Flood evacuation orders were issued for a swathe of suburbs across Sydney's west, south-west, and north-west on Wednesday night, as heavy rain pelts NSW. The Nepean, Georges and Hawkesbury rivers are rising rapidly and the State Emergency Service (SES) told people in specific parts of more than 20 suburbs to leave. There was particular concern for areas around Richmond and Windsor, in the city's north-west, where the Hawkesbury River was expected to get as high as 14 metres. The east-coast low hitting NSW also meant major flooding on the Nepean River overnight.

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Having faced ‘the impossible to imagine,’ I see how the Western left is doing what it has been doing the best: analysing the American neo-imperialism, the expansion of NATO. It is not enough anymore as it does not explain the world that is emerging from the ruins of Donbas and Kharkiv’s main square. The world is not exhaustively described as shaped by or reacting upon the actions of the US. It has gained dynamics of its own, and the US and Europe is in reactive mode in many areas. You explain the distant causes instead of noticing the emergent trends. Thus, it strikes me how, talking about the dramatic processes in our corner of the world, you reduce them to reaction to the activity of your own government and business elites. We have learnt all about the US and NATO from you, but this knowledge is not so helpful anymore. Maybe the US has drawn the outline of this board game, but now other players move the chips and add their own contours with a red marker. US-centric explanations are outdated. I have been reading everything written and said on the left about last year’s escalating conflict between the US, Russia, and Ukraine. Most of it was terribly off, much worse than many mainstream explanations. Its predictive power was nil.

Video-game developer Epic Games announced that it has bought Bandcamp, the online music store and community geared around independent musicians. Under Epic Games’ ownership, Bandcamp will operate as a standalone marketplace and music community, and it will continue to be led by CEO and co-founder Ethan Diamond.

President Biden’s State of the Union address was marked by high-profile moments of partisan disunity, but on one issue, there was universal consensus: war. Because let there be no doubt that, even though there are no U.S. or NATO troops on the ground in Ukraine (and thank god for that) we are clearly waging a kind of war against Russia. The crippling sanctions, the military buildup along Ukraine’s borders, the crackdown on Russian state media, the promised asset seizures—these are all forms of modern warfare. And there is joy in the halls of Congress about all of it, from virtually every wing of both parties. Watching Biden speak about Ukraine—watching him be cheered to the rafters for announcing that the United States was flooding oil markets in the same week as the UN issued yet another catastrophic climate change report; noting the rapturous response to his vow to fight Russia if it enters NATO territory; seeing the satisfaction on his face as he boasted about how much the Russian economy is tanking—what I mostly felt was profoundly depressed. The Russian invasion has been a triumph for war, militarism, and nationalism on all sides of the conflict. Defense stocks are up. Countries like Germany are massively increasing their military budgets. Countries like Finland which were deeply ambivalent about NATO are changing their mind. In the UK, Keir Starmer is using the crisis to purge his internal enemies on the left for the ostensible crime of critiquing NATO. Here in America, prominent commentators are ramping up anti-Russian rhetoric

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It will take Nvidia some time to fully analyse the impact of the massive cyberattack it suffered over the weekend, but it now seems like the source code for its latest DLSS tech has wound up online. The hackers made off with around 1TB of sensitive data and worryingly for Nvidia, the leaks may continue unless the groups' ransom demands are met. The latest leak comes via an anonymous user who sent TechPowerUp a screenshot of what appears to be a repository of files related to DLSS 2.2. The leak includes various C++ files, assets and even a programming guide aimed at developers building DLSS into their games. The leak is a major blow for Nvidia as DLSS is a proprietary and obviously an advanced bit of tech. AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution tech works differently and there's little stopping AMD from poring over these docs in the hope of learning Nvidia’s secrets. Implementing any of it though is a different matter, from a legal point of view.

Kapawe’no First Nation, about 370 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, says 169 potential graves have been found using ground-penetrating radar at the site of a former residential school at Grouard Mission.

In the ‘90s, the city passed a policy requiring the police department to pay some of their own legal costs. There’s no evidence that the department ever paid up.

Many anthropologists now think there were multiple populations spread across Africa, which were sometimes separated and sometimes interbred. If that is correct, humanity doesn’t have a central origin point. “Our findings are certainly perfectly compatible with that,” says McVean. “There’s a lot of very deep lineages within Africa, which are suggestive of that notion of there being multiple source populations, very deeply diverged, representing really ancient splits.”

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For years, the political scientist has claimed that Putin’s aggression toward Ukraine is caused by Western intervention. Have recent events changed his mind?

The woman was charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault.

"I was terrified. Honestly, I thought it was a joke," Harrison recalled. "I don't understand why they vandalized our car if they wanted us to leave." It was only after this that the group learned the couple who own the home did not have a permit for a short-term rental. According to Solano County Supervisor James Spering, it had recently been denied after a contentious debate and pushback from the neighborhood. "My understanding is that the permit was denied and delayed, and so I was surprised to see they have people staying in it," Spering told ABC7 News. He explained that short-term rentals are very contentious, especially in Green Valley and some of the residential neighborhoods throughout the county.

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While the warm welcome given by EU countries to refugees from Ukraine has been applauded, it has also highlighted stark differences in treatment given to migrants and refugees from the Middle East and Africa, particularly Syrians who came in 2015.

Monica De La Cruz, Mayra Flores, and Adrienne Peña Garza, all from Hidalgo County, hope to flip congressional seats across the region.