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Ros Atkins on…unanswered Andrew questions

Yesterday at 22:52 PM, via BBC News

The BBC’s Analysis Editor Ros Atkins looks at the questions around the way Buckingham Palace has responded to the various accusations against the King’s brother.

Business

Why youth unemployment is rising

Yesterday at 21:47 PM, via BBC News

Unemployment in the UK rose to its highest rate in nearly five years at the end of 2025

Education

US students and professors: tell us if the Epstein files have affected your university

Yesterday at 20:34 PM, via The Guardian

Some universities and colleges have taken action involving faculty or affiliates named in the documents. We want to hear about what’s happening where you study or work

As fallout from the large release of documents connected to Jeffrey Epstein continues, a handful of US universities have taken action against faculty or affiliates named in the files.

At some campuses, professors have been placed...

Science/Tech

US Lawyers Fire Up Privacy Class Action Accusing Lenovo of Bulk Data Transfers To China

Yesterday at 23:26 PM, via Slashdot

A US law firm has accused Lenovo of violating Justice Department strictures about the bulk transfer of data to foreign adversaries, namely China. From a report: The case filed by Almeida Law Group on behalf of San Francisco-based “Spencer Christy, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated” centers on the Data Security Program regulations implemented by the DOJ last year....

Science/Tech

Microsoft’s AI Chief Says All White-Collar Desk Work Will Be Automated Within 18 Months

Yesterday at 22:04 PM, via Slashdot

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman expects “human-level performance on most, if not all professional tasks” from AI, and believes most work involving “sitting down at a computer” — accounting, legal, marketing, project management — will be fully automated within the next year or 18 months. He pointed to exponential growth in computational power and predicted that creating a new AI model will...