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Africa

Malawi’s new cabinet stokes fears of a return to impunity

Yesterday at 00:23 AM, via Mail & Guardian

The controversial hirings have unsettled Malawi’s international partners, with funds critical for health, agriculture and infrastructure now at risk of suspension if donors conclude that accountability has been abandoned

Politics

Trump U-turn on G20 as US asks to join summit

Yesterday at 00:05 AM, via Mail & Guardian

‘There should be no bullying of one nation by another. We are all equal’ the president said after Washington warned Pretoria against pursuing a joint G20 leaders’ statement this weekend

Sport

Littler wins as Van Veen comeback stuns Humphries

Today at 00:44 AM, via BBC News

Luke Littler wins his first match as world number one to progress at the Players Championship Finals, while Gian van Veen produces a stunning comeback to knock out Luke Humphries.

Education

Universities blame ‘societal shift’ for axing foreign language degrees

Yesterday at 19:00 PM, via The Guardian

Numbers taking languages at A-level and beyond has been falling for decades, although Duolingo says its app is most popular with young people

Universities are blaming a “societal shift” for the axing of dozens of foreign language degrees and even entire departments, citing a lack of demand among students – but can years of study be easily replaced by AI or online translation tools?

Not so,...

Science/Tech

Malaysia’s Palm Oil Estates Are Turning Into Data Centers

Today at 02:02 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Malaysia’s palm oil giants, long-blamed for razing rainforests, fueling toxic haze and driving orangutans to the brink of extinction, are recasting themselves as unlikely champions in a different, potentially greener race: the quest to lure the world’s AI data centers to the Southeast Asian country (source paywalled; alternative source). Palm...

Science/Tech

Mind-altering ‘brain weapons’ no longer only science fiction, say researchers

Today at 02:01 AM, via The Guardian

UK academics say latest chemicals are ‘wake-up call’ and urge global action to stop weaponisation of neuroscience

Sophisticated and deadly “brain weapons” that can attack or alter human consciousness, perception, memory or behaviour are no longer the stuff of science fiction, two British academics argue.

Michael Crowley and Malcolm Dando, of Bradford University, are about to publish a book that...

Science/Tech

Firefox 147 Will Support The XDG Base Directory Specification

Today at 01:20 AM, via Slashdot

Phoronix’s Michael Larabel reports: A 21 year old bug report requesting support of the XDG Base Directory specification is finally being addressed by Firefox. The Firefox 147 release should respect this XDG specification around where files should be positioned within Linux users’ home directory. The XDG Base Directory specification lays out where application data files, configuration files,...