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Capitec Introduces Industry-Leading Tech To Scale Smart ID Access Across South Africa

Today at 12:25 PM, via Tech Financials

Capitec, South Africa’s leading financial services group, has launched its in-branch Smart ID service in partnership with the Department of Home Affairs (DHA). Following a successful piloting phase, the service is now live in select branches, marking the beginning of a phased national rollout that will expand to 100 locations by mid-2026. Capitec clients can […]

Cape Town-Based Orca Fraud Raises $2.35M To Scale Real-Time Fraud Intelligence Across Emerging Markets

Today at 11:42 AM, via Tech Financials

Orca Fraud, a real-time fraud intelligence platform, has raised $2.35 million in an oversubscribed seed round to advance its transaction monitoring and fraud intelligence capabilities across Africa and other emerging markets. The round was led by Norrsken22, with participation from OneDayYes, Enza Capital, and CV VC Africa. The funding follows 16 months of rapid enterprise […]

The sustainable choice for the AI era

Today at 11:04 AM, via ITWeb

To support AI strategies, companies should partner with colocation data centres that have the infrastructure and scale to underpin the AI journey, says Dr Ayotunde Coker, CEO of Open Access Data Centres.

Can AI Kill the Venture Capitalist?

Today at 11:00 AM, via Wired

VCs are betting that artificial intelligence will disrupt nearly every industry in the world. Are they prepared for it to disrupt their own?

Rand under severe pressure

Today at 10:51 AM, via TechCentral

The rand has tumbled below R16.90/$ as investors dump risk assets amid the unfolding crisis in the Middle East.

EFF, Ubuntu and Other Distros Discuss How to Respond to Age-Verification Laws

Today at 09:34 AM, via Slashdot

System76 isn’t the only one criticizing new age-verification laws. The blog 9to5Linux published an “informal” look at other discussions in various Linux communities.Earlier this week, Ubuntu developer Aaron Rainbolt proposed on the Ubuntu mailing list an optional D-Bus interface (org.freedesktop.AgeVerification1) that can be implemented by arbitrary applications as a distro sees fit, but...

A new start after 60: I’d had several careers but no degree – then I became a palaeontologist at 62

Today at 08:45 AM, via The Guardian

In search of a new adventure, Craig Munns went back to school. Now, at 65, he spends his days examining long-vanished life forms

Craig Munns has a large model of a T rex on his desk. He got it with a magazine subscription two decades ago. One day, a few years ago, he was sitting in his study, which was dense with books and yellow sticky notes and posters charting evolution from single cells...

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