Noordgesig Library celebrated South African Librarians’ Day on 10 July 2026 with an engaging programme exploring the growing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in libraries, education and access to information. Hosted by the City of Johannesburg’s Libraries and Information Services Directorate in partnership with the University of Johannesburg (UJ), the University of South Africa (Unisa)…
Some Mastercard’s users can install NordVPN for free The VPN now offers its services as part of the credit card’s perks This move indicates that digital awareness is growing among consumers Do you have a Mastercard? If so, you’ll be happy to know that you may be eligible to use NordVPN’s services for free. These…
Centers Lab NJ has revealed that a cybersecurity incident disclosed last month affected 542,377 individuals, according to a filing with the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR). The figure, published on the agency’s breach portal, provides the first indication of the breach’s full scope after the diagnostics company…
Mystic Messenger, arguably one of the best dating sims around, has been dormant for about seven years. Despite not receiving new content or any meaningful updates in all that time, the game remains popular with its core fans, many of whom just woke up to some shocking news about their accounts. The free-to-play mobile dating…
The rise of agentic coding tools has been a sea change for software engineers across the industry — but for Solana Labs CEO Anatoly Yakovenko, it seems to have landed particularly hard. Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Yakovenko said he’s become increasingly comfortable taking a back seat in software development tasks. “AI has been a great…
If you’re reading this while the blinds are drawn against yet another heat wave and wondering whether it’s finally time to buy an air conditioner, you’re far from alone. At the end of June, as temperatures climbed well above 40 degrees Celsius across Europe, shoppers in France literally forced their way into stores to snatch…
McLaren Construction has teamed up with FieldAI, an international leader in physical AI, to bring general-purpose robots to its UK construction sites. Under the partnership, McLaren will deploy autonomous quadruped robots, initially to capture 360° site imagery, generate point cloud data and support progress verification, model-to-site deviation analysis, safety compliance patrols and quality assurance. The…
Plans for a data center in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, have been filed just two days before local government invoked a data center moratorium. The proposed data center would be located on farmland between the Loop Road and Mifflin County Industrial Park. According to local news reports, PA Data Center Partners submitted the proposals on Friday,…
Why it matters: Cheap attack drones have created one of modern warfare’s biggest economic problems, with the weapons used to stop them often costing far more than the aircraft they destroy. A Swedish startup believes its foot-long interceptor could make countering drones far more cost-effective, and it has now demonstrated the system taking down targets….
Jesse McGraw isn’t a hacker; at least, not by his own definition. He accepts he was a hacker, and a blackhat hacker, and that he still retains the mindset of a hacker. But he is no longer a hacker, he says. Early days He realized he was a hacker while in high school. “My one…