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Bitcoin continued its run on Friday, climbing to over R2.1 million on cryptocurrency exchanges in South Africa.
FRIDAY, 11 JULY 2025, 08:52
Bitcoin continued its run on Friday, climbing to over R2.1 million on cryptocurrency exchanges in South Africa.
This $14 billion deal brings together HPE’s Aruba and Juniper’s Mist to create an AI-native, cloud-ready networking powerhouse.
It’s important to look at the attack vectors threat actors are utilising to understand how organisations can harden their defences, says Arctic Wolf.
Samsung plans to begin selling a so-called trifold smartphone later this year.
Businesses must take a proactive stance and invest in smarter tools and external support like managed detection and response, says Pieter Nel, sales director – SADC at Sophos.
The lineup includes updates to Apple’s entry-level tablet and iPad Air, as well as an external Mac monitor.
Apple is planning an ambitious pipeline of new products for release during the first half of 2026.
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The deal creates an AI-native, cloud-ready networking powerhouse.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Automated surgery could be trialled on humans within a decade, say researchers, after an AI-trained robot armed with tools to cut, clip and grab soft tissue successfully removed pig gall bladders without human help. The robot surgeons were schooled on video footage of human medics conducting operations using organs taken from dead pigs. In...
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Longtime Slashdot reader SonicSpike shares a report from Gizmodo: YouTube is inundated with AI-generated slop, and that’s not going to change anytime soon. Instead of cutting down on the total number of slop channels, the platform is planning to update its policies to cut out some of the worst offenders making money off “spam.” At the same time, it’s still full steam ahead adding tools to make...
A hole drilled 750ft deep to study museum’s geothermal potential yielded an unexpected surprise
A Denver museum known for its dinosaur displays has made a fossil bone discovery closer to home than anyone ever expected – under its own parking lot.
It came from a hole drilled more than 750 ft (230 meters) deep to study geothermal heating potential for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Straight Arrow News: Hollywood video game performers ended their nearly year-long strike Wednesday with new protections against the use of digital replicas of their voices or appearances. If those replicas are used, actors must be paid at rates comparable to in-person work. The SAG-AFTRA union demanded stronger pay and better working conditions. Among...