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POWER Q&A: Eskom and some municipalities demand registration of residential solar PV and battery energy storage systems by March 2026

Today at 18:49 PM, via Daily Maverick

In this interview, Wayne Duvenage, the CEO of the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa), poses a number of questions to Chris Yelland, MD at EE Business Intelligence, to help homeowners and residential electricity customers understand their rights in respect of demands by Eskom and some municipalities to register their solar PV and battery energy storage (BES) systems by 31 March 2026, and...

Sport

Fact To File wins Irish Gold Cup at Leopardstown

Today at 19:38 PM, via BBC News

Fact To File wins the Irish Gold Cup at Leopardstown with stablemate Galopin Des Champs settling for third when targeting a fourth successive victory in the race.

Education

Nigeria: Kano Youths Embrace Education Reforms

Today at 19:32 PM, via AllAfrica

[Leadership] Youths in Kano State, under the platform of the Youth-Led Education Lab, have declared education a fundamental right, pledging to take ownership of reforms and demand accountability from government, institutions and communities to strengthen the state’s education sector.

Education

Nigeria: Pay, Peace and the Politics of Learning

Today at 17:06 PM, via AllAfrica

[This Day] In Nigeria, the academic calendar has, for too long, behaved like a fragile truce rather than a dependable promise. Families plan for semesters the way coastal communities plan for storms: with caution, with backups, with a quiet readiness to start again after everything has been interrupted. Students have learned to measure time not by sessions completed but by months lost–months...

Entertainment

24 hours in pictures, 2 February 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

Did you solve it? The numbers all go to 11

Today at 19:05 PM, via The Guardian

The answers to today’s problems

Earlier today I set you these three problems about the number 11. Here they are again with solutions.

1. Funny formation

odd positions: 9,7,5,3,1 sum to 25;

even positions: 8,6,4,2,0 sum to 20.

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Science/Tech

Notepad++ Compromised By State Actor

Today at 19:00 PM, via Slashdot

Luthair writes: Notepad++ claims to have been targeted by a state actor, given their previous stance on Uyghurs one can speculate about a candidate. Notepad++, in a blog post: According to the analysis provided by the security experts, the attack involved infrastructure-level compromise that allowed malicious actors to intercept and redirect update traffic destined for notepad-plus-plus.org....

Science/Tech

High-Speed Internet Boom Hits Low-Tech Snag: a Labor Shortage

Today at 18:01 PM, via Slashdot

The U.S. laid fiber-optic cables to a record number of homes last year as billions of dollars in federal broadband grants and a surge in data-center construction fueled an enormous buildout, but the industry does not have enough workers to sustain the pace. A 2024 report by the Fiber Broadband Association and the Power & Communication Contractors Association projects 58,000 new fiber jobs...

Health

The Wonder Drug That’s Plaguing Sports

Today at 12:00 PM, via New York Times

Ostarine held the promise of profound medical treatments. Something unexpected happened on the way to F.D.A. approval.