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THURSDAY, 09 APRIL 2026, 22:23

Education

Weekend students at 15 universities in England told to return loans and grants

Today at 17:49 PM, via The Guardian

Student Finance England tells about 22,000 students their universities wrongly told them they were eligible

More than 20,000 university students in England who received government maintenance loans and grants worth thousands of pounds have been told they will have to pay them back because their universities wrongly told them they were eligible for the money.

About 22,000 students studying for...

Entertainment

24 hours in pictures, 9 April 2026

Today at 22:11 PM, via The Citizen

Through the lens: The Citizen’s Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.

Science/Tech

OpenAI To Limit New Model Release On Cybersecurity Fears

Today at 22:00 PM, via Slashdot

OpenAI is reportedly preparing a new cybersecurity product for a small group of partners, out of concern that a broader rollout could wreak havoc if it were released more widely. If that move sounds familiar, it’s because Anthropic took a similar limited-release approach with its Mythos model and Project Glasswing initiative. Axios reports: OpenAI introduced its “Trusted Access for Cyber” pilot...

Science/Tech

Hacker Steals 10 Petabytes of Data From China’s Tianjin Supercomputer Center

Today at 21:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: A hacker has allegedly stolen a massive trove of sensitive data — including highly classified defense documents and missile schematics — from a state-run Chinese supercomputer in what could potentially constitute the largest known heist of data from China. The dataset, which allegedly contains more than 10 petabytes of sensitive information, is...

Science/Tech

Wild chimpanzees recorded waging ‘civil war’ with coordinated attacks between two groups

Today at 20:00 PM, via The Guardian

New study describes what may be the first case of a unified community of chimps, in Uganda, turning on itself

On a June day in 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was quietly observing a small cluster of the Ngogo chimpanzee group in Uganda’s Kibale national park when he noticed something strange. As other members of the chimpanzees’ wider group moved closer through the forest, the chimpanzees...