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The United Nations has pledged 340,000 USD to the University of Zambia in order to establish a witchcraft training program (archived). Nkandu Luo, Zambia's minister for higher education offered on the subject of witchcraft:
I could not help but think of witchcraft when I saw a mobile phone put into a box and it turned into a lady’s pant!
Fitness app Polar has been shown to leak information on the locations and habitual activities of military and "law enforcement" personnel across a number of fiat regimes vulnerable to widespread app usage (archived). Back in January substantial panic among fiatists was raised when a similar fitness app Strava was found to leak far less information. Sample public information on this app's platform includes deployed military personnel in active warzones like Afghanistan.
Boris Johnson has resigned from Teresa May's British government over the impossibility of implementing and selling May's "soft" Brexit plan (archived). Details of May's "soft" Brexit remain in a constant state of flux with the only constants being the acceptance of punitive sanctions from the European Union without actually escaping the European Union. This development does nothing to make the inevitability of Brexit less likely, but it does indicate a diminished likelyhood Teresa May will be the Prime Minister when Brexit is consumated.
This week yet another case of inexpensive human labor fraudulently being presented as "artificial intelligence" came to light in the case of an app that offered "smart replies" by scanning email inboxes (archived). Actual algorithmic attempts at producing artificial intelligence tend to produce output unpallatable to pantsuit aligned Silicon Valley tastes.
Burkina Faso's Aujourd'hui au Faso is heralding the success of the French national team in the world cup as a very African success story (archived). The article in question gives thoughtful consideration to the composition of the French national team and refers to France's defeat of Argentina in the Round of 16 as "revenge" for Argentina's elimination of Nigeria in group play.
The new Italian government is working on developing an exit for Italy from the F-35 money pit (archived). The decision not to buy any more of the aircraft has already been announced along with the Italian intention to explore whether it is less expensive to cancel or receive delivery of their outstanding orders for 90 of the troubled aircraft.
Reports are emerging that Facebook has been censoring the US Declaration of Independence as hate speech in the the wake of that platform's users posting the document to celebrate the colonies' day of independence (archived).
Police in the United Kingdom are saying they believe two individuals in their 40's who were initially suspected of overdosing on recreational drugs have been exposed to a nerve agent (archived). The same nerve agent being alleged now is alleged to have been involved in another British scandal earlier this year.
Uganda began this month by imposing a "social media tax" to be levied by internet service providers on their customers, and the tax is reportedly either being widely evaded or… Social media just might not be a big thing in Uganda (archived).