KwaZulu-Natal coastal residents were horrified to find hundreds of dead fish floating near the mouth of the Umhlali River this week, with survivors gasping for air or stranded next to the water line.
UK-registered, Egyptian-founded customer experience platform Tactful AI has raised $1 million in a pre-Series A funding round to expand its end-to-end, AI-driven customer service infrastructure built on agentic AI capabilities. The round was co-led by UAE-based venture capital firm Foras AI and investment firm M Empire. Deep-tech angel investors also participated, including Omar Gabr,...
In its ruling, the court said an earlier decision to ban the Pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization was “disproportionate.”
Afcon 2027 will be held in June and July next year and reports the finals could be delayed are “totally unfounded”, says African football boss Patrice Motsepe.
Aryansh Sharma’s unbeaten 74 bolsters United Arab Emirates’s hopes of qualifying for the T20 World Cup Super 8s with a tense five-wicket win over Canada.
Advice on how to respond to students questioning their birth gender has been updated. Here are the key changes
Ministers have released updated guidance on how schools and colleges in England should respond to students who are questioning their birth gender. How is it different to the previous Department for Education (DfE) guidance, released under the Conservatives in 2023?
[New Dawn] – In a significant boost to access to safe drinking water and improved learning conditions, the Rotary Club of Gbarnga, in partnership with Humanity Care Liberia, has officially broken ground on a solar-powered well at the government-run John Flomo Bakalu High School in Gbarnga, Bong County.
Harold Holzer, an expert on Abraham Lincoln, is taking over the role of borough historian. He is looking ahead to some significant milestones this year.
Remember when dropping a proxy into your torrent client felt like a secret handshake? In 2026 streaming giants block whole IP ranges, ISPs throttle P2P, and privacy rules keep shifting. That climate turns a VPN-plus-SOCKS5 bundle from nicety to necessity. The proxy speeds one app—qBittorrent or your scraper—while the VPN tunnel shields everything else. Only […]
Waymo’s autonomous vehicles can transport passengers across six cities without a human driver, but the Alphabet-owned company has discovered that its cars become completely inert if a passenger accidentally leaves a door open. The company confirmed that it is now paying DoorDash drivers in Atlanta to close these doors as part of a pilot program. A Reddit post from a DoorDash driver showed an...
Hong Kong, SAR Central District — BDIC, Blockchain Deposit Insurance Corporation, a crypto insurance provider, today announced the commercial launch of AgentCover Pro, a first-of-its-kind crypto insurance product specifically engineered to protect payments executed by agentic AI systems. Comments from the company detailed how AgentCover Pro delivers modular coverage across agent failures,...
theodp writes: West Virginia lawmakers on Tuesday introduced House Bill 5387 (PDF), which would repeal the state’s recently enacted mandatory stand-alone computer science graduation requirement and replace it with a new computer literacy proficiency requirement. Not too surprisingly, the Bill is being opposed by tech-backed nonprofit Code.org, which lobbied for the WV CS graduation requirement...
Health workers in developing countries know that isolating tuberculosis patients is an outdated and potentially harmful practice, but lack the resources to move away from it.
The program was meant to help hospitals provide for poor patients by offering drug savings. But critics say a Texas company has turned it into a big business, driving up costs for patients and insurers.