
Blu Label takes R5.2-billion Cell C hit, touts clean slate ahead
Blu Label has warned it will absorb a R5.2-billion hit related to Cell C as it finally draws the line under a long-running saga.
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Blu Label has warned it will absorb a R5.2-billion hit related to Cell C as it finally draws the line under a long-running saga.

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As Trump slashes science funding, young researchers flee abroad. Without solid innovation, the US could cease to have the largest biomedical ecosystem in the world
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India’s digital payment platforms process trillions of dollars a year through UPI, the government-built real-time payments rail that handles more than 90% of all payment transactions in the country, but one of their largest net revenue line items is not a payment product at all: it’s a cheap plastic speaker that sits on a shopkeeper’s counter and reads out incoming payments aloud. The roughly...

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The Huawei Developer Competition, Code4Mzanzi, has kicked off in partnership with the Department of Small Business Development and various academic institutions, including the University of Cape Town, the University of Johannesburg, the University of Pretoria, and the University of the Witwatersrand. The competition, which is part of a larger international initiative, brings together South...

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Tech companies are conflating traditional artificial intelligence with generative AI when claiming the energy-hungry technology could help avert climate breakdown, according to a report. Most claims that AI can help avert climate breakdown refer to machine learning and not the energy-hungry chatbots and image generation tools driving the...

The worker, who posted dozens of defamatory videos, narrowly avoids activating a suspended 30-day prison sentence.

Cyber security professionals have reacted to SONA 2026, urging government to classify digital security as critical infrastructure and prioritise skills development.

On a busy afternoon in Cape Town, a customer taps her crypto card at a café counter. The transaction clears in seconds. The barista hands over the receipt and moves on to the next order. What makes the exchange different is not visible to anyone in the queue. The payment was made using crypto. Until […]

Synthetic identities are becoming a quick and easy way to establish trust, bypassing business processes by exploiting those who hold the keys, says Antonios Christodoulou, founder and CEO of Cyber Dexterity.