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South Africa

Madlanga Commission hearings to focus on drug seizures

Yesterday at 18:59 PM, via SAnews

Madlanga Commission hearings to focus on drug seizures

The Madlanga Commission’s hearings in the week ahead will continue to focus on drug seizures by South African law enforcement agencies, as well as the handling and theft or disappearance of narcotic substances in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.“This is a continuation of the testimony of several witnesses last week, including the...

Sport

Reitan earns maiden PGA win as Fitzpatrick falters

Today at 01:15 AM, via BBC News

Alex Fitzpatrick’s hopes of a first individual win on the PGA Tour are dashed as Kristoffer Reitan instead earns a maiden victory at the Truist Championship.

Education

‘One of the greatest invisible tragedies’: is the loss of childhood imagination inevitable?

Yesterday at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

We have created the most stifling and sanitised imaginative space conceivable for children, says teacher Brendan James Murray. Today true imagination has become a radical act

The six children sit together at the waterline in roaring wind. Seagulls dip and strain, beating their wings against the gusts as, far below, waves crest, thump, whisper. A girl, scarcely three years old, stands suddenly...

Education

I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan

Yesterday at 15:00 PM, via The Guardian

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words

I have been teaching fiction writing at MIT since 2017. Many of my students last wrote fiction in middle school, and very few have experienced a proper workshop, so at the start of every semester I offer these directions for writer and reader...

Education

How Students Interact With A.I. Is What Matters

Yesterday at 15:00 PM, via New York Times

Readers discuss artificial intelligence and writing in the classroom. Also: President Trump’s latest assault on science; election workers.

Science/Tech

PlayStation3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask Contributors to Stop Submitting ‘AI Slop’ Pull Requests

Today at 02:16 AM, via Slashdot

Open-source PS3 emulator RPCS3 “has been around since 2011,” Kotaku notes, and has made 70% of the PlayStation 3’s library fully playable, “bolstered in part by the many users who contribute to its GitHub page.” But their dev team “took to X today to very kindly and civilly request that users ‘stop submitting AI slop code pull requests’ to its GitHub page.”Then they immediately proceeded to...

Science/Tech

Honda Patents a Fake Clutch for Electric Motorcycles

Today at 00:39 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek:A newly revealed Honda patent shows the company developing a simulated electronic clutch system for electric motorcycles, complete with torque-boost launches and even haptic feedback designed to mimic the feel of a combustion engine…. Instead of using a traditional mechanical clutch, the system uses electronics to alter how the motor responds...

Science/Tech

Big Tech is Moving Data Through the Gulf Using Fiber-Optic Cables Alongside Iraq’s Oil Pipelines

Yesterday at 23:39 PM, via Slashdot

Major American cloud companies with data centers in the Persian Gulf “are channeling data out of the war zone through fiber-optic cables that an Iraqi telecom has strung alongside crude-oil pipelines,” reports RestofWorld.org:The data centers serve customers in more than 190 countries, processing transactions, storing files, and running applications for businesses and individuals from Latin...

Science/Tech

Challenging UPS and FedEx, Amazon Opens Its Shipping Network to All Businesses

Yesterday at 21:55 PM, via Slashdot

This week Amazon opened up its parcel shipping, fulfillment, and distribution “to businesses of all types and sizes.” Any business can now ship, store, and deliver “using the same supply chain that supports Amazon,” according to Monday’s announcement of “Amazon Supply Chain Services.” The move sent shares of UPS and FedEx “tumbling” Monday writes GeekWire. And though both stocks bounced back as...