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Chiefs to miss NFL play-offs for first time in 11 years

Today at 01:07 AM, via BBC News

Three-time Super Bowl winner Patrick Mahomes will not play in the NFL post-season for the first time in his career as the Kansas City Chiefs are eliminated from play-off contention.

Africa

Six players to watch at Afcon 2025

Friday at 14:30 PM, via BBC News

BBC Sport Africa picks out six players to keep an eye on at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco from 21 December to 18 January.

Sport

How Man City were able to beat a spirited Crystal Palace

Today at 01:59 AM, via BBC News

Match of the Day pundits Theo Walcott and Joe Hart look at how Manchester City’s backline were able to hold off Crystal Palace before Erling Haaland and Phil Foden went on to win the game at Selhurst Park.

Sport

How Dyche has Forest’s forwards firing

Today at 01:59 AM, via BBC News

Match of the Day pundits Theo Walcott and Joe Hart analyse how Sean Dyche has turned Nottingham Forest into a potent attacking side.

Sport

Man Utd could block Mainoo move – Monday’s gossip

Yesterday at 23:59 PM, via BBC News

Manchester United might block midfielder Kobbie Mainoo from moving in January, Roma could move for Joshua Zirkzee, Tottenham will target Jan Paul van Hecke next summer, plus more.

Education

Ghanaian students at UK universities face deportation amid funding crisis

Yesterday at 18:00 PM, via The Guardian

Group asks Keir Starmer for help to persuade Ghanaian government to pay backlog of tuition fees and living allowances

Students from Ghana at UK universities say they are in danger of being deported after being stranded by their own government without promised scholarships or tuition fee payments.

The group representing more than 100 doctoral students has petitioned Downing Street and Keir...

Education

What We Know About the Brown University Shooting

Yesterday at 14:33 PM, via New York Times

A person of interest was in custody Sunday, the day after two people were killed and nine others injured during an attack on the Rhode Island campus.

Education

Pens at the ready! A gen-Z trainee takes on the Guardian’s ‘scribbler-in-chief’

Yesterday at 12:00 PM, via The Guardian

As the exam regulator consults about introducing onscreen exams amid complaints of hand fatigue, a young aspiring journalist goes head-to-head with a self-professed expert

This week it was reported that students could soon be sitting their end-of-year exams on laptops after pupils complained of hand fatigue, saying their muscles “are not strong enough”.

With Ofqual preparing to launch a public...

Science/Tech

CEOS Plan to Spend More on AI in 2026 – Despite Spotty Returns

Today at 02:17 AM, via Slashdot

The Wall Street Journal reports that 68% of CEOs “plan to spend even more on AI in 2026, according to an annual survey of more than 350 public-company CEOs from advisory firm Teneo.”And yet “less than half of current AI projects had generated more in returns than they had cost, respondents said.” They reported the most success using AI in marketing and customer service and challenges using it...

Science/Tech

‘Investors in Limbo’. Will the TikTok Deal’s Deadline Be Extended Again?

Today at 00:59 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from the BBC:A billionaire investor keen on buying TikTok’s US operations has told the BBC he has been left in limbo as the latest deadline for the app’s sale looms. The US has repeatedly delayed the date by which the platform’s Chinese owner, Bytedance, must sell or be blocked for American users. US President Donald Trump appears poised to extend the...

Science/Tech

Podcast Industry Under Siege as AI Bot Flood Airways with Thousands of Programs

Yesterday at 23:34 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Los Angeles Times:Popular podcast host Steven Bartlett has used an AI clone to launch a new kind of content aimed at the 13 million followers of his podcast “Diary of a CEO.” On YouTube, his clone narrates “100 CEOs With Steven Bartlett,” which adds AI-generated animation to Bartlett’s cloned voice to tell the life stories of entrepreneurs such as...

Science/Tech

Podcast Industry Under Siege as AI Bots Flood Airways with Thousands of Programs

Yesterday at 23:34 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Los Angeles Times:Popular podcast host Steven Bartlett has used an AI clone to launch a new kind of content aimed at the 13 million followers of his podcast “Diary of a CEO.” On YouTube, his clone narrates “100 CEOs With Steven Bartlett,” which adds AI-generated animation to Bartlett’s cloned voice to tell the life stories of entrepreneurs such as...