
Finfluencers drive inclusion but expose consumers to risks
The rise of finfluencers is a double-edged sword – representing unprecedented opportunities and challenges for the financial sector.
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The rise of finfluencers is a double-edged sword – representing unprecedented opportunities and challenges for the financial sector.

After series of delays, US space agency hopes to carry out first crewed flyby of the moon in more than half a century
Nasa has begun returning its towering SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft to its Florida launch pad ahead of a planned flyby of the moon, after completing necessary repairs.
Artemis engineers began the manoeuvre, which can take up to 12 hours, at 8pm local time. The US space agency...

The company plans to pass an additional one million homes over the next five years, as it targets two million subscribers nationwide.

The technology manufacturer has doubled its commercial market share in two years and is betting on AI-powered devices to sustain momentum.

Companies looking to enhance workforce performance and efficiency should consider investing in soft skills development, says iSpring.

Liquid’s Pitch-a-thon highlights youth innovation, awarding Estopini top prize for addressing delivery gaps using taxi infrastructure.

Somerset West-based NewSpace Systems has opened what it says is Africa’s largest space manufacturing facility.

South African executives are under pressure to show AI ROI. Workday offers a practical playbook for the C-suite.

Using equity equivalents to let huge vendors avoid B-BBEE relies on a magic trick, writes ITWeb contributor Phillip de Wet.

International Digital Cleanup Day highlights the dangers of ‘data toxicity’, with cyber security experts warning that unmanaged information is a liability.

South Africa stands at a decisive moment for its mining industry, shaped not only by rising global demand for critical minerals, but also by leveraging the knowledge, skills and research capacity required to extract them responsibly, efficiently and competitively. As artificial intelligence, automation and digital systems reimagine mining worldwide and the industry undergoes a promising […]
AleRunner writes: “China is helping Cuba race to capture renewable solar energy as the United States imposes an effective oil blockade on the Caribbean island, creating its worst energy crisis in decades,” reports The Washington Post. Later in the article, it states that “China’s decades-long push into clean energy technology is now helping to protect it from the soaring oil and gas crisis...

Online fraud harms companies and consumers alike, and places an unwelcome burden on consumers to prove they are not trying to commit fraud.

AI is institutional scaffolding, not a shortcut, and juniors should explore all the ways it can be utilised, says Webber Wentzel.

Norfolk and Suffolk researchers say the false information about autism and ADHD is most worrying.

OpenClaw, the AI agent dubbed “the next ChatGPT”, has captured the imagination of millions in China.

OpenAI plans to merge ChatGPT, Codex and its browser into a single desktop “super app”.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: A lobbying trade body for smaller cloud providers is asking the European Commission to impose interim measures blocking Broadcom from terminating the VMware Cloud Service Provider program, calling the decision a death sentence for some tech suppliers and an illegal squeeze on customer choice. As The Reg revealed in January, Broadcom...
Prosecutors said the men, including a co-founder of the company, Super Micro, had diverted servers containing Nvidia A.I. chips to China.
Cloudflare’s CEO predicts AI-driven bot traffic will surpass human internet traffic by 2027, as AI agents generate vastly more web requests than people. “If a human were doing a task — let’s say you were shopping for a digital camera — and you might go to five websites. Your agent or the bot that’s doing that will often go to 1,000 times the number of sites that an actual human would visit,”...
The new fund would operate alongside the Amazon founder’s A.I. start-up, Project Prometheus.