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Horses can smell fear in humans, researchers say

Yesterday at 21:00 PM, via The Guardian

Tests showed horses that smelled body odour from people watching scary films startled more easily

Horses can smell fear, or at least whether you have scared yourself witless watching a horror movie, according to researchers who say the effect has consequences for riders, trainers and others who work with the animals.

In a series of tests, horses that smelled body odour from people watching...

Mpumalanga’s Top Matric Achiever Luyanda Ndlozi Rewarded With Brand New Car

Yesterday at 20:54 PM, via Tech Financials

Secunda – Luyanda Ndlozi is the best overall performer in the Mpumalanga Grade 12 Class of 2025. As has become the norm, the best-performing Matric Senior Certificate candidate is rewarded with a brand new set of wheels. Announcing the best performer, Mpumalanga Premier Mandla Ndlovu said: “The overall and outstanding top achiever was Luyanda Ndlozi […]

Beijing Tells Chinese Firms To Stop Using US and Israeli Cybersecurity Software

Yesterday at 20:50 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: Chinese authorities have told domestic companies to stop using cybersecurity software made by roughly a dozen firms from the U.S. and Israel due to national security concerns, two people briefed on the matter said. As trade and diplomatic tensions flare between China and the U.S. and both sides vie for tech supremacy, Beijing has been keen to replace...

From Rand to Blockchain and What Bitcoin’s ZAR Price Signals About South Africa’s Digital Finance Future

Yesterday at 20:42 PM, via Tech Financials

The movement of Bitcoin relative to the local currency has become a revealing signal for South Africa’s evolving digital economy. For many households and small businesses, watching the BTC to ZAR exchange rate can now also be a means through which they can measure financial pressures and opportunities. In South Africa, a change is also emerging in […]

Coal Power Generation Falls in China and India for First Time Since 1970s

Yesterday at 20:10 PM, via Slashdot

Coal power generation fell in China and India for the first time since the 1970s last year, in a “historic” moment that could bring a decline in global emissions, according to analysis. From a report: The simultaneous fall in coal-powered electricity in the world’s biggest coal-consuming countries had not happened since 1973, according to analysts at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean...

Can A.I. Generate New Ideas?

Yesterday at 19:33 PM, via New York Times

Systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5 are accelerating research in math, biology and chemistry. But there is a debate over whether it can do that work on its own.

2026 May Be the Year of the Mega I.P.O.

Yesterday at 19:30 PM, via New York Times

If SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic go public, they will unleash gushers of cash for Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

McKinsey Asks Graduates To Use AI Chatbot in Recruitment Process

Yesterday at 19:30 PM, via Slashdot

McKinsey is asking graduate applicants to “collaborate” with an AI tool as part of its recruitment process, as competence with the technology becomes a requirement in competing for top-level jobs. From a report: The blue-chip consultancy is incorporating an “AI interview” into some final-round interviews, according to CaseBasix, a US company that helps candidates apply for posts at leading...

Wolf’s dinner preserved in Siberia for 14,400 years sheds light on woolly rhino

Yesterday at 19:01 PM, via The Guardian

Decoded genome of meat in pup’s stomach helps scientists build picture of what caused extinction of species

Researchers have shed light on the final centuries of the woolly rhinoceros after studying a hairy lump of meat from the stomach of an ancient wolf cub that became mummified in the Siberian permafrost.

The beautifully preserved remains of a two-month-old female wolf cub were discovered in...

Bezos’s Vision of Rented Cloud PCs Looks Less Far-Fetched

Yesterday at 18:55 PM, via Slashdot

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos once told an audience that he views local PC hardware the same way he views a 100-year-old electric generator he saw in a brewery museum — as a relic of a pre-grid era, destined to be replaced by centralized utilities that users simply rent rather than own. The anecdote, shared at a talk a few years ago, positioned Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as the...

Qryptonic Unveils Q-Scout 26 as Enterprises Confront Unquantified Quantum Cryptographic Risk

Yesterday at 18:20 PM, via Tech Financials

As post-quantum transition expectations accelerate, many enterprises still lack a clear answer to a critical question: which systems create the greatest long-term exposure when today’s encryption approaches reach the end of their usable life. Qryptonic LLC today announced the launch of Q-Scout 26, an enterprise assessment platform designed to autonomously inventory cryptographic usage and...

Matthew McConaughey Trademarks Himself To Fight AI Misuse

Yesterday at 18:02 PM, via Slashdot

Matthew McConaughey is taking a novel legal approach to combat unauthorized AI fakes: trademarking himself. From a report: Over the past several months, the “Interstellar” and “Magic Mike” star has had eight trademark applications approved by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office featuring him staring, smiling and talking. His attorneys said the trademarks are meant to stop AI apps or users from...

Trump Doesn’t Need the Proud Boys Anymore

Yesterday at 18:00 PM, via Wired

In a world where ICE agents are shooting US citizens on the street, the need for militias and extremist groups like the Proud Boys to support far-right interests has evaporated.

UK Police Blame Microsoft Copilot for Intelligence Mistake

Yesterday at 17:20 PM, via Slashdot

The chief constable of one of Britain’s largest police forces has admitted that Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant made a mistake in a football (soccer) intelligence report. From a report: The report, which led to Israeli football fans being banned from a match last year, included a nonexistent match between West Ham and Maccabi Tel Aviv. Copilot hallucinated the game and West Midlands Police...

Eskom shoots the lights out

Yesterday at 17:01 PM, via MyBroadband

Eskom’s power system is more stable and predictable than it has been for the past half-decade.

Europe is Rediscovering the Virtues of Cash

Yesterday at 16:40 PM, via Slashdot

After spending years pushing digital payments to combat tax evasion and money laundering, European Union ministers decided in December to ban businesses from refusing cash. The reversal comes as 12% of European businesses flatly refused cash in 2024, up from 4% three years earlier. Over one in three cinemas in the Netherlands no longer accept notes and coins. Cash usage across the euro area...

Nuclear Weapons Are Now ESG Compliant

Yesterday at 16:04 PM, via Slashdot

The European Union published guidance on December 30 that reclassified nuclear weapons as acceptable investments under its sustainable finance framework, completing a policy change approved in November that narrowed the definition of banned armaments from “controversial” to “prohibited.” The shift addresses earlier vagueness that the Commission said hindered efforts to raise $932 billion in...

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