europeanspaceagency posted a photo:

This view was generated from the digital terrain model and the nadir and colour channels of the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express. It shows a bird’s-eye view of Thyles Rupes, one of the most prominent cliff-faces in Mars’s ancient southern highlands.

This cliff is both broken by and sits atop a variety of impact craters, as seen here, indicating that some craters are older and some younger than the cliff. The largest crater visible here, sitting to the right of the frame, is ancient, having been sliced through and partially covered by Thyles Rupes since its creation. The two smaller craters, which sit atop both this large crater and Thyles Rupes itself, are younger.

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[Image description: A pink-grey-coloured patch of Mars. A ridge cuts across the frame, from lower left to upper right. The ridge appears to cut through a large, grey crater, of which we only see two thirds. Another sharper, smaller crater lays on top of the ridge; this crater appears newer. Overall, the landscape has a soft, bumpy and barren appearance.]

Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

We Must Create the Shit Machine. “I asked everyone I know at the BIG TECH HUMAN CENTIPEDE ROUNDTABLE, and we all agreed that UNCONTROLLABLE SHIT-RAIN IS USEFUL AND GREAT, and that EVERYONE WANTS IT.”

Fractievoorzitter Jan Paternotte (D66) botst met SP-leider Jimmy Dijk over de investeringen in defensie.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) says it is unable to restore access to resources and data in some of its Availability Zones in the Middle East after datacenters were damaged during the US war with Iran. In an update to its AWS Health Dashboard, the cloud giant confirmed that anything hosted exclusively in its Bahrain Region (me-south-1) remains inaccessible. "The damage to our infrastructure spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withstand," the update says. "After a thorough assessment, we have determined that we are unable to restore access to the resources and data hosted exclusively in this Region." After the first Bahrain Availability Zone was damaged in March, AWS advised customers to migrate their workloads to other Regions. The company said most did so before further attacks disrupted a second Availability Zone in April and rendered the entire Region unavailable. AWS has reached a similar conclusion about one Availability Zone in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), saying it cannot re-establish access to the resources and data hosted there. The affected Zone, mec1-az2, is one of three in AWS's UAE Region. Two AWS facilities in the country were hit by drones back in March as Iran retaliated against US-Israeli strikes on its territory. AWS says it continues to work on recovering resources in the Region, including some hosted in the other affected Availability Zones (mec1-az1 and mec1-az3). It adds that "most customers" have been able to restart operations in other AWS Regions by restoring from backups or copying any data that remained accessible. The company says its support teams remain available to help customers move their applications to alternate Regions. The Register asked AWS to comment, but the company declined to add to the information on its Health Dashboard. In AWS terminology, a Region is a geographic area containing multiple isolated Availability Zones. Each Zone consists of one or more discrete datacenters with independent power, cooling, and network connectivity. AWS recommends distributing applications and resources across multiple Availability Zones to withstand the loss of a single location. That approach cannot protect against a Region-wide failure, however. Workloads that must survive such an event require a disaster recovery plan involving another Region. AWS and several other tech companies advised customers after the first strikes to recover whatever resources they could and replicate them in alternate Regions, ideally in Europe, rather than wait for services in the Middle East to return. That advice appears to have been well-founded. AWS said at the time: "Customers should enact their disaster recovery plans, recover from remote backups stored in other Regions, and update their applications to direct traffic away from the affected Regions." ®

Samantha Shepherd faced court martial over case of 19-year-old Jaysley Beck, who had made a sexual assault claim

A senior army officer has been cleared by a court martial of failing to deal properly with allegations made by a teenage soldier who went on to kill herself.

Col Samantha Shepherd had been accused of “conduct prejudicial to good order and service discipline” over the case of 19-year-old Gunner Jaysley Beck, who took her own life in December 2021.

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Sergiy Galyonkin has added a photo to the pool:

Bottles and hanging woven baskets catch the light inside a historic building at the Historical Village of Hokkaido in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

gnsk has added a photo to the pool:

HA: Why Would the Art World Deceive You? (Elizabeth Holmes-Nathan Fielder meme)

WASHINGTON (ANP/DPA) - De Wereldbank stelt met Michael Kremer een Nobelprijswinnaar aan als hoofdeconoom. De Amerikaan staat bekend als specialist voor onderzoek naar armoedebestrijding en de problemen die daarbij komen kijken.

De 61-jarige is verbonden aan de University of Chicago. Per 1 oktober begint hij bij 's werelds grootste organisatie op het gebied van ontwikkelingssamenwerking, als opvolger van Indermit Gill die eind augustus opstapte.

Kremer ontving in 2019 samen met de economen Abhijit Banerjee en Esther Duflo de Nobelprijs voor de Economie. Zij werden toen door de Zweedse centrale bank, die de prijs sinds 1969 jaarlijks uitreikt, geroemd voor de manier waarop ze keken naar armoedevraagstukken.

Hun bijdrage zat onder meer in het opknippen van grote problemen in kleinere en meer specifieke vragen, bijvoorbeeld over onderwijs of gezondheidszorg. Kremer stond met zijn onderzoek naar het gebruik van innovaties in ontwikkelingslanden ook al aan de basis van meerdere programma's om problemen aan te pakken.