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African Bank CEO calls it quits

Today at 20:53 PM, via Daily Investor

African Bank CEO Kennedy Bungane has stepped down as the bank’s chief executive with immediate effect.

Sport

Benn deal convinced me to team up with Hearn – Aspinall

Today at 20:05 PM, via BBC News

Tom Aspinall says seeing Conor Benn secure a reported £11m one-fight deal with Zuffa Boxing helped convince him to sign with Eddie Hearn in a bid to maximise his earnings outside of the UFC.

Education

Uganda: Alupo Urges Universities to Embrace Competence-Based Curriculum, Ai

Today at 18:40 PM, via AllAfrica

[Nile Post] Vice President Jessica Alupo has urged universities to integrate the Competence-Based Curriculum (CBC) into their academic programmes in order to produce graduates equipped with critical thinking and problem-solving skills needed in today’s competitive job market.

Science/Tech

Iran War Provides a Large-Scale Test For AI-Assisted Warfare

Today at 21:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg, written by Katrina Manson: The U.S. strikes on Iran ordered by President Donald Trump mark the arrival on a large scale of a new era of warfare assisted by artificial intelligence. Captain Timothy Hawkins, a Central Command spokesperson, told me last night that the AI tools the U.S. military is using in Iran operations don’t make targeting...

Science/Tech

Python ‘Chardet’ Package Replaced With LLM-Generated Clone, Re-Licensed

Today at 20:00 PM, via Slashdot

Ancient Slashdot reader ewhac writes: The maintainers of the Python package `chardet`, which attempts to automatically detect the character encoding of a string, announced the release of version 7 this week, claiming a speedup factor of 43x over version 6. In the release notes, the maintainers claim that version 7 is, “a ground-up, MIT-licensed rewrite of chardet.” Problem: The putative...