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Business

What is DeepSeek?

Yesterday at 21:07 PM, via BBC News

The Chinese company is making a major splash in AI with the release of its chatbot app in the US.

Education

The Guardian view on teachers’ pay: colleges don’t deserve second-class status | Editorial

Yesterday at 20:56 PM, via The Guardian

College staff deserve a pay rise along with their peers. Widening the gap with schools would be a serious mistake

Teachers at sixth-form colleges in England should not be missing out on the 5.5% pay rise awarded to their colleagues across the state school sector. That up to 4,000 of them will do so, unless the government agrees to fund a backdated increase, is due to the messy patchwork of...

Education

Keir Starmer did not discuss threat of US tariffs on UK imports in first call with Donald Trump, No 10 says – UK politics live

Yesterday at 17:08 PM, via The Guardian

Downing Street says PM’s call with Trump was ‘warm’ and did not include tariffs, Greenland, defence-spending or Ukraine

The hearing has stopped for a short break. Heather Hallett, the chair, tells Badenoch that her evidence will be finished by lunchtime.

Keith is now asking Badenoch about the fourth report produced by the Race Disparity Unit. It was produced in December 2021.

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Science/Tech

US Solar Boom Continues, But It’s Offset By Rising Power Use

Today at 03:40 AM, via Slashdot

In the first 11 months of 2024, solar energy generation in the US grew by 30%, enabling wind and solar combined to surpass coal for the first time. However, as Ars Technica’s John Timmer reports, “U.S. energy demand saw an increase of nearly 3 percent, which is roughly double the amount of additional solar generation.” He continues: “Should electric use continue to grow at a similar pace,...

Science/Tech

Software Flaw Exposes Millions of Subarus, Rivers of Driver Data

Today at 03:00 AM, via Slashdot

chicksdaddy share a report from the Security Ledger: Vulnerabilities in Subaru’s STARLINK telematics software enabled two, independent security researchers to gain unrestricted access to millions of Subaru vehicles deployed in the U.S., Canada and Japan. In a report published Thursday researchers Sam Curry and Shubham Shah revealed a now-patched flaw in Subaru’s STARLINK connected vehicle...

Health

What We Know About Bird Flu

Yesterday at 17:18 PM, via New York Times

In recent months, bird flu has started raising red flags among scientists and public health officials. Apoorva Mandavilli, a New York Times reporter who covers infectious diseases, explains why we need to start taking bird flu seriously.

Health

‘This Is a Dangerous Virus’

Yesterday at 10:00 AM, via New York Times

A bird-flu pandemic is far from inevitable. But health experts are closely monitoring an outbreak that could quickly escalate among people.