
City Power halts meter rollout over free electricity loophole
The utility will audit its database after finding customers bypassing meters and receiving free electricity through unauthorised connections.
SUNDAY, 12 JULY 2026, 14:02

The utility will audit its database after finding customers bypassing meters and receiving free electricity through unauthorised connections.

The hackathon is an initiative of the Gauteng Department of e-Government, run in partnership with Microsoft SA.

Undervalued imports from global online marketplaces continue undermining local manufacturers and retailers, despite recent changes to import tax rules, says the forum.

These are the cleaning robots, water monitors, and toys actually worth buying for pool season.

Billed as the “world’s first museum of AI arts,” Dataland uses wearables and troves of material from the Amazon to merge nature, biometrics, and art.
European Union authorities said the company’s use of “addictive design” violated a digital safety law.

Airtel Africa’s CEO, Sunil Taldar, has announced the telco’s commitment to connecting 5,000 schools across its operating countries in Africa to the internet by 2027 through its philanthropic arm, Airtel Africa Foundation, in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). So far, the $57m partnership, which was launched in 2021, has cumulatively connected 3,296 […]

The distributor seals a deal with BeyondTrust to distribute solutions across 51 countries.

Ofcom says more than half of UK adults have encountered potentially fraudulent ads online.

The engineering that keeps soldiers alive in landmine blasts should protect commuters, too, writes Dithoto Modungwa.

English and Norwegian players will face off under extreme and dangerous levels of heat stress, scientists say, thanks to a Wet Bulb Index over over 90°F.

Gareth Grobler says he has never been presented with fully-verified figures supporting the alleged R30 million shortfall as the company winds up.

As artificial intelligence races from experimentation to core infrastructure, it brings with it new demands on data centres worldwide.

Public sector breach notifications are up 40%, ransomware detections sit higher in SA than anywhere else in Africa, and POPIA enforcement is no longer theoretical. The next decade of security operations will be defined by what local enterprises do about it.

AvePoint’s Rapid Recovery System helps organisations restore their minimum viable business first in the event of an incident or disruption.
Nobel-winning chemist Omar Yaghi is leaving UC Berkeley for China’s Tsinghua University, where he will lead a new AI institute focused on accelerating the discovery of advanced materials. “Last week, Tsinghua University in Beijing welcomed Dr. Yaghi in an appointment ceremony, calling him one of the world’s foremost chemists,” reports The New York Times. “The university said he saw his new post...

The Academic Institute of Excellence’s new degrees will help address SA’s shortage of software, cyber security and data professionals.

South Africa’s youth unemployment rate stands at a staggering 60.9% for those aged 15-24, with 3.9 million young people not in employment, education, or training. For first-generation students navigating a fragmented system of universities, funders, and employers – each operating in isolation – the journey from classroom to career has become an impossible maze. TechFinancials […]

Customers are about three times more likely to use ChatGPT-style tools than company chatbots, Gartner has found.

The organisations that will lead in AI will be those that identify their power law use cases fastest − and scale them before their competitors do.

teamLab Biovortex Kyoto has welcomed over 1 million visitors as of July 6, 2026, 9 months after its grand opening. (*1)These visitors arrived from more than 150 countries and regions.