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Panic stations for ANC over Phala Phala

Today at 05:53 AM, via SowetanLIVE

Party scurries to find ways to dodge the possible bullet of impeachment for the president – and it can’t count on help from the DA

Education

‘It’s about recognising our role in history’: Bradford exhibition to revisit live Somali display

Yesterday at 15:00 PM, via The Guardian

At the city’s Great Exhibition of 1904, 57 Somali men, women and children cooked, weaved and danced for visitors

It was, the posters said, a rare chance to see a “little known but interesting people”: a live display of 57 Somali men, women and children who cooked, weaved and danced for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of Edwardians who flocked to Yorkshire to see them.

More than 120...

Science/Tech

‘Changing of the Guard’? AMD, Intel, and Micron Soar While Nvidia Lags

Today at 05:34 AM, via Slashdot

While Nvidia has dominated the “infrastructure boom” since 2022’s launch of ChatGPT and “the generative AI craze,” CNBC writes that “This week offered the starkest illustration yet of what MIzuho analyst Jordan Klein said could be a ‘changing of the guard in AI.'”Chipmakers Advanced Micro Devices and Intel notched gains of about 25%, while memory maker Micron jumped more than 37% and...

Science/Tech

Open Source Registries Join Linux Foundation Working Group to Address Machine-Generated Traffic

Today at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

Under the nonprofit Linux Foundation, “a new Sustaining Package Registries Working Group will seek to identify concrete funding, governance, and security practices,” reports ZDNet, “to keep code flowing as download counts grow…. Because software builds, continuous integration pipelines, and AI systems hammer registries at machine speed rather than human speed, the sites can’t keep up. “That...

Science/Tech

Will Maryland’s Utility Bills Increase $1.6B to Support Other States’ Datacenters?

Today at 00:34 AM, via Slashdot

To upgrade its grid for data centers, PJM Interconnection (which serves 13 states) plans to spend $22 billion — and charge nearly $2 billion of that to customers in Maryland, argues Maryland’s Office of People’s Counsel. The money “will be recovered in rates for decades” and “drive up Maryland customer bills by $1.6 billion over the next ten years alone,” they said Friday, announcing an...

Science/Tech

Rush Rescue Mission for NASA’s $500M Space Telescope Passes Key Milestone

Yesterday at 23:34 PM, via Slashdot

NASA’s $500 million Neil Gehrels Swift space observatory was launched in 2004. But it’s now “at risk of falling back through the atmosphere and burning up without intervention,” reports Spaceflight Now. Fortunately, a mission to prevent that “just passed a notable prelaunch testing milestone.”On Friday, NASA announced that the Link spacecraft, manufactured by Katalyst Space Technologies to...

Health

Trump Plans to Fire F.D.A. Commissioner Marty Makary

Friday at 22:40 PM, via New York Times

Dr. Makary has been a supporter of the Make American Healthy Again Movement but made some enemies in the administration over vaping, the abortion pill and rejections of new drugs.