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The Pentagon's black triangle. The Pentagon's seventh release of UFO files, on Friday 23 October, held a memo: a dark triangle climbed straight up in “absolute acoustic silence”, stopped “instantaneously”, hovered about 20 seconds, then sped off like a fighter jet. A ground search found no wreckage. (CBS News)
source: cbs news
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Japan's phones set not to sound. On Friday 23 October SoftBank in Japan switched off earthquake and tsunami alerts for a time while it patched a software bug; its phones were “not set to sound even in the event of a strong earthquake”. (BBC)
source: bbc
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The sky and the earth. The moon is 100 percent lit and is full on Monday 26 October at 00:12 New York. The solar wind runs at 360 km/s, kp is 0.33, 21 sunspots show, the water at the Battery stands 1.71 m and rises, 31 quakes of at least magnitude 4.5 struck, the biggest 6.5 near the Bonin Islands, and a compass in New York points 12.46 degrees west of north. (USNO, NOAA, SILSO, USGS)
source: usno moon source: noaa swpc source: silso source: usgs source: noaa tides
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France, Milan and Europe in the street. Police made more than 1,300 arrests after another day of mass protests in France; a teenager told the BBC “We really want a change in France”. Hundreds of soldiers with police kept protesters out of central Milan. (BBC; France 24)
source: bbc source: france 24
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France asks its providers to ready a social media block. A Hacker News thread on a Blast story that France asked internet providers to prepare temporary blocks of the big social platforms: “This is dystopian.” (Hacker News)
source: hacker news
8%

Iran: “another little Epic Fury”. Trump said on Friday that Washington “may do another little Epic Fury” against Iran; the US ambassador to Turkey, asked about a strike this weekend, said “Absolutely.” (CBS News)
source: cbs news
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Brazil's runoff and a Georgia rally. Brazil voted on Sunday in a closely fought runoff; Lula said the vote is about sovereignty, about whoever “kissed the Brazilian flag or the American flag”. Before a rally in Georgia, Trump called his opponents “Radical Left Lowlifes and Lunatics”. (BBC; CBS News)
source: bbc source: cbs news
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Taiz, under Houthi fire. In Taiz, the UN says 800,000 people are trapped and “time is running out”. (Al Jazeera)
source: al jazeera
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Thomas Markle Sr denies it. Thomas Markle Sr denies the claims against him, calling them “sick lies”. (The Guardian)
source: the guardian
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Obama and the Cheesecake Factory. In Cleveland on Saturday Obama said Trump has “the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory”, and called the last two years “chaos and cruelty and corruption and incompetence”. (CBS News)
source: cbs news
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El Clasico: “the world stops”. Before Barcelona against Real Madrid at Camp Nou, Jose Mourinho said “this is the only Clasico, the world stops”. (BBC Sport)
source: bbc sport
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Storm Boelo. Storm Boelo brought gusts up to 85mph, fastest in Scotland and on the Isle of Wight, and left over 10,000 homes without power on Sunday morning. (BBC)
source: bbc
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Junior Eurovision: “BOO!”. Armenia's Nare, 13, won the 24th Junior Eurovision in Malta with “BOO!” and 202 points. (Eurovoix)
source: eurovoix
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The volunteer who fixed PHP. Ondřej Surý has spent 20 years maintaining PHP packages in his spare time; this week he made the fixes easy to install, for free. “The feeling is like I am responsible for all these people and I can't fail them,” he said. (BBC)
source: bbc
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Fog cancels the last race. Sunday's MotoGP race at Phillip Island was cancelled for rain and fog; it would have been the circuit's last. The race director: “Just based on safety”. (BBC Sport)
source: bbc sport
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Clayface and its quiet trailer. Clayface opened at number one; its trailer was praised as “a masterclass in restraint” with “zero-dialogue” dread. (Deadline)
source: deadline
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Two old memes come back. “While they're out partying BTW” captions a video of a pointless skill; “we popping the BIGGEST bottles” returns from a 2014 Tumblr post beside a new trailer. (Know Your Meme)
source: know your meme, partying source: know your meme, bottles
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Antonelli on pole in Austin. Kimi Antonelli, 20, took pole for the US Grand Prix: “It feels good to be back.” (BBC Sport)
source: bbc sport
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Twelve hurt near a Florida homecoming. At least 12 people were hurt, six of them children, in a shooting near Florida A&M's homecoming; the police chief called it “especially heartbreaking to know that children are among those injured”. (CBS News)
source: cbs news

a cloud from the sun arrives today source: nasa donki

a rock passes inside the moon's distance on 31 October source: nasa jpl

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