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June 20, 2026
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☰ slashdot
- SMPTE Opens Entire Standards Catalog for Free, Removing Century-Old Paywall
- Microsoft Discovers Cryptocurrency Stealer That Spreads Through USB Drives and Uses Tor
- FSF Patches Two-Year-Old Vulnerability Found by AI Researchers in GNU Savannah Repository
- Student Loan Borrowers Will Get Interest Rate Cut If They Sign Up For Auto Pay
- Amazon Retaliated Against Workers Who Supported Regulating Data Centers, Complaint Says
☰ sportsnet
- Clement out again as Blue Jays look to bounce back from battering against Cubs
- How Canada will approach replacing ‘X-factor’ Ismael Kone at World Cup
- ‘The place you want to win’: Toronto Marlies claim 2026 Calder Cup
- Why sturdy Swiss are a perfect World Cup test for up-and-coming Canada
- U.S. Open leader Wyndham Clark: Some Canadian fans ‘crossed the line’
☰ espn
- U.S. Open weekend storylines: Can anyone catch Wyn...
- U.S. clinches WC Group D after Paraguay victory
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- Source: Big 12 monitoring Sorsby fallout, options
- RHP Misiorowski hits 104.2 mph in Brewers' loss
☰ global
- Germany, Ivory Coast set for World Cup showdown in Toronto
- Energy prices expected to push inflation higher
- Toronto Marlies win AHL’s Calder Cup
- No injuries from ammonia leak at B.C. rink
- Watchdog rejects idea of narrowing information law
☰ Ars Technica
- The UK will scan asylum-seekers’ faces for age checks—despite knowing the tech is flawed
- Rocket Report: Rebuild begins at Blue Origin launch pad; Relativity targets Mars
- As global warming threatens corals, scientists search for reefs that can take the heat
- A bold satellite rescue mission came together in record time, but will it work?
- Microsoft discovers new lightweight backdoor that steals cryptocurrency
☰ nyt world
- Mideast Live Updates: Iranian Forces Say They Closed Strait of Hormuz
- After Andy Burnham’s Win, the UK Is Set to Test How Far Charisma Can Shift Electoral Dynamics
- A 175-Year-Old Shipwreck, Lots of Booze and a Korean Island’s Quest to Survive
- Charles Kushner, U.S. Ambassador to France, Riles Paris With Trump Diplomacy
- World Leaders Awaited Iran Deal for Months. Here’s Why They’re Still Wary.
☰ cbc
- Iran says it closed Strait of Hormuz, citing U.S., Israel ceasefire violations
- Dozens of homes evacuated as out-of-control wildfire threatens Lytton, B.C.
- Canadian lawyers urge crackdown over Alabama prison labour imports
- Should everyone be on GLP-1s? What science actually tells us (and doesn't) about the broader health benefits
- The day the Five Eyes showed up to confront Russia about its plan to attack Ukraine
☰ space
- NASA should build a biocontainment facility on the moon to protect Earth, researchers advise
- NASA mission to study space weather impacts of Earth's atmosphere
- Mars mission simulations reveal key to teamwork under pressure
- After three sessions, SpaceX already among world's most valuable companies
- Quantum lab aboard space station gets 'chilly' upgrade
☰ science daily
- This simple twist could bring quantum computers closer to reality
- A single cobalt shock could trigger global EV battery supply chaos
- This DNA repair gene went rogue and exposed a cancer weakness
- Hidden geological process offsets carbon emissions from thawing permafrost
- The secret language behind animal cooperation
☰ new scientist
- The one film to watch before seeing Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day
- Faecal transplant makes the brains of old mice act young again
- We've found a mysterious substance on Titan and Pluto
- Most portable air conditioners suck – but there's an easy fix
- Has the answer to life's origins been hiding in our cells all along?
☰ science alert
- Sugar-Free Diets May Have a Hidden Side Effect, Study in Mice Suggests
- Consciousness Could Exist in Bodies Nothing Like Ours, Researchers Say
- Scientists Reveal Simple Trick to Communicate With Your Cat
- Cockroaches Have Been Hiding a DNA Secret For Millions of Years
☰ Weather Forecast
Sun 21 Jun

high: 23°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Mon 22 Jun

high: 22°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
 Tue 23 Jun

high: 24°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
 Wed 24 Jun

high: 25°C
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 Thu 25 Jun

high: 24°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
Sun 21 Jun

high: 25°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
 Mon 22 Jun

high: 20°C
Periods of rain
pop: 60%
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high: 25°C
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high: 24°C
Cloudy
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high: 24°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
Sun 21 Jun

high: 25°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
 Mon 22 Jun

high: 26°C
Sunny
 Tue 23 Jun

high: 22°C
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high: 26°C
Sunny
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high: 23°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
Sun 21 Jun

high: 26°C
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pop: 30%
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high: 24°C
A mix of sun and cloud
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high: 19°C
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high: 22°C
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high: 22°C
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pop: 60%
Sun 21 Jun

high: 21°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
 Mon 22 Jun

high: 23°C
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 Tue 23 Jun

high: 18°C
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high: 24°C
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high: 21°C
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Sun 21 Jun

high: 14°C
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pop: 40%
 Mon 22 Jun

high: 20°C
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 Tue 23 Jun

high: 16°C
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high: 18°C
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high: 19°C
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Sun 21 Jun

high: 23°C
Mainly sunny
 Mon 22 Jun

high: 26°C
Sunny
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high: 25°C
Sunny
 Wed 24 Jun

high: 23°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Thu 25 Jun

high: 24°C
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Sun 21 Jun

high: 16°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Mon 22 Jun

high: 15°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Tue 23 Jun

high: 21°C
Sunny
 Wed 24 Jun

high: 24°C
Sunny
 Thu 25 Jun

high: 26°C
Sunny
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☰ Word of the Day
pulchritudinous

adjective: Physically beautiful; comely.
☰ Thought of the Day
"Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful." - Mary Shelley, from Frankenstein
☰ Born on this day
- Ali az-Zahir, 7th Caliph of the Fātimids (1021-36), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1036)
- Johann Georg III, Elector of Saxony (1680-91), born in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1691)
- Lloyd Hall, African-American chemist and pioneer in food chemistry (science of food preservation), born in Elgin, Illinois (d. 1971)
- Jean Moulin, French hero of the Résistance during World War II, born in Béziers, France (d. 1943)
- John Wheeler, American vocalist, and stage and screen character actor, born in Corsicana, Texas (d. 2026)
- Danny Aiello, American stage and screen actor (Moonstruck; Do the Right Thing; Broadway Danny Rose), and singer, born in New York City (d. 2019)
- André Watts, American-Hungarian concert pianist, and educator, born in Nuremberg, Germany (d. 2023)
- Larry Riley, American actor (Harry-Stir Crazy, Knots Landing), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1992)
☰ Weather News
- U.S. Department of Commerce allocates $123.6M in fishery disaster funding to Alaska, Oregon, California and Squaxin Island Tribe
- Sea turtles
- How El Niño Could Affect West Coast Marine Species
☰ Today in History
- Britain grants Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
- First woman to earn a PhD in Physics from an American university, Caroline Willard Baldwin (25), receives her degree from Cornell University
- Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded in Chicago
- Austin Currie, then Nationalist Member of Parliament (MP) at Stormont, and other Irish civil rights activists, protest discrimination in the allocation of housing by 'squatting' (illegally occupying) in a house in Caledon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
- A Syrian fighter pilot lands in Jordan and defects from the Syrian uprising
- Joseph Martin Kraus, German-Swedish composer, known as "the Swedish Mozart", conductor, and pedagogue, born in Miltenberg am Main, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1792)
- Helen Miller Shepard, American philanthropist who established Hall of Fame, born in Manhattan, New York (d. 1938)
- George Delacorte, American philanthropist and publisher (Dell Books), born in New York City (d. 1991)
- Lloyd Hall, African-American chemist and pioneer in food chemistry (science of food preservation), born in Elgin, Illinois (d. 1971)
- Candace "Candy" Clark, American actress (Man Who Fell to Earth, Q, American Graffiti), born in Norman, Oklahoma

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