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Eskom’s hidden 30% electricity price increase

Monday at 19:42 PM, via MyBroadband

According to a prominent electricity resellers’ association, average households in small multi-dwelling properties are seeing their electricity bills skyrocket by far more than Eskom’s 12.74% average hike.

Web-Scraping AI Bots Cause Disruption For Scientific Databases and Journals

Monday at 19:25 PM, via Slashdot

Automated web-scraping bots seeking training data for AI models are flooding scientific databases and academic journals with traffic volumes that render many sites unusable. The online image repository DiscoverLife, which contains nearly 3 million species photographs, started receiving millions of daily hits in February this year that slowed the site to the point that it no longer loaded,...

Microsoft Mandates Universal USB-C Functionality To End ‘USB-C Port Confusion’ on Windows 11 Devices

Monday at 18:44 PM, via Slashdot

Microsoft will require all USB-C ports on Windows 11 certified laptops and tablets to support data transfer, charging, and display functionality under updated hardware compatibility program rules. The mandate targets devices shipping with Windows 11 24H2 and aims to eliminate what Microsoft — and the industry — calls “USB-C port confusion,” where identical-looking ports offer different...

Suspended RAF CEO Letsoalo Speaks Out Amid Corruption Probe

Monday at 18:16 PM, via Tech Financials

The Road Accident Fund (RAF) faces mounting uncertainty following the suspension of its CEO, Collins Letsoalo, amid a Special Investigating Unit (SIU) probe into a controversial R79 million office lease deal in Johannesburg. Letsoalo was placed on special leave with immediate effect, raising questions about governance and financial management at the embattled state entity. Letsoalo Breaks...

Apple Challenges EU Order To Open iOS To Rivals

Monday at 18:07 PM, via Slashdot

Apple has filed an appeal with the European Union’s General Court in Luxembourg challenging the bloc’s order requiring greater iOS interoperability with rival companies’ products under the Digital Markets Act. The EU executive in March directed Apple to make its mobile operating system more compatible with competitors’ apps, headphones, and virtual reality headsets by granting developers and...

Business Insider Recommended Nonexistent Books To Staff As It Leans Into AI

Monday at 17:36 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: Business Insider announced this week that it wants staff to better incorporate AI into its journalism. But less than a year ago, the company had to quietly apologize to some staff for accidentally recommending that they read books that did not appear to exist but instead may have been generated by AI. In an email to staff last May, a senior editor at...

Younger generations less likely to have dementia, study suggests

Monday at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

Researchers say people born more recently, particularly women, have lower risk at same age as their grandparents

People born more recently are less likely to have dementia at any given age than earlier generations, research suggests, with the trend more pronounced in women.

According to the World Health Organization, in 2021 there were 57 million people worldwide living with dementia, with...

Magnetic 3D-printed pen could help diagnose people with Parkinson’s

Monday at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

Study utilises handwriting-generated electrical signal to measure tremor in tandem with AI machine learning

It won’t be much good for taking down notes, but a 3D-printed pen filled with magnetic ink could help identify people with Parkinson’s disease, a small pilot study suggests.

More than 10 million people worldwide are thought to be living with Parkinson’s, a neurodegenerative disorder...

Win R5,000: How Can Tech Improve Student Learning? Enter Now!

Monday at 16:18 PM, via Tech Financials

The Empire Partner Foundation (EPF) and TechFinancials News are excited to launch Round four of our Q&A Competition – where brilliant minds share bold ideas for a chance to win R5,000! This month’s question: “How can technology help students learn better?” Why enter? Win R5,000 Gain national exposure Shape the future of education in South Africa Deadline: 23 June 2025 […]

WhatsApp and deepfake scam warning for South Africa

Monday at 16:00 PM, via MyBroadband

Momentum Group financial director Risto Ketola says scammers employ various tactics to dupe South Africans, including AI deepfakesand invite-only WhatsApp Group scams.

UK shortage of critical drug forcing pancreatic cancer patients to skip meals

Monday at 15:11 PM, via The Guardian

One pharmacist described scarcity of life-saving Creon as ‘worst stock shortage’ they have dealt with

People with pancreatic cancer are eating only one meal a day because of an acute shortage of a drug that helps them digest their food.

Patients with cystic fibrosis and pancreatitis are also affected by the widespread scarcity of Creon, a form of pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT).

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