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Milan-Cortina 2026 closes with ceremony in Verona

Today at 00:08 AM, via BBC News

IOC president Kirsty Coventry says the athletes “showed us that the Olympic Games are a place for everyone” as she closes this year’s Winter Games.

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Watch: Highlights from the Baftas

Today at 00:07 AM, via BBC News

One Battle After Another took home best film and Hamnet also saw success in the outstanding British film category.

Africa

‘Emotional’ Mourinho should apologise – McCarthy

Friday at 13:43 PM, via BBC News

Benni McCarthy says Jose Mourinho should admit his “mistake” following the Benfica manager’s post-match comments after Real Madrid’s Vinicius Jr claimed he was racially abused.

Sport

Real Madrid and Barca want Rodri – Monday’s gossip

Today at 00:54 AM, via BBC News

Real Madrid and Barcelona will try to tempt Rodri from Manchester City, Liverpool’s hopes of signing Zeki Celik are boosted, Arsenal and Chelsea want Julian Alvarez, plus more.

Sport

Eze ‘wanted to prove something’ as he torments Spurs again

Yesterday at 23:14 PM, via BBC News

For those who have followed Eberechi Eze’s career, the sight of him wheeling away to celebrate an important goal towards the end of the season will not come as a surprise. And he ‘proved something’ as he scored twice as Premier League leaders Arsenal beat Tottenham 4-1.

Education

Send support for schoolchildren in England to be given £4bn overhaul

Today at 00:30 AM, via The Guardian

‘Generational’ reforms are a key moment for Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, and for Keir Starmer

Ministers will unveil a “generational” overhaul of special educational needs and disabilities (Send) support, pledging £4bn to transform provision in schools in England and warning councils they could lose control of Send services if they fail to meet their legal duties.

The reforms are...

Science/Tech

EVs Are Already Making Your Air Cleaner, Research Shows

Today at 00:34 AM, via Slashdot

Fossil fuels produce NO2, which is linked to asthma attacks, bronchitis, and higher risks of heart disease and stroke, according the EV news site Electrek. But the nonprofit news site Grist.org notes a new analysis showing that those emissions decreased by 1.1% for every increase of 200 electric vehicles — across nearly 1,700 ZIP codes.”A pretty small addition of cars at the ZIP code level...

Science/Tech

Long Before Tech CEOs Turned To Layoffs To Cover AI Expenses, There Was WorldCom

Yesterday at 23:34 PM, via Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes:Jeopardy time. A. This company spurred CEOs to make huge speculative capital expenditures based on wild unverified claims of future demand, resulting in the layoffs of tens of thousands of workers to reduce the resulting expenses, harming their core businesses. Q. What is OpenAI? Sorry, the correct response is, “What is WorldCom?” In 2002, WorldCom, the...

Science/Tech

‘Open Source Registries Don’t Have Enough Money To Implement Basic Security’

Yesterday at 22:34 PM, via Slashdot

Google and Microsoft contributed $5 million to launch Alpha-Omega in 2022 — a Linux Foundation project to help secure the open source supply chain. But its co-founder Michael Winser warns that open source registries are in financial peril, reports The Register, since they’re still relying on non-continuous funding from grants and donations. And it’s not just because bandwidth is expensive, he...

Science/Tech

Researchers Develop Detachable Crawling Robotic Hand

Yesterday at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot writes: Researchers have developed a robotic hand that can not only skitter about on its fingertips, it can also bend its fingers backward, connect and disconnect from a robotic arm, and pick up and carry one or more objects at a time. This article in Science News includes footage of the robotic arm reattaching itself to the skittering robot hand, which can...

Health

A Cancer Detection Test Fails in Major Study

Friday at 16:25 PM, via New York Times

A closely watched clinical trial in Britain that screened blood for early detection of cancer did not show a reduction in later stages of the disease.