MONDAY, 15 DECEMBER 2025, 04:35
Cadmium zinc telluride (CZT), a hard-to-manufacture semiconductor produced by only a handful of companies, is enabling a quiet revolution in medical imaging, science, and security by delivering faster scans, lower radiation doses, and far more precise X-ray and gamma-ray detection. “You get beautiful pictures from this scanner,” says Dr Kshama Wechalekar, head of nuclear medicine and PET. “It’s...
Two fibre network operators (FNOs) quietly slipped into South Africa’s top 10 by homes passed during 2025.
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Thoughtful architecture and orchestration matter, says BBD executive Hendrik Hamman.
Over time, Telkom will drastically reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and operate ever more efficiently and sustainably, says Lebo Masalesa, Managing Executive: Mobile Networks at Telkom.
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With one more quarter remaining in 2025, the capacity of private generation registered by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa has already hit an annual record.
To understand what separates resilient organisations from those still struggling, Cohesity drew on the insights of 3 200 IT and security operations decision-makers worldwide.
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OpenAI has launched GPT-5.2 with stronger intelligence and coding capabilities amid intensifying competition from Google.
For over a decade, car-buying advice in South Africa has been simple. Buy a popular entry-level hatchback.
Veteran broadcasting journalist Thinus Ferreira says its ironic that Canal+ promised more content for DStv customers when it seems they’ll begin the new year with less content for the same price.
For China, President Trump’s moves to loosen chip controls, soften U.S. rhetoric and stay silent on tensions with Japan amount to a rare string of strategic gains.
Snode warns that once-isolated OT systems face rising cyber risks as connectivity reshapes industrial environments.
The Xiaomi TV Box S 3rd Gen bundle deal offers a fast, affordable path to upgrading any television into a full 4K smart entertainment hub.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Do Kwon, the South Korean cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind two digital currencies that lost an estimated $40 billion in 2022, was sentenced in New York federal court on Thursday to 15 years in prison for fraud and conspiracy. Kwon, 34, who co-founded Singapore-based Terraform Labs and developed the TerraUSD and Luna currencies, previously...
Longtime Slashdot reader Gilmoure shares a report from Nature: Scientists have produced the most detailed 3D map of almost all buildings in the world. The map, called GlobalBuildingAtlas, combines satellite imagery and machine learning to generate 3D models for 97% of buildings on Earth. The dataset, published in the open-access journal Earth System Science Data on December 1, covers 2.75...
joshuark shares a report from BleepingComputer: More than 10,000 Docker Hub container images expose data that should be protected, including live credentials to production systems, CI/CD databases, or LLM model keys. After scanning container images uploaded to Docker Hub in November, security researchers at threat intelligence company Flare found that 10,456 of them exposed one or more keys....
Scientists say bears in southern Greenland differ genetically to those in the north, suggesting they could adjust
Changes in polar bear DNA that could help the animals adapt to warmer climates have been detected by researchers, in a study thought to be the first time a statistically significant link has been found between rising temperatures and changing DNA in a wild mammal species.
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The order creates an Justice Department task force to challenge state AI laws, and directs the Commerce Department to pull future broadband funding from states that pass “onerous” legislation.
Broadcom has quietly pulled VMware vSphere Foundation from parts of EMEA, pushing smaller customers toward far more expensive bundles and prompting some to consider jumping to Hyper-V or Nutanix. The Register reports: VVF is a bundle that offers compute, storage, and networking virtualization, and a platform to run containers. It’s most useful in hyperconverged infrastructure and hybrid clouds,...