
Japan court orders compensation for migrants lured to North Korea
The plaintiffs said North Korea was marketed to them as “paradise on Earth”.
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The plaintiffs said North Korea was marketed to them as “paradise on Earth”.

A Taxi carrying school kids home had T Boned a bakkie.

Fallout following the decision to block Andy Burnham from standing in a forthcoming by-election has continued.
Reddit has forced Jaime Rogozinski, the founder of infamous r/WallStreetBets, to strip the WallStreetBets name from an upcoming Miami conference after legal threats citing trademark rights. According to a press release, it’s the “first known case of a social media company enforcing trademark control over a user-created community.” From the report: After years of litigation, courts ultimately...

Several people have died as sub-zero temperatures and heavy snow disrupt roads and knock out power across a number of states.
Apple has launched a new AirTag 2 that features improved range, a speaker that’s 50% louder, and expanded Apple Watch-based tracking. Pricing stays the same at $29 (or $99 for four). 9to5Mac reports: The new AirTag comes with an upgraded second-generation Ultra Wideband chip for improved range, including when using Precision Finding. From Apple Newsroom: “Apple’s second-generation Ultra...

Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee blocked the Greater Manchester mayor from standing in a by-election.
Skylight, an open-source, TikTok-style video app built on the AT Protocol, surged past 380,000 users after last week’s shake-up around TikTok’s U.S. ownership and privacy concerns. TechCrunch reports: Launched last year and backed by Mark Cuban and other investors, Skylight’s mobile app is built on the AT Protocol, the technology that also powers the decentralized X rival Bluesky, which now has...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from GeekWire: Microsoft on Monday announced Maia 200, the second generation of its custom AI chip, claiming it’s the most powerful first-party silicon from any major cloud provider. The company says Maia 200 delivers three times the performance of Amazon’s latest Trainium chip on certain benchmarks, and exceeds Google’s most recent tensor processing unit...

Emma Stone, Timothée Chalamet and Wunmi Mosaku are among the actors who could be nominated later.

India is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in building up a computer chip industry.

Menopause is linked to a loss of grey matter in regions involved with memory and emotion, study suggests.

The new rules will be introduced in October and are describe as the most significant reform of driver licensing for 70 years.

Respondents to King’s Trust survey cited AI and a lack of work experience as reasons they might fail in life
More than seven in 10 teens and young adults in the UK say they wish they were not starting their careers in the current economic climate, according to new research from the King’s Trust.
The study also found that more than a quarter of people aged 16 to 25 feel they are going to fail in...

Author says pace of change in GCSE English literature texts is too slow and tide is turning against inclusion
The Booker prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo has called for renewed efforts to diversify the school curriculum in England, warning that young people are growing up in a society where “doors are closing” and the tide is turning against inclusion.
There has been progress in the...

Defendants include Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, TikTok’s owner ByteDance and YouTube parent Google.

Passengers accuse carriers of “confusing” them into dropping compensation claims for cancelled flights.
California tech executive Gordon Abas Goodarzi has been arrested and charged with murder in the death of his estranged wife, Aryan Papoli, whose body was found last November down an embankment off Highway 138 in San Bernardino County. Authorities initially believed the injuries were consistent with a fall, but the case was later ruled a homicide following a months-long investigation by the San...
Some children skipped remote classes in city schools in favor of activities they felt were more important: sledding and snowball fights.

The government has not confirmed what the cap will be, but campaigners have said they believe £250 a year is likely.

The US president said he was frustrated that lawmakers in Seoul had yet to approve a trade deal between the two countries that was reached last year.