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Identity and Ideology in the School Boardroom

Friday at 22:41 PM, via Slashdot

The abstract of a paper on NBER: School boards have statutory authority over most elementary and secondary education policies, but receive little attention compared to other actors in education systems. A fundamental challenge to understanding the importance of boards is the absence of data on the policy goals of board members — i.e., their ideologies — forcing researchers to conduct tests...

The Golden Age of Vaccine Development

Friday at 22:01 PM, via Slashdot

Microbiology had its golden age in the late nineteenth century, when researchers identified the bacterial causes of tuberculosis, cholera, typhoid, and a dozen other diseases in rapid succession. Antibiotics had theirs in the mid-twentieth century. Both booms eventually slowed. Vaccine development, by contrast, appears to be speeding up — and the most productive era may still lie ahead, Works...

America Is Falling Out of Love With Pizza

Friday at 21:25 PM, via Slashdot

The restaurant industry is trying to figure out whether America has hit peak pizza. From a report: Once the second-most common U.S. restaurant type, pizzerias are now outnumbered by coffee shops and Mexican food eateries, according to industry data. Sales growth at pizza restaurants has lagged behind the broader fast-food market for years, and the outlook ahead isn’t much brighter. “Pizza is...

Amazon’s New Manager Dashboard Flags ‘Low-Time Badgers’ and ‘Zero Badgers’

Friday at 20:44 PM, via Slashdot

Amazon has begun equipping managers with a dashboard that tracks not just whether corporate employees show up to the office but how long they stay once they’re there, according to an internal document obtained by Business Insider. The system, which started rolling out in December, flags “Low-Time Badgers” who average less than four hours daily over an eight-week period and “Zero Badgers” who...

Torvalds Tells Kernel Devs To Stop Debating AI Slop – Bad Actors Won’t Follow the Rules Anyway

Friday at 20:05 PM, via Slashdot

Linus Torvalds has weighed in on an ongoing debate within the Linux kernel development community about whether documentation should explicitly address AI-generated code contributions, and his position is characteristically blunt: stop making it an issue. The Linux creator was responding to Oracle-affiliated kernel developer Lorenzo Stoakes, who had argued that treating LLMs as “just another...

Craigslist at 30: No Algorithms, No Ads, No Problem

Friday at 19:24 PM, via Slashdot

Craigslist, the 30-year-old classifieds site that looks virtually unchanged since the dial-up era, continues to draw more than 105 million monthly users and remains enormously profitable despite never spending a cent on advertising or marketing. The site ranks as the 40th most popular website in the United States, according to Internet data company Similarweb. University of Pennsylvania...

iOS 26 Shows Unusually Slow Adoption Months After Release

Friday at 18:45 PM, via Slashdot

Apple’s iOS 26 appears to be witnessing the slowest adoption rate in recent memory, with third-party analytics from StatCounter indicating that only 15 to 16% of active iPhones worldwide are running the operating system nearly four months after its September release. The figures stand in stark contrast to iOS 18, which had reached approximately 63% adoption by January 2025, and iOS 17, which...

Google Guys Say Bye to California

Friday at 18:26 PM, via New York Times

Sergey Brin is joining his Google co-founder, Larry Page, in reducing ties to the state where they built their fortunes.

Amazon Wants To Know What Every Corporate Employee Accomplished Last Year

Friday at 18:05 PM, via Slashdot

Amazon is now requiring its corporate employees to submit a list of three to five accomplishments that represent their best work as part of an overhauled performance review process, according to Business Insider, which cites internal documents. The company’s internal Forte review system previously asked employees softer questions like “When you’re at your best, how do you contribute?” but the...

Send To Kindle from Microsoft Word is Discontinued

Friday at 17:30 PM, via Slashdot

Microsoft is discontinuing its Send to Kindle integration in Word, ending a feature that allowed Microsoft 365 subscribers to send documents directly to their Kindle e-readers and preserve complex formatting through fixed layouts. The company updated its documentation to announce that beginning February 9th, 2026, the Send to Kindle feature will no longer work across Web, Win32, and Mac...

Why Care About Debt-to-GDP?

Friday at 16:59 PM, via Slashdot

Abstract of a paper on NBER: We construct an international panel data set comprising three distinct yet plausible measures of government indebtedness: the debt-to-GDP, the interest-to-GDP, and the debt-to-equity ratios. Our analysis reveals that these measures yield differing conclusions about recent trends in government indebtedness. While the debt-to-GDP ratio has reached historically high...

Could egg defect breakthrough help stop the ‘horrible IVF rollercoaster’?

Friday at 16:23 PM, via The Guardian

Results of research offer hope to older women – but it will be several years at least before technique is approved

Human eggs ‘rejuvenated’ in an advance that could boost IVF success rates

It is a rollercoaster of emotional extremes that will be familiar to many who have gone through IVF treatment: hope and joy turns to despair and back again. This is especially true for women over 35, the age...

Record Ocean Heat is Intensifying Climate Disasters, Data Shows

Friday at 16:07 PM, via Slashdot

The world’s oceans absorbed yet another record-breaking amount of heat in 2025, continuing an almost unbroken streak of annual records since the start of the millennium and fueling increasingly extreme weather events around the globe. More than 90% of the heat trapped by humanity’s carbon emissions ends up in the oceans, making ocean heat content one of the clearest indicators of the climate...

Cango Inc. Secures $10.5 Million Investment from EWCL to Accelerate Growth 

Friday at 15:59 PM, via Tech Financials

DALLAS, Dec. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Cango Inc. (NYSE: CANG) (“Cango” or the “Company”), a leading Bitcoin miner leveraging its global operations to develop an integrated energy and AI compute platform, announced that Enduring Wealth Capital Limited (“EWCL”) increased its investment in the Company with a US$10.5 million commitment. EWCL will subscribe for additional Class […]

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