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FRIDAY, 30 JANUARY 2026, 04:45

Sport

Van Gerwen out on day one of World Masters

Today at 01:33 AM, via BBC News

Three-time world champion Michael van Gerwen is knocked out by Damon Heta on the opening night of the World Masters in Milton Keynes.

Sport

Sterling in talks with seven clubs – Friday’s gossip

Yesterday at 23:07 PM, via BBC News

Raheem Sterling’s representatives in talks with seven clubs, Tottenham and Burnley also interested in England winger, Cole Palmer out of Manchester United’s price range, plus more.

Education

Ghana: Visual Arts Can Promote Education, Alleviate Poverty

Yesterday at 18:29 PM, via AllAfrica

[Ghanaian Times] Award-winning Ghanaian visual artist, Mr Anthony Jefferson Hanson, has described the arts as a life-changing profession and urged Ghanaians to place greater value on it.

Education

Ghana: Glomef Donates Learning Materials to Pupils in Ahafo Ano North Municipality

Yesterday at 18:29 PM, via AllAfrica

[Ghanaian Times] The Global Media Foundation (GLOMEF) Ghana has distributed learning materials to vulnerable pupils in selected basic schools in the Ahafo Ano North Municipality of the Ashanti Region to enhance teaching and learning while easing the financial burden on parents in cocoa-growing communities.

Entertainment

24 hours in pictures, 29 January 2026

Yesterday at 23:14 PM, via The Citizen

Through the lens: The Citizen’s Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.

Science/Tech

Comcast Keeps Losing Customers Despite Price Guarantee, Unlimited Data

Today at 04:02 AM, via Slashdot

Comcast’s attempt to slow broadband customer losses still isn’t stopping the bleeding as fiber and fixed wireless competition intensifies. In Q4 2025 alone, Comcast lost 181,000 broadband subscribers, even as it leans harder into wireless bundling and other business lines like Peacock and theme parks. Ars Technica reports: The Q4 net loss is more than the 176,000 loss predicted by analysts,...

Science/Tech

Cory Doctorow On Tariffs and the DMCA In Canada

Today at 03:25 AM, via Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader devnulljapan writes: In 2012, Canada passed anti-circumvention law Bill C-11, cut-and-pasted from the U.S. DMCA, in return for access to U.S. markets without tariffs. Trump has tariffed Canada anyway, so Cory Doctorow suggests it sounds like like a good idea to ditch Bill C-11 and turn Canada into a “Disenshittification Nation” and go into the business of...

Science/Tech

Linux Gaming Developers Join Forces To Form the Open Gaming Collective

Today at 02:45 AM, via Slashdot

A group of Linux gaming-focused distros and developers have formed the Open Gaming Collective to pool work on shared components like kernels, input systems, and Valve tooling. The Verge reports: Universal Blue, developer of the gaming-focused Linux distribution Bazzite, announced on Wednesday that its helping to form the OGC with several other groups, which will collaborate on improvements to...

Science/Tech

An AI Toy Exposed 50K Logs of Its Chats With Kids To Anyone With a Gmail Account

Today at 02:02 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Earlier this month, Joseph Thacker’s neighbor mentioned to him that she’d preordered a couple of stuffed dinosaur toys for her children. She’d chosen the toys, called Bondus, because they offered an AI chat feature that lets children talk to the toy like a kind of machine-learning-enabled imaginary friend. But she knew Thacker, a security...