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Tandy could not watch Wales’ winning kick

Today at 00:03 AM, via BBC News

Steve Tandy admits he could not watch Jarrod Evans’ match-winning penalty for Wales against Japan that left Eddie Jones frustrated.

World

Epstein files: Who else was mentioned?

Yesterday at 16:23 PM, via BBC News

Michael Wolff, Larry Summers, Peter Thiel – who are some of the other names mentioned in the newly released files?

Education

Judge bars Trump administration from cutting funding to University of California

Yesterday at 16:16 PM, via The Guardian

White House had demanded $1.2bn from UC to restore funding after saying it allowed antisemitism on campus

The Trump administration cannot fine the University of California or summarily cut the school system’s federal funding over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimination, a federal judge ruled late on Friday in a sharply worded decision.

US district judge Rita Lin in San...

Education

America’s Formula for Greatness Is Under Threat

Yesterday at 14:00 PM, via New York Times

Education, open markets, trade and immigration transformed the United States into the world’s dominant power, but each is now being weakened.

Lifestyle

Popular Hout Bay restaurant burns down

Yesterday at 12:55 PM, via The South African

Popular Hout Bay restaurant, Veldt DBE, burnt down on Friday while the nearby Ice Dream Italian ice-cream parlour also caught fire.

Science/Tech

EV Sales Are Still Rising. They Have Not Slumped

Today at 00:22 AM, via Slashdot

“Media headlines suggesting some slowdown in EV sales are simply incorrect,” writes the site Electrek, “and leave out the bigger picture that gas car sales actually are dropping…”Over the course ofthe last two years or so, sales of battery electric vehicles, whilecontinuing to grow, have posted lower year-over-year percentagegrowth rates than they had in years prior. EV sales used to grow...

Science/Tech

While Meta Crawls the Web for AI Training Data, Bruce Ediger Pranks Them with Endless Bad Data

Yesterday at 23:22 PM, via Slashdot

From the personal blog of interface expert Bruce Ediger:Early in March 2025, I noticed that a web crawler with a useragent string of meta-externalagent/1.1 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler) was hitting my blog’s machine at an unreasonable rate. I followed the URL and discovered this is what Meta uses to gather premium,human-generated content to train its LLMs....

Science/Tech

Sony Killed This Game in 2024. Three Developers Reverse-Engineered It Back to Life

Yesterday at 22:22 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this post from the gaming news site Aftermath: Concord, Sony Interactive Entertainment and Firewalk Studios’ Overwatch-like shooter, was live for just two weeks before it was pulled offline. Though Concord certainly had some dedicated players, it didn’t have many — which is why it may be surprising to hear that a group of players are reverse-engineering the game and...

Science/Tech

Why Solarpunk Is Already Happening In Africa

Yesterday at 21:22 PM, via Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a Substack post by economist/entrepreneur Skander Garroum:You know that feeling when you’re waiting for the cable guy, and they said ‘between 8am and 6pm, and you waste your entire day, and they never show up? Now imagine that, except the cable guy is ‘electricity,’ the day is ’50 years,’ and you’re one of 600 million people. At some point, you stop...

Health

Hochul Urged to Ban Horseshoe Crab Fishing

Yesterday at 12:00 PM, via New York Times

Supporters of the legislation argue it would protect a declining horseshoe crab population, while opponents warn it will harm the commercial fishing industry.