Tesla is ‘not interested’ in producing cars in India – minister
This is the first time India has publicly admitted that it has not been able to lure investment dollars from Musk.
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Blue Networks and Infrastructure achieves Sophos Platinum Partner status
Sophos recognises Blue Networks and Infrastructure as a Platinum Partner — its highest level of partnership.
Bill Gates is giving it all away – and Africa’s first in line
Africa is set to be the largest beneficiary of the US$200-billion (R3.6-trillion) that the Gates Foundation plans to give away over the next two decades, co-founder Bill Gates said. “The majority of that funding will be spent on helping you address challenges here in Africa,” he told an African Union gathering in Addis Ababa in […]
Gautrain decline and Uber collapse in South Africa
For a brief moment, it seemed like Gauteng was starting to develop a world-class public transit system. However, that dream was short-lived.
Capitec is changing the way South Africans grow their wealth
Not everyone wants to trade shares or take big risks with their hard-earned money — and they shouldn’t have to.
15% Off Dell Coupon Codes | June 2025
Enjoy 15% off workstations with Dell promo codes, plus today’s coupons for up to $600 off laptops, monitors, and all things tech.
What R2 million for 22 laptops could buy
Mpumalanga’s basic education department has come under fire for spending R2 million on 22 Dell XPS laptops. While these are premium models, MyBroadband found they. could have been bought at half the price the department paid.
UK cancer survival rate doubles since 1970s amid ‘golden age’, report says
Half of those diagnosed will now survive for 10 years or more after advances in diagnosis and treatment
The proportion of people surviving cancer in the UK has doubled since the 1970s amid a “golden age” of progress in diagnosis and treatment, a report says.
Half of those diagnosed will now survive for 10 years or more, up from 24%, according to the first study of 50 years of data on cancer...
AirDoctor Coupon Codes: Up to $400 Off | June 2025
Save up to $400 on top air purifiers and filters with verified AirDoctor promo codes and special offers for June 2025.
The incredible world of animal medicine – podcast
Ian Sample meets Jaap de Roode, professor of biology at Emory University in Atlanta, and author of the book Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes and Other Animals Heal Themselves. De Roode explains how a chance discovery got him interested in animal medicine, the amazing ways that creatures use toxins to fight parasites and pathogens, and what humans have learnt about medicine from the animal...
Coinbase Breach Linked To Customer Data Leak In India
Coinbase reportedly knew as early as January about a customer data breach linked to its outsourcing partner TaskUs, where an employee in India was caught leaking customer information in exchange for bribes. “At least one part of the breach […] occurred when an India-based employee of the U.S. outsourcing firm TaskUs was caught taking photographs of her work computer with her personal phone,”...
Microsoft To Finally Stop Bugging Windows Users About Edge – But Only in Europe
An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft’s changes in response to the Digital Markets Act already included allowing Windows machines in the regions it covers to uninstall Edge and remove Bing results from Windows search, but now the list is growing in some meaningful ways. New features announced Monday for Microsoft Windows users in the European Economic Area (the EU plus Iceland,...
Texas Right To Repair Bill Passes
Texas is poised to become the first state with a Republican-controlled government to pass a right to repair law, as its Senate unanimously approved HB 2963. The bill requires manufacturers to provide parts, manuals, and tools for equipment sold or used in the state. The Verge reports: A press release from the United States Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), which has pushed for...
Pro-AI Subreddit Bans ‘Uptick’ of Users Who Suffer From AI Delusions
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The moderators of a pro-artificial intelligence Reddit community announced that they have been quietly banning “a bunch of schizoposters” who believe “they’ve made some sort of incredible discovery or created a god or become a god,” highlighting a new type of chatbot-fueled delusion that started getting attention in early May. “LLMs [Large...
Jony Ive’s OpenAI Device Gets the Laurene Powell Jobs Nod of Approval
Laurene Powell Jobs has publicly endorsed the secretive AI hardware device being developed by Jony Ive and OpenAI, expressing admiration for his design process and investing in his ventures. Ive says the project is an attempt to address the unintended harms of past tech like the iPhone, and Powell Jobs stands to benefit financially if the device succeeds. The Verge reports: In a new interview...
F.T.C. Investigates Ad Groups and Watchdogs, Alleging Boycott Collusion
The regulator is looking into whether roughly a dozen groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers.
David Cope, Godfather of A.I. Music, Is Dead at 83
His EMI algorithm, an early form of artificial intelligence that he developed in the 1980s, prompted searching questions about the limits of human creativity.
Cancer experts warn of coffee enemas and juice diets amid rise in misinformation
Oncologists say patients rejecting proven treatments are dying needlessly because of increase in online ‘cures’
Cancer patients are snubbing proven treatments in favour of quackery such as coffee enemas and raw juice diets amid an “alarming” increase in misinformation on the web, doctors have said.
Some were dying needlessly or seeing tumours spread as a result, oncologists said. They raised...
Recognizing the World’s Most Exceptional Destinations: Nominations Now Open for the Inaugural TOURISE Awards
The TOURISE Awards officially launched today as a new global benchmark celebrating excellence in tourism destinations.
Snowflake Finance VP Says Big Companies Migrate at a Glacial Pace
Snowflake’s growth among large enterprise customers faces a significant bottleneck tied to the sluggish replacement cycles of existing on-premises data warehouse systems, according to finance vice president Jimmy Sexton. Speaking at a Jefferies conference, Sexton explained that while the cloud data company secured two deals worth more than $100 million each in the financial services sector...
SA scientists want Musk’s Starlink out of their space
Astronomers working with South Africa’s SKA telescope are pushing authorities to ensure that any licensing agreement with Elon Musk’s Starlink will protect their groundbreaking observations.