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In a significant move to address the stark funding inequality for women entrepreneurs in tech, global investment giants Naspers and Prosus have announced the Tech FoundHER Africa Challenge. The programme will award a total of $100,000 in equity-free grants to outstanding women-led startups across the continent. This initiative, launched in partnership with the Lionesses of […]
In its financial results for the 52 weeks ended 29 June 2025, JSE-listed retail group Woolworths highlighted its on-demand Woolies Dash offering as a critical growth engine, significantly outpacing overall group performance. Despite navigating challenging macroeconomic conditions and global trade uncertainties, which saw group turnover grow by 6.1%, Woolies Dash delivered explosive growth. The...
Google won’t have to sell its Chrome browser, a judge in Washington said on Tuesday, handing a rare win to Big Tech.
Chola Makgamathe’s inspiration for intellectual property law and fighting piracy was ignited by watching legal dramas in her youth.
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For the past two years, I’ve been privileged to test drive the silent, swift and sophisticated electric vehicles from Volvo. This experience stands in stark contrast to my daily reality: behind the wheel of a diesel-guzzling V6, wincing every time I fill up at the pump. That deep down understanding of the high cost of […]
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: On a recent evening, a trio of Ukrainian drones flew under the cover of darkness to a Russian position and decided among themselves exactly when to strike. The assault was an example of how Ukraine is using artificial intelligence to allow groups of drones to coordinate with each other to attack Russian positions, an innovative...
A group of more than 85 scientists have issued a joint rebuttal to a recent U.S. Department of Energy report about climate change, finding it full of errors and misrepresenting climate science. NPR: The group of climate scientists found several examples where the DOE authors cherry-picked or misrepresented climate science in the agency’s report. For instance, in the DOE report the authors claim...
Waymo is expanding its U.S. robotaxi footprint by bringing its Jaguar I-Pace SUVs and Zeekr vans to Denver and Seattle. Testing is set to begin this week, with commercial rides expected as early as 2026. TechCrunch reports: The vehicles will be manually driven to start, before the company starts testing its autonomous tech in both cities. Waymo told TechCrunch that it hopes to start offering...
Paramount and Activision are teaming up to produce a live-action Call of Duty movie, with Paramount promising the same blockbuster treatment it gave Top Gun: Maverick. David Ellison, Chairman and CEO of Paramount, said in a statement: “As a lifelong fan of Call of Duty this is truly a dream come true. From the first Allied campaigns in the original Call of Duty, through Modern Warfare and Black...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Ten vulnerabilities in Copeland controllers, which are found in thousands of devices used by the world’s largest supermarket chains and cold storage companies, could have allowed miscreants to manipulate temperatures and spoil food and medicine, leading to massive supply-chain disruptions. The flaws, collectively called Frostbyte10, affect...
A federal judge’s remedy stops short of making meaningful changes to how we use our phones, computers and the web.
Chrome has extended its dominance in the browser wars, surpassing 70% market share on desktops while Edge, Safari, Firefox, and Opera trail far behind. Neowin reports: According to [Statcounter], in August 2025, Chrome kept on increasing its overwhelming market share, which is now above the 70% mark (70.25%, to be precise) in the desktop browser market. The gap between Chrome and its closest...
SAP will invest over 20 billion euros ($23 billion) in European sovereign cloud infrastructure over the next decade. “Innovation and sovereignty cannot be two separate things — it needs to come together,” said Thomas Saueressig, SAP’s board member tasked with leading customer services and delivery. CNBC reports: The company said it was expanding its sovereign cloud offerings to include an...
The judge’s decision positions Google to keep its search business running largely without interruption.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: OpenAI said on Tuesday it will acquire Statsig in an all-stock deal valuing the product testing startup at about $1.1 billion based on OpenAI’s current valuation of $300 billion. The ChatGPT maker will also appoint Statsig’s chief executive officer, Vijaye Raji, as OpenAI’s tech chief of applications, in a push to build on its artificial...
President says national security operations in space will be based in state he won comfortably, reversing Biden decision
Donald Trump made his first public appearance in a week on Tuesday to announce that the US Space Command (Spacecom) headquarters, which is tasked with leading national security operations in space, would be in the Republican stronghold of Alabama.
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After a California teenager spent months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life, OpenAI said it would introduce parental controls and better responses for users in distress.
A federal judge spared Google from the harshest penalties in its antitrust case. The search giant can keep Chrome and avoid breaking up Android, but it has been barred from exclusive contracts and ordered to limit data sharing with rivals. CNBC reports: U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled against the most severe consequences that were proposed by the U.S. Department of Justice, including...
Get your tickets to Uncanny Valley’s first live show in San Francisco on September 9, featuring special guest Jack Conte, CEO of Patreon.
An old school ransomware attack has a new twist: threatening to feed data to AI companies so it’ll be added to LLM datasets. 404 Media reports: Artists&Clients is a website that connects independent artists with interested clients. Around August 30, a message appeared on Artists&Clients attributed to the ransomware group LunaLock. “We have breached the website Artists&Clients to steal and...