
Malatsi withdraws SA’s draft national AI policy
Communications minister Solly Malatsi is forced to withdraw the draft National Artificial Intelligence Policy after a news report found it contains fictitious sources in its reference list.
MONDAY, 27 APRIL 2026, 19:29

Communications minister Solly Malatsi is forced to withdraw the draft National Artificial Intelligence Policy after a news report found it contains fictitious sources in its reference list.

Communications minister Solly Malatsi has promised “consequence management” for officials responsible.
The Washington Post reports that some teachers are now implementing “brain breaks” in their classrooms to cope with shorter attention spans, “including limiting screen time; cutting the time students spend on one activity; adding more engaging, hands-on projects; and practicing meditation.”Some teachers say the efforts are helping, at least a little… To engage students, teachers say they often...

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Section 189 protects against retrenchments in South Africa. But natural attrition needs no consultation, and AI is accelerating it.

Researchers find ‘alarming’ effect on fertility across global species from simultaneous exposures
Simultaneous exposure to toxic chemicals and climate change’s impacts likely generates an additive or synergistic effect that increases reproductive harm, and may contribute to the broad global drop in fertility, new peer-reviewed research finds.
The review of scientific literature considers how...
The Conversation published this warning from privacy/tech law/electronic surveillance attorney Anne Toomey McKenna (also an affiliated faculty member at Penn State’s Institute for Computational and Data Sciences). The U.S. government “is able to purchase Americans’ sensitive data because the information it buys is not subject to the same restrictions as information it collects directly. The...

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Hallucinated citations have landed communications minister Solly Malatsi in a political storm, with his credibility on the line.
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press:The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its development in Europe and elsewhere. Four decades later, however, there’s a revival around the world, a trend that has been given a big boost by war in the Middle East. Over 400 nuclear reactors are operational in 31 countries, while about 70 more...

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Discrepancy in forecasts raises questions over government planning for net zero
One vision of the UK’s future involves a decarbonised economy powered by clean, renewable energy. Another involves making the UK an AI superpower.
The government departments responsible for these two visions do not appear to have agreed on their numbers.
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