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Science/Tech

Online gambling grips South Africa

Sunday at 16:01 PM, via MyBroadband

In five years, the income of bookmakers and online gambling services surged from R10.1 billion to R152.6 billion.

Readers reply: Must what goes up always come down?

Sunday at 15:00 PM, via The Guardian

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

Must what goes up always come down? Sadia, via email

Send new questions to nq@theguardian.com.

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AI boom puts Africa at a crossroads

Sunday at 14:00 PM, via TechCentral

Artificial intelligence offers Africa vast opportunities but risks deepening divides without collective action.

Facebook Begins Sending Settlement Payments from Cambridge Analytica Scandal Soon

Sunday at 13:34 PM, via Slashdot

“Facebook users who filed a claim in parent company Meta’s $725 million settlement related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal may soon get a payment,” reports CNN, since “on August 27, the court ordered that settlement benefits be distributed.”It’s been over two years since Facebook users were able to file claims in Meta’s December 2022 settlement. The class-action lawsuit began after the...

Internet problems in South Africa

Sunday at 13:09 PM, via MyBroadband

One of South Africa’s biggest ISPs and the fourth-largest fibre network operator reported high-impact outages on Sunday.

André de Ruyter’s message to Cyril Ramaphosa

Sunday at 10:02 AM, via MyBroadband

Former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter argues South Africa’s current crisis is similar to what it experienced just before the end of Apartheid. Fixing it will require a leader making brave moves like then president FW de Klerk did.

Thieves Busted After Stealing a Cellphone from a Security Expert’s Wife

Sunday at 09:34 AM, via Slashdot

They stole a woman’s phone in Barcelona. Unfortunately, her husband was security consultant/penetration tester Martin Vigo, reports Spain’s newspaper El Pais. “His weeks-long investigation coincided with a massive two-year police operation between 2022 and 2024 in six countries where 17 people were arrested: Spain, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru….”In Vigo’s case, the phone was...

MultiChoice sports streaming piracy crackdown

Sunday at 07:01 AM, via MyBroadband

MultiChoice-owned cybersecurity company Irdeto has launched high-frequency key cycling functionality in its Irdeto Control product to help combat live sports streaming piracy.

Is Perl the World’s 10th Most Popular Programming Language?

Sunday at 05:34 AM, via Slashdot

TIOBE attempts to calculate programming language popularity using the number of skilled engineers, courses, and third-party vendors. And the eight most popular languages in September’s rankings haven’t changed since last month: 1. Python2. C++3. C 4. Java5. C#6. JavaScript7. Visual Basic8. Go But by TIOBE’s ranking, Perl is still the #10 most-popular programming in September (dropping from #9...

‘Dragonfly’ Mission to Saturn’s Moon Titan: Behind Schedule, Overbudget, Says NASA Inspector General

Sunday at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

After its six-year journey to Saturn’s moon Titan, Dragonfly’s rotorcraft lander “will fly like a large drone,” explains its web page, spending three years sampling multiple landing sites to characterize Titan’s habitability and look for “precursors of the origin of life.””However, the project has undergone multiple replans impacting cost and schedule, resulting in a life-cycle cost increase of...

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