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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

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...

Science/Tech

Amazon Pledges Up To $50 Billion To Expand AI, Supercomputing For US Government

Today at 01:20 AM, via Slashdot

Amazon is committing up to $50 billion to massively expand AI and supercomputing capacity for U.S. government cloud regions, adding 1.3 gigawatts of high-performance compute and giving federal agencies access to its full suite of AI tools. Reuters reports: The project, expected to break ground in 2026, will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing...

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.