Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax
“This is a story about how a tool can be used to try to affect politics and in particular to minimize women, denigrate them and push them out of the conversation.”
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“This is a story about how a tool can be used to try to affect politics and in particular to minimize women, denigrate them and push them out of the conversation.”

Alabama passed a 10 percent porn tax last year, as Utah and Pennsylvania eye similar bills. Half the country has enacted age-verification laws to prevent minors from viewing porn.
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What the latest tech-marketing buzzword has to say about the future of automotive.

This negative-oxygen-ion-generating purifier claims to create a “forestlike atmosphere” in your bedroom.

Umalusi CEO Mafu Rakometsi has warned that the learners involved in the 2025 matric exam leak could face severe consequences.

Johannesburg – A selected group of 50 South African students is travelling to study e-commerce in China. The graduates selected from 21 Technical, Vocational and Education Training (TVET) colleges will receive training in e-commerce and global exposure in international retail standards and trade trends. The students will depart from OR Tambo International Airport on Monday, […]

We’ve already geoengineered the planet through the careless release of greenhouse gases. Now we need a plan to manage the risks we’ve set in motion
A few months ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene, then a Georgia representative, held a hearing on her bill to ban research on “geoengineering”, which refers to technological climate interventions, such as using reflective particles to reflect away...

Aurora Therapeutics, cofounded by Nobel Prize–winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, plans to use gene editing and a new FDA regulatory pathway to commercialize treatments for rare diseases.

MyBroadband recently found that Cell C allows WASPs to send USSD-based pop-up advertisements to customers on its network.
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: At the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), physicists successfully exceeded what is known as the Greenwald limit, a practical density boundary beyond which plasmas tend to violently destabilize, often damaging reactor components. For a long time, the Greenwald limit was accepted as a given and incorporated into fusion...

Scientists at UCL say drug developers should focus on two risk-raising variants of the Apoe gene
New therapies for Alzheimer’s disease should target a particular gene linked to the condition, according to researchers who said most cases would never arise if its harmful effects were neutralised.
The call to action follows the arrival of the first wave of drugs that aim to treat Alzheimer’s...

Experts are urging guideline changes for doctors and nurses as surgical masks offer ‘inadequate protection against airborne pathogens’ such as Covid
Surgical face masks provide inadequate protection against flu-like illnesses including Covid, and should be replaced by respirator-level masks – worn every time doctors and nurses are face to face with a patient, according to a group of experts...

Listen up, Mzansi motorists. Every month, we watch with trepidation as the fuel price climbs higher. Now and again, the price comes down by a tiny bit. All the while, we feel the cost of fuel in our shrinking pockets. However, there is relief from the dread of filling up the tank: It’s Volvo’s new […]

A total of 244 851 people were laid off in the tech industry globally in 2025, with the adoption of automation and AI punted as the dominant force behind the job cuts.

Google is rolling out a wave of AI features in Gmail, aiming to turn the e-mail service into a proactive “inbox assistant”.

The breakthrough enables businesses to reduce call costs by up to 50%, the company says.

CallMiner helps enterprises build a competitive data moat using deep and domain-specific conversation intelligence for AI automation.

Decision-makers are increasingly aware of the trade-offs between impact and ROI when building their own solutions in-house, says Paul Cox, regional channel manager at Exclaimer.

The key to properly securing sensitive and critical data is proper data classification, says Muzi Langa, MD of ManTK IT Solutions.

PCI DSS delivers the most value when it becomes part of daily operations, says Simeon Tassev, MD and QSA at Galix.

A ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for an attack on the National Credit Regulator and published gigabytes of files it said were stolen from its systems.