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Despite higher demand driven by seasonal conditions, including a sharp rise in evening consumption as temperatures dropped, with peak demand at times reaching nearly 2 000MW above anticipated levels, the system has remained stable, Eskom said late on Friday. “This has been achieved alongside the natural tapering of solar generation at sunset, demonstrating enhanced operational resilience […]
Romford, England — In the era of rapid development in artificial intelligence, AI technology is continuously driving the comprehensive upgrade of digital finance and intelligent computing power ecosystems. More and more users are focusing on intelligent, automated, and more transparent digital return models, and AI intelligent systems are gradually becoming an important trend in industry […]
The current trajectory of the Avalanche price and the explosive recovery of the Solana price have long dominated investor headlines, serving as benchmarks for market health and retail momentum. While these established giants fight for dominance, savvy investors are already hunting for the next big crypto that offers more than just theoretical scalability. This search […]
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Skyrocketing hard drive and storage costs caused by the AI data center boom are making it more expensive and more difficult for digital archivists, academics, Wikipedia, and hobby data hoarders to save data and archive the internet. Specific drives favored by some high profile organizations like the Internet Archive have become far more...
Longtime Slashdot reader couchslug shares a report from That Privacy Guy’s Alexander Hanff: Two weeks ago I wrote about Anthropic silently registering a Native Messaging bridge in seven Chromium-based browsers on every machine where Claude Desktop was installed. The pattern was: install on user launch of product A, write configuration into the user’s installs of products B, C, D, E, F, G, H...
Hong Kong — May 8, 2026 — Financial Layer 1 Pharos Network today announced LI.FI Protocol, Vishwa, Pleasing Market, KUN, Yuzu Money, Agra, and Amber Group as the third strategic cohort of the RealFi Alliance. This expansion marks a decisive shift from foundational infrastructure toward active onchain utility, seamless settlement, and real-economy integration. With the […]
As it adapts to the artificial intelligence era, the company is pushing many of its 78,000 workers to use the technology, and preparing to lay some of them off.
The top online gambling scene has gotten crowded, and three names keep coming up in player conversations: Roobet, Betano, and Spartans.com. Roobet leans into crypto casino play with its own house games and a daily cashback offer. Betano takes a different route, built around a deep sports menu and a full casino. Then there is […]
The economics of on-device computing have, for the first time in the PC’s long history, been broken by the data centre.
“It seems every other day I am reading a story about a massive insider trading scandal.”
Longtime Slashdot reader Qbertino writes: The Fehrmarnbelt tunnel is a European construction megaproject building a tunnel between Denmark and Germany, crossing the Fehmarnbelt in the Baltic sea. The first segment of the tunnel has now successfully been placed in its designated spot. This is a yet-unseen, next-level engineering feat achieved by the Danish Sund & Baelt construction company. It...
Airtel Africa has delayed its mobile money initial public offering to late 2026, citing war-driven margin pressures.
Hate communities often flourish online for years, raising the question of how they persist. My research team has found that powerful stories keep members of a hate group galvanized, either by repeating the story over and over or by constantly adding fresh accusations and interpretations to it. I’m a computational social scientist who studies social […]
Stability is needed as Sita looks to re-establish itself as a trusted service provider for government IT services.
While only rolled out to some TikTok users, the feature’s bizarre AI-generated descriptions were shared widely.
Disney+ announced FX’s “The Bear,” the critically acclaimed, Emmy® Award-winning hit series, will premiere its fifth and final season on Friday, 26 June exclusively on Disney+. All eight episodes will be available to stream at debut. Key art for the season has also been released. The news comes on the heels of yesterday’s surprise release of “Gary,” a […]
In AMC’s merciless satire, the tech lords are extracting all they can from the business (and us) before everything goes to hell.
Most organisations invest in perimeter security. The database – where the data actually lives – is the layer most often left ungoverned.
The Competition Commission has opened the door to settlement talks over an alleged 2014 market-division pact.
Global markets are entering a renewed risk-on phase as easing inflation pressures, declining oil prices, and sustained demand for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure drive stronger investor appetite for equities and digital assets. According to research by Bitget Research, global equities continued to advance this week, led by technology and semiconductor stocks as investors reposition...
While the dollar SaaS stack squeezes IT budgets, Zoho’s rand-priced bundle is gaining ground in South Africa.