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FRIDAY, 19 APRIL 2024, 20:15

Business

Court sets aside controversial R5 billion UIF contract

Today at 15:48 PM, via BusinessTech

The Pretoria High Court nullified a R5 billion UIF contract awarded to Thuja Capital and restrained owner Mthunzi Mdwaba from making corruption allegations against various ministers.

Education

Let’s end the annual torture of GCSE resits – and give students qualifications they’ll actually use | Polly Toynbee

Today at 14:27 PM, via The Guardian

Compulsory maths and English retakes speak of a system that ignores pupils’ real talents. But hope is on the horizon

That time of year approaches when we ritually sacrifice 40% of our 16-year-olds to mark them down as failures. Exam season is coming up – that summer rite when we sit down all the young, hunched over cramped desks day after day for weeks, to sit far too many GCSE papers. The...

Lifestyle

WATCH: Viral Pet Video – 19 April 2024

Today at 17:45 PM, via The South African

Watch this viral pet video that will leave you in “awes” and “lols”. Buckle up, you are not ready for this cuteness overload!

Entertainment

Focalistic’s new hit speaks to your core

Today at 13:59 PM, via SowetanLIVE

President Ya Straata’s new single Pressure is aptly titled because it highlights the attitude of overcoming constraints to perform at your best as artists and athletes.

Science/Tech

A shout out to anger management | Brief letters

Today at 19:28 PM, via The Guardian

Getting rid of rage | Secular song? | Rockumentaries | Piratical crossword clue | Political ills

Re Emma Beddington’s article (15 April), at 78, at last I found a way to vanquish my rage at a recent Feldenkrais class on Zoom. We were doing breathing exercises and our teacher suggested we go he-he-he on the outbreath. Then she asked us to use our voice and I began. After a few medium sounds I...

Science/Tech

Meta’s Not Telling Where It Got Its AI Training Data

Today at 19:22 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: Today Meta unleashed its ChatGPT competitor, Meta AI, across its apps and as a standalone. The company boasts that it is running on its latest, greatest AI model, Llama 3, which was trained on “data of the highest quality”! A dataset seven times larger than Llama2! And includes 4 times more code! What is that training data? There the company is less...

Health

Heat-Related ER Visits Rose in 2023, CDC Study Finds

Yesterday at 21:41 PM, via New York Times

As record heat enveloped the nation, the rate of emergency room visits increased compared with the previous five years, a sign of the major health risks of high temperatures.

Health

Scotland Pauses Gender Medications for Minors

Yesterday at 19:22 PM, via New York Times

The change followed a sweeping review by England’s National Health Service that found “remarkably weak” evidence for youth gender treatments.