WEDNESDAY, 19 NOVEMBER 2025, 08:04
YouTube and Vumatel (Vuma), (a company of the MAZIV Group) announced a joint pilot program aimed at tackling digital inequality in South African township homes by enabling affordable, high-speed fibre connectivity bundled with Smart TV streaming. The initiative, launching in previously disadvantaged areas like Alexandra Township, Johannesburg, will see 2,000 fibre-connected households equipped...
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In a bold move to reinvent itself, the South African Post Office (SAPO) is officially opening its doors to strategic partners, with plans to launch a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), a network of e-commerce pick-up points, and even lease its building rooftops for telecom towers. This initiative, driven by the Department of Communications and […]
Instead of shutting down existing coal power plants in the coming years, South Africa should refurbish ageing units to further improve their performance, Dr Frans Cronje asserts.
In a market where volatility is high, liquidity is thin, and investors are looking for real utility, one project stands out. Digitap ($TAP) is building an omni-bank ecosystem that will transform how users store, send, and spend digital assets. $TAP has already gained over 150% during its crypto presale, outperforming DeepSnitch AI (DSNT), Uniswap (UNI), […]
European chipmakers need TSMC’s help to grow their own semiconductor supply chain, but the chip giant’s Taiwanese suppliers find Europe a tough place to do business.
Although some Silicon Valley executives paint China as the enemy, Chinese brains continue to play a major role in U.S. research.
The crypto market is experiencing significant developments this week, with news surrounding Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the emerging best crypto to buy now like PEPE, and promising new crypto coins like Tapzi. Investors are carefully weighing these developments as they seek opportunities amid a volatile market. Binance’s founder recently received a presidential pardon, creating […]
Elite SEO Consulting, one of the nation’s fastest-growing SEO and AI search optimization firms, has been awarded a 2025 U.S. Agency Award, securing the title of Best New Agency. Earlier this year, the firm was also selected as a 2025 US Search Awards finalist, marking two major national recognitions for its breakthrough approach to SEO, […]
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: The Trump administration will provide Constellation Energy with a $1 billion loan to restart the Crane Clean Energy Center nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, Department of Energy officials said Tuesday. Previously known as Three Mile Island Unit 1, the plant is expected to start generating power again in 2027. Constellation unveiled plans to rename and...
MI5 has warned U.K. lawmakers that Chinese intelligence operatives are using LinkedIn and recruitment fronts to target them for information gathering and long-term cultivation. PBS reports: Writing to lawmakers, House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle said a new MI5 “espionage alert” warned that Chinese nationals were “using LinkedIn profiles to conduct outreach at scale” on behalf of the...
The crypto world is a whirlwind of highs and lows. One moment, coins are blasting off; the next, charts turn crimson. Analysts toss theories everywhere, charts, indicators, hot takes, yet when panic hits, most traders freeze, watching gains slip through their fingers. In this volatile arena, caution rarely wins, and hesitation can cost more than […]
A tribally owned network of chargers will soon be complete, connecting reservations and bridging a gap in the Midwest.
Mexico has finally lifted its long-running Tor ban for the main government portal, allowing privacy-focused users, journalists, and activists to access gob.mx again after more than a decade of blocking. That said, the open data portal and the former Tor-compatible whistleblower system remain inaccessible. CyberInsider reports: The development follows a long period of digital censorship that...
A NordPass analysis found that Gen Z is actually worse at password security than older generations, with “12345” topping their list while “123456” dominates among everyone else. The Register reports: And while there were a few more “skibidis” among the Zoomer dataset compared to those who came before them, the trends were largely similar. Variants on the “123456” were among the most common for...
Silicon Valley has increasingly pointed at rapid digital changes to blunt government efforts to rein in its power.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: At KubeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)’s leaders predicted an enormous surge in cloud-native computing, driven by the explosive growth of AI inference workloads. How much growth? They’re predicting hundreds of billions of dollars in spending over the next 18 months. […] Where cloud-native computing...
Study from University of Oxford looks into evolutionary origins of kissing and its role in relations between species
From Galápagos albatrosses to polar bears, chimpanzees to orangutans, certain species appear to kiss. Now researchers suggest Neanderthals did it too – and might even have locked lips with modern humans.
It is not the first time scientists have suggested Neanderthals and early...
Another highly influential Linux kernel engineer, David Hildenbrand, is leaving Red Hat after a decade of major contributions to memory management, virtualization, and VirtIO. His recent kernel patch updates his maintainer info to a kernel.org address, signaling his departure. He hasn’t yet said where he’s headed next. Phoronix reports: David Hildenbrand serves as a reviewer for the HugeTLB...
Blender 5.0 has been released with major upgrades including HDR and wide-gamut color support on Linux via Wayland/Vulkan, significant theme and UI improvements, new color-space tools, revamped curve and geometry features, and expanded hardware requirements. 9to5Linux reports: Blender 5.0 also introduces a working color space for Blend files, a new AgX HDR view, a new Convert to Display...
To avoid regulatory scrutiny, big tech companies had steered clear of buying start-ups outright. Meta’s antitrust win may change that thinking.