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South Africa

Egyptian-Born Tactful AI Raises $1 Million to Scale Agentic Customer Experience Platform

Today at 15:18 PM, via iAfrica

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,...

South Africa

Tunisia Advances Digital Health Reform With AI and National Cloud Strategy

Today at 15:16 PM, via iAfrica

Tunisia’s minister of health, Dr. Mustafa Al-Furjani, met with Assad bin Dyab, president and general manager of Tunisie Telecom, to accelerate the digitalization of healthcare services. The high-level meeting focused on expanding the use of technology to improve quality of care and bring health services closer to citizens. Officials identified several priorities for the next […]

World

Who will police Gaza, and how?

Today at 12:01 PM, via NPR

Under President Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan, Arab countries and the European Union are supposed to train a new police force in the Gaza Strip. But U.S. plans have run into serious challenges.

Education

San Francisco Teachers End Strike After 4 Days

Today at 16:59 PM, via New York Times

Public schools are expected to reopen on Wednesday for 50,000 students in the city. Teachers demanded higher wages and health care benefits.

Education

What is the new gender guidance for schools and colleges in England?

Today at 14:47 PM, via The Guardian

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?

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Education

Manhattan Has Its Own Historian

Today at 12:02 PM, via New York Times

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.

Entertainment

Mokwena denies Sundowns tactical leak claims

Today at 16:00 PM, via The Citizen

“Let me state this clearly, Mario has not given me any tactical or confidential information about Sundowns,” Mokwena said.

Science/Tech

Best VPN with SOCKS5 proxy in 2026: Top 6 Services for Torrenting & Scraping

Today at 17:41 PM, via Tech Financials

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 […]

Science/Tech

Waymo is Asking DoorDash Drivers To Shut the Doors of Its Self-Driving Cars

Today at 17:30 PM, via Slashdot

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...

Science/Tech

Crypto Insurance – BDIC Unveils AgentCover Pro to Protect AI-Driven Payments, Stablecoins, and Cross-Chain Transfers

Today at 17:13 PM, via Tech Financials

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,...

Science/Tech

Bill Introduced To Replace West Virginia’s New CS Course Graduation Requirement With Computer Literacy Proficiency

Today at 16:30 PM, via Slashdot

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...