VPN downloads have jumped 14-fold in Russia, and even loyal officials now juggle phones to stay private.
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Cybersecurity leaders have urged the Trump administration to lift restrictions on Anthropic’s most advanced public model.
The $22-billion cash-and-stock deal will hand Fox direct access to more than 100 million streaming households.
Opaque exchange-rate markups and transfer fees can swallow thousands a year – TechCentral has a look at how to keep more.
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The videogame retailer and meme-stock star has built a 5% stake and lined up $20-billion in debt to pursue eBay.
Two unnamed officials face precautionary suspension as the fallout from the withdrawn draft AI policy widens further.
An 18-person Cape Town shop has helped engineer the largest crowdfunded gaming campaign in Kickstarter history.
Home affairs has suspended two senior officials after AI ‘hallucinations’ were found in its new immigration white paper.
South Africa will hold its next municipal elections on 4 November, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a post on X.
Sundar Pichai’s bet on full-stack AI – chips, models, cloud – is starting to deliver real commercial returns.
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The move by Google comes just weeks after a US judge spared the company from a forced breakup in an antitrust case.
Nvidia has announced it will invest $5-billion in Intel, throwing its heft behind the struggling US chip company.
Meta has tasted success with its smart glasses, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg describing them as the perfect way for humans to reach for the AI promise of “superintelligence”.
Huawei has broken years of secrecy to reveal its road map to compete against Nvidia in advanced AI chips.
A disastrous software launch has angered Sonos customers and jeopardised the company’s reputation.
Like many new technologies, generative AI has been following a path known as the Gartner hype cycle.

































