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Versant‘s USA Sports and the Pac-12 Conference struck a five-year rights pact that will put regular-season football and men’s and women’s basketball on USA Network. The deal, which will start in the 2026-2027 season will run through 2030-31 and put more than 80 Pac-12 games on USA, including 22 regular season football games; 50 regular-season men’s basketball match-ups; and five to ten regular-season women’s basketball games. Pac-12 Enterprises, the broadcast production arm of the conference, will produce all games on USA Network in partnership with USA Sports. “USA Sports is proud to partner with the new Pac-12 and showcase the…

Russian chess grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik, right, concentrates during a February 2015 game against U.S. grandmaster Lewon Aronjan during the Zurich Chess Challenge. Ennio Leanza/Keystone via AP hide caption toggle caption Ennio Leanza/Keystone via AP Chess’s international governing body said Tuesday that it filed a complaint against former World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik after he leveled unproven allegations of cheating against fellow players, including Daniel Naroditsky, who died last month at age 29. The complaint centers on harassment and “the insulting of an individual’s dignity,” said the International Chess Federation, known by the acronym FIDE, in a news release. Naroditsky’s cause…

Neon lights are glass tubes containing neon or other gases. When an electric current is sent from one end to the other, the flowing electrons collide with the electrons in the neon, bumping them up to a higher energy level. When those electrons calm down and fall back to the ground state, they emit light. The color depends on the specific change in energy, which means that different gases, like argon, xenon, or mercury, produce different colors.For the northern lights, it’s not neon but the gases in the atmosphere. Oxygen gives off a green light at lower altitudes and red…

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President Donald Trump shows the signed bill package to re-open the federal government in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on November 12, 2025. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP hide caption toggle caption BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP President Trump has signed a bill to fund the government, bringing a close to the longest government shutdown in history, one that saw millions of Americans affected and ended with little political gain. The bill passed Wednesday night despite Republicans’ narrow margin in the House. Six Democrats joined their Republican colleagues to get the bill over the finish line 43 days after the shutdown began: Reps.…

The UK economy grew by a weaker-than-expected 0.1% in the July-to-September period, official figures show.While the service sector was the main driver of growth in the quarter, the Office for National Statistics said the production sector contracted, led by weakness in manufacturing.The economy shrank by 0.1% in the month of September, when the ONS said there was a “marked” fall in car production following the impact of the cyber attack on JLR.The growth figures are the last to be released ahead of the Budget later this month, when Chancellor Rachel Reeves is widely expected to raise taxes in order to…

Eoneren/E+ via Getty ImagesFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeawaysA recent paper found that AI can experience “brain rot.”Models underperform after ingesting “junk data.” Users can test for these four warning signs. You know that oddly drained yet overstimulated feeling you get when you’ve been doomscrolling for too long, like you want to take a nap and yet simultaneously feel an urge to scream into your pillow? Turns out something similar happens to AI.Last month, a team of AI researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M, and Purdue University published a paper advancing what they call “the…

James GallagherHealth and science correspondentNye familyGracie Nye in hospital when she was first diagnosed with type 1 diabetesScientists have discovered why type 1 diabetes is more severe and aggressive when it develops in young children.Type 1 is caused by the immune system attacking cells in the pancreas that control blood sugar levels.The research team showed the pancreas was still developing in childhood, particularly under the age of seven, making it far more vulnerable to damage.They say newly developed drugs could buy patients time for the pancreas to mature, delaying the disease.Type 1 diabetes affects around 400,000 people in the UK.Gracie,…

Late-night hosts spoke about the controversial behavior of a small group of Democrats and Donald Trump’s continued destruction of the White House.Stephen ColbertOn The Late Show, Stephen Colbert spoke about the vote to end the federal government shutdown which has seen some Democrats choosing to cave to Republican demands without restoring the healthcare subsidies which were initially threatened.Chuck Schumer told his party he would give the deal neither a blessing nor a curse and would give no steer on how to vote.Colbert joked that this was “bold leadership” and commented on Schumer’s “failure” in the situation.The shutdown has caused major…

The NFL Week 11 schedule features nine divisional clashes. Among the biggest are Sunday, when the AFC West co-leading Seattle Seahawks and Los Angeles Rams face off as Sam Darnold looks to guide the Seahawks past Matthew Stafford and the Rams. Anothr key divisional matchup features the Kansas City Chiefs taking on the Denver Broncos in a pivotal AFC West meeting. The Rams are 3-point favorites, while Kansas City is favored by 3.5 points on the road.A non-divisional matchup with heavy NFC playoff race implications features the Detroit Lions against the Philadelphia Eagles (-2.5). Philadelphia has won the last two…