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SUNDAY, 29 MARCH 2026, 01:00

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Russo ‘stepping up’ as Arsenal lead hunt for European places

Yesterday at 23:22 PM, via BBC News

With Arsenal chasing a place in next season’s Champions League, England striker Alessia Russo has hit form at just the right time – as her 22-minute Women’s Super League hat-trick against Tottenham proves.

Business

The most popular fast food in South Africa

Yesterday at 11:00 AM, via BusinessTech

Eighty20 revealed that pizza is South Africa’s second-most-popular fast food type, behind chicken, which dominates the Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) sector.

Sport

Fans booing Scotland surprise and disappoint Clarke

Today at 00:01 AM, via BBC News

Scotland head coach Steve Clarke takes positives from his side’s friendly defeat by Japan at Hampden, but expresses disappointment at the boos that accompanied the full-time whistle.

Sport

Ulster get back to winning ways against Zebre

Yesterday at 23:43 PM, via BBC News

A disjointed Ulster side pick up a hard-fought and much-needed 28-qw win over bottom side Zebre in the United Rugby Championship in Parma.

Education

Reform UK’s ‘pro-family’ policies are an exclusionary sham, minister says

Yesterday at 18:59 PM, via The Guardian

Olivia Bailey says she wants Sure Start-style hubs that will be rolled out in England on Monday to be inclusive for all

Reform UK’s “pro-family” policies are a sham and exclude non-traditional families, the government’s early years minister has said before the rollout of hundreds of new Sure Start-style family centres across England on Monday.

Olivia Bailey said she wanted the hubs to be...

Education

Schools in England must be compelled to offer pupils healthy food, not junk

Friday at 20:48 PM, via The Guardian

School food has suffered at the hands of politics and economics for almost 50 years

Almost a generation has passed since Jamie Oliver’s four-part Channel 4 documentary series Jamie’s School Dinners exposed the unhealthy reality of the food served to pupils at lunchtime, including – notoriously – fat-heavy, meat-light Turkey Twizzlers. It proved a shaming and effective intervention. His...

Education

School dinners in England dominated by grab-and-go foods such as pizza and sausage rolls

Friday at 20:03 PM, via The Guardian

Study backed by Jamie Oliver finds pupils are foregoing sit-down meals for often less healthy, convenient options

Pupils in England are routinely eating pizza slices, sausage rolls and paninis for lunch as school canteens become dominated by a “grab-and-go” culture of unhealthy food.

Convenience foods eaten on the move are ousting sit-down meals as the main way secondary pupils in England...

Science/Tech

SystemD Contributor Harassed Over Optional Age Verification Field, Suggests Installer-Level Disabling

Today at 00:34 AM, via Slashdot

It’s FOSS interviewed a software engineer whose long-running open source contributions include Python code for the Arch Linux installer and maintaining packages for NixOS. But “a recent change he made to systemd has pushed him into the spotlight” after he’d added the optional birthDate field for systemd’s user database.Critics saw it not merely as a technical addition, but as a symbolic...

Science/Tech

IBM Quantum Computer Simulates Real Magnetic Materials and Matches Lab Data

Yesterday at 23:34 PM, via Slashdot

“IBM says its quantum computer can now simulate real magnetic materials and match actual lab experiment results,” writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, “which is something people have been waiting years to see.”Instead of just theoretical output, the system reproduced neutron scattering data from a known material, meaning it lines up with real world physics. It still relies on a mix of quantum...

Science/Tech

Sony is Raising PlayStation 5 Prices Again, Between $100 and $150

Yesterday at 22:34 PM, via Slashdot

Memory and storage shortages and price hikes have “steadily rippled outward across all kinds of consumer tech,” reports Ars Technica. “Today’s bad news comes from Sony, which is raising prices for PlayStation 5 consoles in the US just eight months after their last price hike.”The drive-less Digital Edition will increase from $500 to $600; the base PS5 with an optical drive will increase from...

Science/Tech

Thousands of Americans Treated With Psilocybin in 2025

Yesterday at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

In a new 4,000-word article, CNN tells the story of a retired appellate paralegal and grandmother in her early 70s who was treated for depression with psilocybin. CNN notes there’s now retreats featuring psilocybin in a few countries — and while psilocybin is illegal under United States federal law, “In Oregon, 5,935 clients received psilocybin services through Oregon’s state-regulated...