209 South Africa has one of the fastest-growing remote worker populations in sub-Saharan Africa. Tens of thousands of professionals now earn salaries and contractor fees from companies in the EU, the UK…
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Top 7 productivity myths that are actually holding you back
135 Picture: iStock/Hispanolistic In a world obsessed with hustle culture, productivity advice is everywhere. Yet many popular productivity myths can do more harm than good. If you’re constantly busy but not making…
Fox is buying streaming hardware firm Roku for $22-billion
131 Fox Corp is buying Roku in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about US$22-billion in a bet that pairing its sports and news programming with a top TV streaming platform will strengthen…
Google on the hook for what its AI tells users, court rules
154 Google will appeal a German court ruling which said it is legally liable for false claims appearing in AI Overviews, the US tech company said on Friday, in a case that will…
How Russians juggle VPNs to outwit the Kremlin
163 Ramil Sitdikov/Reuters In a quiet cafe popular for its free Wi-Fi and good coffee, a Russian interior designer logs onto a virtual private network so she can chat with friends abroad…
The millions Vodacom spends protecting its CEO
172 Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub Vodacom Group is spending about R7.7-million/year on personal security for its CEO, Shameel Joosub – a figure that surfaces only through a quiet restatement of last…
Amazon CEO flagged Anthropic AI risks to Washington
170 Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was among tech leaders who raised concerns to senior Trump administration officials this week about security risks in Anthropic’s most advanced AI models,…
5 Monetisation traps hurting new creators
144 Image: Pexels / Vitaly Gariev The creator economy is now valued at over $200 billion globally (approximately R3.25 trillion) and is expected to exceed $500 billion (approximately R8.2 trillion) in the next…
Kleinfontein: Tshwane in pre-election rush for illegal township policy
192 Expropriation on behalf of community possible in divided Kleinfontein. The current administration in the City of Tshwane – a coalition with ActionSA, the ANC and the EFF as the main players…
The missing number in Vodacom’s annual report
182 Vodacom Group published its annual report on Friday – and nowhere in it, nor in the accompanying annual financial statements, is there any disclosure of what it paid to settle the…