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Sport

Spurs can create magic together – Frank

Yesterday at 22:46 PM, via BBC News

Dissent was in the air among Tottenham fans at half-time against Manchester City. At full-time they were singing “Oh when the Spurs go marching in”.

Education

Ministers on lobbying blitz to avoid Labour rebellion over Send changes

Yesterday at 18:00 PM, via The Guardian

Government has ‘learned lesson’ of botched welfare overhauls but MPs say they will not back cost-saving measures

Ministers have “learned the lesson” of botched welfare changes and are on a sustained lobbying blitz of Labour MPs over an overhaul of special educational needs, Labour MPs told the Guardian, as they said they would not back measures aimed at saving money.

The changes will raise the...

Education

Texas vs. Plato: Censorship in the Academy

Yesterday at 16:00 PM, via New York Times

Readers respond to a guest essay about the state’s effort to bar “officially disapproved ideas” from its university classrooms.

Education

The long-term cost of high student debt in the UK is not just for graduates | Heather Stewart

Yesterday at 13:51 PM, via The Guardian

Labour’s changes to the student loan system have turned frustration into full-blown fury, which its opponents are likely to reap at the ballot box

Student loans: ‘My debt rose £20,000 to £77,000 even though I’m paying’

“It is not right that people who don’t go to university are having to bear all the cost for others to do so,” Rachel Reeves remarked this week, amid the increasingly angry...

Lifestyle

‘Grootman’: Siya Kolisi praises Black Coffee

Yesterday at 21:24 PM, via The South African

Siya Kolisi and Black Coffee – who are both separately going through high-profile divorces – have shown each other praise and respect.

Science/Tech

Bitcoin Drops 40% in Four Months. Bloomberg Blames Absence of Buyers and Belief

Yesterday at 23:49 PM, via Slashdot

October saw Bitcoin reach $123,742. But less than four months later, “The world’s largest cryptocurrency slipped below $76,000…” Bloomberg reports, “dropping about 40% from its 2025 peak…” “What began as a sharp crash in October has morphed into something more corrosive: a selloff shaped not by panic, but by absence of buyers, momentum and belief.”Unlike the October drawdown, there’s been no...

Science/Tech

Walmart Begins Building Out Nationwide EV Charging Network Across America

Yesterday at 22:22 PM, via Slashdot

Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, will be adding spaces for electric vehicle charging to parking lots in 19 different states, reports MLive:The move follows up on a plan announced in 2023 to build a network of charging stations at Walmart and Sam’s Club stores throughout the U.S… “With a store or club located within 10 miles of approximately 90% of Americans, we are uniquely positioned to...

Science/Tech

When 20-Year-Old Bill Gates Fought the World’s First Software Pirates

Yesterday at 21:22 PM, via Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: Just months after his 20th birthday, Bill Gates had already angered the programmer community,” remembers this 50th-anniversary commemoration of Gates’ Open Letter to Hobbyists. “As the first home computers began appearing in the 1970s, the world faced a question: Would its software be free?” Gates railed in 1976 that “Most of you steal your...

Science/Tech

Fourth US Wind Farm Project Blocked By Trump Allowed to Resume Construction

Yesterday at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

Vineyard Wind (powering Massachusetts) is one of five offshore wind projects “that the Trump administration tried to hold up in December,” reports The Hill. This week it became the fourth of those wind projects allowed by a judge to resume construction, the article notes, while even the fifth project “is still awaiting court proceedings.”Federal Judge Brian Murphy, a Biden appointee, issued a...

Health

A Predictor of a Good Social Life? Your Parents.

Saturday at 12:02 PM, via New York Times

A decades-long study suggested that close relationships with family members during teenage years could lead to a rich network of friendships in adulthood.