135 “Did I arm the alarm?” That’s a thought very often thought of halfway to work. Or your alarm goes off while you are out, and you have no idea whether it…
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SpaceX locks in $60-billion Cursor deal
186 Mike Blake/Reuters Elon Musk’s SpaceX is buying the start-up behind the popular AI coding agent Cursor, Anysphere, for US$60-billion in an all-stock deal to boost its presence in the lucrative enterprise…
US scored ‘own goal’ with ban on top Anthropic model
165 Cybersecurity leaders at major US firms, including Nvidia and Adobe, have asked the Trump administration to lift restrictions on Anthropic’s most powerful AI models, arguing that the bans hamper efforts to…
Where SA remote workers can keep the most: Wise, Grey, Payoneer or PayPal
228 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…
Fox is buying streaming hardware firm Roku for $22-billion
134 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
168 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
175 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
178 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
176 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,…
The missing number in Vodacom’s annual report
187 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…
