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CRUCIAL VOTE: Chaos in legislature as MK loses bid to control KZN

Today at 18:33 PM, via Daily Maverick

MK MPLs banged their fists on tables, stomped their feet, jabbed their fingers in the faces of police officers and sang Umshini Wami. The legislature was disrupted for more than an hour until Speaker Nontembeko Boyce called for a vote, and MK’s motion of no confidence in Premier Thami Ntuli was squashed.

Sport

Burn suffers broken rib and punctured lung

Today at 19:55 PM, via BBC News

Newcastle United defender Dan Burn is set for a spell out of action after suffering a broken rib and punctured lung during the derby defeat against Sunderland.

Education

Exam board Pearson fined £2m for ‘serious’ breaches in standards

Today at 19:48 PM, via The Guardian

Ofqual issues fines over English proficiency test which some candidates sat at home, A-level Chinese and GCSE English

One of the world’s biggest providers of educational services has been fined more than £2m for a range of serious breaches related to examination standards that could have affected tens of thousands of students.

Pearson, a FTSE 100 listed company, was hit by financial penalties...

Science/Tech

Google To Retire ‘Dark Web Report’ Tool That Scanned for Leaked User Data

Today at 20:06 PM, via Slashdot

Google has decided to retire its free dark web monitoring tool, saying it wasn’t as helpful as the company hoped. From a report: In a support page, Google announced the discontinuation of the “dark web report” tool, two years after offering it as a free perk to Gmail users before expanding it more broadly. The feature worked by scanning for your email addresses to determine whether they had...

Science/Tech

US Tech Force Aims To Recruit 1,000 Technologists

Today at 19:21 PM, via Slashdot

The Trump administration announced Monday the United States Tech Force, a new program to recruit around 1,000 technologists for two-year government stints starting as soon as March — less than a year after dismantling several federal technology teams and driving thousands of tech workers out of their jobs. The program will primarily recruit early-career software engineers and data scientists,...

Science/Tech

Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water

Today at 18:40 PM, via Slashdot

For decades, Parkinson’s disease research has overwhelmingly focused on genetics — more than half of all research dollars in the past two decades flowed toward genomic studies — but a growing body of evidence now points to something far more mundane as a primary culprit: contaminated drinking water. A landmark study by epidemiologist Sam Goldman compared Marines stationed at Camp Lejeune in...