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Business

This is the wealthiest township in South Africa

Yesterday at 13:00 PM, via BusinessTech

Data from Lightstone shows which of South Africa biggest townships are the wealthiest in the country based on income and property values. 

Sport

Spurs cruise to victory over 10-man West Ham

Yesterday at 23:25 PM, via BBC News

Watch Premier League highlights as Tottenham take advantage of Tomas Soucek’s red card as Thomas Frank’s side cruise to a comfortable 3-0 win over West Ham at the London Stadium.

Education

President-elect to face ‘disciplinary proceedings’ for Charlie Kirk remarks, Oxford Union says

Yesterday at 17:58 PM, via The Guardian

Union condemns racial abuse and threats George Abaraonye suffered after ‘inappropriate remarks’ celebrating shooting

• Charlie Kirk’s US campus tour will continue despite his death, widow says – US politics live

The president-elect of the Oxford Union will face disciplinary proceedings for making “inappropriate remarks” celebrating the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, the union has announced...

Education

‘It was personal, critical’: Bristol parents’ long battle over council Send services

Yesterday at 17:07 PM, via The Guardian

Three years after leak led to claims of social media spying, city authorities have agreed to independent investigation

“I’ve realised how damaging the whole thing’s been because, you know, you can’t trust people,” Jen Smith says from her home in Bristol.

Smith is one of a number of parents of children with special education needs and disabilities (Send) who allege Bristol city council spied...

Education

Lucky kids? How AI could impact university education

Yesterday at 14:00 PM, via The Guardian

Artificial intelligence is changing how students learn and the world they’ll graduate into. Experts reveal how applicants can get ahead

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently told a US podcast that if he was graduating today, “I would feel like the luckiest kid in all of history.”

Altman, whose company developed and released ChatGPT in November 2022, believes the transformative power of AI offers...

Science/Tech

Could Heart Attacks Be Triggered By Infections?

Yesterday at 22:34 PM, via Slashdot

Finland’s second-largest university has announced new research suggesting that heart attacks could be an infectious disease. [T]he research found that, in coronary artery disease, atherosclerotic plaques containing cholesterol may harbor a gelatinous, asymptomatic biofilm formed by bacteria over years or even decades. Dormant bacteria within the biofilm remain shielded from both the patient’s...

Science/Tech

Myanmar’s ‘Cyber-Slavery Compounds’ May Hold 100,000 Trafficked People

Yesterday at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

It was “little more than empty fields” five years ago — but it’s now “a vast, heavily guarded complex stretching for 210 hectares (520 acres),” reports the Guardian, “the frontline of a multibillion-dollar criminal fraud industry fuelled by human trafficking and brutal violence.”Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos have in recent years become havens for transnational crime syndicates running scam...

Science/Tech

UAE Lab Releases Open-Source Model to Rival China’s DeepSeek

Yesterday at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

“The United Arab Emirates wants to compete with the U.S. and China in AI,” writes Gizmodo, “and a new open source model may be its strongest contender yet. “An Emirati AI lab called the Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) released K2 Think on Tuesday, a model that researchers say rivals OpenAI’s ChatGPT and China’s DeepSeek in standard benchmark tests.””With just 32 billion parameters, it...

Science/Tech

A Single Exercise Session May Slow Cancer Cell Growth, Study Finds

Yesterday at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

The Washington Post notes that past research “indicates that exercise helps some cancer survivors avoid recurrence of their disease.” But a new study “offers an explanation of how, showing that exercise changes the inner workings of our muscles and cells, although more study is still needed…”The study, published last month, involved 32 women who’d survived breast cancer. After a single session...