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Bulgarians cheer ‘Bangaranga’ and the country’s first Eurovision win

Today at 21:51 PM, via Daily Maverick

SOFIA, May 17 (Reuters) – Bulgarians celebrated on Sunday their country’s surprise first win in the Eurovision Song Contest as they welcomed home Dara, who triumphed with her catchy, crowd-pleasing, optimistic dance track “Bangaranga”.

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UAE reports drone strike at nuclear power plant as Iran war deadlock persists

Today at 21:40 PM, via Daily Maverick

DUBAI, May 17 (Reuters) – A drone strike caused a fire at a nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates, officials there said on Sunday, as U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran must act “fast” after efforts to end the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran appeared to have stalled.

Politics

Mathjabeng in financial freefall

Today at 09:30 AM, via Mail & Guardian

The Free State municipality is facing severe fiscal distress, with liabilities exceeding R5.8bn and a R871.6 million deficit, says Auditor General Tsakani Maluleke

Sport

Neymar furious as he is wrongly substituted

Today at 21:12 PM, via BBC News

Neymar was involved in a furious row with officials after Santos claimed the forward had been wrongly substituted in their 3-0 defeat by Coritiba – a day before Brazil announce their World Cup squad.

Education

Sons of jailed Saudi scholars urge Cambridge to drop plans to train Riyadh staff

Today at 17:13 PM, via The Guardian

Exclusive: Families of men facing death penalty add to internal opposition to seeking deal with Saudi defence ministry

The families of two scholars facing the death penalty in Saudi Arabia have appealed to the University of Cambridge to drop proposals to run staff training courses for Riyadh’s defence ministry.

The Guardian revealed last week that Cambridge’s Judge business school has been...

Education

Good Luck, Grads!

Today at 13:26 PM, via New York Times

Is the post-college job market as bad as it seems?

Education

My Classmate, ChatGPT

Today at 07:00 AM, via New York Times

Lessons from the first graduating A.I. class.

Education

Canvas hack: is it ever a good idea to pay a ransom, and what happens to the data?

Yesterday at 20:00 PM, via The Guardian

Businesses are advised against paying – but as the Canvas platform hack shows, many are prepared to deal to protect users’ privacy

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After a week of outages, hundreds of millions of students’ data stolen, delayed assignment due dates, and school login pages being defaced by hackers, US tech firm Instructure – which operates the...

Entertainment

48 hours in pictures, 17 May 2026

Today at 18:30 PM, via The Citizen

Through the lens: The Citizen’s Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.

Science/Tech

‘We Still Can’t See Dark Matter. But What If We Can Hear It?’

Today at 21:09 PM, via Slashdot

“We may have accidentally detected dark matter back in 2019,” writes ScienceAlert. “What if instead of trying to see dark matter, scientists attempted to hear it instead?” asks Space.com:New research suggests dark matter could leave a tiny but discernible imprint in the cacophony of ripples in spacetime called “gravitational waves” that ring through the cosmos when two black holes slam together...

Science/Tech

Us Math/Reading Scores Continue 13-Year Decline. Researchers Blame Reduced Testing and Social Media

Today at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

Test scores “are lower than they were a decade ago in school districts across the U.S.,” reports Times magazine, citing new data released Wednesday by Stanford researchers. “Reading scores were down roughly 0.6 grades in 2025 compared to 2015, and math scores were down about 0.4 grades. This means that students were 60% of one school year behind where their peers were in reading a decade...

Science/Tech

How Owners of EVs from Bankrupt Fisker Saved Their Cars With an Open Source Nonprofit

Today at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek:When Fisker Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June 2024, it left roughly 11,000 Ocean SUV owners holding the keys to vehicles that cost them anywhere from $40,000 to $70,000 — and that were rapidly losing the software brains that made them work. No more over-the-air updates. No more connected services. No more warranty. The...

Science/Tech

Sysadmin Creates ‘ModuleJail’ To Automatically Blacklist Unused Kernel Modules

Today at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader internet-redstar shares an interestging response to “the recent wave of Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerabilities like ‘Copy Fail’ and ‘Dirty Frag'”:Belgian Linux sysadmin and Tesla Hacker “Jasper Nuyens” got tired of the idea of manually blacklisting dozens or even hundreds of obscure kernel modules across large fleets of Linux systems in the near future.So he...