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South Africa

Madlanga Commission hearings to focus on drug seizures

Today at 18:59 PM, via SAnews

Madlanga Commission hearings to focus on drug seizures

The Madlanga Commission’s hearings in the week ahead will continue to focus on drug seizures by South African law enforcement agencies, as well as the handling and theft or disappearance of narcotic substances in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.“This is a continuation of the testimony of several witnesses last week, including the...

Sport

Arsenal edge closer to total after late West Ham drama

Today at 21:05 PM, via BBC News

Leandro Trossard’s 83rd-minute goal is enough to give Premier League leaders Arsenal a dramatic 1-0 win, as West Ham United are denied an injury-time equaliser by VAR at the London Stadium.

Education

‘One of the greatest invisible tragedies’: is the loss of childhood imagination inevitable?

Today at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

We have created the most stifling and sanitised imaginative space conceivable for children, says teacher Brendan James Murray. Today true imagination has become a radical act

The six children sit together at the waterline in roaring wind. Seagulls dip and strain, beating their wings against the gusts as, far below, waves crest, thump, whisper. A girl, scarcely three years old, stands suddenly...

Education

I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan

Today at 15:00 PM, via The Guardian

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words

I have been teaching fiction writing at MIT since 2017. Many of my students last wrote fiction in middle school, and very few have experienced a proper workshop, so at the start of every semester I offer these directions for writer and reader...

Education

How Students Interact With A.I. Is What Matters

Today at 15:00 PM, via New York Times

Readers discuss artificial intelligence and writing in the classroom. Also: President Trump’s latest assault on science; election workers.

Science/Tech

Challenging UPS and FedEx, Amazon Opens Its Shipping Network to All Businesses

Today at 21:55 PM, via Slashdot

This week Amazon opened up its parcel shipping, fulfillment, and distribution “to businesses of all types and sizes.” Any business can now ship, store, and deliver “using the same supply chain that supports Amazon,” according to Monday’s announcement of “Amazon Supply Chain Services.” The move sent shares of UPS and FedEx “tumbling” Monday writes GeekWire. And though both stocks bounced back as...

Science/Tech

GM Secretly Sold California Drivers’ Data, Agrees to Pay $12.75M In Privacy Settlement

Today at 20:35 PM, via Slashdot

“General Motors sold the data of California drivers without their knowledge or consent,” says California’s attorney general, “and despite numerous statements reassuring drivers that it would not do so.” In 2024, The New York Times “reported that automakers including GM were sharing information about their customers’ driving behavior with insurance companies,” remembers TechCrunch, “and that...

Science/Tech

Amazon Relents, Lets its Programmers Use OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude

Today at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from Futurism:In November, Amazon leaders sent an internal memo to employees, pushing them to use its in-house code generating tool, Kiro, over third-party alternatives from competitors. “While we continue to support existing tools in use today, we do not plan to support additional third party, AI development tools,” the memo read, as quoted by Reuters at...