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IBM closes its $11B deal for data streaming company Confluent, unveiled last December; CEO Arvind Krishna expects IBM to maintain its head count over five years (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/ibm-closes

Streeting and Starmer, 2 sides of the same coin. It's just that one is probably more competent.
Streeting allies call for unity amid reports Cabinet colleagues want him sacked
https://nation.cymru/news/streeting-allies-call-…

Streeting allies call for unity amid reports Cabinet colleagues want him sacked
Allies of Wes Streeting have called for unity within UK Government, amid reports Cabinet ministers are urging the Prime Minister to sack his Health Secretary. Sir Keir Starmer is facing growing calls within the Cabinet to remove Mr Streeting from his post, amid what they see as his public pronouncements of outspoken opinions, according to […]

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Dozens of US Colleges Close as Falling Birth Rate Pushes Them Off Enrollment Cliff - Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/17/089219/dozens-of-us-colleges-close-as-falling-birth-rate-pushes-them-off-enrollment-cliff

In its report, the Yale panel extolled the aims of higher education,
🔥but was unsparing in suggesting how schools, including Yale, had harmed public views of it.
⭐️For example, Yale and many other schools now rely on a model that regularly dilutes high tuition prices with generous aid packages.
💥Although many students pay nowhere near sticker prices, the committee wrote that the approach had exacted “a disastrous impact on public trust.”
“By its nature, the system is …

Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems
A 10-member committee offered a brutal assessment of academia’s role in creating the forces challenging American colleges and universities.

Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education's Problems (Alan Blinder/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/us/yale-report-colleges-unversities-trust.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p22#a260416p22

The US EPA rules that xAI acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power its Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 data centers in the Memphis area (Dara Kerr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk-xai-datacenter-m…

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- Ease into the evening with classical music
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, featuring music from Sergey Rachmaninov, Lucy Walker, Fanny Mendelssohn, and film composer Nicholas Britell.
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