Small town in Gauteng famous for the world's largest diamond uses AI in mining
Cullinan, roughly 45km to the north-east of Pretoria, has transformed from a colonial outpost into an innovative diamond-mining town, using X-ray transmissions and AI to recover valuable diamonds.
It was here where...
Mecer's AI products will prioritise processing power over GPUs and NPUs
Mustek's in-house brand Mecer is designing and positioning its desktops and notebooks as complete artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
According to Mustek brand executive Michael Kan, the South African ICT distributor...
Oracle trains South Africans in agentic AI software for free
South Africans can be awarded globally recognised credentials for completing training in agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems through the Oracle University MyLearn platform.
The US cloud giant offers two primary agentic AI...
Interesting read.
https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1rdg5d4/a_client_just_forwarded_me_a_legal_letter_my_name/
Wonder how this would play out in a South African context?
The date: 17/02/2026
Having seen this video:
I want the community to do an experiment. Using Apple's Visual Intelligence, I want you to hold a glass or cup upside down, and ask,
Just post the response. No, this isn't about ChatGPT. I want to see how Apple Intelligence, in its current...
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If you’ve ever shipped a product or played with Lovable.dev, even for a single build or template - I’d love your honest feedback in a quick survey! It’s for my course project, and every response will really help my research.
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So according to a tweet by someone this morning, X have modified their settings, auto enrolling people into data sharing with GROK without informing them.
Tweet
And checking my own settings, it was true
Settings -> Privacy and Safety -> Data Sharing -> GROK
Yes I removed mine but is...
With tools like ChatGPT, bing chat, jasper and other AI generating platforms becoming more sophisticated, are there smart free tools with smart algorithms you can recommend to identify if it is original content. Also tools to compare different large format text pasted between different users...
This is sort of a continuation of the DALL-E2\AI image generator thread, but I figured SD deserves its own thread since it's open source and pretty much the only one of these tools which can be installed, modded and run offline without subscriptions, and so on.
I figured those who are...
When robots will beat humans at everything
Researchers from Oxford University and Yale University predict that artificial intelligence will exceed human performance in most tasks in the next 25 years.
Why using AI to sentence criminals is a dangerous idea
Artificial intelligence is already helping determine your future – whether it’s your Netflix viewing preferences, your suitability for a mortgage or your compatibility with a prospective employer. But can we agree, at least for now, that...