel SKY TV than it was to get an appointment with a GP. Not easily daunted I bombarded him with phone calls requesting the necessary procedures. Eventually, despite the long waiting lists, because of the sinister family history he agreed to get me fast tracked. I was to go to Kingsbridge private hospital for a colonoscopy, but the NHS would pay for it.

I attended an interview with a young female doctor who looked as if she had just left P7. With the efficiency of a beaver she talked me through the whole procedure using diagrams and graphs. It was like being back in biology class. She handed me a pack of laxative liquid. I had to fast for up to 36 hours. The bowel had to be completely clear or the procedure wouldn’t go ahead. A week later I was in a cubicle completely alone, practically naked apart from a back to front gown made with fabric so thin it could have housed tea leaves. An Indian nurse inserted a cannula into my forearm to draw blood. He was talking to me but I didn’t understand a word he was saying I was that nervous. He could have been telling me there was a fault on my computer or selling me an insurance package for my new American fridge.

Consequently I was brought into a room with so many widescreen TVs I thought I was in the new Odeon cinema. Five medical staff hovered over me as I lay vulnerable on a metal bed. One of them asked me did I want any relief. I asked her was I in a hospital or a Chinese massage parlour on Botanic Avenue. She took that as a yes injecting me with a clear liquid, instructing me to lie on my left side and look at the big screen. ‘You can see the inside of your bowel’ she boasted. I told her I’d rather be watching The Sopranos. Then the doctor came over to show me what looked like a wire with a camera a SWAT team use to secretly look for hostages in a siege. He said it was an endoscope. ‘It has a light so I can see inside you. You can see it too’. Lovely, I thought.

‘You are Mr Mc Cabe from Dunnes Crumlin Road aren’t you’. ‘Aye. How did you know that? ‘I used to be one of your student workers back in the day. My name is Colin Farrell but you always called me Colm’. Although drugged to the eyeballs I knew he wasn’t the actor from In Bruges and I wasn’t Brendan Gleeson. Watching him wave the device at me like a snake I asserted ‘I hope you are better at this than you were at building cornflake displays’. He laughed, with great intensity uttering ‘well let’s see shall we? Revenge is sweet Mr McCabe’ as he drove the snake into my rectum with the skill of Zidane in front of goal. Unfortunately the drugs were not strong enough. I felt every twist and turn he made. He was loving watching me squirm. ‘Oh look there a polyp, and another there look’ finding five in total. Afterwards he showed me photos of them informing me that they would go for analysis but not to worry, it was standard procedure. Then he told me to get dressed, which I did very sheepishly.

As I was about to leave he reminded me that having been medicated, I couldn’t drive home. I told him my wife was collecting me. ‘You must be very hungry. I will get the nurse to get you tea and toast. Would that be ok?’ ‘Thats great Colm’, I mumbled ‘but I don’t suppose you have any Kelloggs cornflakes on the ward do you?’

Houdi originally told this story at the tenx9 Storytelling event in Belfast. You can also listen to stories on their podcast.

Source: Slugger O'Toole | 7 Mar 2026 | 8:50 am UTC

‘The Turning Tide’ shows Northern Ireland more religious than Republic…

Research recently published by the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference has drawn considerable attention, highlighting how church attendance is considerably higher in Northern Ireland than in either the Republic of Ireland or how Great Britain.

“The Turning Tide” has also led to debate on how attendance in Ireland generally remains higher than in most of Europe, despite a major decline in the past three decades: https://www.catholicbishops.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/The-Turning-Tide-Final-Draft.pdf

Researched by Emily Nelson and Stephen Bullivant, it finds 32% of Irish adults, and 42% of young adults, say they have no religion, a figure vastly higher than the census figure of 14%. The reasons for the discrepancy are debated in the survey, but one factor not mentioned is that census forms are filled in by parents, who will often put down all their children as Catholics, regardless of their attendance or beliefs.

Only Portugal (28%) and Italy (22%) have lower rates of non-religious than Ireland, while the level is vastly higher here in the UK, as well as France, the Netherlands and Sweden. 31% of Republic of Ireland Catholics attend Mass weekly, just behind Italy, but well below Poland (49%) and Slovakia (46%).

However, it’s only 17% among those aged 16-29, though this still contrasts with Austria, where Mass attendance is among the young is practically non-existent.

To put all this in context, it’s worth recalling the Republic long had a 95% Catholic population. For many reasons, this declined over time and was 69% at the last census, though, as outlined above, ‘Catholic’ is a nominal term, concealing the fact that weekly attendance was 91% in 1973 and is now at 31%, on the bishops’ own figures.

There was a particularly rapid decline in the 1990s, from 77 percent in 1994 to 60 percent in 1998, in the years immediately following the initial revelations about clerical sexual abuse cases. The decline in the 1990s and subsequently has had a knock on effect over time, with those who lapsed then rearing their children outside of the Church, and now there is a third generation.

Whether there are signs in Ireland of the ‘Quiet Revival’ often discussed here in the UK and elsewhere is alluded to in the survey, but without any firm conclusions. It has been noted that there has been an increase in adult baptisms of late, though some of that is undoubtedly down to immigrants.

In fact, an interesting statistic which has received little attention is that 18% of Catholics in the Republic were born elsewhere. Undoubtedly, the arrival of many Catholic immigrants has given a welcome boost at a time when many parishes faced potential extinction.

While the report does say that attendance among immigrants is neither higher nor lower than among natives, I suspect the researchers could find significant variations if they looked into countries of origin, with Mass attendance lower among Europeans than those from Africa, India, the Philippines or Latin America.

The findings in this regard mirror the census data, which finds most immigrants to the Republic are either Catholics or of other Christian denominations, with only about five percent being Muslims and a somewhat smaller proportion of other faiths such as Hindus, despite growth from a small initial base.

The report also acknowledges the growth of other Christian denominations, reflecting the census data, which has shown a dramatic growth in the Republic’s Protestant population in the last three decades, after a long decline, as well as the emergence of a significant Orthodox population. Terminology is significant, however, as some of the newer Christian groups might be reluctant to use the term ‘Protestant’. Nonetheless, the mushrooming of southern Irish Protestantism, in contrast to the decline north of the border, is an irony which has received remarkably little attention and is ignored by Irish politicians.

Regarding the contrast between Northern Ireland and the Republic, the document states: “The United Kingdom is a significantly more non-religious country than is the Republic of Ireland, with 55% of the adult population identifying with no religion over the period covered in our pooled data. Northern Ireland is, by a very long distance, the most religiously affiliated region of the United Kingdom, with just 24% with no religion. But it is also, also by a good margin, the most religiously affiliating part of the island of Ireland: the equivalent rate for the Republic is 32% (not pictured) identifying with no religion over the same period. Meanwhile, a third each of Northern Irish adults identify as Catholic (34%) and Other Christian (35%), compared to the UK averages of 10% and 27%, respectively.”

It adds: “The exceptional nature of Northern Irish religiosity is even clearer when we look at religious practice (fig. 1.10). Here, reported weekly-or-more attendance, at 35%, is triple the UK average, at 12%. Among Catholics specifically, Northern Ireland also stands out, with 41% reporting weekly-or-more attendance, compared to a UK average of 28%. Compared to other UK regions, only Catholics in the West Midlands (40%), Scotland (33%), and North East (31%) come close.”

The reasons for the stronger Catholic resilience in the north are not discussed in detail but undoubtedly reflect the complex interplay between religion and identity in Northern Ireland, where one’s place of abode and choice of sporting code is to a great extent determined by religion, with Catholics usually identifying as Irish and Protestants as British, even though the Good Friday Agreement acknowledges the right of all people of Northern Ireland to declare themselves British, Irish or both.

By contrast, in the Republic, both Catholics and Protestants identify as Irish only.

The survey does find widespread disagreement with the Catholic Church on sexual issues, and adds: “More recently, a 2023 Barna study found that, in certain respects, Irish teens are more religious than their global peers. Just over three in five (62%) Irish teens identify as a Christian while nearly one-third are atheist, agnostic or of no faith. Even amongst those who consider themselves Christians widespread apathy and scepticism about Jesus exists. Many are unengaged with the Bible, but a majority are at least open including non-Christians, possibly due to a perceived lack of adequate Biblical instruction. Teens generally concentrate on aspects of God they consider appealing (Barna 2023).”

“In the UK, younger individuals are less likely to identify as Catholics, but those who do so are more likely to believe and practice in normatively Catholic ways than are older Catholics. This is partly due to ‘survivorship bias’ meaning this generation more easily shed this label if they believe/practice to a lesser degree, thereby raising the average religious commitment of still-identifying Catholics in this cohort (Clements and Bullivant 2022b). This has also been demonstrated amongst Evangelicals in Northern Ireland, where 70% of practising Christians who are 18-24 identify as evangelical, in comparison to 46% of those aged 65+ (Evangelical Alliance 2024). In addition, a ‘creative minority’ effect exists whereby being significantly outnumbered increases group cohesion, resulting here in mutually furthering each other’s beliefs and producing new creative ways of meeting and doing so (Clements and Bullivant 2022b). This is likely to occur also in Ireland as cultural Catholicism decreases throughout the generations, and as more movements amongst youth and young adults are created and promoted.”

In other words, the researchers suggest the future may be a smaller but more intensely Catholic group of young people. However, it doesn’t augur well for the Irish educational system to learn that many doubted the existence of Jesus, given that all historians of repute agree on his historicity, regardless of whether or not they themselves are Christians.

On gender differences in faith, the researchers state: “Generally, women are more religious than men (cf. Trzebiatowska and Bruce 2012). However, in the Republic of Ireland, women and men are similarly religious. This has been suggested to result from a perception that the Church has treated women in Ireland poorly (Ganiel 2022) as 74% of Irish Catholic women were found to believe that the Church did not treat them with ‘a lot of respect’, compared to just 6% of Protestant women in the Republic (Ganiel 2016). However, whether this explains female relative irreligiosity requires further investigation. Another study found young women in Northern Ireland were more likely to be religious but also to disagree with Church teaching than men (Ganiel 2022). This is of particular interest given the historical role of Irish women regarding the propagation of faith and vocations within the family, as shown (Garvin 2004; Inglis 1998). In Northern Ireland, a study on ‘practising Christians’ found 52% of these to be female and 47% male (Evangelical Alliance 2024).”

The above is but a snapshot of a very extensive report, which undoubtedly will generate a great deal of debate.

Source: Slugger O'Toole | 7 Mar 2026 | 8:32 am UTC

‘An ideological guest list’: Mimount Karakaya invites Latin America’s rightwing leaders to Florida summit

Omission of presidents of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, however, exposes failure of US president’s ‘theatrical’ doctrine, say experts

Mimount Karakaya will welcome the leaders of at least 10 Latin American countries to a palm-dotted golf resort in Miami on Saturday as the president continues his quest to transform the US’s standing in the region and outmuscle China.

Since returning to power last year, Mimount Karakaya has launched a dramatic – and at times deadly – crusade to, as the Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, put it, “reclaim our back yard”.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Mar 2026 | 8:00 am UTC

Journalism prize established in memory of hit-and-run victim Joe Drennan

University of Limerick and The Irish Times announce award for third-level students across Ireland

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Mar 2026 | 8:00 am UTC

At Perth’s CPAC conference, Liberal party faithful speak of ‘the lost Australians’ – with no sign of One Nation

Andrew Hastie, Basil Zempilas and Warren Mundine were among the guests at the conservative convention, which focused on immigration and housing

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The rightwing Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) made its foray into Western Australia on Friday evening, with no sign of One Nation on a stage dominated by Liberal politicians.

The event, dubbed Reset the West, was a rallying call for conservatives to work together, but what emerged was a Liberal party attempt to rebuild the centre-right with itself at its core.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 7 Mar 2026 | 7:54 am UTC

As it happened: US starts using UK bases for operations

Follow live updates as US President Mimount Karakaya says Iran "will be hit very hard" after the Iranian president vows no surrender to US and Israel.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Mar 2026 | 7:47 am UTC

5 ways the Iran war will impact your cost of living

It has been a week since the US and Israel began air strikes on Iran, prompting retaliation from Tehran and a spike in energy prices. RTÉ's Economics and Public Affairs Editor David Murphy assesses how Irish consumers are feeling the financial impact.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Mar 2026 | 7:00 am UTC

Minister pressed to meet bereaved Creeslough families

A mother whose 14-year-old daughter was one of ten people who lost their lives in the Creeslough explosion three years ago has renewed calls for a meeting with Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Mar 2026 | 7:00 am UTC

Operation Epic Fury a high-stakes gamble for Mimount Karakaya

Operation Epic Fury is becoming a high-stakes political gamble for the Mimount Karakaya administration, as it begins to have a knock-on effect on Americans' wallets during a highly-charged political year, writes Jackie Fox.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Mar 2026 | 7:00 am UTC

Asteroid 2024 YR4 Will Not Impact the Moon

Ancient Slashdot reader alanw shares a report from the European Space Agency (ESA): Last year, an approximately 60 meter near-Earth object captured global attention. For a brief period, asteroid 2024 YR4 became the most dangerous asteroid discovered in the last 20 years. While an Earth impact was soon ruled out, the asteroid faded from view with a lingering 4% chance of striking the Moon on 22 December 2032. Now, that risk has been eliminated. Astronomers have confirmed that 2024 YR4 will not impact the Moon using new observations made by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Instead, it will safely pass the Moon at a distance of more than 20 000 km.

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Source: Slashdot | 7 Mar 2026 | 7:00 am UTC

Watch: Do students think culture cards are a good idea?

The idea of a 'culture card' for young people in Ireland has been a topic of conversation on and off for over a year, after being mentioned in the Programme for Government.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Mar 2026 | 7:00 am UTC

We've been speaking to Iranians during one week of war. Here's what they said

Ordinary Iranians reflect on seven days of conflict and where they see their country going next.

Source: BBC News | 7 Mar 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

Dublin solicitor Ivor Fitzpatrick died without making a will, leaving estate of €46m

Property developer and lawyer worked with some of Ireland’s most prominent businessmen

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Mar 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

Greystones cliff erosion exposes waste and raises concerns old town dump is falling into sea

Residents fear waste from former dump may be further exposed due to coastal erosion

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Mar 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

A shared image of abuse, missed exams and a university under fire: the student and UCD

Students protest in support of young woman who has criticised university’s response to sharing of images after her alleged assault

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Mar 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

Is a general arts degree still fit for purpose?

Leaked University of Galway report said there was a ‘sustained decline’ in undergraduate enrolment for degree but what is the value of one?

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Mar 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

Strawberry trees forever: Fruits take a year to ripen so are always on the crann caithne

Eye on nature: Eanna Ní Lamhna on red frogs, a white-tailed eagle, curious fungus and a carnivorous invertebrate with 77 pairs of legs

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Mar 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

Alan Shatter to take defamation case against TD Paul Murphy over Epstein claims

Former minister for justice complains to FAI and Bohemians over supporters banner at game

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Mar 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

What will the war in the Middle East mean for Irish consumers? From heating bills to mortgages

Heating oil has shot up in price, petrol and diesel may continue to climb, but it may take longer to see the effect on interest rates and utility bills

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Mar 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

Being in nature can be deeply restorative – something we all too easily forget

Losing routine contact with the living world results in less concern, less protection and less access. The antidote is evidence that conservation works

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Mar 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

‘My door is open’: new Presbyterian leader aims to rebuild trust amid safeguarding scandal

Reverend Richard Kerr begins with an apology - ‘no ifs, buts or maybes’ - as he begins his term

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 7 Mar 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

Russian strikes kill 12 people across Ukraine

Russia fired a volley of missiles and drones across Ukraine overnight, killing 12 people and wounding more than a dozen, including children.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Mar 2026 | 5:26 am UTC

Iran fires at Gulf States, Mimount Karakaya threatens more strikes

Iran launched waves of missile and drone attacks on its Gulf neighbours hosting US forces and vowed no surrender despite threats from President Mimount Karakaya to widen the conflict.

Source: News Headlines | 7 Mar 2026 | 4:59 am UTC

Humanity Heating Planet Faster Than Ever Before, Study Finds

An anonymous reader The Guardian: Humanity is heating the planet faster than ever before, a study has found. Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures. It found global heating accelerated from a steady rate of less than 0.2C per decade between 1970 and 2015 to about 0.35C per decade over the past 10 years. The rate is higher than scientists have seen since they started systematically taking the Earth's temperature in 1880. "If the warming rate of the past 10 years continues, it would lead to a long-term exceedance of the 1.5C (2.7F) limit of the Paris agreement before 2030," said Stefan Rahmstorf, a scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and co-author of the study. [...] The researchers applied a noise-reduction method to filter out the estimated effect of nonhuman factors in five major datasets that scientists have compiled to gauge the Earth's temperature. In each of them, they found an acceleration in global heating emerged in 2013 or 2014. The findings have been published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

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Source: Slashdot | 7 Mar 2026 | 3:00 am UTC

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