This study includes ALL THE FIRST AND SECOND GRADERS ENROLLED IN SCHOOL IN FRANCE

"the gender gap increased with schooling rather than with age. These findings point to the first year of school as the time and place where a maths gender gap emerges in favour of boys"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09126-4

I am a sucker for opto-electronics, so got this discarded kit (ex CNN's London studio?)

Each button has a 36x24 LCD display and red+green LEDS.

Well-designed hardware: ColdFire (=68k) CPU, plenty of RAM, plenty of FLASH, serial port, ethernet etc.

Firmware ? Not so impressive, but very easy to get rid of:

Anybody can flash new firmware from ethernet: No userid, no password, all you need to know is the IP# and how they botched their CRC-16 implementation.

Now it runs #MicroPython :-)

Does anyone know of a detailed and well-referenced piece about the shortcomings of New Zealand's Privacy Act compared to the EU's GDPR and AI Act?

Most of the stuff I've found so far is so light weight that even an AI would be embarrassed to put its name to it.

Alternatively if anyone is working on that I'd like to hear from you.

Extremely specific query about neurophysiology but if any of you can point me to some kind of info on this I'd appreciate it because I have no idea what search terms it would require

Apparently there's a thing in spinal cord injuries where you can develop a sensitive spot above the site that can feel really nice, relaxing, or arousing.
I have one that makes me just instantly relax, it's like picking a kitten up by the scruff. Most calming thing on earth. And I'd like to know how/why it happens

> Merely suggesting the use of FOSS in business can face harsh opposition. This writer once had a section written into his employment contract at a pure-Microsoft vendor, explicitly forbidding him from ever mentioning free software to any of the company's clients.

By @lproven.

https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/12/the_price_of_software_freedom/