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Education

How to Make Americans Read Again

Yesterday at 13:00 PM, via New York Times

The reading crisis is real, but the solution does not require new inventions.

Entertainment

48 hours in pictures, 31 May 2026

Yesterday at 21:34 PM, via The Citizen

Through the lens: The Citizen’s Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.

Science/Tech

US, Australia, and UK Plan New Unmanned Vehicles to Protect Undersea Data Cables

Today at 03:08 AM, via Slashdot

“Around 570 cables (plus a further 80 planned) carry between 95% and 99% of the world’s intercontinental telecommunications data,” reports CNN (since fiber cables offer speeds of terabits per second, carry much more data than satellite links). And “networks of green energy cables carrying electricity are also starting to sprawl across the world’s seabeds.” Now to protect them, the U.S.,...

Science/Tech

‘The Oral Tradition That Built Software May Not Survive AI’

Today at 00:15 AM, via Slashdot

A historian-turned-software engineer warns that “so little is ever written down” by professional programmers in a new article for Fast Company:Perhaps there’s an early design doc, but then it turns out that everything was substantially revised before work began. Maybe there are a few wiki pages explaining known issues, some of which were solved a long time ago and others that have been left to...

Science/Tech

US Teachers’ Union Urges Schools To Curb AI Chatbots and Screen Time

Yesterday at 23:15 PM, via Slashdot

Axios reports:The American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers’ union in the U.S., released a 10-point plan to introduce AI and screen-time guardrails in classrooms. The plan would limit AI use and ban screens for students in prekindergarten through second grade “unless there is a compelling reason,” such as supporting students with special needs. The teacher union’s president...