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Sport

Amorim hails Mount after win at Wolves

Today at 01:07 AM, via BBC News

Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim praises the performance of Mason Mount after the midfielder scored in a 4-1 win at Wolves

Education

Rename ‘home-to-school transport’ to tackle spiralling costs, MPs told

Yesterday at 22:59 PM, via The Guardian

Costs in England have now risen to £2.3bn a year, with local authorities arguing eligible pupils don’t always need a ‘door-to-door taxi service’

“Home-to-school transport” should be renamed “assisted travel to school” to help manage parental expectations, MPs on the public accounts committee have been told.

While councils are committed to helping children entitled to support to get to school,...

Science/Tech

Nvidia Can Sell H200 Chips To China For 25% US Cut

Today at 03:30 AM, via Slashdot

The Trump administration will allow Nvidia to resume selling H200 chips to China, but only if the U.S. government takes a 25% cut. Axios reports: Trump said on Truth Social that he’ll allow Nvidia to sell H200 chips — the generation of chips before its current, more-advanced Blackwell lineup — to China, with the U.S. government pocketing a quarter of the revenue. He said he would apply “the...

Science/Tech

More Than 200 Environmental Groups Demand Halt To New US Datacenters

Today at 03:10 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: A coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a national moratorium on new datacenters in the U.S., the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming artificial intelligence industry that has been blamed for escalating electricity bills and worsening the climate crisis. The green groups, including Greenpeace, Friends of...

Science/Tech

Taiwan Cries Censorship As Government Bans Rednote

Today at 02:30 AM, via Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader hackingbear writes: Taiwan’s government has ordered a one-year block of a popular, mainland Chinese-owned social media app Xiaohongshu, also known as The Little RedNote, citing its failure to cooperate with authorities over fraud-related concerns. Taiwan’s Ministry of the Interior on Thursday cited Xiaohongshu’s, which does not have business presence on the island,...

Science/Tech

IBM To Buy Confluent For $11 Billion To Expand AI Services

Today at 01:50 AM, via Slashdot

IBM is buying Confluent for $11 billion in a major push to own real-time data streaming infrastructure essential for enterprise AI workloads. It marks Big Blue’s biggest acquisition since Red Hat in 2019. Bloomberg reports: The AI boom has touched off billions of dollars in deals for businesses that build, train or leverage the technology, propelling the value of an entire ecosystem of data...

Health

New mpox strain identified in England

Yesterday at 15:56 PM, via BBC News

It’s a mix of two major types of the virus, and has been found in someone who recently returned from Asia.