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The internet is roasting Nvidia Jensen Huang over his affair with Alice Huang using generative AI.
Four import-export licences are out, but the electricity regulator’s import and export rules are not.
He will be the distributor’s third CEO since mid-2025, after Emile Burger left in July following just 14 months in charge.
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Eskom chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer has pleaded for an end to talk shops and for an urgent start to building new electricity generation capacity.
First on TechCentral | Dis-Chem has disclosed that a data “incident” involving a “third-party service provider” has led to the compromise of millions of client records.
Eskom said on Wednesday that the power outlook remained highly uncertain, with unplanned outages often varying by 2GW in one week.
For the third day in the row, Eskom will cut the power during the evening peak, with stage-2 load shedding to take place from 5pm to 10pm on Wednesday.
MTN has linked the remuneration of its senior executives with the group’s environmental, social and governance targets.
The South African start-up Quro Medical is pioneering hospital-level monitoring of patients, but in their own homes, using advanced technologies it has developed in-house.
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SpaceX has suffered a serious setback in its effort to launch Nasa astronauts into orbit this year, with the fiery loss of its first crew capsule during testing.
Millions more Instagram users were affected by a password security lapse than parent company Facebook acknowledged nearly four weeks ago.
German authorities are dismissing US President Donald Trump’s threat to cut off intelligence if they don’t take steps to keep equipment made by China’s Huawei out of the nation’s 5G mobile networks.
The Nasdaq 100 closed at a record of 7 680.72 on Wednesday, surpassing its August 2018 peak and extending its year-to-date gain past 21%.
The battle lines have been drawn in the fight for the hearts, minds and wallets of Android users. In the blue corner it’s Korean giant Samsung Electronics, with its Galaxy S3. And in the green corner is plucky Taiwanese featherweight HTC with the One X. Both contenders
MTN’s share price is likely to remain wobbly as jittery foreign investors face massive pressure from US authorities and lobby groups to quit their exposure in Africa’s R255bn cellphone giant because of its business activities in Iran. The company is in danger of being smacked with US sanctions for allegedly providing the Iranian government

































