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ANALYSIS: Joburg rows, swims and stumbles towards 4 November poll

Yesterday at 22:16 PM, via Daily Maverick

Six months before the 2026 local government elections, the DA seems to have stolen a march on opposing parties in the Johannesburg race as its mayoral hopeful, Helen Zille, sets the agenda with a series of campaigning tricks.

Three passengers dead after suspected hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship

Yesterday at 21:52 PM, via The Guardian

Further three people taken ill, including 69-year-old Briton reported to be in intensive care in South Africa

Three people have died after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship sailing in the Atlantic.

One case of hantavirus infection had been confirmed and there were five additional suspected cases, the World Health Organization told Agence France-Presse on Sunday.

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All-rounder Hardie stars as Peshawar win PSL

Yesterday at 21:46 PM, via BBC News

Australia all-rounder Aaron Hardie stars with bat and ball as Peshawar Zalmi beat Hyderabad Kingsmen to win their second Pakistan Super League title.

It’s Goodbye Time for Jeeves and Ask.com – Relics of Yesterday’s Internet

Yesterday at 21:41 PM, via Slashdot

A 1999 press release bragged “Jeeves” answered 92.3 million questions in just three months. “In the digital wilds of Y2K, we came to him with our most probing questions,” remembers the New York Times — whether it was Britney Spears or tamagotchis: We asked, and he answered: Jeeves, the digital butler of information, the online valet who led us into the depths of cyberspace. Now, like so many...

AI AND MEDIA OP-ED: When AI breaks the news: Trust cannot be automated

Yesterday at 21:34 PM, via Daily Maverick

This May, UNESCO World Press Freedom Day and RightsCon were supposed to come together in Zambia against a backdrop of deep anxiety about the future of journalism and about whether anything resembling a shared digital public space can survive the next decade. Puzzlingly – or perhaps tellingly – the 5,000-people conference about human rights and freedom of expression was cancelled at the last...

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