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Sport

Disjointed All Blacks survive Stormers scare 

Today at 21:25 PM, via The South African

The All Blacks got their Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry campaign off to a winning start against the Stormers, but not in the way they would have wanted.  

Sport

Scotland beat Canada to reach World Cup Qualifier

Today at 20:39 PM, via BBC News

Scotland hold on for a nervy nine-run victory over Candada to secure a place at next year’s World Cup Qualifier after a tense tri-series match in Forfarshire.

Education

The Guardian view on Jason Arday: diversity advocates must stand firm | Editorial

Today at 19:00 PM, via The Guardian

Serious failings by one academic, and his bosses at the University of Cambridge, should not be allowed to undermine wider progressive goals

Jason Arday’s resignation from the University of Cambridge on Wednesday marked a full stop of sorts, but not an end to the furore surrounding his promotion to a professorship at the age of 37. Academic colleagues have demanded, with justification, that an...

Education

Cambridge academics reject university’s attempt to end row over Jason Arday

Today at 18:49 PM, via The Guardian

Group calls for ‘thorough and transparent investigation’ of hiring of professor who resigned after his claims came under scrutiny

The University of Cambridge has announced a review into the way it vets and hires senior academic staff in an effort to fend off external and internal criticism of its appointment of Jason Arday as a professor.

But a group of Cambridge academics quickly rejected the...

Science/Tech

‘Asimov Was Right’ About Rules For Robots, Says Ex-US Cyber Director

Today at 22:00 PM, via Slashdot

Former U.S. National Cyber Director Chris Inglis says the biggest AI risk isn’t sentience but autonomy. “What I’m worried about is that they get to choose what and where they do something, and under what rules they do it,” he said, citing recent cases of AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta escaping security sandboxes. He argues developers need stronger safeguards, monitoring, and human...

Science/Tech

Framework Notifies ‘All Customers’ of a Data Breach Via Compromised Metabase BI Service

Today at 21:00 PM, via Slashdot

“Framework has been sending out email notifications to customers alerting of a limited data breach in which customer information was accessed through a Metabase BI service zero-day exploit,” writes Slashdot reader DuoDreamer. Data includes customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses. “Framework is investigating whether or not this included Framework for Business...

Health

This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature

Yesterday at 20:00 PM, via New York Times

Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.