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Business

South Africa heading for a meltdown

Today at 06:55 AM, via BusinessTech

The South African government’s failure to uphold the rule of law and to reform the economy has created an untenable and unsustainable environment that may lead to social unrest, and early elections being called.

Politics

IFP celebrates 50 years in Soweto

Yesterday at 13:27 PM, via SABC News

The IFP was founded on the 21st of March 1975 at KwaNzimela in Melmoth, KwaZulu-Natal

Education

Inside San Francisco’s new AI school: is this the future of US education?

Yesterday at 15:00 PM, via The Guardian

The private Alpha School says its students can learn faster and better – but experts warn not all may benefit from an AI boom in schools

In the world’s tech innovation epicenter, an “AI-powered” private school has made headlines for unabashedly embracing the technology.

Alpha School San Francisco, which opened its doors to K-8 students this fall, is the newest outpost of a network of 14...

Education

Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?

Yesterday at 12:00 PM, via The Guardian

From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently …

Step into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab in Cambridge, US, and the future feels a little closer. Glass cabinets display prototypes of weird and wonderful creations, from tiny desktop robots to a surrealist sculpture created...

Science/Tech

New Data Shows Record CO2 Levels in 2024. Are Carbon Sinks Failing?

Today at 09:34 AM, via Slashdot

The Guardian reports that atmospheric carbon dioxide “soared by a record amount in 2024 to hit another high, UN data shows.” But what’s more troubling is why:Several factors contributed to the leap in CO2, including another year of unrelenting fossil fuel burning despite a pledge by the world’s countries in 2023 to “transition away” from coal, oil and gas. Another factor was an upsurge in...

Science/Tech

OpenAI Cofounder Builds New Open Source LLM ‘Nanochat’ – and Doesn’t Use Vibe Coding

Today at 05:34 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from Gizmodo:It’s been over a year since OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy exited the company. In the time since he’s been gone, he coined and popularized the term “vibe coding” to describe the practice of farming out coding projects to AI tools. But earlier this week, when he released his own open source model called nanochat, he admitted that he wrote the...

Health

When a Hearing Aid Isn’t Enough

Yesterday at 16:29 PM, via New York Times

More older adults have turned to cochlear implants after Medicare expanded eligibility for the devices.