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Trump 2nd term live updates: WH sidesteps question on hiring disabled federal workers
President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.ABC News - 6h -
DOJ sidesteps language endorsing legality of buyouts in email to staff
A small tweak to an email encouraging federal employees to take a buyout indicates the Justice Department wouldn’t vouch for the legality of the program. The Trump administration is battling ...The Hill - 14h -
How DeepSeek and next-generation AI agents could erode value of language models
Executives at leading AI labs say that large language models like those from OpenAI and Big Tech firms risk becoming commoditized in 2025.CNBC - 1d -
Acronyms are the EU’s 25th language
Europe’s unofficial lingua franca is a plethora of shorthand that even ministers struggle to understandFinancial Times - 4d -
Is language the key to resolving the WFH v back-to-the-office culture wars? | Emma Beddington
Those who work from home and their office-based colleagues need to understand each other better – and that starts with language. Here’s my new corporate glossary. I note, wearily, that the work ...The Guardian - 5d -
Gill Hornby: ‘Jane Austen created the six best novels in the English language’
The writer on her third novel, Miss Austen, being turned into a TV drama, what we get wrong about the much-loved author – and why she would never write a book with her husband, Robert Harris. ...The Guardian - 6d -
How sidestepping Big Tech has paid off lately in these stock ETFs
ETFs that help investors minimize the heft of Big Tech stocks, or altogether avoid seven closely watched megacap companies, have outperformed in the past month.MarketWatch - Jan. 24 -
Irish-language cinema has bright future despite Oscars snub, says Kneecap director
Comedy film loosely based on lives of Belfast hip-hop trio missed out on nominations for best international feature and original song. Hollywood may not have been quite ready to see Kneecap ...The Guardian - Jan. 24 -
Trump’s executive order on gender uses language pointing to ‘fetal personhood’
Words ‘at conception’ in order gesture to push by anti-abortion movement to give embryos and fetuses legal rights. US politics – live updates One of Donald Trump’s new executive orders , ...The Guardian - Jan. 23 -
Trump Administration shuts down White House Spanish-language page, social media
Within hours of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, his administration took down the Spanish version of the official White House websiteABC News - Jan. 22 -
These are the best-paid programming languages for 2025
The software developers market is hot. Find out which software languages will earn you the most money this year.VentureBeat - Jan. 21 -
‘I can still hear their words’: the fight to save the Híɫzaqv language
In what is now western Canada, younger generations of the Indigenous Heiltsuk Nation are using social media to revive this ‘deeply relational’ language. Centuries ago, the music of the Híɫzaqv ...The Guardian - Jan. 21 -
Burgum sidesteps Trump's most controversial climate positions in largely cordial hearing
Former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R), President-elect Trump’s nominee for Interior secretary, sat for a largely cordial hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on ...The Hill - Jan. 16 -
Un, deux, trois — three language learning apps, tested by an editor
I tried three language learning apps – Duolingo, Babbel and Pimsleur – to find out which is best for language proficiency and fluency.NBC News - Jan. 15 -
Microsoft’s AutoGen update boosts AI agents with cross-language interoperability and observability
Microsoft's AutoGen for AI agents is popular among agent developers, and a new update addresses observability and flexibility issues.VentureBeat - Jan. 15 -
Learning to read in a foreign language has taught me to embrace ambiguity – one sentence at a time | Patrick Lum
In striving to understand Japanese books and comics, I’ve adopted the habits of a weightlifter: I find my comfort zone then push beyond it. Mind your language: how learning French helped me ...The Guardian - Jan. 12 -
Wray bids farewell to FBI: Agency must sidestep 'partisanship and politics'
Outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray stressed during his farewell address that the bureau must sidestep “partisanship and politics” in maintaining “independence” and “objectivity.” Wray ...The Hill - Jan. 11 -
From Igbo to Angika: how to save the world’s 3,000 endangered languages
With half of all languages predicted to die out in decades, activists are turning to online tools to preserve them. Every year, the world loses some of its 7,000 languages. Parents stop speaking ...The Guardian - Jan. 7 -
HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me
In fact, HTML is the most significant computing language ever developed. Underestimate it at your peril.Wired - Jan. 6 -
Timekettle unveils Babel OS for AI simultaneous interpretation in language translation earbuds
Timekettle has unveiled the Babel OS, its first-ever operating system designed to redefine its language translation earbuds.VentureBeat - Jan. 6 -
Chinese Companies Have Sidestepped Trump’s Tariffs. They Could Do It Again.
The companies have found plenty of new channels to the U.S. market — demonstrating the potential limits of the tariffs Donald Trump has promised to impose.The New York Times - Jan. 5 -
Mind your language: how learning French helped me remove the condom from the wine | Susan McDonald
Le mot juste can be a portal into another world entirely – but make sure you know your chicken from your horse. More summer essentials Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news ...The Guardian - Jan. 5 -
Carville slams Democrats' use of 'NPR language' after Harris loss
James Carville slammed what the longtime Democratic strategist called “NPR language” that he said members of his party use as he evaluated why Vice President Harris lost the November election. ...The Hill - Jan. 3