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Sport

Wafer scores twice as Ireland beat Wales

Today at 22:45 PM, via BBC News

Aoife Wafer scores twice as Ireland beat Wales 33-12 at home to record their second win of the 2026 Women’s Six Nations.

Sport

Udinese want action after Davis claims racist abuse

Today at 22:44 PM, via BBC News

Udinese call on Italian football authorities to act after English striker Keinan Davis says he was subjected to racist abuse during Saturday’s 2-0 Serie A win at Cagliari.

Education

‘It’s about recognising our role in history’: Bradford exhibition to revisit live Somali display

Today at 15:00 PM, via The Guardian

At the city’s Great Exhibition of 1904, 57 Somali men, women and children cooked, weaved and danced for visitors

It was, the posters said, a rare chance to see a “little known but interesting people”: a live display of 57 Somali men, women and children who cooked, weaved and danced for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of Edwardians who flocked to Yorkshire to see them.

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Science/Tech

The Trump Phone Either Is Or Isn’t Closer To Delivery

Today at 22:34 PM, via Slashdot

September 2025? January 2026? Delivery dates keep slipping for the Trump Organization’s “Trump Phone” — a gold-coloured Android smartphone priced at $499 (£370). But in March the Verge spotted signs the phone was moving forward:FCC listings for a smartphone with the trade name “T1” show that it was tested late last year, and granted certification by the FCC in January… [T]he phone was...

Science/Tech

Plant Seeds Do Something Incredible When the Sound of Rain Strikes

Today at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

“Plant seeds can sense the vibrations generated by falling raindrops,” reports ScienceAlert, “and respond by waking from their state of dormancy to welcome the water, new research shows…. to germinate in ‘anticipation’ of the coming deluge.”The finding, discovered by MIT mechanical engineers Nicholas Makris and Cadine Navarro, offers the first direct evidence that seeds and seedlings can sense...

Science/Tech

Cisco Releases Open-Source ‘DNA Test for AI Models’

Today at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

Cisco has released an open-source tool “to trace the origins of AI models,” reports SC World, “and compare model similarities for great visibility into the AI supply chain.”[Cisco’s Model Provenance Kit] is a Python toolkit and command-line interface (CLI) that looks at signals such as metadata and weights to create a “fingerprint” for AI models that can then be compared to other model...

Science/Tech

Social Media Sites Got Information from Ad Trackers on US State Health Insurance Sites

Today at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

All 20 of America’s state-run healthcare marketplace sites “include advertising trackers that share information with Big Tech companies,” reports Gizmodo, citing a report from Bloomberg:Per the report, seven million Americans bought their health insurance through state exchanges in 2026, and many of them may have had personal information shared with companies, including Meta, TikTok, Snap,...

Health

Trump Plans to Fire F.D.A. Commissioner Marty Makary

Yesterday at 22:40 PM, via New York Times

Dr. Makary has been a supporter of the Make American Healthy Again Movement but made some enemies in the administration over vaping, the abortion pill and rejections of new drugs.