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South Africa

President Ramaphosa’s Swiss visit to strengthen trade and innovation ties

Yesterday at 20:50 PM, via SAnews

President Ramaphosa’s Swiss visit to strengthen trade and innovation ties

By Dikeledi Molobela

Bern, Switzerland – At the backdrop of shifting global trade and investment dynamics, President Cyril Ramaphosa is advancing South Africa’s strategy to diversify its export markets, a move aimed at reducing reliance on a few partners and promoting value-added trade that supports...

World

A grim legacy of war in Gaza as thousands are left to deal with amputations

Yesterday at 23:32 PM, via NPR

Despite the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the two year-long war in Gaza has left a grim legacy – as well as tens of thousands killed, according to Gaza health authorities, about 170,000 have been wounded and many have lost limbs. Jane Arraf profiles a doctor who lost his leg after an aid truck hit him.

World

Police arrest suspects in high-profile Louvre robbery

Yesterday at 23:32 PM, via NPR

French police have arrested suspects in last week’s daring Louvre heist, where thieves disguised as maintenance workers stole a collection of imperial-era jewels in under seven minutes.

Education

A Hawaiian princess bequeathed her inheritance to her people. The schools they set up are being sued

Yesterday at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Lawsuit against Kamehameha schools by Students for Fair Admissions, a neoconservative non-profit, alleges discrimination against non-Hawaiians

Advocates for a private school system established to educate Native Hawaiians say a new lawsuit targeting the admissions process is an ugly attempt to ignore the wishes of a Hawaiian princess who bequeathed her inheritance to secure a brighter future for...

Science/Tech

California Colleges Test AI Partnerships. Critics Complain It’s Risky and Wasteful

Today at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

America’s largest university system, with 460,000 students, is the 22-campus “Cal State” system, reports the New York Times. And it’s recently teamed with Amazon, OpenAI and Nvidia, hoping to embed chatbots in both teaching and learning to become what it says will be America’s “first and largest AI-empowered” university” — and prepare students for “increasingly AI-driven” careers. It’s part...

Science/Tech

GM Plans to Drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto From All Its Cars

Today at 01:47 AM, via Slashdot

GM plans to dump Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its car new vehicles “in the near future,” reports the Verge. In an episode of the Verge’s Decoder podcast, GM CEO Mary Barra confirmed the upcoming change to “phone projections” for GM cars:The timing is unclear, but Barra pointed to a major rollout of what the company is calling a new centralized computing platform, set to launch in 2028,...

Science/Tech

Some US Electricity Prices are Rising — But It’s Not Just Data Centers

Yesterday at 23:52 PM, via Slashdot

North Dakota experienced an almost 40% increase in electricity demand “thanks in part to an explosion of data centers,” reports the Washington Post. Yet the state saw a 1% drop in its per kilowatt-hour rates. “A new study from researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the consulting group Brattle suggests that, counterintuitively, more electricity demand can actually lower...

Science/Tech

Does Generative AI Threaten the Open Source Ecosystem?

Yesterday at 22:34 PM, via Slashdot

“Snippets of proprietary or copyleft reciprocal code can enter AI-generated outputs, contaminating codebases with material that developers can’t realistically audit or license properly.” That’s the warning from Sean O’Brien, who founded the Yale Privacy Lab at Yale Law School. ZDNet reports:Open software has always counted on its code being regularly replenished. As part of the process of using...