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World

Israel assassinates a Hezbollah commander

Today at 00:10 AM, via NPR

Hezbollah is vowing a response after Israel killed its No. 2 commander in a Beirut neighborhood — an assassination the group calls a “red line.”

Africa

Sri Lanka & Zimbabwe in Pakistan 2025

Sunday at 21:01 PM, via BBC News

Fixtures, results and scorecards from Sri Lanka’s ODI tour of Pakistan, and the Twenty20 tri-series that follows which also involves Zimbabwe.

Education

UK politics: Risk of Maccabi Tel Aviv facing antisemitic attacks not ‘predominant’ reason for match ban, police tell MPs – as it happened

Yesterday at 19:34 PM, via The Guardian

West Midlands police’s assistant chief constable says threat of violence by Maccabi fans was more important consideration

Badenoch says the government should be cutting regulation.

And she claims she can do this because, when she was business secretary, she was able to cut regulation. As an example, she says she ruled about mandatory ethnicity pay reporting.

Fewer and fewer people are working...

Education

Nigeria: 265 Pupils Kidnapped From St. Mary’s School Are Still in the Hands of Kidnappers – Bishop Tells Fides – ‘This Is the Work of Criminals’

Yesterday at 19:33 PM, via AllAfrica

[Agenzia Fides] Abuja — “The kidnappers are almost certainly criminals seeking illicit gain by demanding a ransom for the release of the young people they have captured,” Msgr. Bulus Dauwa Yohanna of Kontagora, the diocese where several hundred students were kidnapped on November 21 by armed bandits who stormed St. Mary’s Catholic primary and secondary school in the community of Papiri, told...

Science/Tech

Hacker Conference Installed a Literal Antivirus Monitoring System

Today at 05:30 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Hacker conferences — like all conventions — are notorious for giving attendees a parting gift of mystery illness. To combat “con crud,” New Zealand’s premier hacker conference, Kawaiicon, quietly launched a real-time, room-by-room carbon dioxide monitoring system for attendees. To get the system up and running, event organizers installed DIY CO2...

Science/Tech

Mind-Altering ‘Brain Weapons’ No Longer Only Science Fiction, Say Researchers

Today at 04:02 AM, via Slashdot

Researchers warn that rapid advances in neuroscience, pharmacology, and AI are bringing “brain weapons” out of science fiction and into real-world plausibility. They argue current arms treaties don’t adequately cover these emerging tools and call for a new, proactive framework to prevent the weaponization of the human mind. The Guardian reports: Michael Crowley and Malcolm Dando, of Bradford...

Science/Tech

Trump Launches Genesis Mission, a Manhattan Project-Level AI Push

Today at 03:25 AM, via Slashdot

BrianFagioli writes: President Trump has issued a sweeping executive order that creates the Genesis Mission, a national AI program he compares to a Manhattan Project level effort. It centralizes DOE supercomputers, national lab resources, massive scientific datasets, and new AI foundation models into a single platform meant to fast track research in areas like fusion, biotech, microelectronics,...

Science/Tech

Jony Ive and Sam Altman Say They Finally Have an AI Hardware Prototype

Today at 02:45 AM, via Slashdot

Sam Altman and Jony Ive say they’ve settled on a prototype for OpenAI’s first hardware device that could ship in “less than” two years. The Verge reports: In an interview with Laurene Powell Jobs at Emerson Collective’s 2025 Demo Day, they said they are currently prototyping the device, and when asked about a timeframe, Ive said it could arrive in “less than” two years. Little has been revealed...

Motoring

WATCH: The charm of a manual T-Cross

Yesterday at 15:38 PM, via The Citizen

Zippy and fun, this manual T-Cross proves the basics still work – and that petrol power isn’t dead yet.