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Sport

Juventus to step up Silva efforts – Sunday’s gossip

Yesterday at 23:11 PM, via BBC News

Juventus are hoping to beat their rivals to sign Manchester City’s Bernardo Silva, Barcelona continue their interest in Chelsea’s Joao Pedro, Coventry City look at a move for Dutch midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum, plus more.

Education

Canvas hack: is it ever a good idea to pay a ransom, and what happens to the data?

Yesterday at 20:00 PM, via The Guardian

Businesses are advised against paying – but as the Canvas platform hack shows, many are prepared to deal to protect users’ privacy

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After a week of outages, hundreds of millions of students’ data stolen, delayed assignment due dates, and school login pages being defaced by hackers, US tech firm Instructure – which operates the...

Education

La Gradiva review – stunning coming-of-age story of young love and sexual tension

Yesterday at 13:25 PM, via The Guardian

Cannes film festival: Marine Atlan’s debut film follows a group of French high-school kids and their long-suffering teacher on a visit to Pompeii and Naples

Here is cinematographer turned director Marine Atlan’s beautiful debut film about young love, superbly acted and directed. It is a reminder of how fundamentally dishonest and pseudosophisticated it is to laugh dismissively at the...

Education

What A.I. Kant Do

Yesterday at 13:00 PM, via New York Times

Could we English majors have a future after all?

Education

Finishing School

Yesterday at 12:33 PM, via New York Times

It’s graduation season, a time of aspiration and anxiety. Today is about the aspiration — the wisdom to be gleaned from great commencement addresses.

Science/Tech

Some Datacenters Divert Power from Homes. Will It Drive Homeowners to Solar and Batteries?

Today at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek: A Nevada utility just told 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents that it’s redirecting 75% of their electricity supply to data centers, and they have less than a year to find a new power source. It’s one of the starkest examples yet of the AI boom’s impact on everyday Americans… NV Energy needs the capacity for data centers being built by Google,...

Science/Tech

An Entire Wikipedia That’s 100% AI Hallucinations

Today at 00:34 AM, via Slashdot

“Every link leads to an entry that does not exist yet,” explains the GitHub page for a Wikipedia-like site called Halupedia. “Until you click it, at which point an LLM pretends it has always existed and writes it for you, in the deadpan register of a 19th-century scholarly press…”Every article is invented on demand. The footnotes are also lies… The hardest problem with an infinite, on-demand...

Science/Tech

How I Added an LLM-Based Grammar Checking + TeX Math Import To LibreOffice

Yesterday at 23:34 PM, via Slashdot

Former Microsoft programmer Keith Curtis “wrote and self-published After the Software Wars to explain the caliber of free and open source software,” according to his entry on Wikipedia, “and why he believes Linux is technically superior to any proprietary OS.” He’s also KeithCu (long-time Slashdot reader #925,649), and has written a blog post on “How I added an LLM-based grammar checking + TeX...

Science/Tech

The Apple-OpenAI Alliance is Fraying, Setting Up a Possible Legal Fight

Yesterday at 22:34 PM, via Slashdot

Bloomberg reports that Apple’s two-year-old partnership with OpenAI “has become strained, according to people familiar with the matter.” Bloomberg describes OpenAI as “failing to see the expected benefits from the deal and now preparing possible legal action.”OpenAI lawyers are actively working with an outside legal firm on a range of options that could be formally executed in the near future,...

Health

Some Medicare Patients Can Now Get Free CBD

Friday at 16:47 PM, via New York Times

The Trump administration has authorized a test program to see if the cannabis compound can ease some symptoms and reduce health care costs among older patients.