Tue 6 Oct: Nothing timed today. Wed 7 Oct: 12:00–13:00, Pilates at Next.Move Churchill (Italská 69/2584, Praha). Your booking is confirmed. Thu 8 Oct: Nothing timed.

Ukraine

• Three Russian guided bombs hit Kharkiv's Slobidskyi district on Monday, killing 6 and injuring 59, including three children. (Kyiv Post)
• A grain ship caught fire and sank in Romania's Black Sea zone, killing 2, and 11 people were rescued. Zelensky blames a Russian drone. (Al Jazeera)
• Kyiv says its strikes have knocked out 51% of Russia's oil refining capacity. This hasn't been independently verified. (AP/PBS)
• A Russian drone hit near the Palanca border crossing and injured a Moldovan border officer. That's the first confirmed Moldovan injury from a Russian drone. Overnight Russia launched 205 drones and Ukraine says it downed 172. (ISW)

Iran

• Oil minister Mohsen Paknejad resigned. Inflation is around 85–90%, and the rial hit a record low of about 2.7 million to the dollar. (Guardian, Iran International)
• A third tanker in two days was hit near Hormuz, according to UKMTO. CENTCOM says it has redirected 130 vessels since the US blockade resumed on 14 July. (Iran International)
• Pezeshkian called talks with the US "meaningless", while Trump says he's still open to direct negotiations. Iran says Hormuz could reopen within seven days if its conditions are met. (Euronews)

• Andrea Sempio's lawyer Liborio Cataliotti says they rule out an interrogation. Their consultants will focus on trace 33, which they say isn't Sempio's. The deadline for defence filings is 18 October. (La Provincia Pavese)
• Stasi's lawyer Giada Bocellari says the defence has a new documentary element that "farà scalpore" and doesn't concern the 2007 investigation. They're working on a request for revision. (LaPresse)
• The Milan Prosecutor General (Nanni) has the Pavia files, but no decision on a revision yet. No standout new YouTube or X item was flagged.

• Bitwig: no new release. The latest is still 6.1.3 from 23 September. (Bitwig)
• Traktor: no new release. Pro 4.5.1 from 9 July is still current. (NI Community)
• New tutorials: I didn't find a worthwhile Bitwig or Traktor YouTube tutorial from the last 1–2 days.
• Ubuntu tip: ip -br a shows every network interface, its state and its IP on one line each. It's a much quicker read than plain ip a.
• Package: sudo apt install tldr gives you short, example-first cheat sheets for commands. Try tldr tar when you can't face the man page.

Click an agent's name in the chat header, or press Cmd+Shift+I, to open its info pane. It shows a live preview of that agent's computer above its Routines list, so you can see at a glance what's scheduled, like this paper's daily 7:27 run. The gear next to the "X" opens that agent's own settings, including its notifications, so you can quiet one chatty assistant without muting the rest.

• New Zealand's wētāpunga, the world's heaviest insect, has moved from "endangered" to "nationally recovering" after 11,000 captive-bred insects were released. (Guardian)
• Eighteen endangered northern quolls are back in a predator-free refuge in north Queensland. (Australian Wildlife Conservancy)
• An India-born cheetah had five cubs at Kuno National Park. (The Hindu)

On Venus a day is longer than a year. It takes about 243 Earth days to turn once on its axis, but only about 225 to go around the Sun. It also spins backwards compared with most planets.

Antonello da Messina, Annunciata (c. 1475–76), Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo. Mary is alone, caught just after the message arrives, with no angel in the picture. Longhi called her raised hand "la più bella mano che io conosca - nell'arte". Vittorio Sgarbi, quoted in il Giornale (4 Oct 2007): «un'Annunciazione senza angelo… Maria nel dipinto è sola, assoluta, con il mantello come una corazza, e porta con sé, dentro di sé, l'angelo e il suo messaggio, e l'accettazione del suo destino». (il Giornale)

palimpsest — a surface, place or text that has been written over again and again, with traces of earlier layers still showing through.

• "Prague's old town is a palimpsest of Gothic, Baroque and communist-era façades."
• "The contract became a palimpsest of tracked changes from four different lawyers."

• počasí (POH-chah-see), "weather": Jaké bude zítra počasí? (What will the weather be like tomorrow?)
• deštník (DESHT-neek), "umbrella": Dnes deštník nepotřebuješ. (You don't need an umbrella today.)