THURSDAY, 04 DECEMBER 2025, 23:46
This Black Friday weekend belongs to crypto presales with amazing discounts up for grabs. Digitap ($TAP) is already 90% sold out, and there are just 48 hours left of its mega Black Friday sale. This upstart is looking to rewire global payments. Ripple spent a decade proving there was enormous demand for modernising cross-border flows. […]
Anybody watching the November crypto market can feel that something unusual is happening. While other cryptos scramble for support, one presale is stealing the show, and the clock is ticking. Digitap ($TAP), a fast-rising omni-bank ecosystem, is reshaping how crypto and fiat interact. Digitap is closing its Black Friday Bonanza this Monday, marking the final […]
A new unit in the Presidency coordinated development of a working prototype for a digital driving licence system in three months.
Earlier this month MasterCard noted that even Walmart now allows its customers to make purchases through ChatGPT. And after polling more than 4,000 consumers in the U.S., Canada, U.K., and UAE, they found “more than four in 10 consumers already use AI tools to help them shop, including 61% of Gen Z and 57% of millennials.”Many (50% of Gen Z and 49% of millennials) say they’d even let AI handle...
“By my count, Linux has over 11% of the desktop market,” writes ZDNet’s Steven Vaughan-Nichols:In StatCounter’s latest US numbers, which cover through October, Linux shows up as only 3.49%. But if you look closer, “unknown” accounts for 4.21%. Allow me to make an educated guess here: I suspect those unknown desktops are actually running Linux. What else could it be? FreeBSD? Unix? OS/2?...
Psychology Today reports:In a study conducted in Milan, Italy, and published in November 2025, the sight of a person dressed as Batman led to a nearly doubled rate of people giving up their seat to a pregnant woman. Over the course of 138 subway rides, researchers found that people who saw “Batman” standing near the pregnant woman were far more altruistic than those who did not. Researchers are...
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC:Italian defense company Leonardo on Thursday unveiled plans for an AI-powered shield for cities and critical infrastructure, adding to Europe’s push to ramp up sovereign defense capabilities amid rising geopolitical tensions. The system, dubbed the “Michelangelo Dome” in a nod to Israel’s Iron Dome and U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans for a...
In his mid-20s, Lu Heng “got an idea that has made him a lot richer,” writes the Wall Street Journal. He scooped up 10 million unused IP addresses, mostly form Africa, and then leases them to companies, mostly outside Africa, “that need them badly.”[A]round half of internet traffic continues to use IPv4, because changing to IPv6 can be expensive and complex and many older devices still need...
The Free Software Foundation describes how “After months of preparation and excitement, we finally came together on November 21 for a global online hackathon to support free software projects and “put a spotlight on the difficult and often thankless work that free software hackers carry out…” Based on how many of you dropped in over the weekend and were incredibly engaged in the important work...
Almost two-thirds of registered U.S. voters “say that a four-year college degree isn’t worth the cost,” according to a new NBC News poll:Just 33% agree a four-year college degree is “worth the cost because people have a better chance to get a good job and earn more money over their lifetime,” while 63% agree more with the concept that it’s “not worth the cost because people often graduate...
“A year after launching a commercial robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi, Chinese autonomous vehicle technology company WeRide and partner Uber can finally call that service driverless,” reports TechCrunch. A company official hailed it as “a historic transportation milestone, as the first driverless AV deployment outside of the U.S. or China.” But TechCrunch notes that’s just the beginning:Uber has...
Finance bros love efficiency almost as much as they love gains. Yet most of the tools clogging corporate tech stacks cost more than they deliver. Free software alternatives that actually work for finance bros are finally hitting a level where they outperform overpriced subscriptions. Timing trades, tracking work cycles, or stress testing deal models even […]
Digital Trends reports:A wave of shortages now threatens to ripple across RAM, SSDs, and even hard drives, affecting not only performance-hungry rigs but also everyday systems. — CyberPowerPC has publicly confirmed it will raise prices on all systems starting December 7th due to RAM costs spiking by 500% and SSD prices doubling since October. — Memory suppliers warn of a global DRAM and...
Hyperloop One ceased operations in December 2023, notes CNN. “Yet nearly two years on, in other parts of the world, hyperloop projects are ongoing.” For example, Rotterdam-based Hardt Hyperloop has a cool web site — and the company’s managing director tells CNN that hyperloops are the only “actionable, sustainable solution to replace short-haul air travel” over distances greater than 300...
An EDM song by the British group Haven ran into trouble in October after it shared clips of upcoming song “I Run” on TikTok. The song “was an overnight viral sensation online,” writes Digital Music News — racking up millions of plays “even before it hit streaming services.” (Although the Washington Post notes that “Record labels and TikTok users began questioning whether ‘I Run’ used an AI...
Aura Services has made getting help from emergency responders in South Africa and several other countries as easy as tapping a button on a smartphone app.
Unique properties of fungi have led to groundbreaking innovations in recent years, from nappies to electronics
From the outside, it looks like any ordinary nappy – one of the tens of billions that end up in landfill each year. But the Hiro diaper comes with an unusual companion: a sachet of freeze-dried fungi to sprinkle over a baby’s gloopy excretions.
The idea is to kickstart a catalytic...
OpenAI’s data centre partners are on course to amass almost $100 billion in borrowing tied to the lossmaking start-up, as the ChatGPT maker benefits from a debt-fuelled spending spree without taking on financial risks itself. Financial Times: SoftBank, Oracle and CoreWeave have borrowed at least $30 billion to invest in the start-up or help build its data centres, according to FT analysis....
South African Airways (SAA) confirms it has received an urgent Airworthiness Directive (AD) from Airbus concerning a mandatory software update for the A320 model aircraft. Safety remains SAA’s highest priority. In response, we have taken immediate and proactive measures to ensure full compliance with the directive, which mandates completion of the software installation by 23:59 […]
The cost of topping up the tank of a large diesel vehicle could increase by nearly R62 if a fuel station passed the wholesale increase directly onto the retail price.
The investigation into the June 12 Air India crash that killed 260 people has been marked by tension, suspicion and poor communication between American and Indian officials, including an episode where NTSB chairwoman Jennifer Homendy instructed her black-box specialists not to board a late-night Indian military flight to a remote facility, WSJ reports. When two American recorder experts landed...