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Business

Double blow on the cards for South Africa

Today at 13:00 PM, via BusinessTech

Following the SARB’s decision to hike interest rates this week, there is a chance that another hike will follow in July.

Sport

Wales call up teenage Leeds left-back Lienou

Today at 18:15 PM, via BBC News

Teenage Leeds United left-back Jayden Lienou is called up to the senior Wales squad for the first time for friendly matches against Ghana and Romania.

Education

How to Make Americans Read Again

Today at 13:00 PM, via New York Times

The reading crisis is real, but the solution does not require new inventions.

Science/Tech

AI Agents Get Their Own Directory Built Atop DNS

Today at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

“In the future, AI agents will be able to find one another using the Domain Name System (DNS), instead of crawling about and probing ports or checking configured resources,” writes The Register. InfoWorld writes that “numerous proprietary agent registries are on the market, but the Linux Foundation suggests we simply extend the distributed, open Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure we...

Science/Tech

‘Virtual OS Museum’ Lets You Try 570 Extinct Operating Systems

Today at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

You can try 570 extinct operating systems at a new “virtual museum,” according to a new article by ZDNet. Their reporter downloaded the ancient OS NeXTStep, and was “shocked” by how easy it was to run it, “and by the sheer number of operating systems to choose from.”Essentially, what you do is download a zipped file, unzip it, change into the newly created directory, and run the executable....

Science/Tech

Ohio Suspends Data Center Tax Break as Opposition Grows

Today at 16:34 PM, via Slashdot

The state of Ohio — one of America’s hot regions for data center construction — “is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states,” reports the Associated Press. The move “comes as tax breaks for energy-hungry AI data centers are increasingly playing a role in state budgets,” the article points out. But they also note the expanding data center industry...

Health

China’s Rise in Drug Development Looms Over U.S.

Yesterday at 06:00 AM, via New York Times

Clinical trials in China are getting attention at an international oncology gathering in Chicago. China’s surging biotechnology industry is fueling alarm that U.S. dominance in the field is waning.