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Uber crisis in South Africa

Today at 08:00 AM, via MyBroadband

Uber is facing a crisis in South Africa, with numerous complaints from customers and time running out to comply with the country’s e-hailing regulations.

President Trump to Unveil New AI Platform ‘Truth AI’ – Why Digitap ($TAP) Ranks as Best Crypto to Buy Amid Stablecoin Gold Rush

Today at 07:56 AM, via Tech Financials

President Trump’s latest move is a new AI platform called “Truth AI.” While no details about the platform are available, it has arrived at the exact moment when crypto is fighting for direction. AI stocks have dominated the 2025 narrative, pulling retail interest and flows away from crypto. The real question is, will Trump’s AI […]

Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic

Today at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape

It is not likely to be a hefty volume because the vast majority of the material has been lost in the mists of time. But the remnants of a language spoken in parts of the UK and Ireland 2,000 years ago are being collected for what is being billed as the first complete dictionary of ancient...

All of Russia’s Porsches Were Bricked By a Mysterious Satellite Outage

Today at 06:36 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from Autoblog:Imagine walking out to your car, pressing the start button, and getting absolutely nothing. No crank, no lights on the dash, nothing. That’s exactly what happened to hundreds of Porsche owners in Russia last week. The issue is with the Vehicle Tracking System, a satellite-based security system that’s supposed to protect against theft....

Can This Simple Invention Convert Waste Heat Into Electricity?

Today at 04:40 AM, via Slashdot

Nuclear engineer Lonnie Johnson worked on NASA’s Galileo mission, has more than 140 patents, and invented the Super Soaker water gun.But now he’s working on “a potential key to unlock a huge power source that’s rarely utilized today,” reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. [Alternate URL here.] Waste heat…The Johnson Thermo-Electrochemical Converter, or JTEC, has few moving parts, no...

Why Meetings Can Harm Employee Well-Being

Today at 03:35 AM, via Slashdot

Phys.org republishes this article from The Conversation:On average, managers spend 23 hours a week in meetings. Much of what happens in them is considered to be of low value, or even entirely counterproductive. The paradox is that bad meetings generate even more meetings… in an attempt to repair the damage caused by previous ones… A 2015 handbook laid the groundwork for the nascent field of...

EU Urged to Soften 2035 Ban on Internal Combustion Engine Cars

Today at 02:34 AM, via Slashdot

Friday six European Union countries “asked the European Commission to water down an effective ban on the sale of internal combustion engine cars slated for 2035,” reports ReutersThe countries have asked the EU Commission to allow the sale of hybrid cars or vehicles powered by other, existing or future, technologies “that could contribute to the goal of reducing emissions” beyond 2035, a joint...

College Students Flock To A New Major: AI

Today at 01:34 AM, via Slashdot

AI is the second-largest major at M.I.T. after computer science, reports the New York Times. (Alternate URL here.) Though that includes students interested in applying AI in biology and health care — it’s just the beginning:This semester, more than 3,000 students enrolled in a new college of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity at the University of South Florida in Tampa.At the...

No Rise in Radiation Levels at Chernobyl, Despite Damage from February’s Drone Strike

Today at 00:07 AM, via Slashdot

UPDATE (12/7): The New York Times clarifies today that the damage at Chernobyl hasn’t led to a rise in radiation levels:”If there was to be some event inside the shelter that would release radioactive materials into the space inside the New Safe Confinement, because this facility is no longer sealed to the outside environment, there’s the potential for radiation to come out,” said Shaun Burnie,...

OpenAI Insists Target Links in ChatGPT Responses Weren’t Ads But ‘Suggestions’ – But Turns Them Off

Yesterday at 22:59 PM, via Slashdot

A hardware security response from ChatGPT ended with “Shop for home and groceries. Connect Target.” But “There are no live tests for ads” on ChatGPT, insists Nick Turley, OpenAI’s head of ChatGPT. Posting on X.com, he said “any screenshots you’ve seen are either not real or not ads.” Engadget reportsThe OpenAI exec’s explanation comes after another post from former xAI employee Benjamin De...

How Home Assistant Leads a ‘Local-First Rebellion’

Yesterday at 21:59 PM, via Slashdot

It runs locally, a free/open source home automation platform connecting all your devices together, regardless of brand. And GitHub’s senior developer calls it “one of the most active, culturally important, and technically demanding open source ecosystems on the planet,” with tens of thousands of contributors and millions of installations. That’s confirmed by this year’s “Octoverse” developer...

Why Gen Z is Using Retro Tech

Yesterday at 20:45 PM, via Slashdot

“People in their teens and early 20s are increasingly turning to old school tech,” reports the BBC, “in a bid to unplug from the online world.”Amazon UK told BBC Scotland News that retro-themed products surged in popularity during its Black Friday event, with portable vinyl turntables, Tamagotchis and disposable cameras among their best sellers. Retailers Currys and John Lewis also said they...

Is Netflix Trying to Buy Warner Bros. or Kill It?

Yesterday at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

Why does Netflix want to buy Warner Bros, asks the chief film critic at the long-running motion-picture magazine Variety. “It is hard, at this moment, to resist the suspicion that the ultimate reason… is to eliminate the competition.”[Warner Bros. is] one of the only companies that’s keeping movies as we’ve known them alive… Some people think movies are going the way of the horse-and-buggy. A...

The Guardian view on ageing research: our lives have more distinct phases than we thought | Editorial

Yesterday at 19:25 PM, via The Guardian

Tech moguls may foolishly hope to stay forever young, but others could benefit too from evidence of the human body’s dynamic and varied journey through life

Ageing can feel remarkably sudden. One morning you awake to find new aches, or lapses in strength and memory that you could swear were not present just a few days prior. We do not literally age overnight, but as research is increasingly...

New FreeBSD 15 Retires 32-Bit Ports and Modernizes Builds

Yesterday at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE arrived this week, notes this report from The Register, which calls it the latest release “of the Unix world’s leading alternative to Linux.” As well as numerous bug fixes and upgrades to many of its components, the major changes in this version are reductions in the number of platforms the OS supports, and in how it’s built and how its component software is packaged....

Homebrew Can Now Help You Install Flatpaks Too

Yesterday at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

“Homebrew, the package manager for macOS and Linux, just got a handy new feature in the latest v5.0.4 update,” reports How-To Geek. Brewfile install scripts “are now more like a one-stop shop for installing software, as Flatpaks are now supported alongside Brew packages, Mac App Store Apps, and other packages.”For those times when you need to install many software packages at once, like when...

Best Prop Trading Firms in South Africa (2026 Guide)

Yesterday at 17:14 PM, via Tech Financials

South African traders use proprietary trading firms to access external trading capital, scale funded accounts up to $1M, and trade global markets without risking personal savings. Prop firms provide the funding, set transparent risk rules, and share profits with traders who demonstrate consistent discipline. South African traders increasingly choose international prop firms because these...

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