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Pressure mounts on UK government to ban Kanye West after festival backlash

Today at 04:41 AM, via Daily Maverick

LONDON, April 6 (Reuters) – The British government was under growing pressure on Monday to bar U.S. rapper Kanye West from entering the country after he was named as the headline act for the Wireless Festival of rap and hip-hop music set for July.

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Artemis II moon crew breaks Cold War-era spaceflight distance record

Today at 04:35 AM, via Daily Maverick

HOUSTON, April 6 (Reuters) – The four astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II mission flew deeper into space on Monday than any humans before them, as they cruised through a rare flyby of the shadowed far side of the moon that revealed a lunar surface under cosmic bombardment.

Sport

Passionate Matos compares Cullen to Bastoni

Yesterday at 23:31 PM, via BBC News

Vitor Matos says players like Liam Cullen are the “soul and heart” of Swansea City as he insists the club cannot be dragged down by the weight of history.

Education

Hyper-targeted scheme to help at-risk schools in England tackle knife crime

Yesterday at 23:30 PM, via The Guardian

Home Office will use mapping technology and crime data to identify up to 250 schools in areas of greatest risk

Schools across England are to receive dedicated support to prevent knife crime incidents in a hyper-targeted Home Office programme that uses mapping technology to identify areas of risk down to the level of specific groups of streets.

Under the £1.2m scheme – part of a series of...

Science/Tech

New Jersey Cannot Regulate Kalshi’s Prediction Market, US Appeals Court Rules

Today at 05:30 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that New Jersey gaming regulators cannot prevent Kalshi from allowing people in the state to use its prediction market to place financial bets on the outcome of sporting events.A three-judge panel of the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 (PDF) in finding that the U.S. Commodity...

Science/Tech

Blackouts, broken records and a message from the past: five key moments from Artemis II’s lunar flyby

Today at 03:17 AM, via The Guardian

Crew of Orion capsule spent emotional day documenting surface of moon – and paying homage to astronauts who paved the way

Artemis II sets new record as astronauts travel farther from Earth than ever before

On the sixth day of a lunar mission that has rekindled global interest in space exploration and reinvigorated Nasa’s aims to return to the moon, the astronauts of Artemis II flew further...

Science/Tech

OpenAI Calls For Robot Taxes, Public Wealth Fund, and 4-Day Workweek To Tackle AI Disruption

Today at 01:00 AM, via Slashdot

OpenAI is proposing (PDF) sweeping policy changes to help manage the societal disruption caused by advanced AI, including taxes on automated labor, a public wealth fund, and experiments with a four-day workweek. The company said the policy document offered a series of “initial ideas” to address the risk of “jobs and entire industries being disrupted” by the adoption of AI tools. Business...