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AlgoSec helps enterprises align security best practice with audit-ready compliance across complex environments.
South Africans dump Eskom because of high prices and load-shedding
While trying to compensate for lost demand, Eskom’s price increases are further disincentivising its use as a power source.
Beastly Britain by Karen R Jones review – how animals shaped British identity
A revelatory cultural history of our relationship with native wildlife, from newts doing handstands to Mrs Tiggy-Winkle
When newts go a-wooing, sometime in the spring, their signature move is the handstand. Girl newts cluster round to watch, while the boy newts flip on to their creepily human hands and shake their tails in the air. The waggiest newt is the winner, although the actual act of...
A smarter path to SQL modernisation: what we learnt from Altron’s Azure Arc briefing
Delegates walked away with a lot more than just a good breakfast at this informative briefing session.
Get Comfortable With the Frigidaire 35 Pint Dehumidifier
Always running the A/C and wondering why it’s still always too hot? The problem isn’t the temperature. It’s the humidity.
Vornado EVDC300 Humidifier Review: Smart, but Only for Small Rooms
Vornado’s EVDC300 is the best kind of humidifier: the one you can largely forget exists until it comes time to refill it.
Plantaform Smart Indoor Garden Review: Rewarding but Risky
We tested this unique indoor gardening solution that utilizes NASA technology, but air quality data raised concerns.
Hosting 101
Hosting a website is a critical part of running a modern business in South Africa.
Lesaka to buy Bank Zero, Michael Jordaan announces
Lesaka Technologies has agreed to buy the digital bank chaired by former FNB CEO Michael Jordaan for R1.1-billion.
MultiChoice targets a new group in DStv piracy crackdown
MultiChoice has shifted its anti-piracy efforts from cracking down on small resellers to disrupting streams from suspicious account holders, and it seems to be working well.
Big Accounting Firms Fail To Track AI Impact on Audit Quality, Says Regulator
The six largest UK accounting firms do not formally monitor how automated tools and AI impact the quality of their audits, the regulator has found, even as the technology becomes embedded across the sector. From a report: The Financial Reporting Council on Thursday published its first AI guide alongside a review of the way firms were using automated tools and technology, which found “no formal...
Doctors Perform First Robotic Heart Transplant In US Without Opening a Chest
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Neuroscience News Science Magazine: Surgeons have performed the first fully robotic heart transplant in the U.S., using advanced robotic tools to avoid opening the chest. […] Using a surgical robot, lead surgeon Dr. Kenneth Liao and his team made small, precise incisions, eliminating the need to open the chest and break the breast bone. Liao removed the...
The green drought: June rainfall has come too late to offer relief to farmers in southern Australia
The winter crop growing season requires three days of steady rain – but many inland parts of southern Australia did not receive an autumn break this year
How often do you mow your lawn in winter? It may seem like an odd way to start a conversation about drought, but the answer helps explain why our current drought has not broken, despite recent rain – and why spring lamb may be more...
Apple’s Swift Coding Language Is Working On Android Support
Apple’s Swift programming language is expanding official support to Android through a new “Android Working Group” which will improve compatibility, integration, and tooling. “As it stands today, Android apps are generally coded in Kotlin, but Apple is looking to provide its Swift coding language as an alternative,” notes 9to5Google. “Apple first launched its coding language back in 2014 with...
Comcast’s New Plans Dump the Data Caps
Comcast is introducing new simplified, contract-free broadband plans that eliminate its unpopular 1.2TB data cap for residential customers. “The company began enforcing a data cap in 2008, when it set that limit at 250GB,” notes PCMag. “Four years later, it raised that to 300GB, then lifted it to 1TB in 2016 and inched it up again to 1.25TB in 2020 after suspending it entirely during the early...
Uber In Talks With Founder Travis Kalanick To Fund Self-Driving Car Deal
Facing mounting competition from autonomous taxi services like Waymo, Uber is in early talks to help fund Travis Kalanick’s potential acquisition of Pony.ai’s U.S. subsidiary (source paywalled; alternative source). If completed, the deal would reunite Kalanick with Uber (now under CEO Dara Khosrowshahi) and position Pony.ai to operate independently of its Chinese parent amid rising U.S....
‘Big Balls’ Is Now at the Social Security Administration
Edward “Big Balls” Coristine’s placement at the SSA comes after a White House official told WIRED on Tuesday that the 19-year-old had resigned from his position in government.
Lesaka buys Bank Zero for R1.1 billion
Bank Zero founder Michael Jordaan announced that Lesaka bought their bank for R1.1 billion, pending regulatory approvals.
Uber in Talks With Travis Kalanick to Fund Self-Driving Car Deal
The ride-hailing company is in talks to help Mr. Kalanick, who was ousted in 2017, purchase an autonomous vehicles start-up as robot taxi service Waymo gains momentum.
The 47 Best Shows on Hulu Right Now (July 2025)
The Bear, Adults, and The Handmaid’s Tale are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Hulu this month.