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Visa bungle could cost Bafana big time at World Cup

Today at 20:00 PM, via SowetanLIVE

Bafana were scheduled to leave in a chartered flight on Sunday ahead of their training camp in Pachuca, Mexico, but will have to wait as several players and some of the technical team members are yet to receive their visas from the US embassy.

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SUPPORT VACUUM: Nine thousand social workers are unemployed, and a million learners are in crisis

Today at 19:43 PM, via Daily Maverick

A recent parliamentary reply from Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube reveals a stark reality: just 761 social services professionals are left to cover South Africa’s entire public education sector, with further expansion blocked by tight budget caps. Compounding this financial freeze, critical regulations to formalise school social work have been stalled in administrative limbo since...

Business

Double blow on the cards for South Africa

Today at 13:00 PM, via BusinessTech

Following the SARB’s decision to hike interest rates this week, there is a chance that another hike will follow in July.

Education

How to Make Americans Read Again

Today at 13:00 PM, via New York Times

The reading crisis is real, but the solution does not require new inventions.

Science/Tech

AI Agents Get Their Own Directory Built Atop DNS

Today at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

“In the future, AI agents will be able to find one another using the Domain Name System (DNS), instead of crawling about and probing ports or checking configured resources,” writes The Register. InfoWorld writes that “numerous proprietary agent registries are on the market, but the Linux Foundation suggests we simply extend the distributed, open Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure we...

Science/Tech

‘Virtual OS Museum’ Lets You Try 570 Extinct Operating Systems

Today at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

You can try 570 extinct operating systems at a new “virtual museum,” according to a new article by ZDNet. Their reporter downloaded the ancient OS NeXTStep, and was “shocked” by how easy it was to run it, “and by the sheer number of operating systems to choose from.”Essentially, what you do is download a zipped file, unzip it, change into the newly created directory, and run the executable....

Health

China’s Rise in Drug Development Looms Over U.S.

Yesterday at 06:00 AM, via New York Times

Clinical trials in China are getting attention at an international oncology gathering in Chicago. China’s surging biotechnology industry is fueling alarm that U.S. dominance in the field is waning.