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South Africa

President Ramaphosa pays tribute to Rev. Jackson

Today at 17:32 PM, via SAnews

President Ramaphosa pays tribute to Rev. Jackson

President Cyril Ramaphosa is in Chicago, in the state of Illinois in the United States of America, to pay tribute to the late Rev. Dr Jesse Louis Jackson.

In a statement on Friday, The Presidency said President Ramaphosa will join members of the Jackson family, the PUSH Rainbow Coalition, the broader US Civil rights movement and other...

World

How Iranians are responding to the war

Today at 14:44 PM, via NPR

Iranians are streaming across the border with Turkey, fleeing constant bombardment. But some are also going the other way — returning to Iran out of worry for loved ones they can’t otherwise reach.

Education

What Does School Choice Really Mean?

Today at 14:00 PM, via New York Times

Readers respond to a guest essay that argued that more school vouchers would improve public education.

Education

Uganda: Alupo Urges Universities to Embrace Competence-Based Curriculum, Ai

Yesterday at 18:40 PM, via AllAfrica

[Nile Post] Vice President Jessica Alupo has urged universities to integrate the Competence-Based Curriculum (CBC) into their academic programmes in order to produce graduates equipped with critical thinking and problem-solving skills needed in today’s competitive job market.

Science/Tech

How Anthropic’s Claude Helped Mozilla to Improve Firefox’s Security

Today at 22:07 PM, via Slashdot

“It took Anthropic’s most advanced artificial-intelligence model about 20 minutes to find its first Firefox browser bug during an internal test of its hacking prowess,” reports the Wall Street Journal.The Anthropic team submitted it, and Firefox’s developers quickly wrote back: This bug was serious. Could they get on a call? “What else do you have? Send us more,” said Brian Grinstead, an...

Science/Tech

Military GPS Jamming is Interfering with the Navigation Systems of Commercial Ships

Today at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

“Within 24 hours of the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, ships in the region’s waters found their navigation systems had gone haywire,” reports CNN, “erroneously indicating that the vessels were at airports, a nuclear power plant and on Iranian land. “The location confusion was a result of widespread jamming and spoofing of signals from global positioning satellite systems.”Used by all sides...

Science/Tech

Seagate Just Unleashed 44TB Hard Drives

Today at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

“Seagate says it is now shipping its Mozaic 4+ HAMR-based hard drives at up to 44TB per drive,” writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, “with production deployments already underway at two hyperscale cloud providers. “The company claims the platform is the only heat-assisted magnetic recording [HAMR] implementation currently operating at scale, and it is targeting a path from today’s 4+TB per disk...

Science/Tech

First Solar Car Rolls Off Validation Assembly Line At Aptera

Today at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

“Reservation holders, it’s finally time to get ready,” writes long-time Slashdot reader AirHog. The EV news site Electrek reports:Aptera Motors, “the little startup that could,” announced another important milestone… completing the first example of its flagship solar EV on its validation assembly line in Southern California… While the validation line at its headquarters remains a low-volume...