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WEATHER WOES: Relief in the skies, ruin on the ground as deadly floods kill 37, trigger national disaster status

Today at 21:13 PM, via Daily Maverick

After days of relentless rain and catastrophic flooding in Limpopo and Mpumalanga, weather conditions are beginning to ease as the SA Weather Service downgrades its highest warning level. As recovery efforts ramp up under a national disaster declaration, parts of the Kruger National Park have cautiously reopened, even as the full extent of the damage continues to emerge.

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US POLITICS ANALYSIS: Are the first green shoots of rebellion in the US springing up?

Today at 21:11 PM, via Daily Maverick

The Trump administration cloaks in populist promises authoritarian, self-serving policies such as harsh immigration tactics, erratic trade and foreign strategies, institutional erosion and personal grift. But, just maybe, there are some green shoots of resistance breaking through the hard ground.

Education

Robert Jenrick boasts that Reform is for the workers, but it’s a class war trap – and Labour shouldn’t fall for it

Today at 19:17 PM, via The Guardian

Though Labour’s voters are more likely to be the educated middle-classes, its focus must be fighting inequality. We know Farage’s party will only enrich the wealthy

Class politics is back, as if it ever went away. Robert Jenrick declares that Tories are toffs and “the divide in British politics has become Reform’s workers party versus the Tory posh party”. He says the Tories are so “out...

Education

At nine, I disappeared into home schooling. No one came looking

Today at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Mom insisted I needed a ‘free-form education’ outside public school. After four years of loneliness, I gave up hope that someone would get me out

“Every mother in the world wishes her kid wouldn’t grow up so fast.”

Mom laughs as she holds me close.

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Science/Tech

Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming May Soon Let You Stream Your Own Games for Free – If You Watch Ads

Today at 20:45 PM, via Slashdot

Microsoft appears to be preparing an ad-supported tier for Xbox Cloud Gaming that would let players stream games they’ve purchased digitally without needing a Game Pass subscription, according to a Windows Central report citing sources familiar with the plans. Users last week began noticing a new message pop up while launching cloud games that referenced “1 hour of ad supported play time per...

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ERP Isn’t Dead Yet – But Most Execs Are Planning the Wake

Today at 20:10 PM, via Slashdot

Seven out of ten C-suite executives believe traditional enterprise resource planning software has seen its best days, though the category remains firmly entrenched in corporate IT and opinion is sharply divided on what comes next. A survey of 4,295 CFOs, CISOs, CIOs and CEOs worldwide found 36% expect ERP to give way to composable, API-driven best-of-breed systems, while 33% see the future in...

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Nasa boldly goes as far away as possible | Brief letters

Today at 19:53 PM, via The Guardian

Alien lifeforms | Power of prayer | Corned beef | Remembering birthdays | Celebrity old-age home

Your article (Nasa moon rocket creeps to its launchpad in preparation for astronaut flight, 18 January) quotes the crew commander of Artemis II, Reid Wiseman: “They are so fired up that we are headed back to the moon. They just want to see humans as far away from Earth as possible.” I imagine...

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Valve Has ‘Significantly’ Rewritten Steam’s Rules For How Developers Must Disclose AI Use

Today at 19:35 PM, via Slashdot

Valve has substantially overhauled its guidelines for how game developers must disclose the use of generative AI on Steam, making explicit that tools like code assistants and other development aids do not fall under the disclosure requirement. The updated rules clarify that Valve’s focus is not on “efficiency gains through the use of AI-powered dev tools.” Developers must still disclose two...