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Switzerland stunned by late Qatar equaliser

Yesterday at 23:49 PM, via BBC News

Qatar’s Boualem Khoukhi scores a stoppage-time equaliser to earn his country their first ever World Cup point against Switzerland in San Francisco.

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Was there an offside in build up to Switzerland penalty?

Yesterday at 23:04 PM, via BBC News

Breel Embolo puts Switzerland 1-0 up against Qatar from the penalty spot, after the Swiss were awarded a penalty with Remo Freuler appearing to be offside before he was fouled by Qatar goalkeeper Mahmoud Abunada.

World

The costs and challenges facing the 2026 World Cup

Yesterday at 08:21 AM, via BBC News

The World Cup officially kicked off this week – but alongside the football, there are questions around heat, cost, the environmental impact and travel restrictions.

Education

UK government announces £132.5m after-school clubs package

Yesterday at 23:30 PM, via The Guardian

Funding for extracurricular activities comes as ministers prepare to introduce social media restrictions for under-16s

The government has announced a £132.5m funding package for after-school clubs as ministers prepare to introduce expected restrictions on social media use for under-16s.

The programme is designed to expand access to enrichment activities in schools, with funding for clubs...

Education

Pioneering UK Nerve Lab harnesses AI to map effect of children’s screen time

Yesterday at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

Other projects include developing tools to help visually impaired people navigate video games

Parents are constantly being told to limit their children’s screen time. But when it comes to deciphering which films or TV shows are best suited to developing minds, the guidance remains largely one-size-fits-all. A relatively slow-paced programme such as Bluey offers a very different viewing...

Science/Tech

Shutterstock ‘Evolves’ Into ‘Human-Led, AI-Powered Creative Platform’

Yesterday at 23:34 PM, via Slashdot

Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes:Shutterstock has unveiled what it calls a “human-led, AI-powered” creative platform that combines its massive library of [human] contributor-created content with AI image and video generation, AI editing, conversational search, prompt enhancement, and automated model selection tools. The company says the goal is to help creators move from idea to finished...

Science/Tech

GM Updates 250,000 EVs with Vehicle-to-Grid Firmware, Announces Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Batteries

Yesterday at 22:34 PM, via Slashdot

“Battery breakthroughs will lessen AI’s demand on the electricity grid,” argues The Washington Post’s editoral board, arguing that GM’s latest moves “offer a fresh reminder that resource constraints can be solved by innovation.” Or As Fortune put it, “America’s electric grid is buckling under extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and an AI build-out that is quietly rewriting U.S. power demand...

Science/Tech

Vim Classic 8.3 Launched as an AI-Free Vim Fork

Yesterday at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

This month saw the release of Vim Classic 8.3, the first stable version of a new long-term support fork of Vim maintained without generative AI tools. Linuxiac reports:The release is based on Vim 8.2.0148 and includes selected bug fixes and patches backported from later upstream Vim releases. Vim Classic was first announced by [SourceHut’s CEO/founder] Drew DeVault in March 2026 after he...

Science/Tech

Arch Linux Malware Incident: Malicious Commits Found in 1,579 Packages

Yesterday at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

More than 1,500 user-contributed packages in the Arch Linux User Repository “AUR” were infected with malware, reports Phoronix:The last message in the thread over this security incident is noting that Arch Linux developers have deleted all the malicious commits they are aware of. Cited was this list that puts the number of malware-affected packages at 1,579… Even at 1,579 packages listed, that...