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Huawei SA Warns AI Is Empowering Cybercriminals as Fast as It Is Defenders

Today at 19:15 PM, via iAfrica

Artificial intelligence is simultaneously powering sophisticated cyberattacks and the defenses against them, creating an escalating security challenge for organizations across sectors including education, healthcare and finance, Huawei South Africa executives warned this week. Speaking at the Huawei South Africa IP Club 2026 event in Johannesburg, Kui Zheng, CEO of Huawei Enterprise South...

South Africa

Meta Shares Drop 7% After Landmark Court Rulings and AI Model Delay

Today at 19:13 PM, via iAfrica

Shares of Meta Platforms fell 7% Thursday following a pair of landmark court rulings against the company and news of another delay to its flagship AI model, adding to a difficult stretch for a stock that has underperformed its Big Tech peers over the past year. A California jury on Wednesday found Meta and Google […]

Business

The most popular fast food in South Africa

Today at 11:00 AM, via BusinessTech

Eighty20 revealed that pizza is South Africa’s second-most-popular fast food type, behind chicken, which dominates the Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) sector.

Sport

Kerr ready to attempt world mile record this year

Today at 20:55 PM, via BBC News

Great Britain’s 1500m Olympic silver medallist Josh Kerr says he is ready to attempt to beat the world mile record this year at the London Diamond League event in July.

Education

Reform UK’s ‘pro-family’ policies are an exclusionary sham, minister says

Today at 18:59 PM, via The Guardian

Olivia Bailey says she wants Sure Start-style hubs that will be rolled out in England on Monday to be inclusive for all

Reform UK’s “pro-family” policies are a sham and exclude non-traditional families, the government’s early years minister has said before the rollout of hundreds of new Sure Start-style family centres across England on Monday.

Olivia Bailey said she wanted the hubs to be...

Education

Schools in England must be compelled to offer pupils healthy food, not junk

Yesterday at 20:48 PM, via The Guardian

School food has suffered at the hands of politics and economics for almost 50 years

Almost a generation has passed since Jamie Oliver’s four-part Channel 4 documentary series Jamie’s School Dinners exposed the unhealthy reality of the food served to pupils at lunchtime, including – notoriously – fat-heavy, meat-light Turkey Twizzlers. It proved a shaming and effective intervention. His...

Education

School dinners in England dominated by grab-and-go foods such as pizza and sausage rolls

Yesterday at 20:03 PM, via The Guardian

Study backed by Jamie Oliver finds pupils are foregoing sit-down meals for often less healthy, convenient options

Pupils in England are routinely eating pizza slices, sausage rolls and paninis for lunch as school canteens become dominated by a “grab-and-go” culture of unhealthy food.

Convenience foods eaten on the move are ousting sit-down meals as the main way secondary pupils in England...

Education

The BTS Connection With Howard University

Yesterday at 18:01 PM, via New York Times

In promoting its new album, the K-pop superstars looked back to a late-19th-century moment featuring the unofficial anthem Arirang for inspiration.

Science/Tech

Linux Maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman Says AI Tools Now Useful, Finding Real Bugs

Today at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman tells The Register that AI-driven code review has “really jumped” for Linux. “There must have been some inflection point somewhere with the tools…””Something happened a month ago, and the world switched. Now we have real reports.” It’s not just Linux, he continued. “All open source projects have real reports that are made with AI, but they’re good, and...

Science/Tech

NASA’s First Nuclear-Powered Interplanetary Spacecraft Will Send Helicopters to Mars in 2028

Today at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

After decades of studying, this week NASA announced “a major step forward in bringing nuclear power and propulsion from the lab to space.”NASA will launch the Space Reactor-1 Freedom, the first nuclear powered interplanetary spacecraft, to Mars before the end of 2028, demonstrating advanced nuclear electric propulsion in deep space. Nuclear electric propulsion provides an extraordinary...

Science/Tech

‘Ads Are Popping Up On the Fridge and It Isn’t Going Over Well’

Today at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

The Wall Street Journal reports:Walking into his kitchen, Tim Yoder recoiled at a message on his refrigerator door: “Shop Samsung water filters.” Yoder, a supply-chain manager in Chicago, owns a Samsung Electronics Family Hub fridge. He paid $1,400 for an appliance that came with a 32-inch screen on the door that allows him to control other Samsung gadgets, pull up recipes or stream music. But...

Science/Tech

The Evolution of Digital Entertainment in Europe’s Gaming Industry

Today at 17:35 PM, via Tech Financials

Throughout the decades, there have been feats of innovation propelled into society that have continuously altered the boundaries of what is possible in the entertainment industry. A larger digital footprint has been left on the evolutionary timeline, fuelled by technological advances that have slowly divided our time between the physical realm and the online world. […]