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HPCSA probes Wits medical programme

Today at 05:00 AM, via SowetanLIVE

Health professions regulator is investigating allegations surrounding a specialist training programme linked to the Wits University following a complaint by a trainee doctor.

Top Stories

The cost of being uninsurable

Today at 05:00 AM, via SowetanLIVE

Did you know that you can be deemed uninsurable by insurance companies and be forced to pay astronomical premiums just to stay covered and to protect your assets?

South Africa

Western Cape AI Cluster Launches as Province Moves Ahead on AI Ecosystem While National Policy Stalls

Yesterday at 21:05 PM, via iAfrica

The South African AI Association and the Western Cape Government have launched the Western Cape AI Cluster, a three-year collaboration designed to research, develop and grow the province’s AI ecosystem — and to position the Western Cape as a globally significant AI hub. The cluster launches at a significant moment. South Africa’s planned National AI […]

World

Has the U.S. lost the war in Iran?

Yesterday at 23:06 PM, via NPR

As both the US and Iran signal a peace deal is near, Robert Kagan, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, says the U.S. will likely come out weaker than before the war.

Africa

Ndiaye adamant Senegal are champions of Africa

Friday at 12:43 PM, via BBC News

Iliman Ndiaye insists Senegal are African champions in “many people’s eyes” despite a legal wrangle over the ultimate destination of the 2025 Afcon title.

Education

UK universities warn of cuts for impoverished students if dire funding issues continue

Today at 01:01 AM, via The Guardian

Nearly a third of vice-chancellors would cut hardship support if necessary over next three years, according to poll

Vice-chancellors have said they may need to cut hardship support for impoverished students and reduce outreach activities aimed at disadvantaged groups if the dire funding struggles at universities continue.

The anonymous poll of leaders by Universities UK (UUK) revealed the...

Education

Labour to expand youth work experience and training schemes

Yesterday at 20:05 PM, via The Guardian

Announcement comes after Alan Milburn says Britain has neglected generation of young people struggling to access work and training opportunities

Ministers are expanding youth work experience and training schemes, after Alan Milburn warned Britain is spending £25 keeping young people on benefits for every £1 spent helping them into work.

Pat McFadden, the work and pensions secretary will...

Education

Bridget Phillipson orders review of hidden childcare charges hitting parents

Yesterday at 19:31 PM, via The Guardian

Education secretary asks UK watchdog to look into nursery practices, including non-refundable deposits and add-ons

Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, is ordering a competition review of hidden childcare charges amid concerns parents are being hit with extra charges, despite the government’s flagship expansion of funded childcare hours.

Phillipson has written to the Competition and...

Education

I avoid AI tools because thinking is supposed to be hard. It’s what makes us human | Wendy Liu

Yesterday at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

As intelligence itself becomes privatised by big tech, allowing your intellectual faculties to wither in service of inane bots seems a dangerous move

Long before the age of multi-billion-dollar AI companies promising to disrupt the field of software development, I was learning to code the hard way.

It was the mid-2000s, and I was a child with unmonitored access to the family computer. With the...

Entertainment

There is a positive to Eskom’s sad tale

Today at 05:45 AM, via The Citizen

Kusile and Medupi power stations took more than two decades to complete and went over budget by hundreds of percent, becoming, in the process, some of the most expensive coal-fired plants erected in the history of humankind.

Entertainment

Our emperor Ramaphosa has no clothes

Today at 05:30 AM, via The Citizen

What South Africans are being asked to accept about Phala Phala is not a credibleaccount so much as a fairy tale.

Science/Tech

AI ‘Crashes the Party’ at This Year’s Cannes Film Festival – Including Multi-Year Meta Partnership

Today at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

AI “crashed the party” at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, writes The Hollywood Reporter. The festival exposed “the fault lines reshaping cinema,” their article argues, including how “AI is here — and the industry has stopped pretending otherwise.”A humanoid robot spotted marching up and down the Croisette seemed to sum up the worst AI fears of the film industry — the machines have arrived...

Science/Tech

FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD On Laptop

Today at 00:11 AM, via Slashdot

Phoronix reports on a presentation about trying FreeBSD on modern Framework laptop from last week’s Open Source Summit hosted by the Linux Foundation:With FreeBSD having worked on improving its laptop support over the past two years with some big changes and ongoing efforts for making a nice KDE desktop experience on FreeBSD, FreeBSD Foundation’s Executive Director has been trying to daily...

Science/Tech

Canonical Is Shutting Down Ubuntu Pastebin

Yesterday at 23:11 PM, via Slashdot

“Canonical says Ubuntu Pastebin will be decommissioned at the end of May 2026,” writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, “as part of an infrastructure modernization effort.”The announcement only appeared this week, giving the Linux community barely any warning before a service that has been tied to Ubuntu support culture for years suddenly disappears. Ubuntu Pastebin has long been used for sharing...

Science/Tech

Mozilla Brings Web Serial Workflows to Firefox, Collaborates With Adafruit

Yesterday at 22:11 PM, via Slashdot

The Web Serial API lets websites write to (and read from) serial devices using JavaScript, including USB and Bluetooth devices with virtual serial ports. And this week’s Firefox 151 release introduced support for the Web Serial API on desktop. “Most folks won’t use this API,” acknowledges Mozilla’s blog, “but for our community of builders and tinkerers, it unlocks the ability to use Firefox to...

Health

How Profit-Seeking Autism Clinics Can Harm Kids

Saturday at 11:00 AM, via New York Times

Profit motives are shaping the care inside an expanding autism therapy industry, creating conditions that can harm some children. Our health reporter Sarah Kliff explains her new investigation, co-authored with Margot Sanger-Katz.