Phones to be banned in schools by law in England under government plans
Education minister Jacqui Smith said the move would create “a clear legal requirement for schools”.
One of the most mortifying things about knowing a lot of techies is listening to them tell me excitedly about some very important discovery that they believe they have made. Recently, I ran into an acquaintance of mine, who began talking my ear off about an amazing discovery he’d made with LLMs. Kno
Today, we are thrilled to announce the availability of G7e instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs on Amazon SageMaker AI. You can provision nodes with 1, 2, 4, and 8 RTX PRO 6000 GPU instances, with each GPU providing 96 GB of GDDR7 memory. This launch provides the ca
‘Amendment of applications to the employment tribunals is usually a matter for the discretion of the tribunal and raises no point of law for appeal. Rarely have two cases (Rice v Wicked Vision [2025] EWCA Civ 1466) about an amendment of applications caused so much controversy and finished up i
For years, the way large language models handle inference has been stuck inside a box — literally. The high-bandwidth RDMA networks that make modern LLM serving work have confined both prefill and decode to the same datacenter, sometimes even the same rack. A team of researchers at Moonshot AI and T
01/07-2026 - Forbes: Tesla’s Electric Semi Has Its First Fatal Crash: Two people in a small Volkswagen Beetle died after the massive battery-powered truck slammed into them at a highway intersection in Nevada, not far from the factory that builds it. RIP.
29/6-2026: Dialogues are always interesting; a few words from Professor Carissa Véliz: “WhatsApp is not a privacy-friendly app overall,” said Carissa Véliz, a professor at Oxford University and author of Privacy is Power. “It collects a lot of metadata about users for marketing purposes. We have to remember that WhatsApp is owned by Meta – one of the tech companies with one of the worst track records when it comes to privacy.”
Sad news 29/6-2026: The devastating earthquakes in Venezuela are expected to claim many more lives than have already been reported, says the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for Venezuela, Gianluca Rampolla del Tindaro. The number of dead will “inevitably and unfortunately continue to rise”, he says. The UN is preparing for over 10,000 fatalities. Many of the victims have not yet been found.
28/6-2026: "New figures from France show that during the heatwave, in recent days, they have recorded daily excess mortality of up to 40 per cent."
Denmark recorded its hottest day ever measured on 27 June 2026. We also had quite a lot of rain last night. Another very warm day today, 28 June 2026.
Industriferie is the informal but deeply embedded Danish summer shutdown period that developed alongside industrial working culture in the 20th century, where factories, offices and service sectors gradually coordinated collective holidays during the summer weeks, creating a national rhythm where production slows significantly and large parts of the workforce take extended leave, resulting in quieter cities, reduced business activity and a strong cultural expectation of summer rest – 29 June 2026 – 2 August 2026.
July and August — Workforce Planning and Headcount Review: Starts: 1 July | Deadline: 31 August (plan submitted to finance): Workforce planning ensures the organisation has the right people, with the right competencies, knowledge and skills, in the right roles at the right time. Summer is the right moment for this work — it is the quietest operational period, giving senior leaders the space for strategic conversations. The plan must be complete before the autumn budget process closes, because people costs are typically the largest single line in any company's budget. The gap between today's workforce and tomorrow's requirements drives every recruitment, development, and succession decision that follows.