Kelsey Pfendler set out to become first US woman, youngest woman and fastest woman to solo over 2,400-mile journey

A Grand Canyon river-rafting guide who aimed to become the first US woman to row solo across the mid-Pacific has completed a record-breaking journey from California to Hawaii.

Hundreds of people gathered to cheer on Kelsey Pfendler as she pulled into a Honolulu harbor on Friday night on her 21ft rowboat, Lily, after nearly a month-and-a-half at sea, local media reported.

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• Canada coach says his side ‘totally controlled the match’

• Ouahbi: ‘It takes some nerve to say when you lose 3-0’

Jesse Marsch spoke of his pride in his Canada side after their last-16 exit to Morocco, claiming they were the better team and challenging his players to keep producing the levels they have reached in this tournament.

“We totally controlled the match,” he said. “We were the ones more likely to win the game, but goals change games so they could sit back. But overall in the match we were better than them. Before we came here if you’d said we’d be last 16 we’d have been satisfied. And if you’d said we were going to play like that … you’d think we were going to win the match.”

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Well-preserved fourth-century quarters reveal details of daily life, urban development and economic activities

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a well-preserved Byzantine-era city in the western desert.

The fourth-century quarters had residential and religious structures, including a basilica-style church in the Dakhla oasis. Archaeologists also found coins, pottery fragments and tools.

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Poppodium Annabel in Rotterdam opende zaterdagavond de deuren exclusief voor vrouwen om de wedstrijd Marokko-Canada te zien. Marokkaans-Nederlandse vriendinnen, moeders met dochter, nichtjes, tantes en collega’s gaan naar binnen. „Zonder mannen voel ik me comfortabeler.”

Fans van het Marokkaanse elftal zijn in onder meer Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag, Utrecht en Amersfoort de straat op gegaan om feest te vieren na de 3-0 overwinning op Canada…

After originally qualifying in P12 for the British Grand Prix, Alpine's Pierre Gasly has now been handed a penalty.

Qualifying at the British Grand Prix did not go Max Verstappen's way, with the Red Bull driver admitting that he was dealing with two issues during the session.

Our expert betting writers have picked a four-leg Bet Builder for Silverstone, including podium finish and two points finish selections.

At the end of 2025, the FSF launched LibrePhone project, which is working to "better understand and reverse-engineer the nonfree blobs used by a great majority of (if not all) system on a chip designs available today." The FSF's summer newsletter shares this update:


We started with researching the proprietary files in Android phones supported by the Lineage project, an Android-based volunteer-led mobile phone operating system with much free software already in it. Our current, primary focus is on the radio blobs that control WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, and cellular communications.

The software freedom issues with mobile computing have been around for a long time, with the most challenging issue being the baseband/modem firmware that relies heavily on proprietary software. This creates a technical and legal maze that is nearly impossible to break free from, but that doesn't mean we should ever stop working to create free systems. It certainly doesn't mean we shouldn't liberate the software that we know can be free software. Now, half a year into this project, lead developer Rob Savoye has extracted firmware from over 200 Lineage install packages, processed 85GB of files, and imported the results of these analyses into a PostgreSQL database for cross-device comparison... [M]uch of the software and blobs we need to work through are shared across multiple devices; this means even greater strides for mobile phone freedom...

As insurmountable as it may seem at times, every blob we manage to free up will be progress. The FSF has proven time and time again that it can bring the free software philosophy to life, not just by advocating for it, but by making it so.



The bulletin also describes how waves of botnets from "aggressive LLM scrapers, vulnerability scanners, poorly optimized CI/CD servers" inspired the FSF to create a new free-as-in-freedom automated monitoring tool:



In our efforts to combat the botnets, we optimized several detection rules to ban abusive behavior. We found the upper limit of fail2ban and replaced it with reaction, an efficient alternative with our configuration that uses ipset. We also split several monolithic machines into many separate machines so that when a web service is overwhelmed the other functions of the service do not go down with it... We found quite a few ways to respond to and prevent botnet attacks, but still faced a significant related challenge: communicating when a website or service is down...

Uptime Kuma is a human-readable, automated monitoring addition to our systems... You can check out our recently-launched self-hosted Uptime Kuma instance at https://status.fsf.org/. When you see the page, you will also likely say, "Wow! The FSF and GNU sure do run a ton of services!" and you would be right... If you maintain websites and services, and are looking for a simple way to communicate publicly with your users, consider using Uptime Kuma or another free software solution instead of choosing a proprietary monitoring solution."


There's also an article on the state of free-as-in-freedom videogame console emulators.

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MEXICO-STAD (ANP/RTR) - Mexico-Stad neemt maatregelen tegen te grote drukte op plekken waar de WK-wedstrijd Mexico-Engeland vertoond zal worden. Afgelopen week vielen er na de 2-0-winst tegen Ecuador vier doden doordat ze in de verdrukking waren gekomen in het feestgedruis na de wedstrijd. Meer dan 1 miljoen mensen trokken in Mexico-Stad de straat op om de winst op Ecuador te vieren.

Bij het Monument voor de Onafhankelijkheid, ook wel El Ángel genoemd, zijn tijdens de wedstrijd slechts 25.000 mensen welkom, zo maakte de burgemeester van Mexico-Stad bekend. Ook op het belangrijkste plein in de Mexicaanse hoofdstad, Zócalo, worden maatregelen genomen. Ook zal de beveiliging in aanloop naar de wedstrijd worden aangescherpt.

De Amerikaanse ambassade in Mexico roept Amerikanen in heel Mexico op voorzichtig te zijn in de drukte. Ook waarschuwt de diplomatieke missie voor demonstranten die dankbaar gebruikmaken van de drukte en aandacht die het WK met zich meebrengt.

Als Mexico maandag weet te winnen van Engeland, plaatst het zich voor de kwartfinales van het WK dat het medeorganiseert. Het lukte Mexico slechts twee keer eerder om de kwartfinales van een WK te halen: in 1970 en 1986.