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Sport

France hammer Scotland to set up England showdown

Today at 20:21 PM, via BBC News

France score 11 tries on their way to a resounding 69-28 win over Scotland, to set up a final day showdown with England for the Women’s Six Nations title.

Education

‘It’s about recognising our role in history’: Bradford exhibition to revisit live Somali display

Today at 15:00 PM, via The Guardian

At the city’s Great Exhibition of 1904, 57 Somali men, women and children cooked, weaved and danced for visitors

It was, the posters said, a rare chance to see a “little known but interesting people”: a live display of 57 Somali men, women and children who cooked, weaved and danced for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of Edwardians who flocked to Yorkshire to see them.

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Science/Tech

Social Media Sites Got Information from Ad Trackers on US State Health Insurance Sites

Today at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

All 20 of America’s state-run healthcare marketplace sites “include advertising trackers that share information with Big Tech companies,” reports Gizmodo, citing a report from Bloomberg:Per the report, seven million Americans bought their health insurance through state exchanges in 2026, and many of them may have had personal information shared with companies, including Meta, TikTok, Snap,...

Science/Tech

10 People Called Police to Report Bigfoot Sighting in Ohio

Today at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

CNN reports on a “sudden surge of claimed sightings” of “unidentified figures averaging 8 feet tall in wooded areas” along Ohio’s Mahoning River.”And it stopped just as quickly as it started,” says Jeremiah Byron, host of the Bigfoot Society Podcast, which collected and mapped the reports …. Byron doesn’t take every report at face value, making sure he talks to people directly before...

Science/Tech

Newspaper Chain’s Reporters Withhold Their Bylines to Protest ‘AI-Assisted’ Articles

Today at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

A chain of 30 U.S. newspapers including the Sacramento Bee, the Miami Herald and the Idaho Statesman “has started to use a new AI tool that can summarize traditional articles and spit out different versions for different audiences,” reports the New York Times. And the chain’s reporters “are not happy about it.”Journalists in many of the company’s newsrooms are now withholding their bylines from...

Science/Tech

Why Some US Schools Are Cutting Back On the Technology They Spent Billions On

Today at 16:34 PM, via Slashdot

America’s school districts “spent billions on technology during the pandemic,” reports the Washington Post.”But now some states are limiting in-school screen time because of concerns about its impact on children.”Nationwide [U.S.] schools invested at least $15 billion and possibly as much as $35 billion from federal pandemic relief funds on laptops, learning software and other technology...

Health

Trump Plans to Fire F.D.A. Commissioner Marty Makary

Yesterday at 22:40 PM, via New York Times

Dr. Makary has been a supporter of the Make American Healthy Again Movement but made some enemies in the administration over vaping, the abortion pill and rejections of new drugs.