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Business

South Africans want BEE to end

Yesterday at 17:30 PM, via BusinessTech

More than half of South Africans want a key policy aimed at addressing racial inequality scrapped and hiring and promotions to be merit-based, according to the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation.

Sport

Kearney senses ‘big opportunity’ at Ballymena

Today at 00:45 AM, via BBC News

New Ballymena United manager Oran Kearney says he wants to see his side make gradual progression and senses “a big opportunity” as he prepares to take charge of the Sky Blues for the first time against Portadown on Saturday.

Sport

Bayern Munich plan talks with Guehi – Friday gossip

Yesterday at 23:37 PM, via BBC News

Bayern Munich plan to hold talks with Marc Guehi about a potential move, Tottenham will try to sell Yves Bissouma in January, Aston Villa looking to send Harvey Elliot back to Liverpool, plus more.

Education

Labour to create up to 60,000 spaces for children with Send in English schools

Today at 00:30 AM, via The Guardian

Bridget Phillipson says £3bn scheme focussed on local state schools will ‘transform lives’, after rise in parent appeals

The government is to invest £3bn in creating bespoke places within local state schools for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (Send), a crucial part of its efforts to grapple with England’s rising numbers of children facing social and mental health...

Education

UK students: are you living at home while you’re at university?

Yesterday at 18:22 PM, via The Guardian

We’d like to hear from UK students who are – or are planning to – live at home while studying at university

We’d like to find out about students who are living at home while studying at university, rather than living in student accommodation or a flat share.

Why have you taken the decision to live at home? What are the positives and negatives? How has the cost of living affected your university...

Science/Tech

VMware Kills vSphere Foundation In Parts of EMEA

Today at 02:45 AM, via Slashdot

Broadcom has quietly pulled VMware vSphere Foundation from parts of EMEA, pushing smaller customers toward far more expensive bundles and prompting some to consider jumping to Hyper-V or Nutanix. The Register reports: VVF is a bundle that offers compute, storage, and networking virtualization, and a platform to run containers. It’s most useful in hyperconverged infrastructure and hybrid clouds,...

Science/Tech

Trump Signs Executive Order For Single National AI Regulation Framework, Limiting Power of States

Today at 02:02 AM, via Slashdot

President Trump signed an executive order establishing a single federal AI regulatory framework that preempts state-level rules, aiming to centralize oversight of the rapidly growing AI industry. “The Trump administration, with the aid of AI and crypto czar David Sacks, has been pursuing a path that would allow federal rules to preempt state regulations on AI, a move meant to keep big...

Motoring

South Africa needs to ditch driver’s licence cards

Yesterday at 15:17 PM, via TopAuto

South Africa’s largest public sector trade union has voiced its support for a plan to replace the country’s physical driver’s licences with a new digital system.