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Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus munitions in an October attack in southern Lebanon that injured at least nine civilians in what a rights group says should be investigated as a war crime, according to a Washington Post analysis of shell fragments found in a small village.

The Pentagon requires partner militaries to acknowledge obligations under international law when they accept U.S. weapons, “including that these munitions are only to be used for lawful purposes such as signaling and smoke screening,” a U.S. defense official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

It is unclear when the United States delivered the munitions to Israel. The official said no white phosphorous munitions have been provided since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.

White phosphorus fell onto several homes and ignited fires, incinerating furniture and stripping appliances to scorched metal. Remnants of the sticky, black chemical littered the ground 40 days after the attack and combusted when residents kicked at it.

In 2013, the Israeli military pledged to stop using white phosphorus on the battlefield, saying it would transition to gas-based smoke shells.

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Dec. 2 that Israel’s use of the munition has “killed civilians and produced irreversible damage to more than 5 million square meters of forests and farmland, in addition to damaging thousands of olive trees.”

US dealership model is aping prices.

Depends on how you view "closing the gap"

It's an absolute shame that the national government in Beijing did nothing to block Henan officials from pushing her out. She's a national treasure.

Looking back, this was one of the issues that Xi Jinping originally campaigned on: the rampant corruption in provincial party officials saving face was a huge problem and Hu Jintao (2002-2012) was at the center of the problem.

Hong Kong national security law: opposition groups moving funds overseas, digitising historical records ahead of impending legislation

The incident claimed to be "colluding with foreign forces" involved Demosisto lobbying for the passage of the US' Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act sponsored by Marco Rubio.

Fucking finally JFC

Can't believe it took years to do something about it. Dude's about to get locked up for more than a decade and I'm ready for it.

You don't technically need EUV for 5nm, it's just that it's really hard. Intel tried to stick with DUV for their 10nm (Intel 7) process and look how long that was delayed.

Why, exactly, do you think the US would require a stockpile of 203mm shells? The M110 was retired from service decades ago.

https://archive.ph/8fbJ2

You can have a good chip with a bad process and a bad chip with a good process. Nvidia Ampere used Samsung 8N to cut costs, but it still kicked the ass of the competition. Intel shipped hot garbage for years, but it wasn't because their 14nm process was bad (for a number of years, Intel 14nm was a very solid process.

One explanation is that SMIC has low-yield early production for 5mm (which is why the Qingyun L540 is only being sold to government agencies: limited scale, like Intel's 10nm chip back in 2018). The other explanation is that Huawei for some reason decided to stockpile 5nm chips and disable the 5G modem in them to put the thing in a laptop (rather than in a phone), maybe because they now have domestic 7nm and no longer need a stockpile... But that this stockpile was evidently not very big since they're not selling it to consumers. Both are in the realm of possibility, but if the former is the case then SMIC is moving shockingly fast.

Intel was stuck on DUV 10nm for almost a decade (and indeed, DUV 14nm was also a struggle because of the need for dual-patterning). SMIC would have now not only matched Intel 10nm (Intel 10/7) with SMIC's 7nm process, but leapfrogged Intel (who is yet to ship Intel 4 to customers). I'm somewhat skeptical, but with the wave of TSMC engineers who have jumped ship to Chinese firms for higher pay in recent years, I wouldn't be surprised.

At the same time, TSMC is basically tapped out for their FinFET process: N2 is estimated to only be 10-15% more dense than N3. Intel and Samsung are in a similar position with their newer processes.

The race for Surrounding-Gate Transistors (SGT) is on

Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Anas al-Shareef is one of the only journalists remaining in the north of Gaza.

Calling the Northeast Corridor "half-decent" is like calling Air Canada a "reliable airline."

True, if your point of reference is Somalia.

Where do you think the remaining 24% goes? Up into smoke?

"why the fuck was this posted"

"it's a shit article"

ah yes, I'm the one being hostile

Nevermind that the reference to Science is literally in the first sentences loaded in the mobile view.

Two questions:

1. How do you define colonialism?
2. Do you understand how the CPC functions as a government? How responsibilities are delegated from national to provincial and regional governments? How those governments are elected?

A name is a name. The Chinese name for America is 美国 (meiguo, "beautiful nation"). The English name for 中国 is China. A name makes no indication of ownership, unless you're suggesting the British still hold power over India?

Official media reports suggest Chinese leader is taking bullet trains more often when he goes on tour

Sources and observers say railway offers security and flexibility, and more opportunity to see what’s happening on the ground

I mean, Canadian colonizers today use the (romanized) First Nations names of Squamish, Tsawwassen, and Chilliwack.

Moving names closer to their origins is a good thing.

The article literally says it was published in Science. If it was only 3 sentences, why did you read none of them?