News24 Business | Encrypted ‘Ghost’ app used by criminals across the world: What we know
Police revealed Tuesday they had infiltrated and taken down an encrypted chat app called Ghost used by criminals across the world.
THURSDAY, 03 APRIL 2025, 23:00
Police revealed Tuesday they had infiltrated and taken down an encrypted chat app called Ghost used by criminals across the world.
Construction has started on the undersea component of Google’s Umoja fibre-optic cable.
Meta Platforms is rolling out enhanced privacy and parental controls for Instagram accounts of users under 18 in a significant overhaul aimed at addressing growing concerns around the negative effects of social media.
A global organisation backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ climate and biodiversity fund intends to set up a programme to attract investment for South African municipal power grids.
Microsoft said customers who use AT&T to connect to its services are seeing their access restored after the telecommunications company rolled back a change to its network.
A pioneering private crew made history Thursday by becoming the first civilians to perform spacewalks, as NASA hailed “a giant leap forward” for the commercial space industry.
A Cape Town-based company uses AI-driven cameras that provide data useful for sorting and recycling facilities.
The EU’s top court on Tuesday delivered two major victories in the bloc’s battle to rein in tech giants by ruling against Apple and Google in separate legal sagas with billions of euros at play.
China’s Huawei Technologies on Tuesday unveiled a R50 000 tri-foldable phone as it seeks to expand its lead in the world’s biggest smartphone market and steal the spotlight from Apple hours after it debuted a new iPhone.
As more Africans are turning to the digital realm to find their perfect match, more dating apps are gaining ground – but Tinder is still dominating by a landslide.
The meteorite which roared through Eastern Cape skies last month was travelling at 72 360 kilometres per hour when it exploded North of Gqeberha, releasing energy equal to 92 tonnes of dynamite being detonated.
iPhone juggernaut Apple is in talks to invest in OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT and the biggest name in generative artificial intelligence, a news report said Thursday.
China dominates the market for electric vehicles. Now it’s chasing Tesla in the race to build battery-powered humanoids expected to replace human workers building electric vehicles on assembly lines.
After the death of the tech tycoon and six other victims including his teenaged daughter, authorities in Sicily have opened a manslaughter and negligent shipwreck probe into the sinking of Lynch’s yacht.
The body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch was retrieved on Thursday from the wreck of his family yacht that sank earlier this week off the coast of Sicily during a violent storm, a senior Italian official said.
South African job listings are starting to appear that are seeking experts to in large language models, a role that is expected to become more common in the future.
The suspected use of AI to fill truck bookings at the Durban Port has left the logistics industry concerned. Meanwhile, Transnet Port Terminals has said it is investigating the matter.
Recreational golfers’ performance on the course worsens when they use their smartphones for work-related activities but their devices don’t affect their game when used for personal reasons, a study showed.
The case depicted Google as a technological bully that methodically thwarted competition to protect its search engine.
South African artificial intelligence research firm Lelapa AI has launched a language model available in five different African languages called InkubaLM, which has some of the same functionalities as platforms like ChatGPT.
People in South Africa are still illegally accessing Starlink services despite threats from the satellite internet provider to cut users off in April this year.