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World

Timmy the humpback whale found dead off Danish coast

Today at 17:12 PM, via NPR

A humpback whale found dead this week off a Danish island has been identified as the animal released two weeks ago in a spectacular and controversial rescue effort after repeatedly becoming stranded off Germany’s Baltic Sea coast, Danish authorities said Saturday.

Sport

Ireland ‘desperate to show best version’ – Bemand

Today at 22:15 PM, via BBC News

Ireland head coach Scott Bemand says his side “are desperate to get on the pitch and show people what they can do” during Sunday’s final Six Nations match against Scotland at the Aviva Stadium [14:30 BST].

Sport

Kane nets hat-trick as Bayern thrash Cologne

Today at 21:28 PM, via BBC News

England captain Harry Kane scores his fourth hat-trick of the season as Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich thrashed Cologne in their last league game of the campaign.

Education

Canvas hack: is it ever a good idea to pay a ransom, and what happens to the data?

Today at 20:00 PM, via The Guardian

Businesses are advised against paying – but as the Canvas platform hack shows, many are prepared to deal to protect users’ privacy

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After a week of outages, hundreds of millions of students’ data stolen, delayed assignment due dates, and school login pages being defaced by hackers, US tech firm Instructure – which operates the...

Education

La Gradiva review – stunning coming-of-age story of young love and sexual tension

Today at 13:25 PM, via The Guardian

Cannes film festival: Marine Atlan’s debut film follows a group of French high-school kids and their long-suffering teacher on a visit to Pompeii and Naples

Here is cinematographer turned director Marine Atlan’s beautiful debut film about young love, superbly acted and directed. It is a reminder of how fundamentally dishonest and pseudosophisticated it is to laugh dismissively at the...

Education

What A.I. Kant Do

Today at 13:00 PM, via New York Times

Could we English majors have a future after all?

Education

Finishing School

Today at 12:33 PM, via New York Times

It’s graduation season, a time of aspiration and anxiety. Today is about the aspiration — the wisdom to be gleaned from great commencement addresses.

Science/Tech

The Apple-OpenAI Alliance is Fraying, Setting Up a Possible Legal Fight

Today at 22:34 PM, via Slashdot

Bloomberg reports that Apple’s two-year-old partnership with OpenAI “has become strained, according to people familiar with the matter.” Bloomberg describes OpenAI as “failing to see the expected benefits from the deal and now preparing possible legal action.”OpenAI lawyers are actively working with an outside legal firm on a range of options that could be formally executed in the near future,...

Science/Tech

California Law Limits ‘Recyling’ Logo in New Attack on Plastic Waste

Today at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

“Most of the plastic waste in California is about to lose the recycling symbol,” writes the Washington Post’s “climate coach.”The “chasing arrows” symbol, created in 1970 by a college student inspired by the burgeoning environmental movement, has been stamped indiscriminately on plastic bottles, clamshell takeout containers, chip bags and more for decades. The majority of the items emblazoned...

Science/Tech

Anthropic’s Mythos Helped Build a Working macOS Exploit in Five Days

Today at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

“The vulnerability is simple in practice,” writes Tom’s Hardware: “run a command as a standard user and gain root (administrator) access to the machine.”And it was Mythos Preview that helped the security researchers at Palo Alto-based Calif bypass a five-year Apple security effort in just five days. The blog 9to5Mac reports:Last year, Apple introduced Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE), a...

Science/Tech

The Search for the Next ‘James Bond’ Actor Has Begun

Today at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

Variety reports:Amazon MGM Studios started auditioning actors for the part of 007 in the past few weeks, Variety has learned… The next James Bond film will be directed by Denis Villeneuve, the filmmaker behind the “Dune” franchise, “Arrival” and “Sicario.” Amy Pascal of the “Spider-Man” films and David Heyman of the “Harry Potter” series will produce the picture, which will feature a script...

Health

Some Medicare Patients Can Now Get Free CBD

Yesterday at 16:47 PM, via New York Times

The Trump administration has authorized a test program to see if the cannabis compound can ease some symptoms and reduce health care costs among older patients.