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Politics

Mathjabeng in financial freefall

Today at 09:30 AM, via Mail & Guardian

The Free State municipality is facing severe fiscal distress, with liabilities exceeding R5.8bn and a R871.6 million deficit, says Auditor General Tsakani Maluleke

Sport

Sharks replace Springbok with Springbok

Today at 17:07 PM, via The South African

The Sharks have confirmed experienced scrumhalf Ivan van Zyl as the replacement for departing Springbok star Grant Williams.

Sport

Second Man Utd goal ‘a pity for the game’ – Pereira

Today at 16:42 PM, via BBC News

Vitor Pereira says “I must accept but I don’t agree” with the referee’s decision not to disallow Manchester United’s second goal, after Bryan Mbeumo appeared to use his upper arm to control the ball in the build-up, in Nottingham Forest’s 3-2 defeat at Old Trafford in the Premier League.

Education

Sons of jailed Saudi scholars urge Cambridge to drop plans to train Riyadh staff

Today at 17:13 PM, via The Guardian

Exclusive: Families of men facing death penalty add to internal opposition to seeking deal with Saudi defence ministry

The families of two scholars facing the death penalty in Saudi Arabia have appealed to the University of Cambridge to drop proposals to run staff training courses for Riyadh’s defence ministry.

The Guardian revealed last week that Cambridge’s Judge business school has been...

Education

Good Luck, Grads!

Today at 13:26 PM, via New York Times

Is the post-college job market as bad as it seems?

Education

My Classmate, ChatGPT

Today at 07:00 AM, via New York Times

Lessons from the first graduating A.I. class.

Education

Canvas hack: is it ever a good idea to pay a ransom, and what happens to the data?

Yesterday at 20:00 PM, via The Guardian

Businesses are advised against paying – but as the Canvas platform hack shows, many are prepared to deal to protect users’ privacy

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After a week of outages, hundreds of millions of students’ data stolen, delayed assignment due dates, and school login pages being defaced by hackers, US tech firm Instructure – which operates the...

Science/Tech

Python Stays #1, R Rises in Popularity, Says TIOBE

Today at 16:34 PM, via Slashdot

Are statistical programmers coalescing around a handful of popular languages? That’s the question asked by the CEO of software assessment site TIOBE, which every month estimates the popularity of programming languages based on their frequency in search results:This month, the programming language R matched its all-time high by reaching position #8 in the TIOBE index once again. This is not a...

Science/Tech

‘You only have so much space’: the limits of reducing infection risk on cruise ships

Today at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

It is hardly a surprise that outbreaks can occur and experts say many of the factors involved are not easy to change

It was a voyage that promised such stuff as dreams are made of, yet within weeks the Atlantic expedition of the MV Hondius had become a nightmare, with three passengers dead from hantavirus and more showing symptoms.

Meanwhile, an outbreak of norovirus is under investigation on...

Science/Tech

Elon Musk’s xAI Launches ‘Grok Build’, Its First AI Coding Agent

Today at 13:34 PM, via Slashdot

xAI has launched Grok Build, “a coding agent of its own to serve as competitor to its rivals’ products, such as Anthropic’s Claude Code,” reports Engadget:As Bloomberg notes, xAI has been trying to catch up to its rival companies like Anthropic and OpenAI. Elon Musk, the company’s founder and CEO, previously admitted that it has fallen behind its competitors when it comes to coding. A couple of...