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South Africans can start saying goodbye to bank cards for R1,400
There are several smartphones with NFC support available in South Africa for less than R2,300.
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Anthropic was illegally blacklisted by the Trump administration, court rules
On Thursday, a judge ruled that the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic earlier this year was unconstitutional, delivering the AI lab a win in a monthslong rol…
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AI, athletes, and Keith Rabois: StrictlyVC is back in New York on September 10
A boutique StrictlyVC evening returns to New York's West Village on September 10 with Keith Rabois, Craig Shapiro, Jason Levien, Tristan Walker, Brynn Putnam, a…
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The GTA VI ‘extended look’ is now streaming on YouTube
Rockstar has officially published its "extended look" at Grand Theft Auto VI on YouTube and on its website, as promised. The in-depth preview, which "entirely"…
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The biggest video game of all time looks like a movie
I think I know why Rockstar Games debuted its "extended look" of Grand Theft Auto VI on Netflix instead of immediately dropping it for free on YouTube. Unlike m…
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Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.
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Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world
Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other.
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Cybersecurity
Nearly 700 rogue AI agents coordinated in the Hugging Face attack
New details about the July attack on Hugging Face reveal that hundreds of AI agents driven by OpenAI's internal IM1 model coordinated the compromise through an…
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Meta addresses ‘pervert glasses’ reputation with a privacy fix and a new marketing campaign
Meta is updating its AI-powered smart glasses to close a loophole that allowed wearers to keep recording after covering the front-facing LED. Alex Himel, Meta's…
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Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
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Rivian’s CFO is leaving the company
Claire McDonough is stepping down on October 30 to pursue a new opportunity, the company said in a filing on Thursday.
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Bluesky adds an ‘algorithmic opt-out’ feature for those who don’t want to go viral
Sometimes people just want to post to their followers, Bluesky says.
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GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices
GOP campaign committees want quick ruling before election ads ramp up next week.
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Buried in Meta’s $18B settlement is a legal pass on kids’ data
Meta’s settlement with 29 states allows it to retain certain data from children under 13 to train and test age-detection models, highlighting a privacy trade-of…
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GTA VI: all the news on Rockstar’s next entry in the Grand Theft Auto series
It’s been over a decade and two console generations since GTA V came out, and its sequel is still a work in progress. GTA VI has faced multiple delays, with dev…
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Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion
Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.
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YouTube now lets creators tag Amazon products and earn commissions from purchases
The update turns product recommendations into a more direct revenue stream for creators, and for Amazon, the move puts its massive online marketplace inside one…
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Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining OpenAI, is now at Google
Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.
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GTA VI looks just as great as we could hope for
Netflix and Rockstar Games finally debuted their "extended look" at Grand Theft Auto VI. It showed that the new game looks to keep much of the spirit of GTA - e…
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Google’s AI note-taking app now allows you to interact with books
Google's AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you've purchased. The new "Expert Intelligence" feature allows you to brin…
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South Africa
Apple iPhone for R6,400
The first iPhone that officially launched in South Africa was the iPhone 3G, and it cost R6,389.
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AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”
Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.
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Cybersecurity
OpenAI Says Reward Hacking Drove AI Agents to Exploit Zero-Days and Breach Hugging Face
OpenAI on Wednesday revealed that reward hacking was a key driver behind the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered hack of Hugging Face last month, adding that i…
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Google tells Android app developers to cool it on memory use, or else
Google will start policing memory-hungry Android apps as a direct response to the RAM crisis. Spotted by TechCrunch, the company yesterday published a memo addr…
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ATF declares ‘major incident’ as ransomware gang claims hack
The ATF is the latest federal government agency in recent years to notify Congress of a "major incident" involving its cybersecurity.
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Forget the iPhone: Apple’s real next act is your home
The clue to what comes next is a small aluminium box Apple announced this week with no keynote at all.
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI
Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that t…
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South Africa
South Africa’s nuclear power station has been completely shut down
Eskom announced that Koeberg Nuclear Power Station's Unit 1 was, safely and within procedure, taken offline.
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The iconic T-38 jets flown by astronauts just got a spiffy new look
"Everyone wants to take that aircraft up now..."
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Google’s new Fitbit Air brings Pokémon Sleep to your wrist
Google teamed up with the Pokémon Company to introduce a special-edition Fitbit Air that works with the Pokémon Sleep app.
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Fashion startup Atorie raises $9.5M to bring consumers luxury goods without the markup
Shoppers can visit the Atorie website and buy handbags or clothes made from the same material — and coming from the same factory — that manufacturers use in hig…
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Hoomanely’s building a smart feeding bowl and an AI platform to help owners spot when their pup is sick
Hoomanely has developed a smart bowl to measure and record dogs' feeding data, then tells owners if behaviors change.
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RFK Jr. goes full anti-vaccine bananas over two measles deaths—one was a newborn
Kennedy and his allies have a history of downplaying vaccine-preventable deaths.
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Cybersecurity
PaperCut warns of NG, MF flaw exploited in zero-day attacks
PaperCut is warning that hackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability in all versions of its PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF print management software in zero-da…
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South Africa
Gaming price increases hit South Africa
International increases in console and video game prices have filtered into the South African market.
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Speedo’s new smart goggles module can track all four swim strokes
Speedo is launching a removable smart module for its Vanquisher goggles that can analyze a swimmer's performance across all four swim strokes: freestyle, backst…
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