Skip to Content

SUNDAY, 22 MARCH 2026, 07:19

Top Stories

DA’s Karabo Khakhau ousted from leadership race

Today at 07:04 AM, via SowetanLIVE

DA MP and national spokesperson Karabo Khakhau has been disqualified from the party’s leadership race after it was found that she owed just over R4,000 in party tithes.

Sport

How Brighton dominated ‘messy’ Liverpool

Today at 02:00 AM, via BBC News

Match of the Day pundits Wayne Rooney and Alan Shearer break down what went wrong for Virgil van Dijk and Liverpool as they “absolutely bullied” by Brighton.

Sport

Should ‘inexperienced’ Chelsea ditch youth project?

Today at 01:58 AM, via BBC News

Match of the Day pundits Alan Shearer and Wayne Rooney insist Chelsea need to pivot away from their transfer strategy focused soley on purchasing younger players, believing their inexperienced squad may be the cause for their inconsistent form.

Education

Should the bank of mum and dad pay university debts?

Yesterday at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

Those planning for uni in England and Wales this autumn can apply for student loans from Monday. Here are the options for families worried about debt

Our child is heading to university soon – should we try to pay their tuition fees upfront so they are not saddled with a debt for decades?

Our child is a recent graduate and their student loan debt is ballooning – should we help pay off some or...

Science/Tech

Tesla’s Upcoming Electric Big Rig Is Already a Hit with Truckers

Today at 06:34 AM, via Slashdot

“After nearly a decade of delays and industry skepticism, Tesla’s electric big rig is finally rolling out of Nevada’s Gigafactory for mass production starting summer 2026,” writes Gadget Review. And some truckers who tested the vehicles already love them (as reported by the Wall Street Journal):Dakota Shearer and Angel Rodriguez, among other pilot drivers, rave about the centered cab that...

Science/Tech

Trivy Supply Chain Attack Spreads, Triggers Self-Spreading CanisterWorm Across 47 npm Packages

Today at 02:42 AM, via Slashdot

“We have removed all malicious artifacts from the affected registries and channels,” Trivy maintainer Itay Shakury posted today, noting that all the latest Trivy releases “now point to a safe version.” But “On March 19, we observed that a threat actor used a compromised credential…” And today The Hacker News reported the same attackers are now “suspected to be conducting follow-on attacks that...

Science/Tech

EFF Tells Publishers: Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase The Historical Record

Today at 00:38 AM, via Slashdot

“Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper,” writes EFF senior policy analyst Joe Mullin. “That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months.”The Internet Archive — the world’s largest digital library — has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s… But in recent months The New York Times...

Science/Tech

Millions Face Mobile Internet Outages in Moscow. ‘Digital Crackdown’ Feared

Yesterday at 23:38 PM, via Slashdot

13 million people live in Moscow, reports CNN. But since early March the city “has experienced internet and mobile service outages on a level previously unseen.” (Though Wi-Fi access to the internet is still available…) Russian social media “is flooded with jokes and memes about sending letters by carrier pigeons or using smartphones as ping-pong paddles…”[Moscow residents] complain they cannot...

Health

David Botstein, Gene-Mapping Pioneer, Dies at 83

Friday at 23:25 PM, via New York Times

His method of locating genes in human DNA allowed researchers to find disease-causing genes, and later to map the entire, sprawling human genome.