Novus to appeal after being told to hike Mustek bid
Novus Holdings is vowing to fight a Takeover Regulation Panel ruling that it must increase its offer to Mustek shareholders.
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Good news for people who need a smart ID card in South Africa
South Africans who need to apply for or collect Home Affairs documents from the department’s offices will benefit from extended operating hours from 5 to 16 January 2026.
Edtech start-up motivates students with digital coins
Thuto.io targets learners in grades 8-12, providing tools for daily academic engagement, performance-based rewards.
Can you solve it? Are you as smart as Spock?
Raise an eyebrow for World Logic Day
All days of the year host an annual celebration.
January 14 is a day of the year.
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Samsung reveals new TVs
Samsung unveiled the lineup at an event in Las Vegas for the CES technology conference, where most major TV makers will also be showing off their next-generation products this week.
Hacker rescues South African pharmacy from cyber attack
An independent family-owned pharmacy in Cape Town was recently spared a devastating start to the year thanks to the diligence of cybersecurity forensic investigator Bruce Malaudzi.
iOCO buys back R9.38m shares
The shares were bought at prices ranging between 398 cents and 400 cents per share, for a total consideration of R9.38 million, excluding transaction costs.
Eskom 87% short of 2027 smart meter target
The power utility has installed 73 523 smart meters as it seeks to eliminate load reduction by 2027.
Introducing Huawei’s PEN technology: Transforming campus networking with First Distribution
Huawei’s Passive Ethernet Network solution is a next-generation campus networking architecture designed for simplicity, performance and energy efficiency.
4Sight recognised as a Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner
The milestone reinforces the company’s commitment to delivering data, AI and analytics solutions powered by Microsoft Fabric.
Three tips to help CISOs implement dynamic security control strategy
CISOs usually have to validate that security controls across the organisation are relevant and still match reality.
BTC Breaks $90,000: Why Digitap ($TAP) is the Best Crypto to Buy 2026
After weeks of sideways movement, the best crypto to buy, Bitcoin, has finally broken above the $90,000 key level. On Friday, the largest crypto surged to $90,935 amid market-wide bullish momentum. BTC is now poised to close decisively above the crucial support level, and if it sustains this momentum, it could mark an inflection point […]
Speeding fine overhaul in South Africa
The 2025 December holidays could be the last in which South African motorists will face widely varying speeding fines depending on where they were caught exceeding the legal limit.
Television at 50 | How the SABC lost its way – and what it must become
Fifty years after television’s arrival in South Africa, the SABC faces hard questions about relevance, funding and its mandate.
Starwatch: Here comes giant Jupiter, impossible to miss
Solar system’s biggest planet will be close enough to reveal its largest moons through a pair of modest binoculars
The giant planet Jupiter reaches its closest approach to the Earth in 2026 this week. It is extremely well placed for observation and so bright that it is impossible to miss.
Jupiter – the largest planet in the solar system – will be unmistakable in Gemini, the twins, forming a...
Workstation Owner Sadly Marks the End-of-Life for HP-UX
Wednesday marked the end of support for the last and final version of HP-UX, writes OSNews. They call it “the end of another vestige of the heyday of the commercial UNIX variants, a reign ended by cheap x86 hardware and the increasing popularisation of Linux.”I have two HP-UX 11i v1 PA-RISC workstations, one of them being my pride and joy: an HP c8000, the last and fastest PA-RISC workstation...
Death by two million cuts as South Africans drop DStv
MultiChoice has said decreases in subscribers, revenue, and trading profit were due to unpredecented operating challenges.
39 Million Californians Can Now Legally Demand Data Brokers Delete Their Personal Data
While California’s residents have had the right to demand companies stop collecting/selling their data since 2020, doing so used to require a laborious opting out with each individual company,” reports TechCrunch.But now Californians can make “a single request that more than 500 registered data brokers delete their information” — using the Delete Requests and Opt-Out Platform (or DROP):Once...
North Dakota Law Included Fake Critical Minerals Using Lawyers’ Last Names
North Dakota passed a law last May to promote development of rare earth minerals in the state. But the law’s language apparently also includes two fake mineral names, according to the Bismarck Tribune, “that appear to be inspired by coal company lawyers who worked on the bill.”The inclusion of fictional substances is being called an embarrassment by one state official, a possible practical joke...
Are Hybrid Cars Helping America Transition to Electric Vehicles?
America’s electric car subsidies expired at the end of September, notes Bloomberg. Yet in those last three months, “while fully electric cars and trucks made up 10% of all auto sales in the US… another 15% of transactions were for hybrid vehicles.”The EV market is slowing in the U.S., but analysts expect hybrid sales to continue accelerating. CarGurus Inc., a digital listings platform that...
Fleischer Studios Criticized for Claiming Betty Boop is Not Public Domain
Here it is — Betty Boop’s first appearance, which became public domain on Thursday. It’s a 60-second song halfway through a longer cartoon about a restaurant titled Dizzy Dishes. (The first scene makes it clear this is a restaurant of anthropomorphized animals — which explains why the as-yet-unnamed character has floppy dog ears…) So Fleischer Studios has now warned that claiming Betty Boop...