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Alleged ‘police informant’ found dead in Ekurhuleni

Today at 08:28 AM, via SowetanLIVE

Wiandre Pretorius, an alleged Ekurhuleni police informant, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at a Brakpan filling station days after surviving an attempted assassination.

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India, Malaysia renew pledges to boost trade, collaboration

Today at 08:28 AM, via SowetanLIVE

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Malaysian counterpart Anwar Ibrahim renewed pledges on Sunday to bolster trade and explore potential collaborations in semiconductors, defence, and other fields

Sport

Updated rugby rankings after Italy, England win

Today at 07:51 AM, via The South African

The first round of the Six Nations wrapped up with impressive wins for Italy and England, and here is how the latest rugby rankings now look.

Education

Lessons for America From Asia

Yesterday at 14:00 PM, via New York Times

What if the valedictorians in our schools were the cool kids?

Science/Tech

The Rise of Virtual Items: How Digital Assets Became Valuable

Today at 07:44 AM, via Tech Financials

Virtual items existed as temporary extra features which developers created to provide visual effects for characters and to deliver short-term entertainment. Presently these items serve as the main component of a digital economy that keeps expanding. Players from different genres and platforms devote their resources and emotions to digital items which only exist in virtual […]

Science/Tech

Are Big Tech’s Nuclear Construction Deals a Tipping Point for Small Modular Reactors?

Today at 06:35 AM, via Slashdot

Fortune reports on “a watershed moment” in American’s nuclear power industry:In January, Meta partnered with Gates’ TerraPower and Sam Altman-backed Oklo to develop about 4 gigawatts of combined SMR projects — enough to power almost 3 million homes — for “clean, reliable energy” both for Meta’s planned Prometheus AI mega campus in Ohio and beyond. Analysts see Meta as the start of more Big...

Science/Tech

A New Era for Security? Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 Found 500 High-Severity Vulnerabilities

Today at 04:34 AM, via Slashdot

Axios reports:Anthropic’s latest AI model has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries with little to no prompting, the company shared first with Axios. Why it matters: The advancement signals an inflection point for how AI tools can help cyber defenders, even as AI is also making attacks more dangerous… Anthropic debuted Claude Opus 4.6, the...