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Business

The truth about Eskom’s diesel use

Today at 07:00 AM, via BusinessTech

Eskom has spent R6 billion on diesel in the 2025/2026 financial year to date, a feat that the company insists is a significant achievement.

Education

Judge bars Trump administration from cutting funding to University of California

Yesterday at 16:16 PM, via The Guardian

White House had demanded $1.2bn from UC to restore funding after saying it allowed antisemitism on campus

The Trump administration cannot fine the University of California or summarily cut the school system’s federal funding over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimination, a federal judge ruled late on Friday in a sharply worded decision.

US district judge Rita Lin in San...

Education

America’s Formula for Greatness Is Under Threat

Yesterday at 14:00 PM, via New York Times

Education, open markets, trade and immigration transformed the United States into the world’s dominant power, but each is now being weakened.

Lifestyle

Popular Hout Bay restaurant burns down

Yesterday at 12:55 PM, via The South African

Popular Hout Bay restaurant, Veldt DBE, burnt down on Friday while the nearby Ice Dream Italian ice-cream parlour also caught fire.

Science/Tech

Copy-and-Paste Now Exceeds File Transferring as the Top Corporate Data Exfiltration Vector

Today at 05:58 AM, via Slashdot

Slashdot reader spatwei writes: It is now more common for data to leave companies through copying and pasting than through file transfers and uploads, LayerX revealed in its Browser Security Report 2025. This shift is largely due to generative AI (genAI), with 77% of employees pasting data into AI prompts, and 32% of all copy-pastes from corporate accounts to non-corporate accounts occurring...

Science/Tech

Google Begins Aggresively Using the Law To Stop Text Message Scams

Today at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

“Google is going to court to help put an end to, or at least limit, the prevalence of phishing scams over text message,” reports BGR:Google said it’s bringing suit against Lighthouse, an impressively large operation that allegedly provides tools customers can buy to set up their own specialized phishing scams. All told, Google estimates that Lighthouse-affiliated scams in the U.S. have stolen...

Science/Tech

A Quantum Error Correction Breakthrough?

Today at 02:22 AM, via Slashdot

The dream of quantum computers has been hampered by the challenge of error correction, writes the Harvard Gazette, since qubits “are inherently susceptible to slipping out of their quantum states and losing their encoded information.” But in a newly-published paper, a research team “combined various methods to create complex circuits with dozens of error correction layers” that “suppresses...

Science/Tech

Fear Drives the AI ‘Cold War’ Between America and China

Today at 01:22 AM, via Slashdot

A new “cold war” between America and China is “pushing leaders to sideline concerns about the dangers of powerful AI models,” reports the Wall Street Journal, “including the spread of disinformation and other harmful content, and the development of superintelligent AI systems misaligned with human values…” “Both countries are driven as much by fear as by hope of progress. “In Washington and...

Health

Hochul Urged to Ban Horseshoe Crab Fishing

Yesterday at 12:00 PM, via New York Times

Supporters of the legislation argue it would protect a declining horseshoe crab population, while opponents warn it will harm the commercial fishing industry.