THURSDAY, 01 JANUARY 2026, 10:56
Analysis shows obscure and barely-used choices, drawn from online slang, do not stand the test of time
If you have seen a news story declaring 2025’s chosen “word of the year” in recent weeks, you might be forgiven for asking yourself: what, another one?
Depending on which dictionary you turn to, the chosen term this year was either Collins’ “vibe coding”, “parasocial” from Cambridge...
The National Consumer Commission is monitoring Temu’s advertising and marketing practices in South Africa.
Just ahead of the release of matric results, the Information Regulator is going back to court to stop their publication in the media.
The United States’ plan for dealing with Putin’s Russia and Xi’s China remains ill-defined among a shifting global order. That must change.
Customs agents have broad authority to search the electronic devices of travelers entering and leaving the U.S. Here are tips for keeping your data safe.
PostNord is ending letter delivery in Denmark after a 90%+ collapse in mail volume. It marks the first known case of a national postal carrier abandoning letters entirely — a symbolic milestone of a fully digitized society that’s sparking nostalgia even among people who stopped sending mail years ago. The New York Times reports: Denmark has had a postal service for more than 400 years. But a...
It’s looking good for Netflix and bad for Paramount Skydance, as the clock ticks down on a major content deal for DStv in South Africa.
Recently, several cryptocurrency analysts have expressed an increasingly optimistic outlook on XRP’s future performance. As market expectations surrounding the potential launch of an XRP ETF continue to grow, some observers believe that XRP could experience a short-term price increase of up to 210%. In the medium to long term, more ambitious projections have even discussed […]
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The Takeover Regulation Panel has delivered a scathing ruling against Novus Holdings and ordered it to increase its mandatory offer price for Mustek.
Israel has operationally deployed Iron Beam, a 100,000-watt laser air-defense system capable of shooting down drones, rockets, and mortars at negligible per-shot cost. According to Tom’s Hardware, it marks the first real-world deployment of a high-energy laser as part of a modern, multi-layered missile defense network. From the report: The Iron Beam is a short-range line-of-sight laser...
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Dan Richards, 37, from Swansea was injured in a freak accident on New Year’s Eve in 2023.
The company’s aggregate ownership interest in ChatGPT developer OpenAI is now approximately 11%.
A significant portion of the per-litre price of petrol in South Africa goes to the Road Accident Fund tax and the general fuel levy.
The cryptocurrency market experienced another uneasy episode after Christmas, with most tokens sliding. At the end of every year, liquidity is thin, the risk appetite is weak, and investor confidence is tested considerably. The situation was worsened by the Trust Wallet breach, which resulted in $7 million in user losses. Market downturns may cause panic […]
The system disruption affects the logging of service queries, outage reports, dispatching of technical teams, and access to customer account information.
Xgram.io, a leading non-custodial multichain cryptocurrency exchange platform specializing in instant and private swaps, today highlighted its robust support for secure exchanges between Monero (XMR) and Tether (USDT). As demand grows for privacy-focused digital asset transactions in the fintech sector, Xgram.io continues to deliver reliable, user-controlled solutions that prioritize security...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: South Africans … have found a remedy for power cuts that have plagued people in the developing world for years. Thanks to swiftly falling prices of Chinese made solar panels and batteries, they now draw their power from the sun. These aren’t the tiny, old-school solar lanterns that once powered a lightbulb or TV in rural communities....
In an opinion piece for Computerworld, columnist Steven Vaughan-Nichols argues that restrictive visa policies and a hostile border climate under the Trump administration are driving foreign tech workers, researchers, and conference speakers away from the U.S. The result, he says, is a gradual shift of talent, events, and long-term innovation toward more welcoming regions such as Europe, Canada,...