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South Africa

IUCEA Launches East African Community AI Alliance to End Fragmented National Approaches

Today at 14:05 PM, via iAfrica

The Inter-University Council for East Africa, in collaboration with the East African Science and Technology Commission and international partners, has formally launched the East African Community Artificial Intelligence Alliance, alongside its inaugural flagship initiative — a regional Network on Artificial Intelligence in Education and Research. According to IUCEA, the alliance is designed...

South Africa

Agentic AI Could Either Widen Africa’s Opportunity or Deepen Global Dependency, Absa Analysis Argues

Today at 14:00 PM, via iAfrica

By Johnson Idesoh, Group Chief Information and Technology Officer at Absa For the past three or four years, the world has lived through what is probably the fastest adoption of a general-purpose technology in modern economic history, with systems becoming embedded in ordinary working life so quickly that companies, governments, and regulators have often struggled […]

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

Earps close to WSL return as PSG exit nears

Today at 12:59 PM, via BBC News

Former England goalkeeper Mary Earps is close to a return to the Women’s Super League, with her exit from Paris St-Germain edging closer.

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...

Education

La Gradiva review – stunning coming-of-age story of young love and sexual tension

Yesterday at 13:25 PM, via The Guardian

Cannes film festival: Marine Atlan’s debut film follows a group of French high-school kids and their long-suffering teacher on a visit to Pompeii and Naples

Here is cinematographer turned director Marine Atlan’s beautiful debut film about young love, superbly acted and directed. It is a reminder of how fundamentally dishonest and pseudosophisticated it is to laugh dismissively at the...

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...

Science/Tech

‘We’re not ready’: US lags on pandemic preparedness after Covid, experts say

Today at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

Experts say slashed funding and growing misinformation are some of the greatest challenges facing public health

The hantavirus outbreak, while unlikely to spark the next big pandemic, is shining a spotlight on the ways public health has deteriorated in the US: its ability to test for rare diseases, its expertise on outbreak prevention and response, its ability to battle misinformation and...