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Africa

Six players to watch at Afcon 2025

Friday at 14:30 PM, via BBC News

BBC Sport Africa picks out six players to keep an eye on at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco from 21 December to 18 January.

Sport

Match of the Day

Today at 01:21 AM, via BBC News

Highlights from four Premier League matches, including Arsenal v Wolves.

Education

What to Know About Brown University

Today at 04:28 AM, via New York Times

Here’s what to know about the Rhode Island university, where a shooting on Saturday killed two people and injured eight others.

Science/Tech

Is the R Programming Language Surging in Popularity?

Today at 05:44 AM, via Slashdot

The R programming language “is sometimes frowned upon by ‘traditional’ software engineers,” says the CEO of software quality services vendor Tiobe, “due to its unconventional syntax and limited scalability for large production systems.” But he says it “continues to thrive at universities and in research-driven industries, and “for domain experts, it remains a powerful and elegant tool.” Yet...

Science/Tech

System76 Launches First Stable Release of COSMIC Desktop and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS

Today at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

This week System76 launched the first stable release of its Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment, reports 9to5Linux. Announced in 2021, it’s designed for all GNU/Linux distributions — and it shipping with Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS (based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS):Previous Pop!_OS releases used a version of the COSMIC desktop that was based on the GNOME desktop environment. However, System76 wanted to...

Science/Tech

‘Free Software Awards’ Winners Announced: Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, Govdirectory

Today at 02:35 AM, via Slashdot

This week the Free Software Foundation honored Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, and Govdirectory with this year’s annual Free Software Awards (given to community members and groups making”significant” contributions to software freedom):Andy Wingo is one of the co-maintainers of GNU Guile,the official extension language of the GNU operating system and theScheme “backbone” of GNUGuix. Upon receiving the...

Science/Tech

Applets Are Officially Going, But Java In the Browser Is Better Than Ever

Today at 01:19 AM, via Slashdot

“The entire java.applet package has been removed from JDK 26, which will release in March 2026,” notes Inside Java. But long-time Slashdot reader AirHog links to this blog post reminding us that”Applets Are Officially Gone, But Java In The Browser Is Better Than Ever.”This brings to an official end the era of applets, which began in 1996. However, for years it has been possible to build modern,...

Motoring

The worst countries to drive in

Yesterday at 09:00 AM, via TopAuto

The worst countries to drive in for 2025 have been revealed, and South Africa is only ranked fourth.