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Sport

Charity U-turn on banned choir at London Marathon

Today at 00:25 AM, via BBC News

A choir told by a disability charity that it was not welcome at Sunday’s London Marathon because its founder holds gender-critical views is told it can now perform at the event.

Sport

Chelsea team news leaks ‘need to stop’ – McFarlane

Yesterday at 23:59 PM, via BBC News

Chelsea interim boss Calum McFarlane says team news leaks “need to stop” but insists the issue has been “addressed” as they prepare for their FA Cup semi-final against Leeds.

Education

A federal program has helped Native Hawaiian medical students for 35 years. It’s now being sued for discrimination

Yesterday at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Do No Harm, a conservative group, wants the scholarship, which has helped islands’ underserved communities, declared unconstitutional

Doctors and health experts in Hawaii say a decades-old federal program meant to support Native Hawaiians through medical school and better serve some of the islands’ most underserved communities is under attack after a conservative group filed suit.

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Education

Liberia: House Endorses Bong Mining Probe Report, Passes Paynesville School System Act

Friday at 18:53 PM, via AllAfrica

[FrontPageAfrica] Capitol Hill — The House of Representatives has decided on two key issues – endorsing the Joint Committee on Lands, Mines and Energy; and Natural Resources and Environment following of an investigation into complaints filed against H&K Mining Company and Huren Mining Company in Bong County Electoral District #3, and then passed into law the Paynesville School System Act of 2026.

Science/Tech

Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill

Yesterday at 23:26 PM, via Slashdot

Colorado’s “age-attestation” bill left the House committee with new exemptions for open-source operating systems, applications, code repositories, and containerized software distribution, reports the blog Linuxiac:[The bill] focuses on operating system providers and application stores. Its main requirement is that these providers supply an age-related signal via an interface, so applications...

Science/Tech

Is the World Ready For a Car Without a Rear Window?

Yesterday at 22:19 PM, via Slashdot

There’s a glass roof — but no rear-view window. Instead the Polestar 4 replaces the rear-view mirror with a live feed from a wide-angle camera. Its high-resolution display (1480 x 320 pixels) promises “a panoramic view of the outside,” according to Polestar’s web site, showing more of what’s behind you. “Visibility in the dark and in rainy conditions is also vastly improved.” Besides the...

Science/Tech

Open Source Developer Brings Linux to Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME

Yesterday at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

Microsoft released the “Windows Subsystem for Linux” in 2016, adding an optional Linux environment into every operating system since Windows 10. But now an open source developer has brought Linux to Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me, reports the blog It’s FOSS, “with Linux kernel 6.19 running alongside the Windows 9x kernel, letting both operate on the same machine at the same time.”A...