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Children in UK as young as 11 targeted by sextortion criminals, data reveals | Young people newsthirst.

Children as young as 11 to 13 are being targeted by sextortion criminals for the first time, according to data. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said the “worrying” trend showed that criminals behind extortion attempts were casting their nets wider in an attempt to trap victims. Sextortion is a form of blackmail where teenagers –…

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Labour promises ‘radical’ shake-up of UK civil service | Civil service newsthirst.

Pat McFadden has vowed to bring about “radical” civil service changes including digitisation and stricter performance targets for officials to mirror private sector practices. Under the plans expected to be announced this week, under-performing officials could be incentivised to leave their jobs and senior officials will have their pay linked to performance. A new target…

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New Proofs Expand the Limits of What Cannot Be Known newsthirst.

In other words, Hilbert’s 10th problem is undecidable. Mathematicians hoped to follow the same approach to prove the extended, rings-of-integers version of the problem—but they hit a snag. Gumming Up the Works The useful correspondence between Turing machines and Diophantine equations falls apart when the equations are allowed to have non-integer solutions. For instance, consider…

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