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Day: April 27, 2026
Melania Trump urges ABC to ‘take stand’ on Jimmy Kimmel after widow jokeMelania Trump urges ABC to ‘take stand’ on Jimmy Kimmel after widow joke
In a parody aired days before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Kimmel called Melania an “expectant widow”. ...
Scaling up industrialization in AfricaScaling up industrialization in Africa
Alexis’s view The Iran war has shown the power of industrialization — just look at the impact of Aliko Dangote’s refinery. The conflict has highlighted Africa’s reliance on fuel imports and the knock-on-effect of higher prices and currency pressure. Dangote’s plant, which has shown how local processing can reduce the ...
Nigerian opposition agree to field single presidential candidateNigerian opposition agree to field single presidential candidate
Nigeria’s leading opposition politicians united in order to field one candidate to face President Bola Tinubu in January’s hotly contested general election. But, with only nine months until the poll in one of Africa’s biggest economies, it remains unclear who the main opposition candidate will be, or how and when ...
New digital atlas sheds light on Africa’s wetlandsNew digital atlas sheds light on Africa’s wetlands
A new digital atlas has collated crucial data on Africa’s wetlands, including their climate change mitigation potential, in a bid to protect one of the world’s most vulnerable ecosystems. Since the 1970s more than a third of the world’s wetlands have disappeared, largely due to climate change and urbanization, at ...
DR Congo plans new $100M mine security forceDR Congo plans new $100M mine security force
DR Congo will invest $100 million to create a paramilitary force to provide security at its mines, with funding provided by the US and United Arab Emirates. The investment will back a security drive that will see it hire 20,000 mining guards by 2028, Bloomberg reported. DR Congo, the world’s ...
Michael might be a cowardly, cursed biopic but his fans are happy to live in a fantasyMichael might be a cowardly, cursed biopic but his fans are happy to live in a fantasy
The hit success of the critically reviled Michael Jackson movie shows that his fans only want to see the good – not the truth It’s not unusual to see a gulf between the quality of a blockbuster hit as described by critics, and the greater acceptance of that film as ...
‘Subtle but powerful form of self-validation’: how to start journaling‘Subtle but powerful form of self-validation’: how to start journaling
There is no wrong way to journal, say experts, and putting pen to paper can help with mental health and clarify thoughts and feelings How to start … anything: expert tips for trying something new Humans have been jotting down their feelings and experiences for millennia. The earliest example of ...
Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-GeneratedStudy Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated
Researchers working with data from the Internet Archive have discovered that a third of websites created since 2022 are AI-generated. The team of researchers—which includes people from Stanford, the Imperial College London, and the Internet Archive—published their findings online in a paper titled “The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the ...
Government Hacking Tools Are Now in Criminals’ Hands (with Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai)Government Hacking Tools Are Now in Criminals’ Hands (with Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai)
This week Joseph talks to Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, a journalist at TechCrunch. Lorenzo has possibly the deepest understanding of one of the wildest cybersecurity stories in years: how an employee of Trenchant, a government malware vendor that is supposed to only sell to the ‘good’ guys, secretly sold a bunch of ...