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UPI: NASA delays return of Starliner astronauts from space station
Starliner’s return to Earth is now delayed to June 22 or later, NASA announced Friday.
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Both astronauts were originally set to complete a full assessment of the Starliner on board the ISS in just under a week, but the mission was lengthened due to a need to collect more information about the spacecraft.
BBC: Las Vegas shooting survivors stunned by Supreme Court gun ruling
In the aftermath of the massacre, then-President Donald Trump banned bump stocks, a modification that allows a rifle to fire like a machine gun. It was a rare example of the US making a change to its gun policies in the wake of a mass shooting, and it was a reform that survivors of the attack welcomed.
The ban was all the more extraordinary because it was instituted by a Republican president and supported by the National Rifle Association, figures that would normally oppose a gun control proposal.
On Friday, the US Supreme Court struck down the ban, deciding in a 6-3 opinion that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had overstepped its authority to outlaw the device.
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“Who has ever used a bump stock for good?” she told the BBC. “There’s no reason for a civilian to use a mass shooting machine.”
Globe: Lack of interest in Stanley Cup final suggests hockey isnât what it used to be for Canadians
The divide between what hockey was (a prismatic expression of Canadianness) and what it is (a flagging business struggling to engage its customer base) is most obvious during a Stanley Cup final.
No one has to love either of the teams involved, but if a plurality of Canadians canât even be bothered to tell a fib and say they have a passing interest, thatâs worse than bad news. That means whatever nostalgic hold the game had on our national imagination is in the midst of being let go.
Reuters: UK polls point to ‘electoral extinction’ for Prime Minister Sunak’s Conservatives
The polls come just over halfway through the election campaign, after a week in which both the Conservatives and Labour set out their manifestos, and shortly before voters begin to receive postal ballots.
Sunak surprised many in his own party by announcing an early election on May 22, against widespread expectations that he would wait until later in the year to allow more time for living standards to recover after the highest inflation in 40 years.
After stating, “The root of trust for Private Cloud Compute is our compute node: custom-built server hardware that brings the power and security of Apple silicon to the data center, with the same hardware security technologies used in iPhone, including the Secure Enclave and Secure Boot,” the company added, “We paired this hardware with a new operating system: a hardened subset of the foundations of iOS and macOS tailored to support Large Language Model (LLM) inference workloads while presenting an extremely narrow attack surface.”
While we don’t know too much about the new OS that Apple designed for PCC, we soon will. The company says, “When we launch Private Cloud Compute, we’ll take the extraordinary step of making software images of every production build of PCC publicly available for security research.” That includes every application and relevant executable, and the OS itself. Apple adds, “Software will be published within 90 days of inclusion in the log, or after relevant software updates are available, whichever is sooner.”
Hollywood Reporter: Inside Out 2 Heads for Historic $140M-$150M Box Office Opening
Pixarâs tentpole earned a massive $62 million on Friday, well ahead of expectations and putting the movie on course to open in the $140 million to $150 million range domestically over Fatherâs Day weekend, one of the top three starts ever for an animated film and the second-best for Pixar. Rival studios believe it could climb as high as $155 million to $160 million, but Disney is being more circumspect. Fridayâs haul includes a huge $13 million in Thursday previews.
NYT: How a âCommitted Partisan Warriorâ Came to Rethink the Political Wars
âHow do we make the politics better?â [Bob Bauer] asked. âHow do we uphold our democratic norms by focusing on choices that people in positions of public responsibility have to make? And how do we make them in a way that is respectful of those norms and respectful of those institutions â as opposed to politics as blood sport, whatever it takes?â
This has become an era of blood sport in politics, put on steroids by former President Donald J. Trump, who accuses opponents of treason, suggests executing a general he deems disloyal, promises to pardon the violent marauders of Jan. 6, 2021, and vows to make âretributionâ the mission of a second term if he wins. Just last week, he sent out a fund-raising email with the subject line âMy plan for revenge.â
Last Updated: 15.Jun.2024 23:43 EDT
