Plans to close the only school of no religious character in its area and replace it with a Church of England school have been scrapped. The move has been welcomed by Humanists UK, who has been working with teachers, parents, and the National Education Union (NEU) to stop the proposal
Exclusive: Footage shows private event, attended by representatives of firms including StubHub and Viagogo, where £73,000 was raised for political lobbying
A Texas farm worker contracted H5N1 from dairy cattle, indicating a new route of transmission for the virus, which has a high mortality rate and diverse symptoms in humans. The United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a health alert after the first case of H5N1 a
The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed. We’ve attempted to connect the proton’s many faces to form the most complete picture yet.
Kbin seemed tio take a nice long sleep there. I almost assumed it had fallen over for good. I Really hate the generic, undated 'over the next few days we are working on servers' mesesage.
The new extensions look to delve deeper into specific genres and periods of music with context, curation and storytelling done in a way only the BBC can do
A network of at least 123 websites operated from within the People’s Republic of China while posing as local news outlets in 30 countries across Europe, Asia, and Latin America, disseminates pro-Beijing disinformation and ad hominem attacks within much larger volumes of commercial press releases. We name this campaign...
AWS could rake in between $400 million and $1 billion a year from charging customers for public IPv4 addresses while migration to IPv6 remains slow....
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Plans dropped to replace community school with CofE school (humanists.uk)
Plans to close the only school of no religious character in its area and replace it with a Church of England school have been scrapped. The move has been welcomed by Humanists UK, who has been working with teachers, parents, and the National Education Union (NEU) to stop the proposal
Revealed: how touts drew up secret plans to sabotage Labour’s ticket reforms (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: Footage shows private event, attended by representatives of firms including StubHub and Viagogo, where £73,000 was raised for political lobbying
Extinct ‘mountain jewel’ plant returned to wild - in secret location (www.bbc.co.uk)
A plant picked for its beautiful flowers then wiped out in the UK mainland makes a dramatic return.
For first time in a billion years, two lifeforms have merged into one (www.independent.co.uk)
‘The first time it happened, it gave rise to all complex life,’ scientists say
CDC Warns of Cow-to-Human Transmission of H5N1 Bird Flu in Texas (scitechdaily.com)
A Texas farm worker contracted H5N1 from dairy cattle, indicating a new route of transmission for the virus, which has a high mortality rate and diverse symptoms in humans. The United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a health alert after the first case of H5N1 a
Cern: Scientists search for mysterious ghost particles (www.bbc.co.uk)
Physicists believe a new experiment could prove their existence and answer fundamental questions about our Universe.
If kbin is going down for planned maintenance can the generic ‘ Over the next few days, there will be a change in server infrastructure…’ text at least be dated
It’s impossible to tell if there is an actual server upgrade, or they have just gone down, displaying the message from last time.
Water voles will benefit from £25m habitat restoration (www.bbc.co.uk)
England's fastest-declining mammal is to be protected as part of a new habitats restoration fund.
AFP: Proliferating 'news' sites spew AI-generated fake stories (www.msn.com)
London bus and Tube fares frozen as travelcards and caps increase (www.bbc.co.uk)
The price of daily and weekly Tube caps increase, along with River Bus services.
Vice Media stops publishing on website and cuts hundreds of jobs (www.bbc.co.uk)
Vice Media Group filed for bankruptcy in May and was bought by Fortress Investment Group.
Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO (arstechnica.com)
If you've posted on Reddit, you're likely feeding the future of AI.
Posing as Americans, Chinese accounts on X aim to divide and disrupt (www.washingtonpost.com)
X hasn’t sent a representative in months to biweekly information-sharing meetings with other social media companies.
Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing’ Imaginable (www.quantamagazine.org)
The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed. We’ve attempted to connect the proton’s many faces to form the most complete picture yet.
So blimey - what happened there?
Kbin seemed tio take a nice long sleep there. I almost assumed it had fallen over for good. I Really hate the generic, undated 'over the next few days we are working on servers' mesesage.
Jury awards climate scientist Michael Mann $1 million in defamation lawsuit (apnews.com)
A jury said Mann was defamed 12 years ago when a pair of conservative writers compared his depictions of global warming to a convicted child molester.
Nuclear fusion: new record brings dream of clean energy closer (www.bbc.co.uk)
Nuclear fusion still remains a long way off but brings the world one step closer to endless clean energy.
World's first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit (www.bbc.co.uk)
The last 12 months were the hottest on record, temporarily sending the world past a deeply symbolic mark.
Plans announced for new, distinctive digital music stations as extensions for BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 3 (www.bbc.com)
The new extensions look to delve deeper into specific genres and periods of music with context, curation and storytelling done in a way only the BBC can do
PAPERWALL: Chinese Websites Posing as Local News Outlets Target Global Audiences with Pro-Beijing Content - The Citizen Lab (citizenlab.ca)
A network of at least 123 websites operated from within the People’s Republic of China while posing as local news outlets in 30 countries across Europe, Asia, and Latin America, disseminates pro-Beijing disinformation and ad hominem attacks within much larger volumes of commercial press releases. We name this campaign...
IPv4 address rentals to mint millions of dollars for AWS (www.theregister.com)
AWS could rake in between $400 million and $1 billion a year from charging customers for public IPv4 addresses while migration to IPv6 remains slow....
Why 404 Media Needs Your Email Address (www.404media.co)
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Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin (arstechnica.com)
US government tracking the energy implications of booming bitcoin mining in US.