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You can now get instant tax help via a WhatsApp message or voice note, thanks to TaxTim, South Africa’s digital tax assistant. Ahead of the July tax season, TaxTim has launched TimAI, a South African AI tax assistant, on WhatsApp, making instant tax answers free to anyone in the country. If you have a tax […]
Brazil is freezing illegal operators’ funds and making banks liable. South Africa should be watching closely.
The justice portfolio committee recommends Alison Tilley and Nomagcina Mtshontshi to join the Information Regulator.
A private tutor who charged money to take dozens of exams for students and submit coursework for them “has been jailed for three years,” reports the BBC, “after his scam earned him £300,000.”Shahid Adnan completed assignments and online tests for more than 120 students at Liverpool John Moore’s University, the Crown Prosecution Service said. The 43-year-old, of Lysander Close, Liverpool, was...
Without deliberate intervention, generative AI will benefit those already connected, educated and digitally confident.
People assume that those with facial hair are more likely to harbour bacteria on their faces than the clean-shaven – but the truth is more tangled
The idea that beards are dirtier than clean-shaven faces has been floating around for decades, says John Tregoning, professor of vaccine immunology at Imperial College London. There is even research that shows people perceive bearded men as less...
South Africa cannot afford for Johannesburg to fail, and the city’s electricity supply is now genuinely at risk. The R5.3bn debt that the city owes to Eskom is not being resolved in a sustainable way, and the consequences became more concrete last week. Eskom granted Johannesburg a brief reprieve, agreeing to delay by 30 days […]
Afrizan People Intelligence BPO says it has created over 1 100 employment opportunities within its contact centre operations since inception in 2023.
The Public Investment Corporation (PIC) has announced that board Chairperson, Deputy Minister of Finance Dr David Masondo, will refer the Acupulco investment transaction matter to the Special Investigating Unit (SIU). This follows a legal review following of the findings of a PwC forensic investigation into the transaction. The PIC had provided funding to the company […]
With Okta for AI Agents, businesses can enforce the same controls over AI agents as they do their staff and partners, says Neil van Wyngaard, solutions architect at iOCO Automation & Cybersecurity Cluster.
Memory-chip maker SK Hynix on Monday overtook Samsung to become South Korea’s most valuable listed company.
Johannesburg’s R5.3-billion debt threatens its power supply, but the even bigger fight is over structural electricity reform.
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“About 59% of TikTok videos served to a new account’s For You feed are AI slop,” writes Search Engine Journal, “according to a report from Kapwing, the video creation tool company. That’s roughly three times the rate Kapwing found on YouTube.”The company manually reviewed over 10,000 TikTok videos across 20 categories and ran a separate fresh-account test, counting AI-generated content in the...
The blog Linuxiac reports:A new systemd fork has appeared with a specific purpose: removing systemd’s recently added support for storing a user’s birth date in JSON user records. The fork, called Liberated systemd, published its first tagged release as v261 shortly after the official systemd 261 release. In other words, the fork follows upstream systemd while reverting the change that added the...
“There’s a revolution in battery technology hiding in plain sight,” reports The Wall Street Journal. “The 3-D printing of batteries has the potential to put energy storage inside any device. “This will enable lightweight and long-lasting consumer gadgets, long-range military drones and even nanoscale robots.”Almost all the innovations we regularly hear about — from cheaper, tougher...
Tech companies and authorities are failing women by focusing on nudity rather than consent, says a report by Chayn.