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MONDAY, 15 DECEMBER 2025, 20:34

Sport

Burn suffers broken rib and punctured lung

Today at 19:55 PM, via BBC News

Newcastle United defender Dan Burn is set for a spell out of action after suffering a broken rib and punctured lung during the derby defeat against Sunderland.

Education

Exam board Pearson fined £2m for ‘serious’ breaches in standards

Today at 19:48 PM, via The Guardian

Ofqual issues fines over English proficiency test which some candidates sat at home, A-level Chinese and GCSE English

One of the world’s biggest providers of educational services has been fined more than £2m for a range of serious breaches related to examination standards that could have affected tens of thousands of students.

Pearson, a FTSE 100 listed company, was hit by financial penalties...

Science/Tech

Why Gen Z Is Trimming Holiday Budgets 23 Percent And Still Coming Out Ahead With AI

Today at 20:18 PM, via Tech Financials

SAN FRANCISCO – December 15, 2025 (PinionNewswire) — Gen Z thrives on sharing holiday deals, gifts, and moments online. But this year, many are finding it harder to manage money across traditional and digital worlds amid rising costs and life transitions. Bluwhale, the AI-powered financial platform, delivers a solution embraced by Gen Z in particular: […]

Science/Tech

Google To Retire ‘Dark Web Report’ Tool That Scanned for Leaked User Data

Today at 20:06 PM, via Slashdot

Google has decided to retire its free dark web monitoring tool, saying it wasn’t as helpful as the company hoped. From a report: In a support page, Google announced the discontinuation of the “dark web report” tool, two years after offering it as a free perk to Gmail users before expanding it more broadly. The feature worked by scanning for your email addresses to determine whether they had...

Science/Tech

US Tech Force Aims To Recruit 1,000 Technologists

Today at 19:21 PM, via Slashdot

The Trump administration announced Monday the United States Tech Force, a new program to recruit around 1,000 technologists for two-year government stints starting as soon as March — less than a year after dismantling several federal technology teams and driving thousands of tech workers out of their jobs. The program will primarily recruit early-career software engineers and data scientists,...