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Business

Jobs set to be cut at Wedgwood

Today at 20:10 PM, via BBC News

Seventy workers at the Staffordshire site were put on temporary leave last year due to slow demand.

Education

Rising Send costs will ‘bankrupt’ eight in 10 English local authorities, leaders say

Today at 20:24 PM, via The Guardian

Councils call on ministers to write off special educational needs and disability deficits that are predicted to reach £14bn in 2028

Eight in 10 English local authorities will be in effect bankrupted by rising special educational needs spending unless the government introduces significant reforms to the system, council leaders have said.

Councils have called on ministers to write off special...

Education

Ghana: An Investment in African Education Is an Investment in a Brighter Future

Today at 17:19 PM, via AllAfrica

[Ghanaian Times] AFRICA stands at a pivotal moment in its education journey. Across Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda and other countries across the continent are working to improve their domestic education systems. However, pressures stretch across the entire system, threatening the very heart of education. UNICEF warns that six million more children may be left out of school over the...

Science/Tech

Musk Predicts SpaceX Will Launch More AI Compute Per Year Than the Cumulative Total on Earth

Today at 22:00 PM, via Slashdot

Elon Musk told podcast host Dwarkesh Patel and Stripe co-founder John Collison that space will become the most economically compelling location for AI data centers in less than 36 months, a prediction rooted not in some exotic technical breakthrough but in the basic math of electricity supply: chip output is growing exponentially, and electrical output outside China is essentially flat. Solar...

Science/Tech

Automattic and the Internet Archive Team Up To Fight Link Rot

Today at 21:00 PM, via Slashdot

Automattic and the Internet Archive have released a free, open-source WordPress plugin that automatically detects broken outbound links on a site and redirects visitors to archived Wayback Machine copies instead of serving them a 404 error. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer, which launched last fall and is available on WordPress.org, runs in the background scanning posts for dead...

Health

TrumpRx Is Set to Go Live on Thursday

Today at 19:33 PM, via New York Times

The government website is meant to connect Americans with drug companies to buy prescriptions directly with their own money. It is not clear how many patients will save money.

Health

What Does It Mean to Be Touch-Starved?

Today at 18:06 PM, via New York Times

Research says that our health can suffer when we don’t experience enough physical contact. Here’s how to get more.