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PTC 6 is now Tropical Storm Francine with 50 mph max winds. Francine will accelerate north, then northeast over the next 48 hours, likely making landfall in central Louisiana on Wednesday as a hurricane. Francine will intensify, likely peak just offshore of Louisiana, then come ashore steady or slightly past peak, s...

GM Magnus Carlsen won his fourth title at the Speed Chess Championship 2024, defeating GM Alireza Firouzja in front of a live audience in Paris. It was a dominant performance with a final score of 23.5-7.5; he lost just five games in four hours, drawing five and winning 21. Carlsen and GM Hikaru Nakamura are still t...

As Publishers Weekly reported this week, the Internet Archive, nonprofit home to a robust digital library, has lost its latest appeal in a case brought by publishers. A panel from New York’s Second Circuit “has unanimously affirmed a March 2023 lower court decision finding the Internet Archive’s program to scan and ...