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@techcentral Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:49:54
WhatsApp starts charging South Africans – for the extras
Meta Platforms' paid WhatsApp messaging tier adds stickers, themes and custom icons for R28.99/month.
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@techcentral Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:55:26
South Africa is behind its neighbours on the plumbing of digital IDs
Two Southern African nations switched on sovereign digital trust anchors this past fortnight, ahead of South Africa.
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@techcentral Fri, 11 Sep 2026 05:52:38
South Africa to extradite US cyberfraud gang suspects to US
South Africa will extradite six Nigerian nationals suspected of involvement in cyberfraud to the US.
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@techcentral Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:10:27
Newspaper group Caxton deploys AI copy editors
Caxton has told shareholders it is piloting AI in its newsrooms for copy editing as newspaper revenue keeps falling.
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@techcentral Fri, 11 Sep 2026 03:29:44
Why businesses are moving n8n onto their own servers
What self-hosted n8n is, what businesses use it for and why some are running it on their own virtual private servers.
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@techcentral Fri, 11 Sep 2026 02:34:57
Nitda, NDPC and Galaxy Backbone back CyFrica 2026
Nitda, NDPC and Galaxy Backbone back Nigeria's CyFrica cybersecurity summit on 8 October.
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@techcentral Fri, 11 Sep 2026 03:01:38
Why Apple can't tell you who its R50 000 iPhone is for
Analysts have warned that Apple has not clearly defined who the R50000 iPhone Duo is actually meant for.
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@techcentral Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:45:12
US in move to counter Huawei in Africa
The Donald Trump administration is said to be seeking to counter the expansion of China's Huawei Technologies in Africa.
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@techcentral Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:04:04
'There are no adults in the room': the AI safety exodus
Safety researchers are quitting the biggest AI labs, warning nobody is coming to save us.
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@techcentral Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:09:02
Lesaka's first profit comes as its merchant business goes backwards
Lesaka Southern Africa CEO Lincoln Mali says merchant division growth will return only in the second half of FY2027.
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@techcentral Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:07:12
South Africa's electric car floodgates are opening
Nineteen battery-electric models were shown at the Festival of Motoring. Only the Suzuki eVitara was not Chinese.
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@techcentral Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:06:39
SAPS wants to deploy AI bodycams with facial recognition
A tender document issued by Sita makes facial recognition a hard requirement for body cameras, with no quantities set.
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@techcentral Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:28:38
Disney+ users have a month to move to a new app
Existing subscribers have until 12 October to move across, after which the current app stops working.
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@techcentral Thu, 10 Sep 2026 03:38:56
MTN puts a price on network quality
Under MTN's new wholesale model, an MVNO that wants aggressive retail pricing can have it, but there's a catch.
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