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Business

End of the road for TV Licences in South Africa

Today at 16:57 PM, via BusinessTech

Minister of Communication and Digital Technologies Solly Malatsi says that South Africa’s TV Licence regime has all but collapsed, and details on a new scheme will be presented to the department next month.

Education

Teachers strike at two Greater Manchester primary schools over ‘culture of violence’

Today at 19:42 PM, via The Guardian

NASUWT members at Ravensfield and Lily Lane primary schools are staging nine-day walkout over ‘almost daily’ attacks by pupils

Teachers at two primary schools in Greater Manchester say they have been driven to strike because of “almost daily” attacks by pupils, leaving parents bewildered by the industrial action.

Members of the NASUWT teaching union at Ravensfield and Lily Lane primary schools...

Education

Kenya: Shofco Awards 6,504 Full Scholarships to Students in Informal, Marginalised Areas

Today at 19:05 PM, via AllAfrica

[Capital FM] Nairobi — As schools reopen across the country for the 2026 academic year, thousands of students from informal settlements and marginalised communities in 11 counties are returning to classrooms with renewed hope following the award of full scholarships by Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO).

Science/Tech

Tailwind CSS Lets Go 75% Of Engineers After 40% Traffic Drop From Google

Today at 20:05 PM, via Slashdot

Adam Wathan, the creator of the popular CSS framework Tailwind CSS, has let go of 75% of his engineering team — reducing it from four people to one — because AI-generated search answers have decimated traffic to the project’s documentation pages. Traffic to Tailwind’s documentation has fallen roughly 40% since early 2023 despite the framework being more popular than ever, Wathan wrote in a...

Science/Tech

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance

Today at 19:34 PM, via Wired

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

Science/Tech

Samsung Hit with Restraining Order Over Smart TV Surveillance Tech in Texas

Today at 19:30 PM, via Slashdot

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a temporary restraining order against Samsung, blocking the company from continuing to collect data through its smart TVs’ Automated Content Recognition technology. The ACR system captured screenshots of what users were watching every 500 milliseconds, according to the state’s lawsuit, and did so without consumer knowledge or consent. The District...