*The wrecker's Gaza plan could amount to war crime, say experts.*

Parts of Australia had over 2 feet of rain in 24 hours, and over 7 feet in the past week.

People are cut off, without potable water and electricity and out of food.

Where and when such things happen is largely random, but the fact that they get much worse nowadays is part of global heating. So we can expect it to get much worse over coming decades.

An experiment found that bilingual children tend to have better executive function.

*Air pollution reduces people’s ability to focus on everyday tasks, study finds. Even brief exposure to particulate matter found to impede selective attention and emotional recognition.*

Ukraine's military intends to make armed robotic vehicles to deploy at the front.

*"Our goal is to create a military where innovative technologies help perform the most dangerous tasks, saving the lives of our defenders," he said.*

That goal is fine, but is this an autonomous killer robot? I can't tell from the brief notice in that article, but It sounds like one. No one should be the first to introduce autonomous killer robots into the world. The west should not allow Ukraine to do it.

Israel did something like it, by using a machine learning system to choose targets for human-controlled weapons. The expectation that human control over weapons will avoid some atrocities presumes that human soldiers are fighting a war to defeat another army, not a campaign of hatred.