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An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: New research reveals that AI chatbots can shift voters’ opinions in a single conversation — and they’re surprisingly good at it. A multi-university team of researchers has found that chatting with a politically biased AI model was more effective than political advertisements at nudging both Democrats and Republicans to support...
Netflix has agreed to buy Warner Bros Discovery’s TV and film studios and streaming division for $72-billion, excluding debt.
Netflix has announced a definitive agreement to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, which will likely cause significant disruptions in South Africa’s pay-TV landscape.
Melvyn Lubega heads the team in the Presidency tasked with developing digital IDs and driving licences.
Solve the problem of cooking and chewing food with these full-meal replacement drinks.
“For OpenAI to realize its ambitions, it is not going to be enough for them to make a model that is as good as Gemini 3. They need to be able to leapfrog it again.”
Reddit is considered one of the most human spaces left on the internet, but mods and users are overwhelmed with slop posts in the most popular subreddits.
The case over online transparency has become a flashpoint between the European Union and the Trump administration.
Optimize your sauna session by listening to the experts and, more importantly, your body.
An AI image generator startup’s database was left accessible to the open internet, revealing more than 1 million images and videos, including photos of real people who had been “nudified.”
Huawei, Microsoft, Apple, and Samsung are competing for the top spot in the latest South African media sentiment rankings.
SATNAC 2025 was recently held and featured talks from South Africa’s foremost ICT leaders.
Vula Medical connects healthcare workers to specialists via an app, bringing specialist care to patients in remote areas.
Medical referral app Vula Medical wins the 2025 FNB App of the Year and Best Health Solution awards.
NASA and CNES’s SWOT satellite captured the first high-resolution, wide-swath image of a major tsunami in the open ocean after the July 2025 Kuril-Kamchatka quake. “Instead of a single neat crest racing across the basin, the image revealed a complicated, braided pattern of energy dispersing and scattering over hundreds of miles,” reports Earth.com. “These are details that traditional...
An early grid battery was installed in the Atacama Desert in Chile 15 years ago. Now, as prices have tumbled, they are increasingly being used around the world.
South Africa’s communications regulator has published draft amendments to the Official List of Regulated Standards for Technical Equipment and Electronic Communications Facilities Regulations.
The line-up of presenters includes Dr Mark Nasila and Zeth Lubisi.
What’s Next with Aki Anastasiou is South Africa’s leading ICT video podcast.
Temu, general Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi and artificial intelligence led Google’s 2025 Year in Search for South Africa.
] The Gauteng Department of Education confirms 317 988 (88.7%) grade one and eight learners have received placement for the next academic year.