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    Woolworths beware – I am now buying essentials on Takealot

    Amazon ftw!
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    Here is the official petrol price for November

    Viva ANC, Viva!
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    Thousands of Internet servers in South Africa at risk of being taken over

    @Jan is MyBB safe?
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    Ster-Kinekor denies that photos of its new cinema at top South African mall are fake

    SynthID is different from "AI detection platforms" in the sense that it does not give an accuracy score or something like that - it is either a 0 or 1 for if there is a watermark, or no watermark. If there is, then it is guaranteed to have passed through an LLM. While it is easy to remove the...
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    Ster-Kinekor denies that photos of its new cinema at top South African mall are fake

    Both images were generated or edited by Google's models. They both carry a SynthID watermark - something it can only carry if its been through an LLM. https://synthid.com/image-detection @mylesillidge
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    The first digital ID in South Africa — Photos

    On the surface, seems more secure than other govt services. Operates using ISO/IEC 18013-5 mdoc. The QR code they scanned in the demo represents...
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    FNB online banking outage

    Payments with Apple Pay not going through. WTF! Now I’m doing the dishes at the Mugg & Bean
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    Takealot increases minimum order size for free delivery and changes checkout defaults

    They do realise that, for a lot of items, they no longer have a monopoly? Amazon and the likes are going to eat their cake. Amazon still has huge room to expand their offering.
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    One scam stole over R500 million from South Africans

    @mylesillidge @Jan My reporting on it, including how I traced it to China and came to the R500 mil number. The international syndicate runs into the billions!! https://groundup.org.za/article/morita-forestry-how-south-africans-have-been-scammed-for-hundreds-millions-rands/...
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    Connectivity issue being experienced by one of our upstream providers.

    Are the issues fixed? Client of mine says connection keeps dying to his server & SSH feels sluggish. On my side, SSH also feels sluggish, on a server provisioned 3 days ago
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    Cloud.co.za VPS Price Doubled After Ordering?

    Rather odd, because if you take out the same plan now, it still shows the R130, even on monthly renewal
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    Mistakenly sent emails are data breaches in South Africa — Legal experts

    Well, if the PDF is encrypted with older standards like RC4, it’ll take a few minutes to crack; AES-256 would take quite some time, but it helps that we know it’s a 13 digit ID, and you can infer some details like male / female from the email which can reduce the permutations. Either way...
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    Mistakenly sent emails are data breaches in South Africa — Legal experts

    Happened to me. I’ve never gotten an email from them regarding my policy, but other customers have! Asked them to send me the email too, but of course, ignored.
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    South African Weather Service the target of two cyber attacks

    Hilariously, their A record points to a private IP address; however, www and the rest seem fine.
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    Five of the best Prime Day deals in South Africa

    That M4 Air is insane value for the price
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