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Thyspunt Recommended For Eskom’s New Nuclear Power Station

Today at 13:58 PM, via Tech Financials

A draft environmental scoping report has recommended Thyspunt, between Oyster Bay and Cape St Francis, as the preferred site for Eskom’s proposed 5,200MW nuclear plant. Thyspunt is already owned by Eskom and has better access to the power grid than rival site Bantamsklip, partly because wind farms have already brought new powerlines to the area. […]

Will Some Programmers Become ‘AI Babysitters’?

Today at 13:34 PM, via Slashdot

Will some programmers become “AI babysitters”? asks long-time Slashdot readertheodp. They share some thoughts from a founding member of Code.org and former Director of Education at Google: “AI may allow anyone to generate code, but only a computer scientist can maintain a system,” explained Google.org Global Head Maggie Johnson in a LinkedIn post. So “As AI-generated code becomes more accurate...

5 Game-Changing Advantages of Moving to Autonomous Threat Defense

Today at 12:49 PM, via Tech Financials

Introduction The digital world is growing at an unprecedented pace, and so are the threats that target it. Every day, organizations face new risks from increasingly sophisticated cybercriminals. Traditional security approaches, while helpful in the past, now struggle to keep up with the speed and complexity of modern attacks. As a result, many businesses are […]

AI Agents Are Coming for Your Dating Life

Today at 12:00 PM, via Wired

The developers of Pixel Societies are using AI agents to simulate social interactions. It’s an attempt optimize the process of choosing new colleagues, friends, and even romantic partners.

Tech personality Masie leaves ABC board

Today at 11:19 AM, via ITWeb

Stafford Masie steps down as African Bitcoin Company chairman, but stays on as executive director amid a broader board reshuffle.

AI to predict how bowel cancer patients will respond to new NHS drug

Today at 11:00 AM, via The Guardian

PhenMap tool could spare thousands of patients from treatment that would be ineffective for them

A new AI-driven way of identifying how patients with advanced bowel cancer will respond to a drug that was recently introduced by the NHS has been announced.

Researchers at London’s Institute of Cancer Research and the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences in Dublin have developed the...

HOSTAFRICA Unveils Locally Hosted GPU‑As‑A‑Service Platform At Digital Parks Africa

Today at 10:09 AM, via Tech Financials

HOSTAFRICA has unveiled its dedicated NVIDIA RTX PRO GPU servers at Digital Parks Africa’s (DPA) Samrand data centre, launching its fully localised GPU‑as‑a‑Service offering. The launch brought together industry leaders, tech partners and customers for a first-hand look at the platform in action, including live demonstrations of the high-performance infrastructure now available locally....

Anthropic Asks Christian Leaders for Help Steering Claude’s Spiritual Development

Today at 09:34 AM, via Slashdot

Anthropic recently “hosted about 15 Christian leaders from Catholic and Protestant churches, academia, and the business world” for a two-day summit , reports the Washington Post:Anthropic staff sought advice on how to steer Claude’s moral and spiritual development as the chatbot reacts to complex and unpredictable ethical queries, participants said. The wide-ranging discussions also covered how...

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