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Politics

Mchunu challenges committee report, alleging prejudicial findings

Today at 13:25 PM, via Mail & Guardian

Parliament’s ad hoc committee defended the evidence leaders’ draft report after suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu objected to the findings that he dismantled the PKTT without consultation and for nefarious reasons

Science/Tech

340 Local News Outlets Now Blocking the Internet Archive

Today at 22:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: Earlier this year Nieman Lab broke the story that major news publishers, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today Co., had started blocking the Internet Archive for fear that AI companies might scrape the nonprofit’s repositories for training data. As one of the last bastions of archival history, that is, in case you’re not...

Science/Tech

GOV.UK Goes Dutch On Payments As It Dumps Stripe

Today at 21:00 PM, via Slashdot

The UK’s Government Digital Service is replacing Stripe with Dutch payments provider Adyen for many GOV.UK Pay transactions, including local authorities, police forces, and armed forces units. The three-year deal covers about 1,000 services and is meant to make payments more flexible while keeping the user experience largely unchanged. The Register reports: According to the tender notice...

Health

Are you feeling overwhelmed?

Today at 19:57 PM, via BBC News

Kimberley Wilson gives some tips on how to deal with feeling overwhelmed.