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South Africa

Africa Takes Eight Seats on New AI for Good Global Commission, With Kagame as Co-Chair

Yesterday at 18:07 PM, via iAfrica

Africa has secured eight seats on the newly established AI for Good Global Commission, strengthening the continent’s representation in a global body tasked with shaping the future of artificial intelligence governance. The commission, launched by the International Telecommunication Union, held its inaugural meeting in Geneva on July 8 during the AI for Good Global Summit. […]

South Africa

Kubayi Warns AI Trained on Foreign Data Risks “Digitised Racial Segregation” in South Africa

Yesterday at 18:03 PM, via iAfrica

Artificial intelligence systems trained largely on foreign datasets risk perpetuating racial bias and undermining South Africa’s transformative constitutional vision if they are not built with local historical context, Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi has warned. Kubayi delivered the warning on Thursday at the University of Johannesburg’s “AI and the Law”...

Sport

Norway goal ruled out after VAR intervention

Today at 01:47 AM, via BBC News

VAR rescues England as Torbjorn Heggem sees his goal, which would have put Norway back into the lead ruled out for a foul by Erling Halaand on Elliot Anderson.

Education

Safe from AI: which jobs will help you thrive in the future?

Yesterday at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

Experts say there will still be opportunities ahead in everything from teaching to hotels and the law

Entering the world of work often brings some uncertainty, but now there is another question: how can I AI-proof my career?

We asked people from across various industries what they think the impact of AI will be on careers, and which jobs may be less affected. While it is still early days for...

Education

‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms

Yesterday at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Teachers call for schools to be urgently adapted for hot weather amid reports of nausea, fainting and heatstroke

The extreme heat that has hit the UK twice in the past few weeks has left teachers struggling to cope as temperatures in some classrooms climb above 40C, with pupils and staff suffering from heatstroke, nausea and headaches.

Teachers say they have been desperately trying to keep...

Science/Tech

People Keep Sneaking Into an Empty IBM Campus – and Then Getting Arrested

Today at 00:47 AM, via Slashdot

Since February, New York state police have arrested 48 people for trespassing on a former IBM campus in Somers, New York, reports the Wall Street Journal. 30 of the arrests were teenagers.The long-vacant site has become a magnet for so-called urban explorers, who prowl abandoned malls, hospitals, power plants, amusement parks, factories and any other disused structure they can breach… [I]t’s...

Science/Tech

How the FSF Sysadmins are Blocking Botnets with reaction

Yesterday at 23:47 PM, via Slashdot

For nearly two years the Free Software Foundation has been fighting web crawlers (including many aggressively scraping training data for AI models). A botnet controlling about five million IPs hit one system for six months in 2025. Their systems administrator wrote this week that they view these as distributed denial-of-service attacks. How are they fighting back?We noticed patterns in the...

Science/Tech

DuckDuckGo’s Browser Now Blocks Most YouTube Ads

Yesterday at 22:47 PM, via Slashdot

Nerds.xyz reports:DuckDuckGo just gave its browser a feature that a lot of people have been waiting for. The privacy-focused browser can now block most video ads on YouTube, letting users watch videos without sitting through the pre-roll and mid-roll interruptions that have become part of everyday life on the platform. The feature is already enabled by default for iPhone, Windows, and Mac users...

Science/Tech

Orbital Datacenter Plans Need an Environmental Review, FCC Told

Yesterday at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

Environmental groups want America’s FCC “to slam the brakes on orbital datacenters,” writes The Register. They’re arguing for an environmental impact assessment for what could be 1 million satellites:Earthjustice, acting on behalf of DarkSky International, Environment America, and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), filed a petition this week… The filing doesn’t target any...