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‘CAT’ AND THE BUSINESSMEN: ‘Silent partner’: Riaan Venter, the other figure in the Matlala-dodgy police contract mix

Today at 21:26 PM, via Daily Maverick

A lesser-known businessman, Riaan Venter, has surfaced in the Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala police tender scandal, which saw 12 officers recently arrested and National Commissioner Fannie Masemola summoned to court. A closer look at Venter reveals he’s involved in various ventures, unconnected to the Matlala matters, including debt collection.

Education

Weekend students at 15 universities in England told to return loans and grants

Today at 17:49 PM, via The Guardian

Student Finance England tells about 22,000 students their universities wrongly told them they were eligible

More than 20,000 university students in England who received government maintenance loans and grants worth thousands of pounds have been told they will have to pay them back because their universities wrongly told them they were eligible for the money.

About 22,000 students studying for...

Science/Tech

Hacker Steals 10 Petabytes of Data From China’s Tianjin Supercomputer Center

Today at 21:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: A hacker has allegedly stolen a massive trove of sensitive data — including highly classified defense documents and missile schematics — from a state-run Chinese supercomputer in what could potentially constitute the largest known heist of data from China. The dataset, which allegedly contains more than 10 petabytes of sensitive information, is...

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Wild chimpanzees recorded waging ‘civil war’ with coordinated attacks between two groups

Today at 20:00 PM, via The Guardian

New study describes what may be the first case of a unified community of chimps, in Uganda, turning on itself

On a June day in 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was quietly observing a small cluster of the Ngogo chimpanzee group in Uganda’s Kibale national park when he noticed something strange. As other members of the chimpanzees’ wider group moved closer through the forest, the chimpanzees...

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EFF Is Leaving X

Today at 20:00 PM, via Slashdot

After nearly 20 years on the platform, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says it is leaving X. “This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue,” the digital rights group said. “The math hasn’t worked out for a while now.” From the report: We posted to Twitter (now known as X) five to ten times a day in 2018. Those tweets garnered somewhere between 50 and 100 million...