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Israel has killed on average a child every hour for past 23 months.
– Save The Children
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/8/headlines/save_the_children_israel_has_killed_on_average_a_child_every_hour…

Save the Children: Israel Has Killed on Average a Child Every Hour for Past 23 Months
Save the Children reports that Israel has killed more than 20,000 Palestinian children over the past 23 months — this means at least one Palestinian child has been killed every hour on average by Israeli forces. The group said, “If the international community does not step up, an entire generation of children in Gaza will be lost.” Meanwhile, another six Palestinians have died from “famine and malnutrition,” bringing the total to almost 400, including 140 children, who have starved to…

Decades of data show African weather disturbances intensify during La Niña #Africa…

Decades of data show African weather disturbances intensify during La Niña
A recent study reveals how a major global climate pattern influences the African weather systems that help seed Atlantic hurricanes. The findings, published in the Journal of Climate, could lead to better seasonal forecasts of rainfall, drought, and tropical cyclone activity across the Atlantic basin.

YouTube says its first exclusive NFL broadcast on September 5 averaged more than 17.3M global viewers, including 1.1M average minute audiences outside of the US (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/youtube-nfl-game-17-million-vie…

YouTube's NFL Game Averages 17 Million Viewers
YouTube got into the game with its first exclusive NFL broadcast Sept. 5, which the platform says averaged more than 17.3 million global viewers.

Average man, average man
Median height, weight, and arm span
Fits a shirt, medium size
Airplane legroom will suffice
Average man, average man
Tells his dates he's five foot ten.
Faster than half his peers,
Gets buzzed from a couple beers.
How tough is he? Worry not:
Orders takeout "medium hot."
Average man, average man
Has a 401k plan
Doesn't follow news at all
Skipped his annual physical
Wears ties wi…

Et quitter X ?
Le ministère des affaires étrangères entend lutter contre la désinformation institutionnelle étrangère sur X, en lançant « French response »
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Le ministère des affaires étrangères entend lutter contre la désinformation institutionnelle étrangère sur X, en lançant « French response »
Comme première intervention, ce compte X du Quai d’Orsay a répondu au secrétaire d’Etat américain, Marco Rubio, qui assurait que le Hamas avait quitté des négociations portant sur la libération des otages israéliens après que la France a annoncé qu’elle reconnaîtrait l’Etat de Palestine à l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies.

John Harbaugh says Ravens 'need to be really thoughtful' in end-game approach after Bills loss https://www.nfl.com/news/john-harbaugh-ravens-loss-bills-end-game-approach

vAttention: Verified Sparse Attention
Aditya Desai, Kumar Krishna Agrawal, Shuo Yang, Alejandro Cuadron, Luis Gaspar Schroeder, Matei Zaharia, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Ion Stoica
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05688

vAttention: Verified Sparse Attention
State-of-the-art sparse attention methods for reducing decoding latency fall into two main categories: approximate top-$k$ (and its extension, top-$p$) and recently introduced sampling-based estimation. However, these approaches are fundamentally limited in their ability to approximate full attention: they fail to provide consistent approximations across heads and query vectors and, most critically, lack guarantees on approximation quality, limiting their practical deployment. We observe that t…

Male circumcision is made easier by a clever South African invention - we trained healthcare workers to use it
https://theconversation.com/male-circumcision-is-made-easier-by-a-clever-south-african-invention-we-trained-healthcare-workers-to-use-it-265307

New Zealand's seas warming faster than global average: Report #NewZealand

New Zealand's seas warming faster than global average: Report
The seas around New Zealand are warming much faster than global averages, scientists said Wednesday in a new study warning how climate change could batter the island nation.

Unit 42: "commercial grade" spyware called Landfall, likely zero-click, was used in a hacking campaign aimed at Samsung Galaxy phones in the Middle East (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/landfall-spyware-middle-east-appears-commercia…

Newly identified Android spyware appears to be from a commercial vendor
Researchers spotted a 9-month-long campaign involving previously undiscovered spyware they call LANDFALL, which leveraged a zero-day bug in Samsung Galaxy phones.