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Business

Free Thinking

Yesterday at 23:00 PM, via BBC News

Can the accumulation of wealth be ethical and what can we learn from Adam Smith’s enquiry?

Politics

Mchunu challenges committee report, alleging prejudicial findings

Yesterday at 13:25 PM, via Mail & Guardian

Parliament’s ad hoc committee defended the evidence leaders’ draft report after suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu objected to the findings that he dismantled the PKTT without consultation and for nefarious reasons

Sport

‘Absolute madness’ – Callaghan on red card decision

Yesterday at 23:56 PM, via BBC News

Former Northern Ireland captain Marissa Callaghan says that Turkey striker Busem Seker “had to be sent off” after she controversially handled the ball before later scoring the winner during their 2-1 victory over Michael McArdle’s side.

Science/Tech

Google Will Pay SpaceX $920 Million Per Month For Compute

Today at 00:00 AM, via Slashdot

Ahead of its upcoming IPO, SpaceX announced that Google will pay the company $920 million per month for access to roughly 110,000 Nvidia GPUs and related compute infrastructure. Google says the agreement is short-term “bridge capacity” to meet stronger-than-expected demand for Gemini Enterprise, while SpaceX is using deals like this and its Anthropic contract to bolster its pitch for a historic...

Science/Tech

Bitcoin Falls To $60,000 As Zcash Bug Rocks Crypto

Yesterday at 23:00 PM, via Slashdot

Bitcoin briefly fell below $60,000 on Friday, “extending its weekly loss to nearly 20% and threatening to fall below $59,000,” reports CoinDesk. Crypto was also hit by a 40%-plus plunge in Zcash after Shielded Labs disclosed a years-old bug that could have allowed undetected counterfeit ZEC creation. From the report: Now, with stocks in plunge mode — the Nasdaq down nearly 4% on Friday —...

Science/Tech

340 Local News Outlets Now Blocking the Internet Archive

Yesterday at 22:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: Earlier this year Nieman Lab broke the story that major news publishers, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today Co., had started blocking the Internet Archive for fear that AI companies might scrape the nonprofit’s repositories for training data. As one of the last bastions of archival history, that is, in case you’re not...

Health

Are you feeling overwhelmed?

Yesterday at 19:57 PM, via BBC News

Kimberley Wilson gives some tips on how to deal with feeling overwhelmed.