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Few Danes Work Until Official Retirement Age as Government Pushes It to 70

Friday at 21:20 PM, via Slashdot

Denmark’s Parliament adopted a law in May raising the retirement age to 70 by 2040, up from the current 67, affecting anyone born after December 31, 1970. The country indexed its official retirement age to life expectancy in 2006 and revises it every five years, with the age set to increase to 68 in 2030 and 69 in 2035. Few Danes actually work until the legal retirement age — in 2022, when the...

How Hot Can It Get, Literally? Scientists Weigh In

Friday at 20:40 PM, via Slashdot

Four years of research following the 2021 western North American heat wave has revealed both the meteorological conditions that fuel extreme temperatures and evidence that heat has physical limits. The 2021 event “shocked everyone, including specialists working on the subject. People were completely stunned,” said Robin Noyelle, a postdoctoral researcher in climate science at ETH Zurich....

Saving a Studio? This Looks Like a Job for Superman!

Friday at 20:00 PM, via Slashdot

Warner Bros. releases a $225 million Superman reboot this week that executives consider the studio’s final chance to build a successful cinematic universe rivaling Marvel’s dominance. The film, written and directed by James Gunn, serves as the foundation for DC Studios’ planned expansion into multiple films and television shows. Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav appointed Gunn and...

Here’s What We Know About DOGE 2.0

Friday at 19:22 PM, via Wired

DOGE has continued to operate in full force in its post-Elon iteration. Today on Uncanny Valley, we tell you everything you need to know about the agency.

Belkin Ending ‘Support’ For Most Wemo Smart Devices

Friday at 19:20 PM, via Slashdot

New submitter RJFerret shares a Belkin support page: After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to end technical support for older Wemo products, effective January 31, 2026. After this date, several Wemo products will no longer be controllable through the Wemo app. Any features that rely on cloud connectivity, including remote access and voice assistant integrations, will...

Russian Basketball Player Arrested in France Over Alleged Ransomware Ties

Friday at 18:40 PM, via Slashdot

A Russian professional basketball player has been arrested in France at the request of the United States, which reportedly accused him of being involved in a ransomware group that allegedly targeted hundreds of American companies and federal institutions. From a report: Daniil Kasatkin, 26, was detained in June at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport shortly after arriving in the country with his...

Jamie Dimon’s Blunt Message for Europe: ‘You’re Losing’

Friday at 18:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon did not pull his punches when he spoke at Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs. “You’re losing,” he said of European competitiveness with the U.S. and Asia, in comments reported by the Financial Times. “Europe has gone from 90% U.S. GDP to 65% over 10 or 15 years. That’s not good.” “We’ve got this huge, strong market and...

HMD ‘Scaling Back’ in the US, Killing Nokia All Over Again

Friday at 17:21 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: HMD Global, the company best known for licensing the Nokia brand for new phones and tablets over the last decade, has announced that it will “scale back” its US operations, and appears to have stopped selling both HMD and Nokia devices entirely. […] Based in Finland, HMD was formed in 2016 in order to purchase the Nokia feature phone business from Microsoft,...

Arthur Callaghan obituary

Friday at 17:01 PM, via The Guardian

My father, Arthur Callaghan, who has died aged 93, was a biology lecturer at Staffordshire University and passionately committed to “blue sky” research: scientific endeavour for its own sake. His investigation of the natural world, in particular the study of fungi and their interactions with microscopic organisms, sustained a deep fascination that lasted throughout his life.

Part of his...

‘Coding is Dead’: University of Washington CS Program Rethinks Curriculum For the AI Era

Friday at 16:40 PM, via Slashdot

The University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering is overhauling its approach to computer science education as AI reshapes the tech industry. Director Magdalena Balazinska has declared that “coding, or the translation of a precise design into software instructions, is dead” because AI can now handle that work. The Pacific Northwest’s premier tech program now...

Why Is Fertility So Low in High Income Countries?

Friday at 16:00 PM, via Slashdot

Fertility rates have fallen to historically low levels [PDF] in virtually all high-income countries due to a fundamental reordering of adult priorities rather than economic factors, according to a new National Bureau of Economic Research study. Economists Melissa Schettini Kearney and Phillip B. Levine analyzed cohort data and found rising childlessness at all observed ages alongside falling...

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