Amid sweeping layoffs, Netflix has replaced the content chief whose tenure included Squid Game and Bridgerton.
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The Reserve Bank wants all of South Africa’s ATMs white-labelled, with free transactions below a threshold, starting with a pilot in January.
Apple’s first foldable iPhone carries a steeper local premium than its new HomeView, HomePod mini 2 and Apple TV 4K.
South Africa fares better than most of the continent, according to the operators’ lobby group.
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Google has released Gemini 4 Argon to developers and businesses after months of delays and upheaval.
Icasa left R333.7-million unspent in 2025/2026 while telling parliament it lacks money for regulatory tools.
iOCO’s profit rose 39% to R357-million in FY2026, but net cash from operating activities fell 44%.
Apple has unveiled the HomeView, a $299 smart-home hub built around Siri AI, as it takes on rivals in the connected home.
Wits physicists have built an optical neural network that reads light’s hidden topology without imaging it.
Sun International has launched a gambling charter and warned government against taxes that favour offshore sites.
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The financing would mix bank loans and investment-grade debt, closing in 2027, according to the FT.
Francis Halzen has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for detecting ‘ghost particles’ in Antarctic ice.
BMW plans to cut a fifth of divisions and management roles by mid-2027, with AI’s help.
OpenAI’s agents leaked 53 ChatGPT user images, the latest incident in a tally that keeps growing.
Frontier labs have backed Demis Hassabis’s call for a self-regulator, but critics warn it hands Washington the off-switch.
Iran is choking the world’s oil artery. The internet has its own Hormuzes, a new report has warned.

































