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Iran shot down a US fighter jet
A search is under way for the crew of a US fighter jet that was shot down by Iran, a person familiar with the matter has confirmed.
Iran claimed that it had shot down a US fighter jet, with state media reporting it was an F-35 warplane.
The fate of the crew remains unclear.
It follows reports by Iranian state media that the US military is searching for an American pilot of a downed aircraft in Iran, following earlier reports that Tehran h…

Junyang Lin, a tech lead on Alibaba's Qwen team, abruptly steps down; two other members of the Qwen team also leave (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/03/alibabas-qwen-tech-lead-steps-down-after-major-ai-push/

Alibaba's Qwen tech lead steps down after major AI push | TechCrunch
Reactions rippled through Alibaba's Qwen team after tech lead Junyang Lin stepped down following a major model launch.

Apple hosted an Apple TV media event to announce its original TV shows and movies for 2026, featuring star appearances and trailers for upcoming projects (Matt Donnelly/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/apple-original-movies-r…

Apple Movies Include Ryan Reynolds, Jonah Hill Titles for 2026
Apple Original Films made a grand slate presentation with first looks at titles from Ryan Reynolds, Jonah Hill, Mattel and Chris Pratt.

Explosions rock Bahrain, Dubai, Jordan and Kuwait as war spreads across Middle East (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/28/dubais-famous-fairmont-hotel-in-flames-after-iranian-air-strike
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p68#a260228p68

You know how you’re in the middle of a process and you refresh a web page and it loses state?
So that sucks.
With Kitten¹ – when using the new state-maintaining/class-based and event model-based component model – it’s easy to have flowing interfaces that animate between states, etc., that don’t lose state if you refresh the page (or open another tab).
What you can’t do on the Web, however, is restore the state of any cross-origin iframes. (As you have no visibility into th…

People were jumping into action here in Minneapolis — droves of people, comfortable people, white people — not in mid-January, but in •early December•. (And the groundwork started much earlier!)
Community meetings overflowing. Signal groups exploding. Observer trainings filling day after day after day. Mutual aid networks popping up like mushrooms. On and on.
Why? Because we saw brown and Black neighbors being dragged from their cars, dragged from their homes, stalked, terrorized, •kidnapped• with barely the slimmest shadow of due process or legal oversight.
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Still as cis as ever, but I thought I'd show my support by posting an interesting transition metal compound from my lab inventory.
Here's a solution of tantalum chloride in ethanol/methanol, intended for sol-gel deposition of tantalum pentoxide thin films. You spin coat it on a substrate then heat in air; the chlorine swaps with an oxygen in atmospheric water vapor and you get HCl gas evaporating and Ta2O5 on the surface.

Democratic leaders were outspoken during the massive US military buildup in the Middle East,
⭐️decrying his unwillingness to engage with Congress and lack of long-term strategy for Iran.
🔸They noted that it was Trump, during his first term, who shredded Barack Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran.
Once the US and Israeli military struck on Saturday, the sharpest voices accused the president of riding roughshod over the constitution.
Senator Bernie

Donald Trump threatened to stop supplying weapons to Ukraine
unless European countries joined a U.S. military effor to open the Strait of Hormuz,
the Financial Times (FT) reported on April 1,
citing people familiar with the discussions.
The report comes a month into the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran,
which has escalated across the Middle East.
Following the attacks, Iran has shut down the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway through which roughly one-fifth o…

Trump threatened Europe over Strait of Hormuz, with weapons for Ukraine as bargaining chip, FT reports
Outraged at European countries' refusal to help the U.S. reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Trump threatened to halt the PURL program selling U.S. weapons to NATO for use in Ukraine, officials told the Financial Times.