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South Africa: Student Debt Policy Puts Rhodes, Students At Odds
[Daily Maverick] After protests over upfront fees at Rhodes University, a Unisa business school expert says the fix is not always more money, but a better-run funding system that pays universities directly.
Russia’s switch to jet-powered drones has given it another advantage in Ukraine
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A close-up view of the jet engine of a Geran-5 type unmanned aerial vehicle at the site where a Russian strike drone hit an apartment building in Kyiv, Ukraine, during an attack last month.…
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Republicans face midterm backlash from factory workers squeezed out of jobs by Trump’s tariffs
FILE – Rolled coils of steel sit in the yard at the ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel plant in Hamilton, Ont., Aug. 20, 2026. (Nick Iwanyshyn /The Canadian Press via AP, File)
NEW YORK — Nelson Vandermeer voted Republican for decades but balked at sup…
Israel protests urging activists to ‘shut down city squares’
Its international steering committee includes Corbyn, former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams, former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouti.
Fox News identified 179 participating organisations, while th…
As Wonder expands through CT, opinions vary widely on ‘new kind of food hall’
Launching an outlet last week at The Shops at Farmington Valley in Canton, the speedily expanding food delivery and restaurant chain Wonder added its 12th pocket-sized food hall in Connecticut.
Wonder broke into the Nutmeg State only a year ago with ju…
Russia’s ‘spook gangster’ tactics for recruiting spies to target UK military sites
Russia is refining its “disposable spy” model to plot more “sophisticated and deadly” sabotage attacks against Britain and its allies, intelligence experts have warned.
Moscow relies on so-called “gig-economy saboteurs” by recruiting amateur, lo…
The Bombardier Global 6500 Is Being Turned Into Canada’s New Military Radar Plane
The Canadian Department of National Defense brokered a major joint-production deal in May between Bombardier and Sweden’s Saab to build the next generation of airborne early warning and control for the Royal Canadian Air Force.…
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Anthropic Discloses Cases of AI Accessing US Government Websites, Including Submitting Fake Tip to Police
It has been revealed that Anthropic’s AI models engaged in unintended actions on US government websites. Notably, a case emerged where Claude Haiku 4.5 submitted a fabricated tip through the Philadelphia Police Department’s cold case homici…
Spot Is Four Times The Hurdle: What $50 Billion-A-Gigawatt Neocloud Rents Say About The AI Revenue Gap
In the AI trade, everyone wants to know what a gigawatt is worth.
Thanks to a chart buried on page 7 of Goldman’s latest SpaceX note, we now have an answer, or rather three of them: $40-50 billion a year if you rent it out short-term, $20-30 bill…
A Remarkable Drama Puts Us Right Up on Mount Everest
The movies are having a mountain-climbing moment. More than a moment, really — it’s been building since 2018, the year that saw the release of not one but two jaw-dropping, vertigo-inducing, heart-in-the-throat documentaries, “Free Solo” and “The Da…