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A deadly incident at a Canadian military base in Alberta has left officials confirming multiple casualties and injuries, with a major fire breaking out in the aftermath. Canada's defense minister addressed the situation Saturday, though details remain limited as investigators work to determine what triggered the tragedy.
Turning to a story about patience and clever detective work, a cold case investigator in Everett, Washington cracked two linked murder cases by devising an undercover sting using chewing gum to collect DNA from a known predator. The operation connected a long-elusive suspect to both killings, showing that sometimes the simplest tools close the hardest cases.
And on the quieter end of the technology spectrum, a developer has released Moonrain, a free iOS app that lets you mix sleep sounds entirely offline, with no tracking or data collection of any kind. In an era where nearly every app harvests something, the deliberate choice to build nothing extractive is itself a small but meaningful design statement.
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