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    Stage Zero's electric Beetle that runs on Tesla batteries

    Turning a German VOLKS wagen into a Swasticar (Sorry I couldn't resist. I don't consider Musk or Trump Nazis)
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    Eskom's coal power stations increasing deaths in nearby communities by 6% — SAMRC study

    (Coal fired) electricity powers (a) street lights that reduce murders (b) street lights that reduce car accidents (c) electric stoves that eliminates wood or coal stoves that cause disease (impact area much larger than the dwelling) (d) electric heaters that eliminates fire for warmth that...
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    South African-built platform using WhatsApp and AI to crack down on crime

    Maybe you watched Minority Report ?
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    Sars needs to modernise its systems to better collect taxes

    Because they have a competent police force, prosecutors and judges. They can afford to spend $1m+ to thoroughly investigate and prosecute criminal organizations.
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    Sars needs to modernise its systems to better collect taxes

    In SA, criminals will use the data to find good targets for kidnappings etc.
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    Report accuses MTN of human rights violations in Internet shutdowns

    Somewhat related: Apple and Microsoft both comply with the Chinese governments regulations on censorship and surveillance. And it's not like an internet shutdown where the people actually know what's going on.
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    Sars needs to modernise its systems to better collect taxes

    SARS employees have their time wasted by having to manually check stuff that can be done by computers. Even registration of willing taxpayers takes too long. Those employees should be in the field doing inspections...
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    Shoppers should be aware of false or misleading advertising when buying flashlights

    MyBB is making it so complicated that I'll just continue peeing in the dark.
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    Fake papers contaminating scientific literature

    This comes on top the Replication Crisis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
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    E-tv launches legal action to block analogue switch-off

    Why isn't there a gradual reduction in analogue service ? Starting say inserting a popup indicating to viewers that they are watching on analogue. A few months later the popup becoming a full width banner. Then the message being full screen at certain times of day. Then viewers will actually...
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    South Africa's speed limits versus the world

    Please compare apples with apples. Please leave the UN out of it. South African cities were built for the car. Just like US, Australia etc. European and Asian cities not.
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    Stellenbosch-based MellowVans' electric tricycle has been declared road-legal in Europe

    A couple of errors: "was showcased in ... November 2025". "In addition to Belgium and the Netherlands ... Benelux". Either Luxembourg is an important market and it should replace Benelux in this sentence. Or Luxembourg is unimportant and mentioning Benelux is redundant.
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    Thales Group now supplies South Africa's smart ID cards

    Home Affairs rules require that you come in to collect for a good reason: There are syndicates who use uneducated people to apply for ID cards. They have an inside connection who swaps the picture for an illegal alien before the card is made. When the applicant returns to collect the card, they...
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    How eSIMs can be exploited by fraudsters

    Specifically RICA introduces friction in the process of switching between mobile operators.
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    How eSIMs can be exploited by fraudsters

    Banks should just stop accepting SIMs as a good way to identify people. Why rely on Telcos for identity ?? Telcos provide a commodity and should do it at the lowest price! The US doesn't have RICA. Nether do many EU countries.
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    Me&you mobile stops selling eSIMs

    RICA has nothing to do with FICA and the gray list. Nothing! There are many countries that do not require RICA, including the US. RICA is so easy to circumvent in SA: Just find a poor person and pay him to buy you sim card. MyBB should test that out. RICA is completely useless for tapping...
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    We can rent an apartment across the road and pay for 1Gbps FTTH for less than 1Gbps "business fibre"

    Could it be that a business could have dozens of employees all using the same 1 Gbps maximizing it frequently ? While a home is expected to rarely use the full 1 Gbps ? Then again, there are home users using of the order of 1 TB a month, if I'm not mistaken...
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    KRN rollover was not a bug

    It's a communications protocol. There's a much simpler design that doesn't even have "date" as a parameter. Just encode kWh and other details and add Carter and Wegman code as a message authentication code.
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    N4aughtySecGroup releases data appearing to belong to Standard Bank and Absa customers

    My ABSA accounts were opened before 2007. One of them contain a spelling mistake. Can I look at the leaked data and see if Absa was hacked?
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    The South Africans who sat at the core of the PayPal Mafia

    Why not just call Peter Thiel the God Father ? Unlike the real mafia, these guys are not loyal to each other.
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