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Internet freedom declined in both the United States and Germany as Western democracies joined authoritarian states in imposing growing restrictions online, an annual survey by Freedom House said.

Elon Musk’s Starlink, whose internet services have been utilised by Myanmar scam centres, has seen its use across the country plummet since the end of September, according to estimates from regional internet registry Apnic.

The US government is set to return to life on Thursday after the longest shutdown in US history, which snarled air traffic, cut food assistance to low-income Americans, and forced more than 1 million workers to go unpaid for more than a month.

Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says the absence of the US from the upcoming G20 Leaders Summit does not diminish the work that South Africa has put into the meeting.

Norway all but qualify for a first World Cup in almost 30 years as doubles from Erling Haaland and Alexander Sorloth seal a comfortable win against Estonia.

Government employees were expecting to see paychecks again as early as Nov. 20 after six weeks in limbo.

[New Dawn] -To strengthen Liberia’s Special Economic Zones Model

[Nile Post] Makerere University has been ranked second in Sub-Saharan Africa and first among low-income countries for university-industry and international engagement, according to the latest global performance indicator developed by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in partnership with Times Higher Education (THE).

[The Point] The Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (MoHERST), in collaboration with the European Union through PRACSIS, recently organised the National Erasmus+ Information Day at its conference hall in Kanifing.

China’s state-sponsored hackers used AI technology from Anthropic to automate break-ins of major corporations and foreign governments during a September hacking campaign, the company said Thursday. From a report: The effort focused on dozens of targets and involved a level of automation that Anthropic’s cybersecurity investigators had not previously seen, according to Jacob Klein, the company’s...

An anonymous reader shares a report: Robinhood Markets is betting its Gen Z and millennial clientele are as eager to send out for delivery of a wad of cash as they are to order pizza or a pint of ice cream. The brokerage is joining with food-and-drink delivery app Gopuff to allow customers to withdraw cash from their Robinhood bank accounts and have it brought right to their door. For a $6.99...

Mozilla announced on Thursday that it is building an AI Window for Firefox, a new opt-in browsing mode that will let users interact with an AI assistant and chatbot. The feature will become one of three browsing experiences in Firefox alongside the existing classic and private windows. Users will be able to select which AI model they want to use in the AI Window, according to a post on the...

After the H5N1 virus hit the remote island of South Georgia in 2023, more than 50,000 breeding females may have disappeared.

Eskom and the City of Johannesburg are still in discussions about how the metro will resolve its outstanding debt, says CEO Dan Marokane.

A peer-reviewed study, published in the journal Nature, found that the carbon emissions stemming from 111 of the world’s biggest fossil fuel producers resulted in at least $28 trillion in economic losses in the three decades to 2020, writes Nick Hedley.

The challenging global context has not deterred our commitment to the Just Energy Transition Partnership, writes the International Partners group.

Three organisations have partnered to showcase and display a block made from recovered glass and building rubble waste.