MONDAY, 24 NOVEMBER 2025, 08:34
Visible from urban locations, pairing takes on special meaning when seen with minimal light pollution
This week, the moon will pass close to the planet Saturn in the evening sky. Although visible from urban locations, the pairing takes on a special meaning when seen from a location with minimal light pollution. The brilliant silver glow of the moon and the steady golden light of Saturn contrast...
Former Springbok lock Flip van der Merwe is a founding member of a global online community of South Africans called The Lekker Network.
This Black Friday, Xiaomi’s flagship 65-inch Mini LED TV brings cinematic luxury straight into your living room – at a price that’s hard to ignore.
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Guardian:James and Owen were among 41 students who took a coding module at the University of Staffordshire last year, hoping to change careers through a government-funded apprenticeship programme designed to help them become cybersecurity experts or software engineers. But after a term of AI-generated slides being read, at times, by an AI...
Tesla’s choice to roll out in a particular North African country could reflect a much greater issue with South Africa’s automotive industry.
Digitap ($TAP) has gained a Visa partnership, a move that suddenly makes crypto spendable anywhere with zero hassle. This move instantly grabbed investor attention and raised a simple question: how did a rising presale achieve this so fast? As traditional coins face rising selling pressure and crypto enthusiasts seek true utility, Digitap enters the spotlight […]
Dive into gaming with the power-packed Lenovo Legion Go S, built to give you console-level performance anywhere you want to play.
An anonymous reader shared this report from Forbes:On November 20, at approximately 4 p.m. Eastern time, Napster held an online meeting for its shareholders; an estimated 700 of roughly 1,500 including employees, former employees and individual investors tuned in. That’s when its CEO John Acunto told everyone he believed that the never-identified big investor — who the company had insisted...
Pew Research surveyed 5,022 Americans this year (between February 5 and June 18), asking them”do you ever use” YouTube, Facebook, and nine of the other top social media platforms. The results? YouTube 84% Facebook 71% Instagram 50% TikTok 37% WhatsApp 32% Reddit 26% Snapchat 25% X.com (formerly Twitter) 21% Threads 8% Bluesky 4% Truth Social 3% An announcement from Pew Research adds...
Theia crashed into earth and formed the moon, the theory goes. But then where did Theia come from? The lead author on a new study says “The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner Solar System. Earth and Theia are likely to have been neighbors.” Though Theia was completely destroyed in the collision, scientists from the Max Planck...
In October cryptologist/CS professor Daniel J. Bernstein alleged that America’s National SecurityAgency (and its UK counterpart GCHQ) were attempting to influence NIST to adopt weaker post-quantum cryptographystandards without a “hybrid” approach that would’ve also included pre-quantum ECC. Bernstein is of the opinion that “Given howmany post-quantum proposals have been broken and the...
“Three years ago, Google removed JPEG XL support from Chrome, stating there wasn’t enough interest at the time,” writes the blog Windows Report. “That position has now changed.”In a recent note to developers, a Chrome team representative confirmed that work has restarted to bring JPEG XL to Chromium and said Google “would ship it in Chrome” once long-term maintenance and the usual launch...
The prehistoric birch tar found in Estonia contained traces of saliva that were analysed by genetics experts
A piece of stone age “gum” chewed by a teenage girl 10,500 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists in Estonia.
The Institute of History and Archaeology at the University of Tartu discovered that the prehistoric birch tar had impressions of teeth marks and traces of saliva.
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“Fresh from announcing it is building an AI browsing mode in Firefox and laying the groundwork for agentic interactions in the Firefox 145 release, the corp arm of Mozilla is now flexing its AI muscles in the direction of those more likely to care,” writes the blog OMG Ubuntu:If you’re a developer building AI agents, you can sign up to get early access to Mozilla’s TABS API, a “powerful web...
Long-time Slashdot reader jenningsthecat shared this article from IEEE Spectrum:By dropping a nuclear reactor 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) underground, Deep Fission aims to use the weight of a billion tons of rock and water as a natural containment system comparable to concrete domes and cooling towers. With the fission reaction occurring far below the surface, steam can safely circulate in a closed...
With some animated graphics, CNN “reimagined” what three of America’s busiest air and road travel routes would look like with high-speed trains, for “a glimpse into a faster, more connected future.”The journey from New York City to Chicago could take just over six hours by high-speed train at an average speed of 160 mph, cutting travel time by more than 13 hours compared with the current Amtrak...
New technologies can reduce our reliance on animal experiments. This isn’t just morally right, it could have scientific and economic benefits too
Science is a slaughterhouse. We rarely acknowledge the degree to which animal life underwrites the research that provides us with medicines, or the regulation that keeps us safe. Live animals were used in 2.64m officially sanctioned scientific...
“Security, development, and AI now move as one,” says Microsoft’s director of cloud/AI securityproduct marketing. Microsoft and GitHub “have launched a native integration between Microsoft Defender for Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security that aims to address what one executive calls decades of accumulated security debt in enterprise codebases…” according to The New Stack:The integration,...
IT services company iqbusiness, part of the JSE-listed Reunert stable, has appointed Rob Godlonton as its new CEO.
Walmart opened its first store in South Africa on Saturday, marking the US retail giant’s debut on the African continent as it seeks a stake in a competitive market. More than 100 shoppers queued for hours outside the store to take advantage of Walmart’s “Everyday Low Prices” and shop international products that are not easily […]
“On the slopes of an Oregon volcano, engineers are building the hottest geothermal power plant on Earth,” reports the Washington Post:The plant will tap into the infernal energy of Newberry Volcano, “one of the largest and most hazardous active volcanoes in the United States,” according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It has already reached temperatures of 629 degrees Fahrenheit, making it one...