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 SAWS issues warnings for adverse weather

Today at 10:16 AM, via SAnews

 SAWS issues warnings for adverse weather

The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued an Orange Level 8 weather warning for disruptive rainfall in the Western Cape.The adverse weather, according to the weather service, is expected to lead to the flooding of roads, bridges and formal and informal settlements, mudslides and danger to life due to fast flowing rivers.

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Education

‘It’s about recognising our role in history’: Bradford exhibition to revisit live Somali display

Yesterday at 15:00 PM, via The Guardian

At the city’s Great Exhibition of 1904, 57 Somali men, women and children cooked, weaved and danced for visitors

It was, the posters said, a rare chance to see a “little known but interesting people”: a live display of 57 Somali men, women and children who cooked, weaved and danced for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of Edwardians who flocked to Yorkshire to see them.

More than 120...

Science/Tech

NYT: ‘Meta’s Embrace of AI Is Making Its Employees Miserable’

Today at 09:34 AM, via Slashdot

“Meta’s embrace of AI is making its employees miserable,” reports the New York Times. And “After Meta said late last month that it would start tracking employees’ computer use, hundreds of workers spoke up.” (One employee even told Meta’s CTO in an internal post, “Your callousness to the concerns of your own employees is concerning.” In an internal post last month, Meta told its U.S. employees...

Science/Tech

‘Changing of the Guard’? AMD, Intel, and Micron Soar While Nvidia Lags

Today at 05:34 AM, via Slashdot

While Nvidia has dominated the “infrastructure boom” since 2022’s launch of ChatGPT and “the generative AI craze,” CNBC writes that “This week offered the starkest illustration yet of what MIzuho analyst Jordan Klein said could be a ‘changing of the guard in AI.'”Chipmakers Advanced Micro Devices and Intel notched gains of about 25%, while memory maker Micron jumped more than 37% and...

Science/Tech

Open Source Registries Join Linux Foundation Working Group to Address Machine-Generated Traffic

Today at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

Under the nonprofit Linux Foundation, “a new Sustaining Package Registries Working Group will seek to identify concrete funding, governance, and security practices,” reports ZDNet, “to keep code flowing as download counts grow…. Because software builds, continuous integration pipelines, and AI systems hammer registries at machine speed rather than human speed, the sites can’t keep up. “That...