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In the skies above Riyadh, Saudi air defenses were put to the test this weekend as Houthi forces launched missiles targeting the capital and the Eastern province. Saudi Arabia says it intercepted the projectiles, though the Houthis separately reported thirty-three people killed in a coalition air strike on a village near Sanaa, underscoring just how volatile that conflict remains.
Closer to home, the UK government is moving to bring order to what it's calling the wild west of e-bikes. Shared electric bikes have become a fixture on British streets, cheap and convenient, but largely unregulated. Downing Street is now proposing a package of measures to address safety, pavement riding, and the growing number of modified bikes that exceed legal speed limits.
And from the realm of abstract mathematics, a project worth knowing about. Category Theory Illustrated is a freely available online guide that takes one of the most notoriously difficult branches of math and walks readers through it with clear visual diagrams and plain language. For programmers and engineers who've heard the term thrown around and quietly nodded along, this one might finally make it click.
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