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Dartmouth announced at the start of this year that it would join the handful of US universities offering “need-blind” admission to undergraduates from around the world regardless of their ability to pay in an effort to improve the diversity of its intake. It will waive annual tuition and accommodation fees of $80,000 for those judged eligible.

Darktrace promises to identify threats lurking shadily in IT systems, as its name implies. The UK cyber security group has some shadows of its own. The business is something of a black box and shareholder Mike Lynch is fighting extradition to face criminal charges in the US. The volatile shares are twice their float price but have halved since their September peak.

The last thylacine, the official name of the Tasmanian tiger that was the Australian island’s apex predator, died in a zoo in Hobart in 1936. The wild population of the large carnivorous marsupial was wiped out by farmers and the local government, which put a bounty on the animal during the 19th century to protect sheep.