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Telkom Consumer’s Fibre And Mobile Services Drive Operating Revenue Higher

Yesterday at 09:27 AM, via Tech Financials

Telkom Consumer’s operating revenue climbed 5.7% to R20.5 billion for the third quarter ended 31 December 2025, fueled by growth in both mobile and fibre services, the Telkom Group announced today. The consumer unit – led by Lunda Siyo – continues to gain traction through targeted customer value management initiatives and aggressive fibre expansion, reinforcing […]

Can you solve it? Chapeau! A smart new hat puzzle

Yesterday at 09:10 AM, via The Guardian

Logicians and their bonnets

Today’s puzzle is a new twist on a classic genre: the “common knowledge” hat riddle in which logicians deduce facts about their hats based on what they know, and what they know others know.

Head sums

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Openserve Surpasses 1.5 Million Fibre Homes With Industry-Leading 52.4% Connectivity Rate

Yesterday at 09:06 AM, via Tech Financials

SA’s largest wholesale network provider Openserve has crossed the 1.5 million homes passed milestone with fibre, while maintaining its industry-leading connectivity rate at 52.4%, Telkom Group disclosed in its latest JSE trading update. The wholesale unit’s overall revenue grew by 2.2%, driven by fibre-related data revenue, which climbed 8.7% (or R204 million). Fibre-related revenue now […]

BCX CEO Jonas Bogoshi To Retire As Enterprise Unit Struggles With Revenue Decline

Yesterday at 08:50 AM, via Tech Financials

BCX is entering a critical leadership transition as long-serving industry veteran Jonas Bogoshi prepares to retire, handing over the reins at a time when the enterprise business unit continues to bleed revenue amid cautious client spending. The telecommunications and IT services provider, owned by JSE-listed Telkom Group, confirmed that Bogoshi—who joined as chief revenue officer […]

Will Tech Giants Just Use AI Interactions to Create More Effective Ads?

Yesterday at 07:34 AM, via Slashdot

Google never asked its users before adding AI Overviews to its search results and AI-generated email summaries to Gmail, notes the New York Times. And Meta didn’t ask before making “Meta AI” an unremovable part of its tool in Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. “The insistence on AI everywhere — with little or no option to turn it off — raises an important question about what’s in it for the...

Digital Monitoring Is Growing In South Africa’s Public Service – Regulation Needs To Catch Up

Yesterday at 06:49 AM, via Tech Financials

Government departments across South Africa are increasingly relying on digital tools to evaluate public programmes and monitor performance. This is part of broader public-sector reforms. Their aims are to improve accountability, respond to audit pressure and manage large-scale programmes with limited staff and budgets. Here’s an example. National departments tracking housing delivery, social...

Ars Technica’s AI Reporter Apologizes For Mistakenly Publishing Fake AI-Generated Quotes

Yesterday at 03:41 AM, via Slashdot

Sunday Ars Technica apologized for making Scott Shambaugh’s week a little weirder. Last week Shambaugh learned an AI agent published a “hit piece” about him after he’d rejected the AI agent’s pull request. (And that incident was covered by Ars Technica.) But then Shambaugh realized their article attributed quotes to him he hadn’t said — that were presumably AI-generated. Sunday Ars Technica’s...

Intermittent fasting no better than typical weight loss diets, study finds

Yesterday at 03:00 AM, via The Guardian

Researchers say limited eating approaches such as 5:2 diet not a ‘miracle solution’ amid surge in their popularity

Intermittent fasting is no better for shedding the pounds than conventional diets and is barely more effective than doing nothing, according to a major review of the scientific evidence.

Researchers analysed data from 22 global studies and found people who are overweight or living...

Rivian’s Stock Spikes 27% After Reporting $144 Million Profit in 2025

Yesterday at 01:35 AM, via Slashdot

Rivian’s stock skyrocketed 27% Friday after the electric car maker “shocked the market with strong earnings results,” reports the Los Angeles Times, “proving itself an outlier in the EV market, which has been struggling with the end of government subsidies and cooling consumer excitement.” They add that Rivian’s strong earnings results suggest that “after years of struggling with losses, it may...

India’s New Social Media Rules: Remove Unlawful Content in Three Hours, Detect Illegal AI Content Automatically

Yesterday at 00:35 AM, via Slashdot

Bloomberg reports:India tightened rules governing social media content and platforms, particularly targeting artificially generated and manipulated material, in a bid to crack down on the rapid spread of misinformation and deepfakes. The government on Tuesday (Feb 10) notified new rules under an existing law requiring social media firms to comply with takedown requests from Indian authorities...

Sam Bankman-Fried Requests New Trial in FTX Crypto Fraud Case

Sunday at 23:35 PM, via Slashdot

While serving his 25-year prison sentence, “convicted former cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried on Tuesday requested a new federal trial,” reports Courthouse News, “based on what he says is newly discovered evidence concerning his company’s solvency and its ability to repay all FTX customers for what prosecutors portrayed as the looting of $8 billion of his customers’ money…”Bankman-Fried...

‘Babylon 5’ Episodes Start Appearing (Free) on YouTube

Sunday at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

Cord Cutters News reports:In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the iconic series Babylon 5 to YouTube, providing free access to the show just as it departs from the ad-supported streaming platform Tubi… Viewers noticed notifications on Tubi indicating that all five seasons would no longer be available after...

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