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Buffalo City Metro ANC councillor Oscar Mhlauli says he does not have time for social media, this as an online petition calling for his removal circulates.

The doctor who examined kidnapping-accused Steveno van Rhyn and Jacquen “Boeta” Appollis shortly after they were allegedly tortured by the police testified via Teams he saw visible injuries on them.

Lesotho said Thursday it will send a government delegation to the United States to plead its case after Washington imposed 50% tariffs on its imports, the highest for a single nation.

If ActionSA leaders made a mistake on the national Budget, they will own that mistake, but for now the party wants a Budget for the country.

About 130 employees of the Wilson Center were told they were being put on leave, just four days after workers for Elon Musk’s team entered the center.

After being picked up in Massachusetts, Rumeysa Ozturk was moved to a detention center in Louisiana, where the government wants to argue its case to deport her.

A letter from the administration promised to withdraw funding from schools that allow certain D.E.I. programs. But what counts as D.E.I. may prove murky.

[The Point] The Minister for Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology on Wednesday convened a stakeholders’ validation session of the recently released Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programmes in The Gambia at a ceremony held at Sir Dawda K. Jawara International Conference Centre.

Google’s NotebookLM has added a new “Discover sources” feature that allows users to describe a topic and have the AI find and curate relevant sources from the web — eliminating the need to upload documents manually. “When you tap the Discover button in NotebookLM, you can describe the topic you’re interested in, and NotebookLM will bring back a curated collection of relevant sources from the...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: Walled Culture has been following closely Italy’s poorly designed Piracy Shield system. Back in December we reported how copyright companies used their access to the Piracy Shield system to order Italian Internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to all of Google Drive for the entire country, and how malicious actors could similarly use...

The Louvre Museum will discontinue its use of Nintendo 3DS XL consoles as audio guides by September 2025, replacing them with a new system. NintendoSoup reports: For several years the Louvre has been using specially dedicated New Nintendo 3DS XL consoles to give visitors an audio guided tour of the famous museum. According to the museum’s official website however, it seems that the program will...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica, written by Ryan Whitwam: Researchers at DeepMind have … released a new technical paper (PDF) that explains how to develop AGI safely, which you can download at your convenience. It contains a huge amount of detail, clocking in at 108 pages before references. While some in the AI field believe AGI is a pipe dream, the authors of the DeepMind...

The TV celebrity doctor, a cardiothoracic surgeon, will take the reins at a time when the agency is facing cutbacks, especially for the poor, and scrutiny of its missions.

Trump cutbacks were supposedly aimed at administrators. But scientists in food and drug-testing labs and policy experts who advance generic drug approvals were also dismissed.

Miller Gardner, the 14-year-old son of the retired Yankees player Brett Gardner, died from carbon monoxide poisoning while on vacation in Costa Rica. Here’s why the gas is so dangerous.

She used her wealth strategically to expand opportunities for women, underwriting the development of the pill and supporting the suffrage movement.

South Africa allowed eight coal-fired plants run by Eskom to breach emission rules in an attempt to help the cash-strapped utility focus resources on providing a steady supply of electricity.

Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has gazetted a decision that would allow the state to procure 1 164km of transmission infrastructure to be developed by the private sector.

Greenhouse gas emissions in France dropped by 1.8% in 2024, a monitoring group working for the government said, but pointed out that was less than for the previous year.

A severe storm that flooded northern Johannesburg on Wednesday was caused by a “highly unstable” atmosphere and excessive lightning, says a meteorologist.