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South Africa’s decades of pain coming to an end

Today at 09:54 AM, via Daily Investor

South African government debt is finally set to peak after rising for nearly two decades, a payoff from years of spending restraint and a commodities-driven revenue windfall.

South Africa

Privilege Under Pressure: Generative AI and Corporate Confidentiality

Today at 10:13 AM, via iAfrica

The lightning deployment of generative AI (GenAI) tools into corporate and legal environments has delivered extraordinary efficiencies. From drafting contracts and summarising board packs to analysing discovery documents, platforms such as ChatGPT and other large language models are now embedded in day-to-day business operations. Yet recent commentary in the United States (US) and the United […]

South Africa

Government welcomes SIU breakthrough in addressing corruption

Today at 08:46 AM, via SAnews

Government welcomes SIU breakthrough in addressing corruption

Government has welcomed the breakthrough made by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) following a thorough investigation into allegations of corruption within the Department of Home Affairs.

The investigation uncovered corruption linked to the fraudulent issuing of official documents to illegal immigrants. According to...

Education

Homeschooled by Stefan Merrill Block review – a true ‘Misery’ memoir

Today at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

A compelling and fitfully harrowing child’s-eye account of a mother’s unravelling

Stefan Merrill Block was nine when his mother pulled him out of school. It was the early 1990s and the family had recently moved from Indianapolis to Plano, Texas, where Block’s father had started a new job. While Block and his older brother, Aaron, had been wrenched away from their schoolmates, their mother had...

Education

US justice department sues UCLA over alleged antisemitism amid pro-Palestinian protests

Today at 02:23 AM, via The Guardian

Lawsuit is latest action by Trump administration against a university and escalation of president’s feud with California

The justice department sued the University of California, Los Angeles on Tuesday, alleging the university created a hostile work environment for Jewish and Israeli faculty and staff after protests against the war on Gaza broke out across campus.

The lawsuit claims UCLA...

Science/Tech

Apple’s Touch-Screen MacBook Pro To Have Dynamic Island, New Interface

Today at 10:00 AM, via Slashdot

Apple’s forthcoming touch-screen MacBook Pro models — the company’s first-ever laptops to support touch input — will feature the iPhone’s Dynamic Island at the center top of their OLED displays and a new interface that dynamically adjusts between touch and point-and-click controls, according to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the plans. The 14-inch and 16-inch models, code-named...