Japan votes in snap election as PM Takaichi takes a gamble
Observers say Sanae Takaichi’s personal popularity may boost the ruling party’s showing at the polls.
Year: 2026
Read More
The ransomware evolution: Rise of EDR killers, AI-powered malware
Tony Anscombe, chief security evangelist at ESET. The evolution of ransomware means that in 2026, African organisations can expect more targeted phishing attacks, the rise of endpoint detection and response (EDR) killers and AI-powered ransomware. This is according to cyber security firm ESET’s H2 2025 Threat Report, based on telemetry from threat data sourced in…
Ilia “Quad God” Malinin stunned by Yuma Kagiyama in Olympic figure skating short program as Japan narrows gap on U.S.
Ilia Malinin‘s quest for Olympic figure skating gold might not be so easy after all. The same goes for his American team. Yuma Kagiyama landed a pair of near-perfect quads, one in combination with a triple toe loop, and the Japanese star scored 108.67 points for his short program Saturday night. That topped Malinin in…
Starlink considers building its own phone
Elon Musk. Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters With a SpaceX public listing expected this year, the company has plans for its revenue-generating Starlink business that could expand its reach into new markets, including a Starlink phone, direct-to-device internet and a space-tracking service, sources familiar with the matter said. The star of Elon Musk’s empire, SpaceX is quickly expanding…
Chris Hedges on decline of the American empire | Politics
Journalist Chris Hedges speaks to Marc Lamont Hill on Trump’s first year and the future of US democracy. One year into Donald Trump’s return to office, a wave of hardline actions – from volatile ICE raids to growing concern over political pressure on the media – has raised alarm about the expansion of the president’s…
From information to action: Why SA’s payments transformation needs local operational intelligence, not just global platforms
Phil Boyall, Sales and Marketing Director at MoData. South Africa’s banking and payments sector is no longer transforming – it is running live, at speed under scrutiny. Regulatory modernisation, real‑time payment rails and rising financial crime complexity have removed tolerance for delay, uncertainty and operational fragility. What used to be absorbed by batch cycles, manual…
Why young people are ditching social media
A young woman wearing headphones browses vintage vinyl records in a store. Mihailomilovanovic | E+ | Getty Images Account manager Matt Richards, 23, deleted all his social media apps from his phone last year, and was surprised to find that his life changed for the better. Richards had been using a smartphone since he was…
Bitcoin faces another reckoning
Bitcoin made a 16-month low and tested key US$60 000 support on Friday as a global selloff in technology stocks deepened and washed out risky bets across asset classes. The world’s largest cryptocurrency was last up 1.64% at $64 153.24 in volatile trade, swinging between gains and losses after having hit a low of $60 008.52 earlier in…
Latest from authorities as they search for Savannah Guthrie’s mother
The desperate search for Nancy Guthrie, the mother of NBC’s “TODAY” show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, is ongoing, with mounting questions about what happened to her and concerns for her physical health. Nancy Guthrie, 84, was reported missing on Sunday from her home in the Catalina Foothills, an unincorporated community north of Tucson, Arizona. Authorities have…
AI scaling gap slows Africa’s digital transformation
Africa’s CEOs are optimistic but slow to scale artificial intelligence. (Image created using GenAI via ChatGPT) African CEOs continue to trail their global counterparts in deploying artificial intelligence (AI) across business functions, as they remain stuck in experimental AI phases, finding it difficult to scale initiatives into enterprise-wide deployments. This is one of the key…