Foreign minister Penny Wong says all hostages, including a New Zealand-born Australian academic, have been freedAustralia’s foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, has said all hostages taken by a Papua New Guinean criminal gang have been released, inclu…
No running water, no electricity, no armed forces: Vuhledar in Donetsk region broken by ongoing war
Vuhledar, a former stronghold of coal mining, is now home to only about 1,000 inhabitants. The sight and condition of the city are shocking. Not a single building can be found that does not show severe damage. The living conditions are almost unimagina…
WA regional basketball scores and state pairings
All the boys and girls regional basketball scores from across Washington and first-round pairings at the state tournament.
GCC Gets a New Frontend for Rust
Slashdot reader sleeping cat shares a recent FOSDEM talk by a compiler engineer on the team building Rust-GCC, “an alternative compiler implementation for the Rust programming language.”
“If gccrs interprets a program differently from rustc, this is …
‘Powder keg’ for 9/11: 1993 trade center bombing remembered
Thirty years after terrorism first struck the World Trade Center, victims’ relatives and survivors are commemorating the deadly 1993 bombing that foreshadowed 9/11.
Garcia Torres scores as Minnesota United defeat Dallas
Mender Garcia Torres scored a goal and Dayne St. Clair’ had a shut out to lead Minnesota United to a 1-0 win over Dallas in the season opener for both teams.
Live Update: Russia’s “Special Operation” in Ukraine; Day 368
Russia, wary of NATO’s eastward expansion, began a military campaign in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, after the Western-leaning Kiev government turned a deaf ear to Moscow’s calls for its neighbor to maintain its neutrality. In the middle of the mayhe…
Podziemski scores 26, Santa Clara beats San Diego 81-63
Brandin Podziemski finished with 26 points and 10 rebounds to power Santa Clara to its seventh straight win with an 81-63 victory over San Diego.