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Visa pour l'Image photography festival loses its founder: why Jean-François Leroy's passing is a huge loss to photojournalism

Perpignan is a southern French city near the Mediterranean coast and the border with Spain. With a population of around 120,000, it’s pretty slow-paced for most of the year. But all that changes for a couple of weeks in late summer, when it suddenly becomes the world capital of photojournalism. Churches, convents, even a former prison get turned into galleries, and almost twice the…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Tracking the fatal Tesla Autopilot and FSD crashes hidden in its data

Tesla reports its Autopilot and “Full Self-Driving” crashes to the federal government, as it’s required to — and then blacks out almost everything in those reports, so the public never learns what happened in those crashes. Tesla always end up blaming the driver. We’re matching those redacted reports, one by one, to real fatal crashes that were covered in the news as ordinary accidents.
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DefenseNews

US tech found in Russian ballistic missiles

KYIV, Ukraine — Dozens of American- and European-made components are still being used to build Russia’s deadly ballistic missiles despite nearly 24,000 sanctions imposed on Russia-linked individuals and entities since 2022, Ukraine’s presidential commissioner for…
DefenseNews

After 286 days at sea, USS Abraham Lincoln arrives in Thailand

U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln arrived in port in eastern Thailand on Wednesday after 286 days at sea, including a lengthy deployment in the Middle East, amid reports of mental health concerns and deteriorating conditions on board. The nuclear-powered Lincoln, with roughly ​5,000 personnel, was involved in the U.S. naval blockade and combat operations in the war with Iran and —…
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GamingNews

'Did You Destroy My Favorite Game?': How the Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Community Is Guiding Ubisoft’s Reboot

Ubisoft just revealed a remake of 1999’s Heroes of Might and Magic 3 at Gamescom, and one look at the trailer shows it goes far beyond a simple polish and port. Set to release in 2027 across console and PC, the new game will swap the original’s isometric 2D view with a 3D world and add new content – a fresh prologue campaign and some fancy cinematics – and tweak the…
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