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Education

Royal College of Psychiatrists faces member backlash over Qatar partnership

Today at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

More than 150 psychiatrists sign letter condemning contract to host exams in country with well-documented human rights abuses

The Royal College of Psychiatrists is facing a backlash from members over a controversial partnership with Qatar’s state healthcare provider.

The college has signed a contract with the state-owned Hamad Medical Corporation to host international exams in Doha, enabling...

Science/Tech

Lost Unix v4 Possibly Recovered on a Forgotten Bell Labs Tape From 1973

Today at 20:04 PM, via Slashdot

“A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years,” reports The Register. And the software librarian at Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum, Al Kossow of Bitsavers, believes the tape “has a pretty good chance of being recoverable.”Long-time Slashdot reader bobdevine says the tape will be analyzed at the Computer...

Science/Tech

Neurodiverse Professionals 25% More Satisfied With AI Tools and Agents

Today at 19:04 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC:Neurodiverse professionals may see unique benefits from artificial intelligence tools and agents, research suggests. With AI agent creation booming in 2025, people with conditions like ADHD, autism, dyslexia and more report a more level playing field in the workplace thanks to generative AI. A recent study from the UK’s Department for Business...

Science/Tech

America’s FAA Grounds MD-11s After Tuesday’s Crash in Kentucky

Today at 18:04 PM, via Slashdot

UPDATE (11/9): America’s Federal Aviation Administration has now grounded all U.S. MD-11 and MD-11F aircrafts after Tuesday’s crash “because the agency has determined the unsafe condition is likely to exist or develop in other products of the same type design,” according to an emergency airworthiness directive obtained by CBS News. American multinational freight company UPS had already...

Science/Tech

Rust Is Coming To Debian’s APT Package Manager

Today at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

A maintainer of Debian’s Advanced Package Tool (APT) “has announced plans to introduce hard Rust dependencies into APT starting May 2026,” reports the blog It’s FOSS.The integration targets critical areas like parsing .deb, .ar, and tar files plus HTTP signature verification using Sequoia. [APT maintainer Julian Andres Klode] said these components “would strongly benefit from memory safe...

Health

Infant Formula Recalled Amid Botulism Investigation

Today at 18:10 PM, via New York Times

Health agencies asked caregivers to stop using two batches of ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula after they found an increase in cases of infant botulism.