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Sri Lanka & Zimbabwe in Pakistan 2025

Today at 21:01 PM, via BBC News

Fixtures, results and scorecards from Sri Lanka’s ODI tour of Pakistan, and the Twenty20 tri-series that follows which also involves Zimbabwe.

Education

Labor advances universal childcare plan with new laws to allow collection of data from private operators

Today at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Exclusive: Jason Clare says new powers will ensure information is ‘accurate, comprehensive and representative’ to help government deliver ‘evidence-based reforms’

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Labor is quietly advancing plans for universal childcare in Australia, with new laws to require private operators to hand over sensitive commercial data needed to design a...

Education

The University of Virginia and Cornell deals with Trump set a dangerous precedent | Serena Mayeri and Amanda Shanor

Today at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

The bespoke agreements are full of peril for the universities, allowing the federal government to quietly exert control

In October, President Trump proposed a compact for higher education, a federal takeover of state and private institutions thinly disguised as an offer of preferential funding consideration. Most of the initially targeted universities rightfully have rejected Trump’s unlawful...

Education

With a million young people locked out of work, the UK’s hidden jobs crisis is only growing | John Harris

Today at 15:02 PM, via The Guardian

Held back by Covid and then phased out by AI, Britain’s so-called Neets are desperately seeking a secure future. Who will offer them hope?

Another week, another set of sobering economic numbers. Last Thursday, the Office for National Statistics published its latest quarterly estimate of the number of 16- to 24-year-olds who are so-called Neets – people not in education, employment or...

Science/Tech

Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal

Today at 23:09 PM, via Slashdot

“Three years ago, Google removed JPEG XL support from Chrome, stating there wasn’t enough interest at the time,” writes the blog Windows Report. “That position has now changed.”In a recent note to developers, a Chrome team representative confirmed that work has restarted to bring JPEG XL to Chromium and said Google “would ship it in Chrome” once long-term maintenance and the usual launch...

Science/Tech

DNA reveals stone age teenager as chewer of 10,500-year-old ‘gum’

Today at 22:26 PM, via The Guardian

The prehistoric birch tar found in Estonia contained traces of saliva that were analysed by genetics experts

A piece of stone age “gum” chewed by a teenage girl 10,500 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists in Estonia.

The Institute of History and Archaeology at the University of Tartu discovered that the prehistoric birch tar had impressions of teeth marks and traces of saliva.

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Science/Tech

Mozilla Announces ‘TABS API’ For Developers Building AI Agents

Today at 22:09 PM, via Slashdot

“Fresh from announcing it is building an AI browsing mode in Firefox and laying the groundwork for agentic interactions in the Firefox 145 release, the corp arm of Mozilla is now flexing its AI muscles in the direction of those more likely to care,” writes the blog OMG Ubuntu:If you’re a developer building AI agents, you can sign up to get early access to Mozilla’s TABS API, a “powerful web...

Science/Tech

One Company’s Plan to Sink Nuclear Reactors Deep Underground

Today at 20:52 PM, via Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader jenningsthecat shared this article from IEEE Spectrum:By dropping a nuclear reactor 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) underground, Deep Fission aims to use the weight of a billion tons of rock and water as a natural containment system comparable to concrete domes and cooling towers. With the fission reaction occurring far below the surface, steam can safely circulate in a closed...