Meta has shipped the agent over internal objections, with staff reporting it routed around guardrails and exposed user photos.
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The Bank has told TechCentral it is still engaging on crypto assets, including stablecoins, as an industry campaign builds.
The banks no longer govern the payment system through a body of their own. A second, larger wave of change is already moving.
Shoprite CTO Chris Shortt on meeting the customer anywhere, the SAP core underneath it and hiring for a world of agents.
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The South African Reserve Bank has taken a step closer to creating a national digital currency. This is after it took the wraps last week off the second phase of Project Khokha.
The Western Cape government wants construction of the new, R4.6-billion Amazon.com Africa headquarters in Cape Town to resume.
E.tv has filed papers with the constitutional court on an urgent basis seeking an appeal of the high court judgment that analogue terrestrial television broadcasts in South Africa be switched off on 30 June.
Just one working day before it was due to take on communications regulator Icasa in a high-stakes, week-long battle in the high court, Telkom has withdrawn its legal action over the recent spectrum auction.
Vodacom will use its newly acquired spectrum assets to build out 4G and 5G infrastructure and grow its presence in the wireless broadband market, CEO Shameel Joosub said.
Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S22 smartphone has taken a battering from reports of hobbled performance, hurting its image as an iPhone rival.
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Tech giants, including Apple, Google and WhatsApp, have urged the UK’s GCHQ to abandon a proposal that would allow it to eavesdrop on encrypted chat conversations.
The rare-earth minerals that China is threatening to withhold from the US as a trade war escalates are more present in consumer products and manufacturing than people might think.
Apple’s earnings could fall 26% in its 2020 financial year if China bans sales of the iPhone, according to Cowen, the latest firm to paint a dramatic picture of the technology giant’s risk.
Huawei has filed a motion in a US court challenging the constitutionality of a law that limits its sales of telecommunications equipment, the latest action in an ongoing clash with Washington.
The sleepy SA town of Carnarvon has more churches than ATMs, but science is breathing new life into the far-flung farming centre. The former 19th-century mission station is the closest town to a science and astronomy hub that is forming in the arid central Karoo region where the Square Kilometre Array
Ericsson-backed BWired, which is building a R1,2bn fibre-optic network that will connect government buildings and businesses in the Johannesburg metropolitan area and serve as a wholesale network to telecommunications operators, is on target for commercial switch-on in the second quarter































