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SOWETAN | Heads must roll for Safa’s visa own goal

Today at 06:00 AM, via SowetanLIVE

The South African Football Association’s (Safa’s) visa blunder that delayed Bafana Bafana’s departure for the Fifa World Cup is more than just an administrative mishap.

Africa

The schoolgirl who became world champion at 14

Yesterday at 14:03 PM, via BBC News

Egypt’s Farida Khalil beat competitors twice her age to become world champion in modern pentathlon at the age of 14 after the sport was revamped.

Sport

Kaizer Chiefs bank R41 Million from 5 overseas sales 

Today at 06:18 AM, via The South African

Kaizer Chiefs are completing the sale of Aden McCarthy to Sabah FK, taking the club’s overseas transfer earnings from five player sales to more than R41 million since 2022.

Education

South Africa: Getting Through School in South Africa – How Learners Make It to the End After a Poor Start

Today at 05:52 AM, via AllAfrica

[The Conversation Africa] South Africa’s schooling system presents a striking paradox. Fewer than one in five grade 4 learners can read for meaning, yet more than 60% of young people (aged 15 to 24) eventually complete grade 12. Matric (school leaving exam) pass rates have been rising steadily and reached record highs in recent years, especially in poorer schools.

Education

University of Manchester to investigate sexual harassment of female medical students

Yesterday at 21:08 PM, via The Guardian

About 20 students report anonymous late-night phone calls from men who ‘intimidated, demeaned and belittled’ them

The University of Manchester has launched an investigation after about 20 female medical students complained of receiving anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night from male callers who intimidated and sexually harassed them.

The calls have been going on for at least three...

Science/Tech

The incredible science of the sleeping brain – podcast

Today at 06:00 AM, via The Guardian

Humans have been wondering why we sleep for thousands of years. Is sleep’s purpose rest and relaxation, memory consolidation or maybe cognitive processing? In the last 15 years, scientists have discovered another possible explanation – waste disposal. In 2012 neuroscientist Maiken Nedergaard’s lab discovered that the brain has its own cleaning process, the glymphatic system, which clears...

Science/Tech

Remote Work, Not AI, Has Sidelined Recent College Graduates, Research Finds

Today at 05:30 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The buzz on college campuses is that AI is disrupting the job market for young college graduates. But new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York finds that the culprit may be something else: remote work. An analysis of federal employment data, paired with a deep dive into the flexible work arrangements at one unnamed Fortune 500 tech...

Science/Tech

The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After The Raid

Today at 01:00 AM, via Slashdot

Twenty years after Swedish police raided The Pirate Bay’s Stockholm data center and seized its servers, the site remains online. In fact, the 2006 crackdown arguably made it more famous, helping turn it into “one of the most resilient and iconic websites on the internet,” reports TorrentFreak. From the report: On May 31, 2006, less than three years after The Pirate Bay was founded, 65 Swedish...

Science/Tech

Hackers Simply Asked Meta’s AI To Take Over High-Profile Instagram Accounts

Today at 00:00 AM, via Slashdot

“Hackers used Meta’s AI support chatbot to change email addresses associated with high-profile Instagram accounts, such as Barack Obama’s White House account, allowing them to change the passwords and gain control over the accounts,” writes Slashdot reader fropenn. Other accounts affected include the Chief Master Sergeant of Space Force and Sephora’s. 404 Media reports: In March, Meta announced...

Health

‘I’ve requested a full hysterectomy’

Yesterday at 19:40 PM, via BBC News

Emma Barnett shares her life-long struggle with endometriosis – a disease affecting one in ten women of reproductive age, which causes excruciating, often debilitating, pain.