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LIVING CLASSROOM: How one principal is sowing the seeds to feed a village in rural KZN

Today at 11:10 AM, via Daily Maverick

Nkwamabzi Primary School was once a school defined by what it lacked: water, food and resources. Today, it is defined by what it grows. Principal Zakhele Xulu put down the chalk and picked up a spade, turning a tiny, two-teacher school into a regional lifeline that feeds the hungry and empowers families to start their own gardens.

Politics

Mathjabeng in financial freefall

Today at 09:30 AM, via Mail & Guardian

The Free State municipality is facing severe fiscal distress, with liabilities exceeding R5.8bn and a R871.6 million deficit, says Auditor General Tsakani Maluleke

Education

My Classmate, ChatGPT

Today at 07:00 AM, via New York Times

Lessons from the first graduating A.I. class.

Education

Canvas hack: is it ever a good idea to pay a ransom, and what happens to the data?

Yesterday at 20:00 PM, via The Guardian

Businesses are advised against paying – but as the Canvas platform hack shows, many are prepared to deal to protect users’ privacy

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After a week of outages, hundreds of millions of students’ data stolen, delayed assignment due dates, and school login pages being defaced by hackers, US tech firm Instructure – which operates the...

Education

La Gradiva review – stunning coming-of-age story of young love and sexual tension

Yesterday at 13:25 PM, via The Guardian

Cannes film festival: Marine Atlan’s debut film follows a group of French high-school kids and their long-suffering teacher on a visit to Pompeii and Naples

Here is cinematographer turned director Marine Atlan’s beautiful debut film about young love, superbly acted and directed. It is a reminder of how fundamentally dishonest and pseudosophisticated it is to laugh dismissively at the...

Education

What A.I. Kant Do

Yesterday at 13:00 PM, via New York Times

Could we English majors have a future after all?

Science/Tech

The UK Finally Starts Reforming Its ‘Computer Misuse Act’

Today at 09:34 AM, via Slashdot

Computer Weekly reports on “the long-awaited reform of Britain’s outdated Computer Misuse Act of 1990 — which has hamstrung the work of the nation’s cyber security professionals and researchers for years.” The Computer Misuse Act was passed 35 years ago in response to a high-profile hacking incident involving no less than the King’s father, the late Duke of Edinburgh. It defined the offence...

Science/Tech

Amazon Stops Supporting Pre-2013 Kindles Today. Some Owners Turn to Jailbreaking

Today at 05:34 AM, via Slashdot

Today Amazon ends support for first- and second-generation versions of Kindles and Kindle Fire tablets, along with the Kindle Touch, the 9.7-inch Kindle DX, and other devices released in 2012 or earlier. Owners can continue reading ebooks that they’ve already downloaded, and they can also still sideload books using a USB cable (from, for example, Project Gutenberg). And PCMag points out that...