Ubisoft announced Wednesday it will close its studio in Halifax, Nova Scotia — two weeks after 74% of its staff voted to unionize. This means laying off the 71 people at the studio, reports the gaming news site Aftermath:[Communications Workers of America’s Canadian affiliate, CWA Canada] said in a statement to Aftermath the union will “pursue every legal recourse to ensure that the rights of...
Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni condemns the photoshopping of her X account with vulgar images and misinformation, describing it as distasteful and shameful.
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 […]
For companies that depend on complex digital systems, escrow is no longer a niche technical precaution, it’s a governance imperative, says Anthony Watson, CEO at ESCROWSURE.
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,...
As companies harness tools like OneDrive, Teams and SharePoint, they also drive a growing data governance headache within company, says Thys Fourie, COO at Exponant.
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...
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 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 […]