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The University of California at Berkeley discovered the percentage of failing grades in multiple CS classes this spring "is significantly higher than past semesters," reports the campus's student newspaper. "Instructors point to students' increased reliance on AI, lack of mathematical preparedness and understaffing as potential contributing factors." According to [coursework platform] Berkeleytime, 35.3% of CS 10 students and 10.6% of CS 61A students received F's in spring 2026. In spring 2025 and spring 2024, the percentage of F's did not exceed 10% for either class. The electrical engineering and computer sciences department's grading guidelines state that 7% of students in lower division courses, including CS 10 and CS 61A, should receive D's and F's... [UC Berkeley teaching professor Dan Garcia, who taught both classes] believes the "primary driver" of these abnormally high failing rates is due to a "vast increase in academic dishonesty" due to students' usage of large language models, such as Claude, ChatGPT and Google Gemini. "Some of the numbers that you saw from the number of students who receive failing grades were because we caught them (cheating) and prosecuted them and are sending their cases to the Center for Student Conduct," Garcia said. "But in other cases, it's students who are leaning a little too hard on LLMs to do their work for them, and then at exam time just really aren't ready." According to Garcia, nearly 30 students in CS 10 were "caught cheating on take-home exams" in spring 2026... In addition to overreliance on AI, Garcia also pointed out that many students are underprepared mathematically, a concern echoed by campus associate teaching professor Gireeja Ranade. Ranade noticed a similar lack of prerequisite mathematical skills in her spring 2026 EECS 127 class, "Optimization Models in Engineering," which she described as "differently challenging" to teach this semester. The class saw a 16.8% F rate, far higher than the 5% of D's and F's that the EECS department describes as "typical" for an upper division course... Both Garcia and Ranade have joined more than 1,300 UC faculty in signing a petition calling for the reinstatement of ACT and SAT standardized testing scores for STEM admissions in the UC system. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader theodp for sharing the article.

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Osea Island is a hit with the rich and famous but it's notoriously private and difficult to access - so when I got invited to stay on the island, I had to see what all the fuss was about

While most 16-year-old boys were worrying about passing their driving tests, Kane Parsons was holed up in his bedroom creating a terrifying nine-minute film about a man trapped in a nightmarish labyrinth

They put their money on a horse called Christmas Day after the recent discovery of a 'time capsule' letter buried 62 years ago urged the finder to back any Santa-theme named horse.

Epsom revellers were battered by the wind and rain as they arrived at the Surrey Downs racecourse ahead of the Derby later.

King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrived at Epsom by helicopter today after making a quick getaway from Peter Phillips' wedding.

The lawyer who overturned Andrew Malkinson's (pictured) wrongful conviction for rape has said the Jeremy Bamber case 'bears all the hallmarks' of a miscarriage of justice.

This country has become shockingly unfree. But this attack on liberty has been very hard to oppose because it is usually so misty and shapeless.

Russell Ball and Ann Beaumont's £6,000 dream cruise turned into a nightmare after BA 'lost' their luggage at Heathrow.

Eamonn and Ruth, both 66, announced their split in May 2024 after 27 years together, 14 of which were spent in wedlock.

Vickrum Digwa, 23, who is serving at least 21 years in prison for the stabbing of the Southampton University student, was also banned from another gurdwara over concerns about his behaviour.

The revelations last week that Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie have been living rent-free for two decades in grace-and-favour homes in royal palaces have drawn considerable outrage.

Sales have increased for Hyundai's under-$35,000 IONIQ 5, totalling 18,395 for the first five months of 2026, reports Electrek, "up 16% from the same period last year." But meanwhile BYD's overseas sales surpassed 160,000 for the first time last month, "up 80% from May 2025 and 19% from the previous record of 135,098 set in April." Through the first five months of 2026, BYD sold 616,263 vehicles overseas. In May, overseas sales accounted for over 41% of BYD's total sales. In several major markets, including the UK, BYD surpassed Tesla and Kia to become the best-selling EV brand through April. "With fuel prices remaining high, more drivers are turning to electric vehicles as a smarter and more economical choice," Bono Ge, BYD UK's Country Manager, said last month. Elsewhere Electrek notes that Toyota's bZ (starting at under $35,000) was the third-best-selling EV in the U.S. in the first three months of 2026, behind only the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y. "Last month, bZ sales doubled from May 2025, with 2,646 units sold." And meanwhile the first Volkswagen ID. Polo and Cupra Raval models "rolled off the production line at the Group's Martorell plant in Spain, the first of several new affordable, mass-market EVs." Starting at €24,995 ($29,000) and €26,000 ($30,100), the ID. Polo and Cupra Raval are the first models from the Group's Electric Urban Car Family... [T]he first customer deliveries are scheduled to begin later this summer and into the fall. Following the ID. Polo and Cupra Raval, Volkswagen will introduce new members to the Electric Urban Car Family, including the ID. Cross, an electric version of the T-Cross, later this year. According to Volkswagen, the ID. Cross will start at around €28,000 ($32,500).

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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) often does not present symptoms until the organs are about to fail, leaving an estimated one million people unaware they are ill.

TAP flight TP2678 from Lisbon to London Heathrow ended up being diverted to Porto because of a 'strange noise'.

The Chinese regime has been criticised for 'snubbing' a forthcoming judicial review on the mega-embassy they want to build in London, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Today in 1944, on a cool, cloudy June morning, nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed on beaches across Normandy to carry out the largest seaborne invasion in history.

The sound of a piano drifts from the open French doors of the Brenners Park Hotel as old ladies clutching parasols tiptoe around its exquisite gardens.

Moscow's Northern Fleet is sending ships and submarines in unprecedented numbers to threaten and test our defences, key infrastructure and resolve.