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February 03, 2026
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☰ slashdot
- Ultra-Processed Foods Should Be Treated More Like Cigarettes Than Food, Study Says
- NASA Delays Artemis II To March
- Google Plots Big Expansion in India as US Restricts Visas
- 'Vibe Coding Kills Open Source'
- YouTube Kills Background Playback on Third-Party Mobile Browsers
☰ cbc sports
- The courage to have what it takes
- Feisty Sam Bennett replaces injured Canada forward Anthony Cirelli on Olympic hockey roster
- Need help following the Olympics? Our newsletter has you covered
- With Olympic arena ready for play, Canadian Don Moffatt's magic has given Italy its own 'Miracle on Ice'
- Inside Cortina's Olympic Village: A snowy haven for hundreds of athletes
☰ espn
- A do-over of the 2025 NFL draft: Let's redraft the first 64 picks, with changes starting at No. 2
- Projecting Rounds 1-2 of the draft: Landing spots for 11 Senior Bowl standouts
- Sources: Celtics land Vucevic in trade with Bulls
- NFLPA: Players 'have no appetite' for 18th game
- Sources: Rebuilding Grizz trade Jackson to Jazz
☰ global
- Beloved Saint John diner closing despite new owner’s efforts to ‘keep the TOPS legacy’
- Manitoba to examine potential marine conservation area in Hudson Bay
- Toys ‘R’ Us Canada seeks creditor protection, owns vendors at least $120M
- MP Nate Erskine-Smith ‘exploring’ Ontario Liberal leadership, seeks seat
- Extortion suspects claiming refugee status ‘ludicrous,’ B.C. premier says
☰ Ars Technica
- X office raided in France's Grok probe; Elon Musk summoned for questioning
- Nintendo Switch is the second-bestselling game console ever, behind only the PS2
- Google court filings suggest ChromeOS has an expiration date
- Xcode 26.3 adds support for Claude, Codex, and other agentic tools via MCP
- Wing Commander III: "Isn't that the guy from Star Wars?"
☰ reuters
- Companies either weather climate risk now or pay for it later - Reuters
- Europe must keep control of key technologies, says EU commissioner - Reuters
- Palantir rallies after bumper quarter fueled by US defense spending - Reuters
- Market Talk: 'Rollercoaster of emotions' could keep gold volatile - Reuters
- Nintendo quarterly profit rises, sees no major hit from chip prices - Reuters
☰ cbc
- What we know (so far) about the people accused in London, Ont., bomb-making scheme
- Red hats sweeping the U.S. as resistance knitters embrace 'melt the ICE' pattern
- Remains of Hamilton soldier who died in Latvia return to Canada
- Report urges Canadians to focus on health basics as 80% of premature heart disease and stroke preventable
- CBC says it had 'no knowledge' of emails between Epstein and former employee
☰ space
- One-of-a-kind 'plasma tunnel' recreates extreme conditions spacecraft face upon reentry
- NASA's Crew-12 begins quarantine before February launch to space station
- We ate space mushrooms and survived to tell the tale
- NASA hit by fuel leaks during a practice countdown of the moon rocket that will fly with astronauts
- NASA conducts vital tests ahead of slated Moon mission
☰ science daily
- New catalyst turns carbon dioxide into clean fuel source
- Scientists just mapped the hidden structure holding the Universe together
- This brain discovery is forcing scientists to rethink how memory works
- Even remote Pacific fish are full of microplastics
- Robots descend into lava tubes to prepare for future Moon bases
☰ new scientist
- Dutch air force reads pilots' brainwaves to make training harder
- The weird rules of temperature get even stranger in the quantum realm
- Nobel laureate says he'll build world’s most powerful quantum computer
- Why did SpaceX just apply to launch 1 million satellites?
- Neanderthals and early humans may have interbred over a vast area
☰ science blog
- One-third of Young People Are Violent Toward Parents
- Bat Caves In Cambodia Hide Clues To A Pig Pandemic’s Mysterious Origins
- AI Film Crew Turns Songs Into Complete Music Videos
- Yo-Yo Dieting Might Be Worse Than You Think
☰ Weather Forecast
Wed 4 Feb

high: -6°C
Chance of flurries
pop: 40%
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high: -8°C
Sunny
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high: -4°C
Snow
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high: -15°C
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high: -14°C
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Wed 4 Feb

high: -5°C
A mix of sun and cloud
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high: -5°C
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high: -1°C
Snow
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high: -11°C
Sunny
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high: -7°C
Chance of snow
pop: 30%
Wed 4 Feb

high: -5°C
Chance of flurries
pop: 30%
 Thu 5 Feb

high: -7°C
Sunny
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high: -7°C
Snow
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high: -14°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Sun 8 Feb

high: -15°C
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Wed 4 Feb

high: -6°C
Periods of light snow
 Thu 5 Feb

high: -9°C
A mix of sun and cloud
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high: -9°C
Periods of snow
 Sat 7 Feb

high: -15°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Sun 8 Feb

high: -16°C
Sunny
Wed 4 Feb

high: -2°C
Chance of flurries
pop: 60%
 Thu 5 Feb

high: -7°C
Chance of flurries
pop: 60%
 Fri 6 Feb

high: -7°C
Sunny
 Sat 7 Feb

high: -7°C
Flurries
 Sun 8 Feb

high: -11°C
Chance of flurries
pop: 60%
Wed 4 Feb

high: -6°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Thu 5 Feb

high: -11°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Fri 6 Feb

high: -9°C
Chance of flurries
pop: 60%
 Sat 7 Feb

high: -18°C
Flurries
 Sun 8 Feb

high: -17°C
Sunny
Wed 4 Feb

high: 14°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Thu 5 Feb

high: 11°C
Sunny
 Fri 6 Feb

high: 10°C
Sunny
 Sat 7 Feb

high: 11°C
Rain
 Sun 8 Feb

high: 10°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
Wed 4 Feb

high: 16°C
Increasing cloudiness
 Thu 5 Feb

high: 14°C
Sunny
 Fri 6 Feb

high: 16°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Sat 7 Feb

high: 13°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Sun 8 Feb

high: 8°C
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☰ Word of the Day
hornswoggle

verb (HORN-swah-gul)

To hornswoggle someone is to trick or deceive them.

☰ Thought of the Day
"Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it." - Simon Biles
☰ Born on this day
- Elisha Kent Kane, US Arctic naval surgeon and Artic explorer (led expedition to Greenland discover fate of John Franklin), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1857)
- Sidney Lanier, American poet and composer, born in Macon, Georgia (d. 1881)
- Hugo Junkers, German engineer and aircraft designer, born in Rheydt, Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1935)
- Camille Bombois, French circus wrestler and naïve painter, born in Venarey-les-Laumes, France (d. 1970)
- Edward Sinclair, English actor (Dad's Army), born in Lancashire, England (d. 1977)
- Jim Marshall, American photographer (The Beatles final concert in San Francisco; Woodstock Festival), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2010)
- Emile Griffith, American boxer, (world welterweight, middleweight and junior middleweight champion), born in Saint Thomas, US Virgin Islands (d. 2013)
- Jack Fields, American politician (Rep-R-TX, 1981-97), born in Humble, Texas
☰ Weather News
- Emergency groundfish rule keeps fleet fishing as species prove more abundant
- NOAA Ocean Exploration to host blue technology education workshop
- NOAA Fisheries Knauss Fellow feature: Meet Dr. Claire Gonzales
☰ Today in History
- Paul A. Rubens and Arthur Wimperis' musical "The Sunshine Girl", with additional songs by and John Golden and Joseph Cawthorne, opens at the Knickerbocker Theatre, NYC, runs for 181 performances
- Paleoanthropologist Davidson Black reports his findings on the ancient human fossils found at Zhoukoudian, China, in the journal Nature and declares them to be a new species he names 'Sinanthropus pekinensis' (now known as 'Homo erectus')
- Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in 1942
- -81°F (-63°C), Snag Yukon (North American record)
- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Samuel Ryan Curtis, American politician and Major General (Union Army), born in Champlain, New York (d. 1866)
- Lao She, Chinese writer and playwright (Rickshaw Boy, Teahouse), born in Beijing, China (d. 1966)
- Jim Hartz, American journalist and newscaster (NBC-TV Today, 1974-77; PBS - Innovations), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (d. 2022)
- Gary Bartlett, New Zealand cricket fast bowler (10 Tests, 24 wickets, BB 6/38; Central Districts, Canterbury, Marlborough), born in Blenheim, New Zealand
- Daddy Yankee [Ramón Rodríguez], Puerto Rican reggaeton singer and rapper ("Despacito"; "Gasolina"), born in San Juan, Puerto Rico

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