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SCORPIO: Inside Collen Mashawana’s ‘political connections’

Yesterday at 22:14 PM, via Daily Maverick

Collen Mashawana, the ‘philanthropreneur’ at the heart of Daily Maverick’s investigative series on the Independent Development Trust, frequently mingled with top politicians. Were these innocent encounters, or do the optics betray hints of something more ominous?

South Africa

Alphabet CEO Warns AI Bubble Could Hit Every Company

Yesterday at 16:44 PM, via iAfrica

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says no company, including Google, would be immune if the artificial intelligence market were to suffer a valuation correction. In an exclusive interview with BBC News at Google’s California headquarters, Pichai said the rapid surge in AI investment is “an extraordinary moment,” but he acknowledged “irrationality” in parts of the market. […]

Education

Tanzania: Zanzibar Records 97pc Pass Rate in PSL Exams

Yesterday at 16:34 PM, via AllAfrica

[Daily News] Zanzibar — A TOTAL of 50,769 candidates, equivalent to 96.94 per cent have passed the 2025 Standard Seven National Examinations, the Zanzibar Ministry of Education and Vocational Training has announced.

Science/Tech

Ubuntu Will Have Native AMD ROCm AI/ML and HPC Libraries In Next LTS Release

Today at 00:20 AM, via Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader MadCow42 writes: Canonical just announced that they’re packaging AMD’s ROCm libraries (for AIML and HPC with both data-center GPUs as well as desktop/laptop GPUs), directly into the Ubuntu Universe archive. You can run ROCm on Ubuntu today but you have to install it via a script from AMD and manually remove and reinstall for any upgrades or bug fixes. Having it in...

Science/Tech

Adobe Integrates With ChatGPT

Yesterday at 23:50 PM, via Slashdot

Adobe is integrating Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat directly into ChatGPT so users can edit photos, design graphics, and tweak PDFs through the chatbot. The Verge reports: The Adobe apps are free to use, and can be activated by typing the name of the app alongside an uploaded file and conversational instruction, such as “Adobe Photoshop, help me blur the background of this image.” ChatGPT...

Science/Tech

Nasa loses contact with spacecraft orbiting Mars for more than a decade

Yesterday at 23:22 PM, via The Guardian

Space agency is investigating after Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend

Nasa has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade, though the US space agency said it was trying to re-establish a communications link.

Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. Nasa said this week that it was working...