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South Africa

President Ramaphosa honours Rev. Jesse Jackson

Yesterday at 22:30 PM, via SAnews

President Ramaphosa honours Rev. Jesse Jackson

President Cyril Ramaphosa has paid a deeply emotional tribute to civil rights leader, Reverend Dr. Jesse Louis Jackson Sr, describing him as a man whose voice carried hope across continents, and whose unwavering solidarity helped sustain South Africa’s struggle against apartheid.

The President was speaking at Rev. Jackson’s homegoing...

World

Middle East war enters its 8th day

Today at 00:08 AM, via NPR

The U.S. and Israeli war with Iran has entered a second week, with drones and missiles crisscrossing much of the Middle East and death tolls rising.

Sport

Rugby Union Weekly

Yesterday at 23:05 PM, via BBC News

Chris Jones and Matt Dawson reflect on an extraordinary day in the Six Nations.

Education

What Does School Choice Really Mean?

Yesterday at 14:00 PM, via New York Times

Readers respond to a guest essay that argued that more school vouchers would improve public education.

Education

Uganda: Alupo Urges Universities to Embrace Competence-Based Curriculum, Ai

Friday at 18:40 PM, via AllAfrica

[Nile Post] Vice President Jessica Alupo has urged universities to integrate the Competence-Based Curriculum (CBC) into their academic programmes in order to produce graduates equipped with critical thinking and problem-solving skills needed in today’s competitive job market.

Science/Tech

Astronomers Think They’ve Spotted a Galaxy That’s 99.9% Dark Matter

Yesterday at 23:07 PM, via Slashdot

Astronomers have spotted a galaxy they believe is made of 99.9% dark matter, reports CNN — and it’s so faint, it’s almost invisible:CDG-2, which is about 300 million light-years from Earth, appears to be so rich in dark matter that it could belong to a hypothesized subset of low surface brightness galaxies called “dark galaxies,” which are believed to contain few or no stars…. [Post-doctoral...

Science/Tech

How Anthropic’s Claude Helped Mozilla to Improve Firefox’s Security

Yesterday at 22:07 PM, via Slashdot

“It took Anthropic’s most advanced artificial-intelligence model about 20 minutes to find its first Firefox browser bug during an internal test of its hacking prowess,” reports the Wall Street Journal.The Anthropic team submitted it, and Firefox’s developers quickly wrote back: This bug was serious. Could they get on a call? “What else do you have? Send us more,” said Brian Grinstead, an...

Science/Tech

Military GPS Jamming is Interfering with the Navigation Systems of Commercial Ships

Yesterday at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

“Within 24 hours of the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, ships in the region’s waters found their navigation systems had gone haywire,” reports CNN, “erroneously indicating that the vessels were at airports, a nuclear power plant and on Iranian land. “The location confusion was a result of widespread jamming and spoofing of signals from global positioning satellite systems.”Used by all sides...

Science/Tech

Seagate Just Unleashed 44TB Hard Drives

Yesterday at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

“Seagate says it is now shipping its Mozaic 4+ HAMR-based hard drives at up to 44TB per drive,” writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, “with production deployments already underway at two hyperscale cloud providers. “The company claims the platform is the only heat-assisted magnetic recording [HAMR] implementation currently operating at scale, and it is targeting a path from today’s 4+TB per disk...