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JUST IN | Joburg signs R10.3bn wage deal on eve of elections - and the next mayor is stuck with it brnw.ch/21x6S7a

NEW - NASA’s Mars rover, Perseverance, finds that Martian dust is smaller and more dangerous than previously thought, with the ultrafine particles able to stick to spacesuit materials, be carried into living areas, and bypass the human blood-brain barrier.

BREAKING: Trump declares the U.S. will no longer provide Israel with its annual $4 billion in aid starting next year, but will still help Israel "if they need it."

Incredible anecdote from @aaronpellish

TGR Haas F1 Team reserve driver Ryō Hirakawa will replace Esteban Ocon for the remainder of the weekend’s Mexico City Grand Prix. Ryō participated in FP1 at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez on Friday, his third free practice outing of the season driving the VF-26, finishing 15th overall. The Japanese driver will partner teammate Ollie Bearman through final practice and qualifying on Saturday and Sunday’s 71-lap grand prix – marking Ryō's Formula 1 race debut. No further statements will be made at this time. #HaasF1 #F1 #MexicoGP | @ryohirakawa

JUST IN: Johannesburg, South Africa, is reportedly on the brink of a "total collapse" of its water system as worsening shortages leave residents without running water for weeks.

FUCK ICE

sam: local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources “a lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we're going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we're not going to need all the stuff in the data centre but from a global allocation perspective, actually it's quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that”

Every generation adds a new chapter to our story. From the struggle for freedom to the work of building better communities, the journey continues. The future calls on all of us to play our part. Together, let’s keep moving forward and build better communities.

A Deputy Minister (Dr. Jack Bloom) is abusing his privileged status in government by using government information to promote narrow party interests. We are honestly in big trouble with this party, the DA. They then call any coalition without them chaotic when they are the masters of chaos!

Holy fucking shit

The National Treasury is proposing legislative changes to require finance minister approval for municipal salary hikes ebx.sh/DGzFWr

Every generation inherits an unfinished country. This generation has inherited the responsibility to take it forward. The future of South Africa will be shaped by those willing to participate in building it. Don't sit this one out! On 4 November 2026, make your mark.

Small enough to park almost anywhere. Big enough to get dented anyway.

Security called me at 6:12 AM today. "Patch every PHP server immediately." I asked what happened. "Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required." Cool. How many PHP servers do we have? According to inventory: 12 According to reality: Nobody knows. We found one running WordPress. Three running old internal tools. One under someone's desk. Two inside vendor appliances. A forgotten employee directory from 2016. And a server named: PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH Naturally, that one runs payroll exports. Then we found a PHP 5.6 box. I asked who owned it. The documentation said: BRIAN. Brian left in 2019. We called Brian. He said: "Oh wow, that's still running?" Excellent. By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call. CEO: "Can hackers actually get in?" Security: "Potentially yes." CEO: "Without a password?" Security: "Yes." CEO: "Then why do WE need passwords?" Not the lesson. Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue. Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers. Finance asked for a cost comparison. At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline. Marketing refused. "Our campaign is live." So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover. We finally patched everything we could find. Then our scanner discovered another PHP server. Hostname: TEMP-PHP-2014 Uptime: 4,512 days. Nobody knows what it does. Nobody owns it. Nobody can shut it down. But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels. Security has classified it as critical infrastructure. It is running PHP 5.4. The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees. The emergency patch took four hours. Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven. The internet isn't held together with code. It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.

BREAKING: In an amazing moment, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy just met with all of Europe's leaders. Look at the reception he receives. Donald Trump would never.

Eddie Jordan gave Michael Schumacher his F1 debut. Two weeks later, he’d lost him. Over one word. August 1991. Jordan, a brand-new team, had just lost one of its drivers to a jail sentence. Eddie needed a replacement for the Belgian Grand Prix, fast. He took a chance on a 22-year-old German sportscar driver. He later admitted he took him because he needed the money (Mercedes paid $150,000 for the seat). Schumacher qualified 7th on his debut, at a track he’d never driven. The whole paddock noticed. Eddie thought he had him secured. He’d agreed in principle with Mercedes, who backed Schumacher, to keep him for the rest of the season. But no contract was signed. The letter of intent said Schumacher would sign “a contract”, not “the contract”. His manager later said that one-word difference is the only reason he didn’t have to stay. Jordan went to court and lost. There was no contract to enforce. The fight got so messy that F1 changed its rules. From 1992, every driver contract had to be officially registered. By then, it was too late for Eddie. Schumacher had raced for Benetton in the next Grand Prix, and went on to win 91 races and 7 world titles. All because of the difference between “a” and “the”.

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