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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

Manchester United target Tavernier – Sunday’s gossip

Today at 00:30 AM, via BBC News

Manchester United set their sights on one of Bournemouth’s star players, while Unai Emery could be on his way out at Aston Villa and Newcastle United need to target a new shot-stopper.

Sport

Draper hails ‘massive’ return win at Indian Wells

Today at 00:21 AM, via BBC News

British number one Jack Draper fights back from a set down – and feeling “a little bit underprepared” after eight months out injured – to get his Indian Wells title defence off to a winning start.

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

OpenAI’s Head of Robotics Resigns, Says Pentagon Deal Was ‘Rushed Without the Guardrails Defined’

Today at 00:16 AM, via Slashdot

In a tweet that’s been viewed 1.3 million times in the last six hours, OpenAI’s head of robotics announced their resignation. They said they “care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together,” so this “wasn’t an easy call,” but offered this reason for resigning:AI has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal...

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...