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Education

‘You just have to laugh’: five teachers on dealing with ‘six-seven’ in the classroom

Yesterday at 10:39 AM, via The Guardian

Children across the UK have been shouting out ‘six-seven’ during lessons, so how are teachers reacting?

Across the UK, school pupils have been shouting out the words “sixseven” during lessons in the latest meme-based craze to sweep across classrooms.

While some teachers have chosen to stoically ignore the trend, others have embraced it. Five teachers explain how they’re coping.

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Education

Liberia: Building a Great University Begins With Burning the Old Habits

Friday at 19:46 PM, via AllAfrica

[Liberian Observer] There is a Mandé proverb that goes: “You cannot sharpen a knife on butter.” The University of Liberia will not become one of Africa’s top 300 universities by 2029 if it continues to dull itself on the soft comforts of old habits — endless politics, weak research culture, and administrative complacency masquerading as progress. True transformation demands more than strategic...

Science/Tech

Exxon Sues California Over Climate Disclosure Laws

Today at 02:38 AM, via Slashdot

“Exxon Mobil sued California on Friday,” reports Reuters, “challenging two state laws that require large companies to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related financial risks.”In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, Exxon argued that Senate Bills 253 and 261 violate its First Amendment rights by compelling Exxon to...

Science/Tech

Slashdot Reader Mocks Databricks ‘Context-Aware AI Assistant’ for Odd Bar Chart

Today at 01:31 AM, via Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp took a good look at the images on a promotional web page for Databricks’ “context-aware AI assistant”:If there was an AI Demo Hall of Shame, the first inductee would have to be Amazon. Their demo tried to support its CEO’s claims that Amazon Q Code Transformation AI saved it 4,500 developer-years and an additional $260 million in “annualized efficiency gains” by...

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AI Models May Be Developing Their Own ‘Survival Drive’, Researchers Say

Yesterday at 22:44 PM, via Slashdot

“OpenAI’s o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off,” warned Palisade Research, a nonprofit investigating cyber offensive AI capabilities. “It did this even when explicitly instructed: allow yourself to be shut down.” In September they released a paper adding that “several state-of-the-art large language models (including Grok 4, GPT-5, and Gemini 2.5 Pro)...

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‘Meet The People Who Dare to Say No to AI’

Yesterday at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

Thursday the Washington Post profiled “the people who dare to say no to AI,” including a 16-year-old high school student in Virginia says “she doesn’t want to off-load her thinking to a machine and worries about the bias and inaccuracies AI tools can produce…” “As the tech industry and corporate America go all in on artificial intelligence, some people are holding back.”Some tech workers told...