
Tim Cook flags memory crunch as AI chips starve smartphones
Apple has warned that escalating memory chip prices have started to pressure profitability.
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Apple has warned that escalating memory chip prices have started to pressure profitability.

This year, Huawei South Africa is celebrating 25 years of being part of the country’s technology journey.

The Internet Service Providers’ Association says a recent High Court ruling has far-reaching implications for fibre monopolies at South African estates and complexes.
A large Swedish study of 100,000 women found that using AI to assist radiologists reading mammograms reduced the rate of aggressive “interval” breast cancers by 12%. CBC News reports: For the study — published in Thursday’s issue of the medical journal The Lancet — more than 100,000 women had mammography screenings. Half were supported by AI and the rest had their mammograms reviewed by two...

The industry is moving away from instruction-based computing to intent-based computing, says Cliff de Wit, chief innovation officer at ADG.

Vertiv Next Predict combines field expertise and advanced machine learning algorithms to anticipate issues before they occur.

Lasting change comes from how companies design and govern data across the application life cycle throughout the year, says Marius Nauhaus, product manager at Blue Turtle.

The wrong leasing partner can silently erode value through hidden costs, outdated technology, rigid terms, onerous return processes and minimal sustainability benefits, says Marcelle Steyn, strategic sales lead at InnoVent.

Canal+ is considering deploying its streaming app, which includes deals with Apple TV and Warner Bros Discovery’s HBO Max, to DStv customers.

South African enterprises use omnichannel strategies to drive measurable ROI, reduce costs and transform customer satisfaction scores.

Apple has acquired Q.ai, an Israeli start-up working on artificial intelligence technology for audio.

The National Road Traffic Act says the government can take your licence away, at least temporarily, for exceeding the speed limit by more than a specified margin.

Elon Musk is weighing merging SpaceX, xAI and possibly Tesla as investors assess a trillion-dollar AI gamble.

Frogfoot has expanded its footprint in KwaZulu-Natal with the acquisition of fibre assets that were built and operated by Mitsol (Pty) Ltd.

Canal+’s strategy for competing with Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon Prime Video: “If you can’t beat them, sell them.”
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: The UK could introduce a universal basic income (UBI) to protect workers in industries that are being disrupted by AI, the investment minister Jason Stockwood has said. “Bumpy” changes to society caused by the introduction of the technology would mean there would have to be “some sort of concessionary arrangement with jobs that go...
Comcast’s attempt to slow broadband customer losses still isn’t stopping the bleeding as fiber and fixed wireless competition intensifies. In Q4 2025 alone, Comcast lost 181,000 broadband subscribers, even as it leans harder into wireless bundling and other business lines like Peacock and theme parks. Ars Technica reports: The Q4 net loss is more than the 176,000 loss predicted by analysts,...
Longtime Slashdot reader devnulljapan writes: In 2012, Canada passed anti-circumvention law Bill C-11, cut-and-pasted from the U.S. DMCA, in return for access to U.S. markets without tariffs. Trump has tariffed Canada anyway, so Cory Doctorow suggests it sounds like like a good idea to ditch Bill C-11 and turn Canada into a “Disenshittification Nation” and go into the business of...
A group of Linux gaming-focused distros and developers have formed the Open Gaming Collective to pool work on shared components like kernels, input systems, and Valve tooling. The Verge reports: Universal Blue, developer of the gaming-focused Linux distribution Bazzite, announced on Wednesday that its helping to form the OGC with several other groups, which will collaborate on improvements to...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Earlier this month, Joseph Thacker’s neighbor mentioned to him that she’d preordered a couple of stuffed dinosaur toys for her children. She’d chosen the toys, called Bondus, because they offered an AI chat feature that lets children talk to the toy like a kind of machine-learning-enabled imaginary friend. But she knew Thacker, a security...

Swedish study of 100,000 women found higher rate of early detection, suggesting potential to support radiologists
The use of artificial intelligence in breast cancer screening reduces the rate of a cancer diagnosis by 12% in subsequent years and leads to a higher rate of early detection, according to the first trial of its kind.
Researchers said the study was the largest to date looking at AI...