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TUESDAY, 17 FEBRUARY 2026, 23:01

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Shakhtar boss pays Ukrainian racer $200,000 after Games disqualification

Today at 21:25 PM, via Daily Maverick

MILAN, Feb 17 (Reuters) – The owner of Ukrainian football club Shakhtar Donetsk has donated more than $200,000 to skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych after the athlete was disqualified from the Milano Cortina Winter Games before competing over the use of a helmet depicting Ukrainian athletes killed in the war with Russia, the club said on Tuesday.

Business

Why youth unemployment is rising

Today 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

Sport

Airee stars as Nepal chase down 170 to beat Scotland

Today at 20:41 PM, via BBC News

Scotland’s T20 World Cup campaign finishes on a low note as Nepal chase down 170 in a thrilling contest at the Wankhede Stadium to claim their first victory on this stage since 2014.

Education

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

Today 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

The Small English Town Swept Up in the Global AI Arms Race

Today at 22:45 PM, via Slashdot

Residents of Potters Bar, a small town just north of London, are trying to block what would be one of Europe’s largest data centers from being built on 85 acres of rolling farmland that separates their community from the neighboring village of South Mimms. Multinational operator Equinix acquired the land last October after the local council granted planning permission in January 2025, and the...

Science/Tech

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

Today 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...