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SATURDAY, 09 MAY 2026, 22:01

Sport

Manchester City beat stubborn Brentford to keep title race alive

Today at 21:20 PM, via BBC News

Goals from Jeremy Doku, Erling Haaland and Omar Marmoush help Manchester City beat Brentford 3-0 at the Etihad Stadium to secure a vital win in the Premier League title race, as City move two points behind leaders Arsenal with three games remaining.

Education

‘It’s about recognising our role in history’: Bradford exhibition to revisit live Somali display

Today at 15:00 PM, via The Guardian

At the city’s Great Exhibition of 1904, 57 Somali men, women and children cooked, weaved and danced for visitors

It was, the posters said, a rare chance to see a “little known but interesting people”: a live display of 57 Somali men, women and children who cooked, weaved and danced for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of Edwardians who flocked to Yorkshire to see them.

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Science/Tech

Plant Seeds Do Something Incredible When the Sound of Rain Strikes

Today at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

“Plant seeds can sense the vibrations generated by falling raindrops,” reports ScienceAlert, “and respond by waking from their state of dormancy to welcome the water, new research shows…. to germinate in ‘anticipation’ of the coming deluge.”The finding, discovered by MIT mechanical engineers Nicholas Makris and Cadine Navarro, offers the first direct evidence that seeds and seedlings can sense...

Science/Tech

Cisco Releases Open-Source ‘DNA Test for AI Models’

Today at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

Cisco has released an open-source tool “to trace the origins of AI models,” reports SC World, “and compare model similarities for great visibility into the AI supply chain.”[Cisco’s Model Provenance Kit] is a Python toolkit and command-line interface (CLI) that looks at signals such as metadata and weights to create a “fingerprint” for AI models that can then be compared to other model...

Science/Tech

Social Media Sites Got Information from Ad Trackers on US State Health Insurance Sites

Today at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

All 20 of America’s state-run healthcare marketplace sites “include advertising trackers that share information with Big Tech companies,” reports Gizmodo, citing a report from Bloomberg:Per the report, seven million Americans bought their health insurance through state exchanges in 2026, and many of them may have had personal information shared with companies, including Meta, TikTok, Snap,...

Science/Tech

10 People Called Police to Report Bigfoot Sighting in Ohio

Today at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

CNN reports on a “sudden surge of claimed sightings” of “unidentified figures averaging 8 feet tall in wooded areas” along Ohio’s Mahoning River.”And it stopped just as quickly as it started,” says Jeremiah Byron, host of the Bigfoot Society Podcast, which collected and mapped the reports …. Byron doesn’t take every report at face value, making sure he talks to people directly before...

Health

Trump Plans to Fire F.D.A. Commissioner Marty Makary

Yesterday at 22:40 PM, via New York Times

Dr. Makary has been a supporter of the Make American Healthy Again Movement but made some enemies in the administration over vaping, the abortion pill and rejections of new drugs.