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Education

‘Go inside, he will kill you’: Israeli militants step up West Bank school attacks

Yesterday at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

Education is being targeted across Palestine, with the murder of 14-year-old Aws al-Naasan only the latest in a spree of violence

The Israeli reservist shot 14-year-old Aws al-Naasan in the head just outside the western gate of the Mughayyir boys’ secondary school, where he was studying in ninth grade.

Aws collapsed instantly, bleeding heavily. More shots rang out as his friends ran to his...

Education

What Is Higher Education For?

Yesterday at 13:00 PM, via New York Times

Readers respond to Bret Stephens’s column about the recent Yale report on reforming academia.

Science/Tech

Former NASA Engineers Create Ingenious Way To Save Homes From Wildfires Using Noise

Today at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

“Scientists have created a miraculous new way to stop fires from spreading through neighborhoods using nothing but sound,” reports the New York Post:Former NASA engineers with California-based Sonic Fire Tech found that using sound waves can snuff out blazes and potentially be used to stop another Pacific Palisades inferno… The technology works by targeting oxygen molecules using low-frequency...

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Ask Slashdot: Are YouTube’s Subtitles ‘Appallingly Bad’?

Today at 00:34 AM, via Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader Anne Thwacks frequently uses YouTube’s subtitles “not to disturb others in the room, or because my hearing is not very good.” But they say there’s a new problem. “The subtitling is terrible!”Almost every sentence has a huge error. Proper names are more often wrong than right. Non-English place names are almost always mangled to barely recognizable. And no effort...

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The $19B “Nuclear AI” Energy Startup That Couldn’t Sign a Single Client

Yesterday at 23:34 PM, via Slashdot

“Nuclear AI startup” Fermi had hoped to build power plants generating 17 gigawatts of electricity, remembers Bloomberg, “three times the amount typically consumed by New York City.”Hyperscalers could install their data centers on the site itself and tap directly into that power, which would come first from natural gas turbines and later from nuclear reactors. The pitch ticked so many boxes —...