Nearly 2,000 French high schools are blockaded or closed today amid massive student-led protests over school funding and inequality. The demonstrations began in September at a single school in the economically deprived suburbs of Paris, where students protested teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and dilapidated school buildings beset by rats, fallingContinue Reading
England’s Harry Kane makes record-equalling 125th appearance and has a hand in all three goals in Nations League win., England’s Harry Kane makes record-equalling 125th appearance and involved in all three goals in UEFA Nations League win. Harry Kane celebrated his record-equalling 125th England cap with two trademark goals asContinue Reading
The newly combined company is called Skydance and began trading on Wall Street on Tuesday., Paramount Skydance has completed its $110bn merger with Warner Bros Discovery to form Skydance. The deal, which closed on Tuesday, brings together two entertainment giants that own movie studios and theme parks, but also bringsContinue Reading
Scrcpy, the open-source tool for viewing and controlling your Android phone from your desktop, added support for zero-copy hardware decoding in its latest release. The feature, new in v5.0, uses your computer’s hardware to decode the video stream sent from your Android screen to mirror to your desktop (via aContinue Reading
A number of studies reported a decline in tech jobs in September as the US continues to get squeezed by geopolitical and economic instability. Tech consortium CompTIA said 10,350 positions in the technology sector were lost in September, lower than the 14,700 positions cut in August. But economy-wide, tech jobsContinue Reading
According to new figures from Statcounter, Windows 11 continues to gain users at the expense of Windows 10. The newer operating system is now estimated to account for 71.5% of all Windows computers globally, while Windows 10 has dropped to 27.8%, reports The Register. Microsoft itself does not publish anyContinue Reading
Ancient pottery from Tampa Bay appears to have been made by migrant craftspeople who brought specialized Mississippian pottery-making knowledge hundreds of miles south. Remarkably, they even incorporated crushed fragments of older homeland pottery into new vessels, preserving a physical link to their past across generations., Read MoreContinue Reading
Lightwell is Red Hat and IBM’s response to a specific problem in enterprise open source security. Vulnerabilities sit in production library versions that upstream maintainers haven’t patched and, in some cases, won’t. More than 90% of enterprise application code traces back to open source or third-party libraries, per figures RedContinue Reading
Freddie Jackson, whose smooth vocals swept an entire generation off its feet, died Monday night, his family announced on Instagram., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
Russia denies plague cases after laboratory technician’s death; US demands ‘transparency’ as WHO monitors situation., Russia denies plague cases after laboratory technician’s death; US demands ‘transparency’ as WHO monitors situation. Russian authorities have denied that they imposed anti-plague measures after a laboratory technician died of suspected pneumonic plague in aContinue Reading
Spain’s Constitutional Court ruled an amnesty law for Catalan separatists applied to the politician., Spain’s Constitutional Court ruled an amnesty law for Catalan separatists applied to the politician. Self-exiled Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont could be set to return to Spain after the country’s Constitutional Court ruled that an amnestyContinue Reading
We go to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the site of the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history. Health authorities believe the outbreak first began in January but was not detected until May, in part due to cuts in global health investments, like the dismantling of USAID. Since then, overContinue Reading
Jim Bakker, famed PTL preacher who fell from grace, dies, Read MoreContinue Reading