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Victory For Members: MediCheck Forces Reversal of Discovery Health’s R170 Million “Clawback”

Today at 09:23 AM, via Tech Financials

In a landmark outcome for medical scheme accountability, advocacy firm MediCheck has secured a full reversal of Discovery Health Medical Scheme’s attempt to recover an estimated R130-170 million from 16,500 members for an administration error they did not cause. The decision, announced by Discovery late Sunday, follows a week of intense pressure and formal dispute […]

Where to get the 2025 matric results

Today at 09:18 AM, via MyBroadband

Learners who wrote the 2025 matric exams have various channels through which they can access their results available to them.

South Africa: Best Starting Point In Years, With 3 Clear Priorities Ahead

Today at 08:32 AM, via Tech Financials

South Africa enters 2026 with high commodity prices, reliable electricity, stable finances, and lower interest rates, creating the strongest foundation for growth in over a decade. Progress on three critical priorities will determine whether this momentum translates into sustained 2%+ growth: transforming logistics through rail and port concessioning, fixing local government service delivery,...

Starwatch: Behold Taurus, the Babylonian bull of heaven

Today at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Recorded in cave drawings as far back as 1000BC, this is one of the oldest zodiacal constellations to be recognised in its modern form

Taurus, the bull, is our focus this week. One of the oldest constellations to be recognised in its modern form, it was recorded as the bull of heaven in Babylonian records from about 1000BC, but cave drawings from Lascaux, France, suggest that humans may already...

How Long Does It Take to Fix Linux Kernel Bugs?

Today at 07:44 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from It’s FOSS:Jenny Guanni Qu, a researcher at [VC fund] Pebblebed, analyzed 125,183 bugs from 20 years of Linux kernel development history (on Git). The findings show that the average bug takes 2.1 years to find. [Though the median is 0.7 years, with the average possibly skewed by “outliers” discovered after years of hiding.] The longest-lived bug, a...

South Africa Enters 2026 with a More Stable and Reliable Power System

Today at 07:26 AM, via Tech Financials

South Africa returns to work with a significantly more stable and predictable electricity supply, marking a turning point after years of severe load-shedding. This improvement is a direct result of Eskom’s Generation Recovery Plan, launched in April 2023, which has delivered a structurally stronger power system. Compared to January 2025, an additional 4,400 MW of […]

Amazon’s AI Tool Listed Products from Small Businesses Without Their Knowledge

Today at 05:09 AM, via Slashdot

Bloomberg reports on Amazon listings “automatically generated by an experimental AI tool” for stores that don’t sell on Amazon. Bloomberg notes that the listings “didn’t always correspond to the correct product”, leaving the stores to handle the complaints from angry customers:Between the Christmas and New Year holidays, small shop owners and artisans who had found their products listed on...

Finnish Startup IXI Plans New Autofocusing Eyeglasses

Today at 01:29 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from CNET:Finland-based IXI Eyewear has raised more than $40 million from investors, including Amazon, to build glasses with adaptive lenses that could dynamically autofocus based on where the person wearing them is looking. In late 2025, the company said it had developed a glasses prototype that weighs just 22 grams. It includes embedded sensors aimed at...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says AI Doomerism Has ‘Done a Lot of Damage’

Today at 00:29 AM, via Slashdot

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang “said one of his biggest takeaways from 2025 was ‘the battle of narratives’ over the future of AI development between those who see doom on the horizon and the optimists,” reports Business Insider. Huang did acknowledge that “it’s too simplistic” to entirely dismiss either side (on a recent episode of the “No Priors” podcast). But “I think we’ve done a lot of damage with...

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