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Sport

Why are the top strikers scoring more goals in modern football?

Today at 01:25 AM, via BBC News

Champions League pundit Guillem Balague believes with more teams playing man-to-man marking strikers in modern football are awarded more space to score goals and are also being given “individualised coaching” about how to exploit those spaces.

Sport

Slot reveals Isak fitness worry

Today at 00:16 AM, via BBC News

Liverpool boss Arne Slot reveals he withdrew Alexander Isak at half-time against Eintracht Frankfurt because the striker had felt discomfort in his groin.

Education

University of Virginia agrees to Trump administration demands over admissions and hiring

Today at 00:15 AM, via The Guardian

School joins University of Pennsylvania, Columbia and Brown in bowing to White House to restore funding

The University of Virginia (UVA) has become the latest school to agree to the Trump administration’s demands concerning discrimination in admissions and hiring following significant pressure from the justice department.

The deal, which the department announced on Wednesday, comes after the...

Education

Smart money: family offers £180,00 a year for tutor to get one-year-old into Eton

Yesterday at 20:42 PM, via The Guardian

Family seeks tutor from ‘socially appropriate background’ who can provide infant with ‘comprehensive British cultural environment’

Getting paid £180,000 a year to tutor a single child might sound like a dream job but there’s a catch: the child is only one-year-old and you need to get him into Eton.

A wealthy family near London is “searching for a tutor to provide a comprehensive British...

Lifestyle

Milnerton High: Bully posts ‘cocky apology’

Today at 00:47 AM, via The South African

Sorry, not sorry? A Milnerton High School student claims to be ‘deeply regretful’ over his actions in a bullying video that has gone viral…

Science/Tech

AI Assistants Misrepresent News Content 45% of the Time

Today at 01:20 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants — already a daily information gateway for millions of people — routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform is tested. The intensive international study of unprecedented scope and scale was...

Science/Tech

OpenBSD 7.8 Released

Today at 00:40 AM, via Slashdot

OpenBSD 7.8 has been released, adding Raspberry Pi 5 support, enhanced AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV-ES) capabilities, and expanded hardware compatibility including new Qualcomm, Rockchip, and Apple ARM drivers. Phoronix reports: OpenBSD 7.8 also brings multiple improvements around enabling AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (AMD SEV) support with support for the PSP ioctl for...

Science/Tech

Samsung Galaxy XR Is the First Android XR Headset

Today at 00:00 AM, via Slashdot

Samsung has officially launched the Galaxy XR, the first Android headset powered by Google’s new Android XR platform. Priced at $1,800 without controllers, the device features dual 4.3K Micro-OLED displays, a Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chip, extensive camera tracking, and deep Gemini AI integration. Ars Technica reports: Galaxy XR is a fully enclosed headset with passthrough video. It looks similar...

Health

Bird Flu Is Back

Yesterday at 11:02 AM, via New York Times

After a quiet summer, the virus is hitting poultry flocks hard in the run-up to the holidays — and in the midst of a federal government shutdown.

Health

What Happens if Obamacare Subsidies Expire?

Yesterday at 11:01 AM, via New York Times

Consumers are facing greater costs for their 2026 A.C.A. health coverage as Congress continues to debate whether to extend subsidies that help people afford their premiums. Margot Sanger-Katz, a health care policy reporter for The New York Times, explains why.