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Africa

Ndiaye adamant Senegal are champions of Africa

Friday at 12:43 PM, via BBC News

Iliman Ndiaye insists Senegal are African champions in “many people’s eyes” despite a legal wrangle over the ultimate destination of the 2025 Afcon title.

Sport

FPL talking point – players to make a final-week impact

Today at 09:18 AM, via BBC News

With only one round of Premier League fixtures remaining, selecting players with low ownership could be crucial to jumping above a rival in your mini-league – so here are three options.

Education

I avoid AI tools because thinking is supposed to be hard. It’s what makes us human | Wendy Liu

Today at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

As intelligence itself becomes privatised by big tech, allowing your intellectual faculties to wither in service of inane bots seems a dangerous move

Long before the age of multi-billion-dollar AI companies promising to disrupt the field of software development, I was learning to code the hard way.

It was the mid-2000s, and I was a child with unmonitored access to the family computer. With the...

Education

Pioneering study aims to find out how repeated blows to head in women’s rugby affects brain

Today at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Risk of CTE in men’s sports has been widely studied, but female brains are softer and more vulnerable

Cleo Pallister-Turley, a back for Cardiff university’s women’s rugby team, winces as she recalls two major concussions from playing rugby. “Girls ask me, ‘aren’t you worried about getting injured?’,” the biomedical sciences student said. “I enjoy the physicality and the...

Science/Tech

‘Underminr’ CDN Vulnerability Hides Malicious Traffic Behind Trusted Domains

Today at 09:34 AM, via Slashdot

Slashdot reader wiredmikey writes: Threat actors are exploiting a vulnerability in shared content delivery network (CDN) infrastructure to hide connections to malicious domains. Researchers say the vulnerability could impact roughly 88 million domains and can bypass DNS filtering and protective DNS controls, potentially enabling stealthy command-and-control communications and other evasive...

Science/Tech

Tesla’s Electric Cybercab is Certified as the Most Efficient EV Ever

Today at 05:34 AM, via Slashdot

Tesla’s upcoming Cybercab “has been certified at 165 Wh/mi,” reports Electrek — which makes it “the most efficient electric vehicle ever produced — by a wide margin.” The next most efficient EV on the market, the Lucid Air Pure, consumes 28% more energy per mile. Tesla VP of Vehicle Engineering Lars Moravy confirmed the figure, which represents a certified rating — not a marketing claim...

Science/Tech

Linus Torvalds on How AI is Impacting the Hunt for Linux Kernel Bugs

Today at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

Linus Torvalds spoke this week at the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America, reports ZDNet — and described how AI is impacting Linux kernel development:”In the last six months, we’ve seen a lot more commits,” Torvalds noted, estimating that “the last two releases, it’s been about 20% more commits than we had in the previous releases over many years…. The real change that...

Science/Tech

Is America Closer to Ending Daylight Saving Time?

Today at 00:34 AM, via Slashdot

A proposal to make daylight saving time permanent has advanced in the U.S. House of Representative, reports California news station KCRA:A proposal to make daylight saving time permanent has advanced in the House, reigniting an age-old American debate around the twice-annual clock changes. And this time, the proposal has the president’s backing. President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will...

Health

How Profit-Seeking Autism Clinics Can Harm Kids

Yesterday at 11:00 AM, via New York Times

Profit motives are shaping the care inside an expanding autism therapy industry, creating conditions that can harm some children. Our health reporter Sarah Kliff explains her new investigation, co-authored with Margot Sanger-Katz.