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Watch Ronaldo scoring stunning overhead kick

Today at 00:47 AM, via BBC News

Cristiano Ronaldo, 40, rolls back the years with a stunning overhead kick in Al-Nassr’s 4-1 win over Al-Khaleej in the Saudi Pro League.

World

Are we entering a new nuclear arms race?

Today at 00:00 AM, via NPR

Yaroslav Trofimov of The Wall Street Journal explains why he thinks that the U.S., Russia, and China have entered a new nuclear race.

Africa

Sri Lanka & Zimbabwe in Pakistan 2025

Yesterday at 21:01 PM, via BBC News

Fixtures, results and scorecards from Sri Lanka’s ODI tour of Pakistan, and the Twenty20 tri-series that follows which also involves Zimbabwe.

Sport

Chelsea & Arsenal in for Murillo – Monday’s gossip

Today at 01:28 AM, via BBC News

Chelsea and Arsenal in race for Murillo, Man Utd want to keep Murillo while trying to lure Antoine Semenyo, Ibrahima Konate holds off on new Liverpool contract and Federico Chiesa is primed for return to Italy.

Sport

Thitikul seals back-to-back titles at LPGA finale

Yesterday at 23:47 PM, via BBC News

World number one Jeeno Thitikul defends her title at the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship by holding off fellow Thai Pajaree Anannarukarn by four shots.

Education

Labor advances universal childcare plan with new laws to allow collection of data from private operators

Yesterday at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Exclusive: Jason Clare says new powers will ensure information is ‘accurate, comprehensive and representative’ to help government deliver ‘evidence-based reforms’

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Labor is quietly advancing plans for universal childcare in Australia, with new laws to require private operators to hand over sensitive commercial data needed to design a...

Education

The University of Virginia and Cornell deals with Trump set a dangerous precedent | Serena Mayeri and Amanda Shanor

Yesterday at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

The bespoke agreements are full of peril for the universities, allowing the federal government to quietly exert control

In October, President Trump proposed a compact for higher education, a federal takeover of state and private institutions thinly disguised as an offer of preferential funding consideration. Most of the initially targeted universities rightfully have rejected Trump’s unlawful...

Education

With a million young people locked out of work, the UK’s hidden jobs crisis is only growing | John Harris

Yesterday at 15:02 PM, via The Guardian

Held back by Covid and then phased out by AI, Britain’s so-called Neets are desperately seeking a secure future. Who will offer them hope?

Another week, another set of sobering economic numbers. Last Thursday, the Office for National Statistics published its latest quarterly estimate of the number of 16- to 24-year-olds who are so-called Neets – people not in education, employment or...

Lifestyle

One last hurrah: Rassie follows Wales on X

Yesterday at 23:19 PM, via The South African

Springboks coach Rassie Erasmus has zoned in on Wales, whom South Africa will play in their inal test match next weekend…

Science/Tech

Was the Moon-Forming Protoplanet ‘Theia’ a Neighbor of Earth?

Today at 01:30 AM, via Slashdot

Theia crashed into earth and formed the moon, the theory goes. But then where did Theia come from? The lead author on a new study says “The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner Solar System. Earth and Theia are likely to have been neighbors.” Though Theia was completely destroyed in the collision, scientists from the Max Planck...

Science/Tech

Cryptologist DJB Criticizes Push to Finalize Non-Hybrid Security for Post-Quantum Cryptography

Today at 00:09 AM, via Slashdot

In October cryptologist/CS professor Daniel J. Bernstein alleged that America’s National SecurityAgency (and its UK counterpart GCHQ) were attempting to influence NIST to adopt weaker post-quantum cryptographystandards without a “hybrid” approach that would’ve also included pre-quantum ECC. Bernstein is of the opinion that “Given howmany post-quantum proposals have been broken and the...

Science/Tech

Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal

Yesterday at 23:09 PM, via Slashdot

“Three years ago, Google removed JPEG XL support from Chrome, stating there wasn’t enough interest at the time,” writes the blog Windows Report. “That position has now changed.”In a recent note to developers, a Chrome team representative confirmed that work has restarted to bring JPEG XL to Chromium and said Google “would ship it in Chrome” once long-term maintenance and the usual launch...

Science/Tech

DNA reveals stone age teenager as chewer of 10,500-year-old ‘gum’

Yesterday at 22:26 PM, via The Guardian

The prehistoric birch tar found in Estonia contained traces of saliva that were analysed by genetics experts

A piece of stone age “gum” chewed by a teenage girl 10,500 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists in Estonia.

The Institute of History and Archaeology at the University of Tartu discovered that the prehistoric birch tar had impressions of teeth marks and traces of saliva.

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Health

U.S. Introduces New Female Crash-Test Dummy Standards

Today at 01:04 AM, via New York Times

A female crash-test dummy to replace an outdated model largely based on male proportions would improve safety for women, who face higher fatality and injury risks on the road, officials said.