Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here, and finish your day with our Afternoon Update newsletterMorning everyone. Israeli troops have been accused of the “field execution” of a Palestinian man delivering food aid into Gaza. Also in the Middle East, the US-Iran ceasefire continued to unravel with tit-for-tat strikes across the Gulf region.We examine the Telstra glitch that had the company’s network thinking it was back in 2006, the brown huntsman is declared (maybe) the world’s fastest spider, and the World Cup resumes with France v Morocco in the quarter-finals.Speedy spider | Analysis of more than 250 spider species by scientists in the UK and Germany has concluded that the giant Australian spider the brown huntsman is the world’s quickest.Back in time | Our technology reporter Josh Taylor explains how a software glitch meant the Telstra network thought it was back in November 2006, triggering an outage and a disastrous 48 hours for the company. Economist John Quiggin argues that the outage is the result of prioritising competition minus the benefits.Protest too much | The New South Wales government has already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on legal fees to unsuccessfully defend constitutional challenges against protest laws.Carbon plea | A former chief economist at mining company BHP says stronger climate policy by governments is needed to “move the needle” and incentivise tough decarbonisation decisions at major resource companies.Neil deal | Neil, the one-tonne southern elephant seal whose beachside antics have attracted millions of views on social media, appears to have returned to sea. Continue reading...
Source: The Guardian Australia
