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BrianFagioli writes: Valve has released Proton 11.0-1, a major update to its Windows compatibility layer for Linux that makes more games playable while fixing a long list of bugs affecting existing titles. The release restores compatibility for many EA games after a recent EA App update, moves classics like Resident Evil (1996), Resident Evil 2 (1998), Dino Crisis, and SHOGUN: Total War from...
Eskom has reached an important milestone in its nationwide Load Reduction Eradication Programme, with five of South Africa’s nine provinces now free from load reduction. To date, 1 104 225 customers have been removed from load reduction schedules, representing 65.17% performance towards the programme’s load reduction eradication target. Originally implemented to address overloaded local...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: An Australian beach community was confused — and later delighted — by the discovery of six metallic-looking spheres that washed ashore last week. The mystery, and the ensuing attention, prompted a bunch of alien jokes from local residents and businesses. But Australia’s space agency put the speculation to rest on Monday, saying that...
Political operatives in Trumpworld hope that US Senate candidate Graham Platner stays in the race as long as possible.
Load shedding ended in 2025 – now the power cuts nobody talks about are ending, too.
Even before OpenAI and Anthropic go public, they are distorting home sales in the San Francisco Bay Area, as people race to buy and sellers ask for stock instead of cash.
Refiant, an AI optimisation company, today launched Protea – its suite of long-context AI models – with a 10 million-token context window, one of the largest ever made publicly available, accessible immediately via refiant.ai. Until now, AI has been constrained by how much it can see at once. The most capable models struggle with more than […]
South African health technology company Healthbridge has launched a Beta version of Practice Agent, an AI-powered platform designed to help medical practices identify chronic patients who have fallen out of care and reconnect them to funded consultations, tests, and preventative screenings. Embedded within the company’s cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) platform, Practice Agent...
Global shipments of smartphones priced at R6 500 will decline by more than 22% this year, forecasts market research firm Omdia.
New tech has changed the game with the latest generation of pickleball paddles. Here’s what to know and what to buy.
The tech giant said people can opt out – but privacy campaigners called it a “recipe for disaster”.
Keep your iPhone or Qi2 Android phone topped up with one of the best portable chargers.
‘Persistent’ inequities found to exist in access to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care, annual global review says
Remarkable scientific progress against cancer has changed very little for millions of patients globally, who face devastating physical, emotional and financial consequences after diagnosis, a new World Health Organization report has warned.
One person in five will develop...
Items analyzed were discarded behind a Cracker Barrel and led to charges in the killing of John Warren
Items that were found discarded behind a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Georgia in 1985 have led to charges against a suspect in an Ohio killing committed at about that time, investigators announced recently.
As told by authorities, the case centering on killed traveling salesman John Warren is...
PubNub introduces Blocks.ai today, a global network to connect and control agents across all agent frameworks, providers, and APIs. Blocks.ai lets developers reach their existing AI agents regardless of where they are hosted.
South Africa’s first National Science Month aims to broaden public engagement with science.
Check Point Software Technologies’ ‘Under Pressure: The 2026 Exposure Gap Report’ reveals a widening global exposure gap and a shorter window for defenders to act.
Whether you’re going off-grid or safeguarding against blackouts, these beefy, WIRED-tested batteries can keep the lights on.
Technology friction in the workplace costs institutions up to R30 million per thousand staff, a new report finds.
It’s hard to say if the pricey LG Micro RGB Evo television is worth shelling out for compared to its cheaper competitors, but you’ll probably enjoy its color-popping display.
A new book claims that Mystery, who teaches awkward men how to hit on women, had sex and smoked weed with an AI chatbot named Miss Shira Always.