Iran’s crackdown on dissidents is shaping up as one of the toughest security tests yet for Elon Musk’s Starlink.
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South Africa’s fibre market is entering an “Open Access 2.0” era shaped by scale, behaviour and enforcement.
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and Microsoft, arguing their profits stem from his early funding and support.
Software developer jobs are booming in South Africa, but too few qualified candidates are applying, Pnet data shows.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa recently outlined plans to solve South Africa’s power crisis. But he didn’t mention the protection of energy infrastructure as a prerequisite to any solution.
MTN South Africa plans to restructure its finance division, with possible layoffs to follow, a move that has been severely criticised by trade union Solidarity.
Eskom will implement load shedding at stage 2 on both Saturday and Sunday between 4pm and midnight as it continues to struggle to cope with demand.
Eskom has welcomed the sentencing of three cable thieves, who stole at least 564kg of its aluminium overhead conductor cable.
BMW has taken flak for weeks after beginning to sell owners in certain markets subscriptions to heat their seats. It’s not backing down.
The SABC and e.tv have accused Sentech of excessive pricing and anticompetitive behaviour, and asked Icasa to intervene urgently.
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Oracle has held preliminary talks with ByteDance on a potential bid for part of TikTok’s business, seeking to rival a competing bid by Microsoft, the Financial Times reported.
Ramped-up US restrictions on Huawei are likely to cut off the Chinese smartphone maker’s access to even off-the-shelf chips and disrupt the global tech supply chain once again, executives and experts cautioned.
Epic Games said on Monday it was seeking to block Apple’s removal of Fortnite from its app store and has asked a judge to prevent any retaliatory action against its other games in the store.
The Trump administration announced on Monday it will further tighten restrictions on Huawei Technologies, aimed at cracking down on its access to commercially available chips.
Government should make better use of regulatory tools and legislation to foster a more competitive environment in South Africa’s pay-television industry rather than requiring that conditional access technology be included in state-subsidised set-top boxes. That’s the
Passwords are a pain. I seem to have 100 or more different identities on different websites to manage. Whenever I book a flight or buy a concert ticket, it often means setting up yet another persona and coming up with a password to authenticate it. It’s got so bad I’ve

































