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VIDEO: Watch – How Cape Town families found loved ones in paupers’ graves

Today at 09:19 AM, via Daily Maverick

Paupers’ graves are meant for the forgotten. But what happens when the people buried there were never forgotten at all? In Cape Town, an undertaker’s alleged fraud has exposed a failure of the systems meant to protect the dead – and devastated those left behind. Rebecca Davis explains.

Africa

One house, two faiths, one fasting season

Thursday at 14:40 PM, via BBC News

Ramadan and Lent haven’t overlapped since 1993 and couples like Olanrewaju and Kaosara in Nigeria are observing them together.

Sport

Proud Cacace seeks Navarrete unification duel

Today at 09:49 AM, via BBC News

Anthony Cacace is proud to add his family name on the world boxing lineage but is chasing further glory after claiming the WBA super-featherweight title.

Education

Phillipson accuses lawyers of exploiting parents of children with special needs

Friday at 18:22 PM, via The Guardian

Education secretary has claimed lawyers’ criticisms of her department’s policy changes are motivated by profit

Lawyers have been accused of exploiting parents of children with special needs by the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, who claimed their criticisms of the government’s policy changes were motivated by profit.

Speaking at the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL)...

Science/Tech

New Freenet Network Launches, Along With ‘River’ Group Chat

Today at 09:34 AM, via Slashdot

Wikipedia describes Freenet as “a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant, anonymous communication,” released in the year 2000. “Both Freenet and some of its associated tools were originally designed by Ian Clarke,” Wikipedia adds. (And in 2000 Clarke answered questions from Slashdot’s readers…) And now Ian Clarke (aka Sanity — Slashdot reader #1,431) returns to share this...

Science/Tech

Will AI Bring ‘the End of Computer Programming As We Know It’?

Today at 05:34 AM, via Slashdot

Long-time tech journalist Clive Thompson interviewed over 70 software developers at Google, Amazon, Microsoft and start-ups for a new article on AI-assisted programming. It’s title? “Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It.” Published in the prestigious New York Times Magazine, the article even cites long-time programming guru Kent Beck saying LLMs got him going again...

Science/Tech

America’s First Large-Scale Offshore Wind Project Finally Finishes Construction

Today at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

It’s America’s first large-scale offshore wind project, reports WBUR — enough clean energy to power 400,000 homes in Massachusetts from 62 offshore wind turbines generating 800 megawatts. But it took a while… The plant’s first construction delay happened back in 2019, they point out — and then “Just three months ago, when the project was 95% complete, the U.S. Interior Department issued a...

Science/Tech

How a Raspberry Pi Saved the Super Nintendo’s Infamously Inferior Version Of ‘Doom’

Today at 01:34 AM, via Slashdot

“Just the anachronism of seeing Doom, one of the poster children for the moral panic around violent video games, on a Nintendo console is novel,” writes Kotaku — especially with the console’s underpowered “Super FX” coprocessorHampered by a nearly unplayable framerate, especially in later levels, and mired by sacrifices, like altered levels, no floor or ceiling textures, and the entire fourth...

Motoring

South Africa’s 3-tonne bakkie club

Today at 09:38 AM, via TopAuto

Bakkies in South Africa offer owners incredible capability, especially those that have a 3-tonne towing capacity.

Health

How Safe Is Plasma Donation?

Friday at 18:07 PM, via New York Times

Two recent deaths tied to for-profit clinics in Canada raised concerns about the health effects of having plasma drawn as often as twice a week.

Health

E.P.A. Moves to Weaken Limits on Ethylene Oxide

Friday at 17:32 PM, via New York Times

The gas, ethylene oxide, plays a crucial role in sterilizing medical devices. But long-term exposure is linked to several types of cancer and other ailments.