Skip to Content

WEDNESDAY, 05 NOVEMBER 2025, 03:06

World

Six takeaways from Canada’s federal budget

Today at 01:06 AM, via BBC News

From tariff cushions to space launches to Eurovision, Prime Minister Carney’s first budget aims to protect Canada while looking beyond the US.

Sport

Spurs support Udogie after alleged gun threat

Today at 02:02 AM, via BBC News

Tottenham say they are supporting Destiny Udogie after confirming their Italy defender was allegedly threatened with a gun by a football agent.

Education

England curriculum should focus less on exams and more on life skills, finds review

Today at 00:30 AM, via The Guardian

Experts say pupils should spend less time in exam halls and more time on activities like life skills, sport and work experience

National curriculum review: 10 key recommendations

A review of England’s curriculum has recommended reducing the amount of content and emphasis on exams and instead focusing more on life skills and “enrichment”.

The review, led by Prof Becky Francis, wants pupils to...

Education

National curriculum review in England: 10 key recommendations

Today at 00:30 AM, via The Guardian

Proposals include shortening length of GCSE exams, a new diagnostic test in maths and English, and expanding RE

Curriculum ‘should focus less on exams and more on life skills’

The year-long curriculum and assessment review headed by Prof Becky Francis was asked by the government to look at primary, secondary and aged 16-19 phases of state education in England. It heard more than 7,000 responses...

Science/Tech

The World’s Tallest Chip Defies the Limits of Computing: Goodbye To Moore’s Law?

Today at 02:30 AM, via Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader dbialac shares a report from EL PAIS: For decades, the progress of electronics has followed a simple rule: smaller is better. Since the 1960s, each new generation of chips has packed more transistors into less space, fulfilling the famous Moore’s Law. Formulated by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965, this law predicted that the number of transistors in an integrated...

Science/Tech

AI study gives insights into why super-recognisers excel at identifying faces

Today at 02:01 AM, via The Guardian

Research uses eye-tracking data to examine some people’s extraordinary recognition ability

They have been used in the search for the Salisbury novichok poisoners, finding murder suspects and even spotting sexual predators. Now, research has revealed fresh insights into why super-recognisers are so good at identifying faces.

Previous research has suggested people with an extraordinary ability to...

Science/Tech

Solar geoengineering in wrong hands could wreak climate havoc, scientists warn

Today at 02:01 AM, via The Guardian

Blocking the sun may reduce global heating – but ‘rogue actor’ could cause drought or more hurricanes, report finds

Solar geoengineering could increase the ferocity of North Atlantic hurricanes, cause the Amazon rainforest to die back and cause drought in parts of Africa if deployed above only some parts of the planet by rogue actors, a report has warned.

However, if technology to block the sun...

Science/Tech

Apple Delays Home App Update Requirement Until February 2026

Today at 01:50 AM, via Slashdot

Apple will officially discontinue support for its original Home architecture (formerly HomeKit) on February 10, 2026. As MacRumors points out, Apple has informed users that they need to “update now to avoid interruptions.” AppleInsider reports: The underlying HomeKit architecture was revamped in March 2023 alongside iOS 16.4, so Apple has been supporting both the new and old architecture for...

Motoring

WATCH: A tale of two Ford Ranger bakkies

Yesterday at 11:40 AM, via The Citizen

When it comes to choosing which Ford Ranger bakkie you would like to invest your money into, it’s not just a piece of cake.