BEIROET (ANP/RTR) - Israëlische luchtaanvallen hebben zondag veertien mensen gedood en 37 mensen verwond, meldt het Libanese ministerie van Volksgezondheid. Onder de doden van zondag waren twee kinderen en twee vrouwen, aldus het ministerie van Volksgezondheid. Israël meldt dat een van zijn soldaten is omgekomen.

Eerder zondag meldden Libanese autoriteiten dat al meer dan 2500 mensen zijn omgekomen bij Israëlische aanvallen sinds de meest recente oorlog tussen Hezbollah en Israël op 2 maart begon. Dat was enkele dagen nadat de Verenigde Staten en Israël aanvallen op Iran hadden uitgevoerd.

Sinds medio april is een staakt-het-vuren van kracht tussen Israël en Libanon. Het bestand staat steeds meer onder druk door de aanhoudende aanvallen over en weer.

Het Israëlische leger is bezig met het slopen van huizen en infrastructuur in Zuid-Libanon, met name in de grensdorpen. Sommige dorpen, zoals Beit Lif, zijn vrijwel volledig met de grond gelijkgemaakt, zo is volgens de BBC te zien op satellietbeelden.

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The creator of The Responder’s new offering is the tale of two casino employees robbing their workplace. It’s a perfectly plotted thriller but it’s also so much more than that

Four years ago, Tony Schumacher, a former taxi driver and police officer turned novelist, made his television writing debut with The Responder. It was a five-part series starring Martin Freeman as a police officer on the edge of a breakdown, his mental, emotional and physical resources worn away every night by the ceaseless tide of crime – swelled by misery, desperation and selfishness – that he and his colleagues are supposed to be turning. It was a drama that dissected just about every social and psychological issue that drives our despair, and dared you not to look away. It was profoundly compassionate, harrowing and brilliant. Which makes it a lot to live up to.

Schumacher’s new offering, The Cage, however, does so. Ostensibly it is the tale of the robbery of a casino by two of its employees, cashier Leanne (Sheridan Smith) and manager Matty (Michael Socha). In reality it is, like The Responder, an astonishing, deeply angry, deeply moving state-of-the-nation piece merely masquerading as a mesmerising, perfectly paced and plotted thriller.

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The current season has become a meme-war without end, an endless rolling wall of gloat and taunt in which players and managers must try to block out the noise

In his new book, Saved, Gianluigi Buffon talks about feeling crushed by nerves even at the peak of his playing career. The day before the 2006 World Cup final Buffon and Gennaro Gattuso walked past the French squad after training and were immediately sent into a tailspin by their opponents’ intimidating size and athleticism.

“We don’t stand a chance,” Gattuso joked, not actually joking. Buffon spent most of the night smoking in the hotel corridor with half the Italy team. At breakfast nobody could speak. They turned up at the stadium already feeling exhausted.

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Framework began shipping its new Laptop 13 Pro this week. And the Ubuntu variant is outselling the Windows variant, reports PC World:

[I]t's selling quickly by Framework's internal metrics, with six batches of the Intel version of the laptop already sold out. [A later Framework social media post added "Spoke too soon, we're onto Batch 8."]

"Also nice validation of our approach, the Ubuntu configurations are outselling the Windows ones!"

That's not really surprising, for a few reasons. One, if you're buying a Framework laptop, you have a good reason to order it without an OS, even if you want Windows 11. It's easy to get it free or cheap elsewhere. (Framework says it's not counting the "None (bring your own)" option in these Ubuntu numbers.) Two, there are precious few places to order a new laptop with any kind of Linux pre-loaded — you've got Framework, a few smaller vendors like System76 and Slimbook, and a few models from Dell. Lenovo sold Ubuntu-loaded laptops at one point, but I can't find any on the site right now...

Perhaps it doesn't hurt that Microsoft and Windows are currently on a bit of an apology tour. After a couple of years of pushing hard on "AI" features that no one wants — not even the people who do want "AI" want the Copilot flavor — Microsoft is pulling back its integration into everything and now promising features that Windows has been missing ever since Windows 10.



Framework also reports that:

More than one third of purchasers say they're replacing a MacBook Pro, "and almost all of them are switching to Linux (based on our optional post-purchase survey)."

"Also in interesting sales data, the Gray/Black keyboard is vastly outselling the traditional Black one!"

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Studios need early trailers to attract investors, but if the timing is off, an early reveal could also kill the in game development. Ex-NaughtyDog Game Developer - Del Walker - lists 7 Reasons why Games announce too early, and the unintended consequences it causes.

This is mostly true of AAA 'Triple A' games, but also hurts Indie or just smaller, weirder games because without word of mouth caused by early reveal hype, then those games have little to no discover-ability within the market. Games also reveal trailers early to try to combat (or get ahead of) leaks. The most infamous example of this is GTA VI - Grand Theft Auto - which was formerly announced in 2022, just prior to leaked footage from in production cut-scenes from the game. Principle production on GTA was reportedly started some time during 2019 / 2020 GTA VI is due for release in November of 2026 after multiple date push backs and delays.