A US-Israeli attack hit a key bridge on a main highway in northern Iran on Thursday, in the latest escalation in the region, Iranian media reported.

According to Fars News Agency, multiple sites were struck in the Azimieh area near the city of Karaj, including the B1 Bridge, described as the highest bridge in the Middle East.

The outlet said several people were injured in the attack, and rescue teams were dispatched to the scene.

The strike caused damage to the bridge, which was part of a major road infrastructure project and was expected to be inaugurated soon, according to the report.

The B1 bridge in Karaj, which was still under construction, was set to form part of a major highway connecting the region with Tehran, the Iranian capital.

Two people were killed and several injured in the strike on the 136-metre-high structure, Iranian state media reported.

Mr Trump posted about the attack on his Truth Social platform, writing: “The biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again – Much more to follow! IT IS TIME FOR IRAN TO MAKE A DEAL BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, AND THERE IS NOTHING LEFT OF WHAT STILL COULD BECOME A GREAT COUNTRY!”

The Iranian regime also claimed that bombs struck a century-old medical centre in Tehran. Images published by the health ministry show a largely destroyed building, which it identified as the Pasteur Institute of Iran.

Central American country to receive up to 25 migrants a day expelled as part of Trump’s immigration crackdown

The Costa Rican government has agreed to receive up to 25 deported migrants a week from the United States, the latest deal in the Trump administration’s unprecedented efforts to deport scores of people to “third countries”.

With the new agreement, Costa Rica seeks a closer alliance with Donald Trump’s government, which has been securing cooperation from other Central American countries in accepting deportees from other nations who have been detained by US immigration agents.

President Donald Trump has fired Pam Bondi as attorney general.

She will be replaced for now by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who will serve as acting attorney general, Trump said.

The president wrote on Truth Social that Bondi would be “transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector,” praising her for her work in his administration and offering no specific reason for why she would be leaving.

About seven hours into the flight of Artemis II, Commander Reid Wiseman experienced something many earthbound Microsoft users know all too well: his Outlook email stopped working.

According to the white paper, solving the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem may require roughly 1,200 logical qubits and under 500,000 physical qubits, with attack times measured in minutes on sufficiently advanced systems.

TikTok has removed an account belonging to an ultranationalist, pro-settlement Israeli influencer for breaching hate speech and bullying rules after the Guardian flagged videos showing him harassing activists in the occupied West Bank.

The Guardian has reviewed dozens of videos posted by various social media figures that have gone viral on TikTok and Instagram documenting the harassment of Palestinians as well as physical attacks on Israeli and international activists.

The accounts began to proliferate after the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023, since when Israeli forces and settlers have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in the West Bank. In recent weeks violence has intensified further, with repeated attacks on homes.

The burgeoning far-right ecosphere has risen in tandem with the growing influence of far-right parties and figures in Israeli politics.

“Dehumanising Palestinians is now mainstream in Israel,” said Yuli Novak, the executive director of the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem. “Influencers gain popularity through incendiary messaging.”

France’s hard-left France Unbowed party said several Black lawmakers received racist letters, condemning what it called entrenched discrimination. The incident follows a surge of abuse targeting recently elected Saint-Denis Mayor Bally Bagayoko, underscoring concerns about rising racism in French public life.

Hi, everyone.

I've been running openSUSE Tumbleweed since the end of 2024. For awhile, it was good enough for me to stay on it and I left my Windows SSD alone.

That has changed recently with a newer game I want to play, just recently released. I've sudo zypper dup a couple of times now and it just won't play. I got tired of trying with my limited time, and booted back into Windows. I've been enjoying the game quite a lot, but I miss my Linux install. Luckily, I have everything backed up to a cloud provider so moving between the two, I don't lose or miss out on anything (EXCEPT MY PRIVACY).

So, with all this being said, I'd like to know what other think I should try out. Here are some of the distros I've got ready to try:

1. CachyOS - This SEEMS like it would be a perfect fit for me up until the point that it might also give me the same issues openSUSE Tumbleweed is giving me right now, but I am always willing to give it a try!

2. Debian - Stability is what I really want, but I also will need access to newer drivers and kernels since I play games both old and brand spanking new, so if I can get the newer drivers/kernel installed, this would honestly be my choice at this point.

3. Fedora - Fedora is also a close contender to Debian since they are both considered stable. I tried Fedora on 42 or something, and found it lacking in game performance compared to openSUSE. That might've been a fluke, but it was enough for me to immediately switch back to SUSE.

4. openSUSE Leap - This is just me wondering if using the not-so-bledding-edge version of openSUSE would be more up my alley. I have no idea on how hard or easy it would be to get newer GPU drivers and kernel on this, but surely it could be done?

Basically, I want both a stable system and a system that is updated enough to be able to play a brand new game on NVIDIA (I bought before I knew I'd be switching over to Linux full-time..). I am not into Linux for getting my hands dirty or for reading a manual on how to do something. I am mainly here to get away from Microsoft. The only thing I care about on this desktop is gaming. I also prefer KDE as the Desktop Environment, but will gladly use whatever will match the above!

Sorry for the long post, I just do not want to keep distro hopping hoping one will match my criteria above without any extra hassle (editing configs has ALWAYS busted my Linux systems, so since I'm just not smart enough to get weeds deep with Linux, I just want to boot it up, start a game, and play!). Hopefully some of you out there have similar needs for their machine and can help me out!

Thank you! :)

Arizona’s legislative leaders can’t dismantle a new national monument near the Grand Canyon that they claimed would harm both the state and local governments, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.

In the memorandum ruling, a three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with a lower court ruling made more than a year ago. Both courts ruled that Republican legislative leaders lacked standing to bring the lawsuit because all of the harms they claimed the monument would cause were speculative.

A Lebanese-French artist has filed a legal complaint in a Paris court about an Israeli bombing of his family home in Lebanon that killed his parents and a domestic worker, claiming the attack could constitute a war crime.

The suit, filed with the French war crimes unit on Tuesday, is a rare instance of an individual pursuing war crimes charges for an Israeli bombing. It is also the first time a French court has taken a case over Israel’s bombing of Lebanon.

Israel has been accused of numerous war crimes for targeting civilians, public infrastructure and medics, and for forced displacement in Lebanon and Gaza, but no one in the country has been held legally accountable. It has also been accused of committing genocide in Gaza.

Ali Cherri, the artist who filed the suit, said: “Our demand is that an investigation is opened so that we know for a fact what happened, to name this attack as a war crime against civilians, and hopefully being able to name the people responsible for this.”

Austria has denied the United States permission to use its airspace for military operations related to the war with Iran, citing the country’s long‑standing policy of neutrality, according to statements reported Thursday by Austrian public broadcaster ORF.

Interviewing the Author of 'To Catch a Fascist', a searing, provocative investigation into the rise of white nationalist and neo-Nazi movements in the United States, centered on the anti-fascist groups working to expose and stop these hateful factions.

We discuss my personal connection to the book, how to become an Anti-Fascist, what skills Anti-fascists use, and why so many 'Antifa' are Trans.

Hey everyone,

I'm a web developer, mostly JS and PHP, about 4 years of experience. A while ago I helped a friend set up the infrastructure for his small IT company and ended up managing the backups there too.

The issue was simple: two servers, and I wanted to manage backups from one place. Backrest was the closest thing I found but it's single-machine, so you get one interface per server. The commercial alternatives felt like overkill. Also, they use Zitadel for SSO on all their internal tools, so OIDC support was a requirement from the start. And since they're working toward ISO 27001, having centralized, auditable backup management wasn't just nice to have.

I didn't find anything that fit, so I built Arkeep.

It's a backup manager with a server/agent model, built on Restic and Rclone. You run one server, deploy agents on the machines you want to back up, and manage everything from a single web UI. Agents connect to the server over gRPC so no ports need to be open on the agent side. It handles Docker volume discovery, pre/post hooks, and streams metrics back in real time.

One thing I want to be upfront about: Go was completely new to me. I had a client that required Go for some backend work, so I used Arkeep as a way to learn the language while building something I actually needed. I used AI a lot to get through it faster. The architecture and the decisions behind it are mine, but I didn't write idiomatic Go from scratch. I know this community has strong opinions on AI-assisted projects right now, so I'd rather say it clearly.

It's been running as a secondary backup system for about a month without issues. Still beta, still rough in places.

What works:

• Server + agent architecture, agents connect out (no open ports needed)
• Restic under the hood, Rclone for destinations Restic doesn't support natively
• Docker volume auto-discovery
• OIDC support
• PWA web UI
• Helm chart (needs more real-world testing)
• SQLite by default, PostgreSQL available

What's missing or not great yet:

• No VM support yet, it's planned
• Dashboard is minimal
• It's beta, bugs are expected

Repo: https://github.com/arkeep-io/arkeep

If you try it, feedback is very welcome. That's really why I'm posting.