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WATCH | Five things you need to know about Joburg’s water woes

Today at 17:52 PM, via SowetanLIVE

Joburg is facing a water crisis, with critical reservoirs remaining low and pressure management implemented to extend supply. A “war room” of government departments has been set up to try to get taps flowing again.

Sport

Tearful Coventry on ’emotional morning’ of talks with Ukrainian skeleton racer

Today at 17:06 PM, via BBC News

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Kirsty Coventry gets tearful as she explains the conversation she had with Ukrainian skeleton pilot Vladyslav Heraskevych.Heraskevych was banned from participating for continuing to wear a helmet featuring images of athletes killed during Russia’s invasion of his home country, which the IOC says breaks its rules.

Education

New gender guidance for UK primary school children permits use of different pronouns

Today at 17:38 PM, via The Guardian

DfE guidance urges teachers to respond to social transition requests ‘with caution’ and includes Cass report findings

Primary school-age children who question their gender could be allowed to use different pronouns under long-awaited government guidance to schools on the subject.

The new guidance, billed as moving away from a culture-war approach on the subject, has some changes compared with...

Education

Uganda: 2025 UCE Results to Be Released Friday

Today at 16:24 PM, via AllAfrica

[Nile Post] The Minister of Education and Sports, Mrs Janet Kataha Museveni, will release the 2025 Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) examination results on Friday, February 13, 2026, at State House, Nakasero, in Kampala.

Education

Declining health and education in poor countries harms earning potential, World Bank says

Today at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Report says children born today could earn 51% more over lifetime if their country’s human capital improved

Deteriorating health, education and training in many developing countries is dramatically depressing the future earnings of children born today, the World Bank says.

In a report the World Bank urges policymakers to focus on improving outcomes in three settings: homes, neighbourhoods and...

Education

Susie Dent’s tips and tricks to add muscle to a child’s vocabulary

Today at 14:18 PM, via The Guardian

In a bid to combat the impact of screen-time creep, the Countdown word supremo has a few suggestions

Children’s vocabulary shrinking as reading loses out to screen time, says Susie Dent

Children’s vocabulary is shrinking as reading loses out to screen time, the Countdown lexicographer Susie Dent has suggested, as she urged families to read, talk and play word games to boost language...

Entertainment

24 hours in pictures, 12 February 2026

Today at 18:30 PM, via The Citizen

Through the lens: The Citizen’s Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.

Science/Tech

Amazon Engineers Want Claude Code, but the Company Keeps Pushing Its Own Tool

Today at 18:00 PM, via Slashdot

Amazon engineers have been pushing back against internal policies that steer them toward Kiro, the company’s in-house AI coding assistant, and away from Anthropic’s Claude Code for production work, according to a Business Insider report based on internal messages. About 1,500 employees endorsed the formal adoption of Claude Code in one internal forum thread, and some pointed out the awkwardness...

Science/Tech

The “Are You Sure?” Problem: Why Your AI Keeps Changing Its Mind

Today at 17:03 PM, via Slashdot

The large language models that millions of people rely on for advice — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini — will change their answers nearly 60% of the time when a user simply pushes back by asking “are you sure?,” according to a study by Fanous et al. that tested GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet, and Gemini 1.5 Pro across math and medical domains. The behavior, known in the research community as sycophancy, stems...

Health

Bans on Many CBD Products Loom This Year

Today at 12:00 PM, via New York Times

A federal law taking effect in November severely limits the amount of THC, the euphoric cannabis compound, allowed in over-the-counter items. Many groups are fighting back.