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A book author tells Cape Talk that AI-induced stupidity arises because AI amplifies whatever habits users already have, polishing laziness.
“How to put guardrails around this technology. So I always give that example of a car that when it started, it is not what it is now.”
Alec Hogg raises BizNews's Palantir intrinsic value from $150 to $170 after 96% growth, but says the price already reflects it.
“In our intrinsic value, we have them at $150 a share. That's quite a long way below where they are trading at the moment, around $170. So the market has been running ahead of our intrinsic value number.”
A multi-asset income head says five tech stocks make up about 25% of the Nasdaq and AI-related firms over half the S&P, as cracks widen.
“But the AI boom's really driven U.S. stock markets. I would presume there is a higher potential now for more regular.”
An economist says Oracle's abandoned $7bn Tencent AI deal shows Chinese firms will find workarounds, as with DeepSeek, which could burst the bubble.
“They recently announced that they would be abandoning a $7 billion transaction with Tencent that sits in Hong Kong around AI.”
A Cape Talk caller says toddlers can swipe phones, and hosts warn screens and tablets in schools erode face-to-face learning and handwriting.
“And now, every second kid, and I'll see 18-month-olds sitting in my practice who can swipe and get rid of adverts. It's really quite alarming.”
Laughter on air
A Power FM tech guest says parties use AI for posters, not for interactive manifestos, and that a 94-year-old could ask a chatbot on WhatsApp.
“My advice to political parties is we first need to move away from having policies and manifestos as just a written document. They need to be live and interactive documents, right?”
A BBC Tech Life report finds Somali journalists' Facebook accounts were hit by paid, fraudulent copyright claims, allegedly from South Asia.
“He wrote to us on WhatsApp saying fraudulent copyright strikes and fake takedown claims are being weaponized on social platforms to silence independent journalists, delete reporting, and censor news outlets.”
Electronic communications lawyer Khotatso Mampa says Meta and Microsoft signed the IEC disinformation pact late, and platforms diluted it for South Africa.
“Content, we were told that these platforms would themselves pull it down. And in fact, we say this because we know that it has happened before in other jurisdictions.”
CSIR's Pravesh Deva explains how its SABC prediction model clusters 2024 voting districts, and says results should come around half past five.
“A researcher and analyst at the CSIR. Prof, good afternoon to you. Thank you so much for your time. I'm sure you're standing by with your prediction model ready to go.”
On SAfm Nightfall, a guest explains how he uses AI for sports facts, checks them on another site, and warns of lost credibility if not.
“And you go, hold on, and double-check your. It does now. It does. If you ask AI a stupid question, it'll give you a stupid answer. You've got to be very clever with the way you ask AI the questions. But it is a tool.”
A 702 motoring guest explains the rocket-assisted electric roadster demo, its physics, and which versions the public may buy.
“But on a much bigger scale, fully controlled, and a car was then, let's call it, flying for five seconds or controlled to descend for five seconds. Thank you for using the word controlled descent.”
On Cape Talk, the founder of Senso explains how a vibration and LED device helps deaf people sleep without missing alarms or sounds.
“And then, but these buildings are not necessarily equipped for deaf people because this is invisible disability. You know, you don't know a person has a disability in reference to the deaf community.”
On Cape Talk, a SADD guest explains car breathalyser locks, how drivers try to cheat them, and why drink driving is not treated as serious.
“That you actually have your face. And so you have to have the facial recognition and you blowing in with your face in it. So they, you know, the breathalyzer companies know all these little tricks.”
Two science journalists, Caroline Williams and Linda Geddes, describe tracing an impostor pitching fake stories to Science and the New York Post.
“Here's host James Reynolds on what was bubbling up in fake news back in 2024. The term deep fake describes how artificial intelligence can be used to digitally alter pictures, audio, video, and trick us into seeing or…”
Binance says it has made good 95% of a $6.3bn hack, while suspected cyber attacks hit supermarkets' cold chains across Europe.
“The big hack of Binance. Remember, $6.6 billion, $6.3 billion hacked through one laptop in 20 minutes or so. Binance today saying it had made good 95% of that amount.”
A cyber safety expert on Cape Talk backs a smartphone-free childhood and says Meta's reported $25bn settlement shows platforms can't dodge the harm.
“Resilience and at what age should they kind of be given a smartphone for the first time? So, I am a big, so I'm a parent as well, and I'm a big proponent of the Smartphone Free Childhood Initiative, which is like a…”
Cyber expert Anna Collard tells Cape Talk perpetrators use AI and scraped photos to create abuse material and extort children.
“About, you know, or 2024, sorry, you had about 13 images that were AI created and used for category A, like this is the most extreme classification of child sexual abuse. So it's really the most horrific stuff.”
A school project by Franco Rodriguez Viao became an app that alerts firefighters by WhatsApp to blazes detected by satellite within minutes.
“So, after his family friends lost their home in a fire. Back in 2020, Argentina experienced the most wildfires in the country's history, more than 35,000.”
A 702 guest says Netflix asks filmmakers to restate plots three times as viewers distracted by phones and TikTok stop paying attention.
“And because of the vertical screen and the fact that, you know, I'm often on TikTok and watching a show and Instagramming someone and I'm highly distracted, they were now asking filmmakers, this is Netflix, to restate…”
702 weather guests explain what 'wrong' means when millions ride on a forecast, and say machine learning has long been used in forecasting.
“Then show him where the clouds and where the bad weather is happening. So you cannot fly. You can't. It's a way out. Oh, they're out in the space. Okay, that's. I told you it was a stupid question.”
Laughter on air
On Cape Talk, a host recounts a fake Nedbank call and Maya on Money explains data breaches, WhatsApp priming and caller ID spoofing.
“Sexual assault, we will definitely make the time to chat to you again. Thank you so much, Shani Vaniga. The best of talk on Cape Talk.”
A Unisa criminal justice professor says police body cameras would boost accountability and evidence, despite tampering and cyber risks, as rollout stalls.
“There has been a call for the South African police services to get body cameras, which may help with the collection of evidence.”
A Weaver FinTech executive explains how informal workers without retail accounts can build a credit record using alternative data and a phone contract.
“Topic that some of you have asked for, and that is talking about those that work in the gig economy and how we need to rethink credit worthiness.”
Binance says it has frozen about $3bn of funds stolen in a record hack that analytics firms link to a North Korean hacking unit.
“Several analytic firms have linked the hack to a North Korean hacking unit. The US Secret Service said it was.”
The story so far
2 moments on 702
Fri 30 Oct, 16:30702
Binance hit by $6.3bn hack, North Korea suspectedSat 31 Oct, 07:05702This one
Binance hack: $6.3bn accessed, North Korea unit suspected
A Cape Talk host and psychologist Dr Claire Hart discuss phubbing, snubbing someone for your phone, and when it harms relationships.
“The word is fubbing, P-H-U-B-B-I-N-G, which is the P-H of phone and the U-B-I-N-G of snubbing.”
ESET's Alan Druma says Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, with video, audio and AI facial recognition, are outrunning South African legislation.
“It highlights how mainstream smart glasses, like the Meta Ray-Bans, and they sold over 7 million units recently, it's outpacing South African law, governance, and public awareness because they, yeah, they capture…”
A cybersecurity expert says an Australian test hack of the BYD Shark 6 exposed a flaw, since patched, but local owners should stay alert.
“That means more connected cars packed with software, cameras, and microphones are turning up in South African driveways. And it raises a question most of us don't ask while admiring the touch screen.”
Alec Hogg says the Alphabet and Amazon sell-off shows investors want proof AI spending pays back, weighing bull and bear cases.
“Same thing. Jassy was asked about it, and he answered, straight. It was the most honest thing said by any chief executive this week. He asked, if this opportunity came along over 25 years so you could spread it out?”
Alec Hogg explains why Amazon fell about 7% despite its fastest AWS growth in five years and record profit margin.
“Well, Amazon is the same movie, but a different script. And you'd have thought that the mood would be completely different when Amazon reported.”
Alec Hogg explains why Alphabet fell nearly 13% despite faster growth: AI spending means buybacks stopped and it is raising money.
“It wasn't because of the very small miss, it's the realization that the AI arms race has turned Google from a business that hands you cash into one that needs yours.”
UJ's Innocent Musonda says digital tools and AI in construction would expose decisions and bring transparency to infrastructure delivery.
“And I've always argued that, you know, corruption hurts technology, and technology hurts corruption. I've been in me”
x
“The future skills that we need, academia needs to come in. And, you know, you're thinking about cyber security.”
A Naked Scientists guest tells Cape Talk AI that designs helpful bacteriophages could also be misused to engineer more dangerous pathogens.
“Zara writes, he's raised questions around biosecurity, specifically AI lowering the technical barrier to synthesize pathogens or dangerous biocompounds. What's the risk, Zara asks? Yeah, hi, Zara.”
Asked by Kaya Breakfast who will win the metros, an AI says mayors are chosen by councils and a prediction would nudge voters.
“Win and then claim that the election was in Rich. Speaking of elections, we asked AI yesterday with six days to go based on polling and news sentiment, who's going to win the metros?”
Israeli filmmakers behind the documentary NASA describe how soldiers said AI-based systems and collateral damage numbers were used in Gaza.
“And we are showing in the film the way in which the Israeli military relied on these AI-based systems, knowing that they had an error rate. So it was a statistical kind of approach.”
The Money Show host presses a regulator on proposed eSIM rules and whether foreign visitors' eSIMs would be covered.
“But let me just put it like this: once these new regulations, if they go in as you've proposed them, if someone from Beijing were to come to South Africa tomorrow, would they be able to buy an ESIM in Beijing, land at…”
A Global Initiative analyst says gang leaders keep control from prison via smuggled phones, and gangs are spreading into rural Western Cape towns.
“In this current gang monitor, is that, and this has been reiterated by the Correctional Services Commissioner, who said that we essentially alluded to the fact that correctional facilities are becoming operational hubs…”
BCX's acting CEO says Telkom's election network is its most advanced yet, with multiple backups, though cyber attacks and disinformation remain risks.
“And behind the results dashboards lies a complex network of systems, of security controls, and technical teams that have got to perform under intense pressure.”
The story so far
2 moments on 2 stations
Thu 29 Oct, 05:05SAfm
IEC declares results system ready a week before 4 November pollsThu 29 Oct, 12:45Moneyweb@MiddayThis one
BCX says election network has four layers of redundancy
A 702 host recounts how twins from Ghana and a Hawaii woman lured elderly victims in the US and Europe, until FBI arrests.
“Crimes linking Ghana to the USA. Be careful of global dating sites. Absolutely that. Yes. And of course, it doesn't always look like a global dating site.”
A SAfm commentary says coordinated bot accounts drove over a quarter of anti-foreigner online talk, and WhatsApp forwards turn it into community 'truth'.
“You see online is engineered by machines. But bots do not run themselves. Digital forensic researchers repeatedly find that these coordinated networks are funded and directed by unseen operators.”
The story so far
2 moments on SAfm
Thu 29 Oct, 07:47SAfmThis one
Bots drove 27% of anti-migrant outrage online, SAfm commentary says
Fri 30 Oct, 07:46SAfm
Speaker: blaming migrants hides the real enemy, corrupt officials and digital puppeteers
A 43-year-old author with 16 years' experience tells Power FM how an AI workflow drafts her novels, with humans editing and reading them.
“Like, you know, if you had told someone about who's maybe an author about five years ago that there would be an author that would write 300 books.”
A Power FM guest argues fear of missing out and doom scrolling raise anxiety, and that surrendering our emotions to AI will harm mental health.
“You know, the thing that started with social media where people started saying things like form of fear of missing out. That is how the algorithm works. That is how the information that is being captured works right now.”
Comedian Olga Neymar says her decade-old joke was lifted by a deepfake AI account that out-drew her original by millions of views.
“Without permission and put in the mouths of synthetic, deep fake AI women in skimpy clothing, with the videos attracting millions of views on social media.”
Laughter on air
A tech firm says waiting hours for maintainer Andre to package the PHP fix exposed risks of relying on volunteer open source developers.
“To intentionally take ourselves offline. And then once PHP did release the fix, it was then a scramble with us and the rest of the world to get that fix in place.”
A SAfm host says Gauteng's e-panic button programme cost R118.8 million, distributed 2,000 devices at R908 each and appears mothballed.
“Well, even more of your money has been wasted because the Gauteng government spent 118.8 million rand on an e-panic button program and distributed just 2,000 devices. They cost 908 rand each.”
A Cape Talk guest says AI threatens artists and the creative side of music, though he urges musicians to work alongside it.
“Well, if AI died tomorrow, I'd be very happy.”
A guest on SAfm says 34.4% of South African artists use AI and that Western-trained models fail African accents, so Aura.afita was built.
“You have to take that and go into a studio, which can be on your phone or it can be on your laptop. And in there, you are able to sing, rap, speak, and you actually work with AI in your process.”
A SAfm caller says unrecorded SIM cards hamper crime investigations, citing the 2021 unrest findings, and blames politicians for stalling enforcement.
“Lalain Polakwani, let's talk about sim cards. Good afternoon, Ashraf. Ashab, the issue or the solution to what we've been discussing with the guy from eating association, the sim card is a problem.”
A book author tells Cape Talk that AI-induced stupidity arises because AI amplifies whatever habits users already have, polishing laziness.
“How to put guardrails around this technology. So I always give that example of a car that when it started, it is not what it is now.”
Alec Hogg raises BizNews's Palantir intrinsic value from $150 to $170 after 96% growth, but says the price already reflects it.
“In our intrinsic value, we have them at $150 a share. That's quite a long way below where they are trading at the moment, around $170. So the market has been running ahead of our intrinsic value number.”
A multi-asset income head says five tech stocks make up about 25% of the Nasdaq and AI-related firms over half the S&P, as cracks widen.
“But the AI boom's really driven U.S. stock markets. I would presume there is a higher potential now for more regular.”
An economist says Oracle's abandoned $7bn Tencent AI deal shows Chinese firms will find workarounds, as with DeepSeek, which could burst the bubble.
“They recently announced that they would be abandoning a $7 billion transaction with Tencent that sits in Hong Kong around AI.”
A Cape Talk caller says toddlers can swipe phones, and hosts warn screens and tablets in schools erode face-to-face learning and handwriting.
“And now, every second kid, and I'll see 18-month-olds sitting in my practice who can swipe and get rid of adverts. It's really quite alarming.”
A Power FM tech guest says parties use AI for posters, not for interactive manifestos, and that a 94-year-old could ask a chatbot on WhatsApp.
“My advice to political parties is we first need to move away from having policies and manifestos as just a written document. They need to be live and interactive documents, right?”
A BBC Tech Life report finds Somali journalists' Facebook accounts were hit by paid, fraudulent copyright claims, allegedly from South Asia.
“He wrote to us on WhatsApp saying fraudulent copyright strikes and fake takedown claims are being weaponized on social platforms to silence independent journalists, delete reporting, and censor news outlets.”
Electronic communications lawyer Khotatso Mampa says Meta and Microsoft signed the IEC disinformation pact late, and platforms diluted it for South Africa.
“Content, we were told that these platforms would themselves pull it down. And in fact, we say this because we know that it has happened before in other jurisdictions.”
CSIR's Pravesh Deva explains how its SABC prediction model clusters 2024 voting districts, and says results should come around half past five.
“A researcher and analyst at the CSIR. Prof, good afternoon to you. Thank you so much for your time. I'm sure you're standing by with your prediction model ready to go.”
On SAfm Nightfall, a guest explains how he uses AI for sports facts, checks them on another site, and warns of lost credibility if not.
“And you go, hold on, and double-check your. It does now. It does. If you ask AI a stupid question, it'll give you a stupid answer. You've got to be very clever with the way you ask AI the questions. But it is a tool.”
A 702 motoring guest explains the rocket-assisted electric roadster demo, its physics, and which versions the public may buy.
“But on a much bigger scale, fully controlled, and a car was then, let's call it, flying for five seconds or controlled to descend for five seconds. Thank you for using the word controlled descent.”
On Cape Talk, the founder of Senso explains how a vibration and LED device helps deaf people sleep without missing alarms or sounds.
“And then, but these buildings are not necessarily equipped for deaf people because this is invisible disability. You know, you don't know a person has a disability in reference to the deaf community.”
On Cape Talk, a SADD guest explains car breathalyser locks, how drivers try to cheat them, and why drink driving is not treated as serious.
“That you actually have your face. And so you have to have the facial recognition and you blowing in with your face in it. So they, you know, the breathalyzer companies know all these little tricks.”
Two science journalists, Caroline Williams and Linda Geddes, describe tracing an impostor pitching fake stories to Science and the New York Post.
“Here's host James Reynolds on what was bubbling up in fake news back in 2024. The term deep fake describes how artificial intelligence can be used to digitally alter pictures, audio, video, and trick us into seeing or…”
Binance says it has made good 95% of a $6.3bn hack, while suspected cyber attacks hit supermarkets' cold chains across Europe.
“The big hack of Binance. Remember, $6.6 billion, $6.3 billion hacked through one laptop in 20 minutes or so. Binance today saying it had made good 95% of that amount.”
A cyber safety expert on Cape Talk backs a smartphone-free childhood and says Meta's reported $25bn settlement shows platforms can't dodge the harm.
“Resilience and at what age should they kind of be given a smartphone for the first time? So, I am a big, so I'm a parent as well, and I'm a big proponent of the Smartphone Free Childhood Initiative, which is like a…”
Cyber expert Anna Collard tells Cape Talk perpetrators use AI and scraped photos to create abuse material and extort children.
“About, you know, or 2024, sorry, you had about 13 images that were AI created and used for category A, like this is the most extreme classification of child sexual abuse. So it's really the most horrific stuff.”
A school project by Franco Rodriguez Viao became an app that alerts firefighters by WhatsApp to blazes detected by satellite within minutes.
“So, after his family friends lost their home in a fire. Back in 2020, Argentina experienced the most wildfires in the country's history, more than 35,000.”
A 702 guest says Netflix asks filmmakers to restate plots three times as viewers distracted by phones and TikTok stop paying attention.
“And because of the vertical screen and the fact that, you know, I'm often on TikTok and watching a show and Instagramming someone and I'm highly distracted, they were now asking filmmakers, this is Netflix, to restate…”
702 weather guests explain what 'wrong' means when millions ride on a forecast, and say machine learning has long been used in forecasting.
“Then show him where the clouds and where the bad weather is happening. So you cannot fly. You can't. It's a way out. Oh, they're out in the space. Okay, that's. I told you it was a stupid question.”
On Cape Talk, a host recounts a fake Nedbank call and Maya on Money explains data breaches, WhatsApp priming and caller ID spoofing.
“Sexual assault, we will definitely make the time to chat to you again. Thank you so much, Shani Vaniga. The best of talk on Cape Talk.”
A Unisa criminal justice professor says police body cameras would boost accountability and evidence, despite tampering and cyber risks, as rollout stalls.
“There has been a call for the South African police services to get body cameras, which may help with the collection of evidence.”
A Weaver FinTech executive explains how informal workers without retail accounts can build a credit record using alternative data and a phone contract.
“Topic that some of you have asked for, and that is talking about those that work in the gig economy and how we need to rethink credit worthiness.”
Binance says it has frozen about $3bn of funds stolen in a record hack that analytics firms link to a North Korean hacking unit.
“Several analytic firms have linked the hack to a North Korean hacking unit. The US Secret Service said it was.”
The story so far
2 moments on 702
Fri 30 Oct, 16:30702
Binance hit by $6.3bn hack, North Korea suspectedSat 31 Oct, 07:05702This one
Binance hack: $6.3bn accessed, North Korea unit suspected
A Cape Talk host and psychologist Dr Claire Hart discuss phubbing, snubbing someone for your phone, and when it harms relationships.
“The word is fubbing, P-H-U-B-B-I-N-G, which is the P-H of phone and the U-B-I-N-G of snubbing.”
ESET's Alan Druma says Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, with video, audio and AI facial recognition, are outrunning South African legislation.
“It highlights how mainstream smart glasses, like the Meta Ray-Bans, and they sold over 7 million units recently, it's outpacing South African law, governance, and public awareness because they, yeah, they capture…”
A cybersecurity expert says an Australian test hack of the BYD Shark 6 exposed a flaw, since patched, but local owners should stay alert.
“That means more connected cars packed with software, cameras, and microphones are turning up in South African driveways. And it raises a question most of us don't ask while admiring the touch screen.”
Alec Hogg says the Alphabet and Amazon sell-off shows investors want proof AI spending pays back, weighing bull and bear cases.
“Same thing. Jassy was asked about it, and he answered, straight. It was the most honest thing said by any chief executive this week. He asked, if this opportunity came along over 25 years so you could spread it out?”
Alec Hogg explains why Amazon fell about 7% despite its fastest AWS growth in five years and record profit margin.
“Well, Amazon is the same movie, but a different script. And you'd have thought that the mood would be completely different when Amazon reported.”
Alec Hogg explains why Alphabet fell nearly 13% despite faster growth: AI spending means buybacks stopped and it is raising money.
“It wasn't because of the very small miss, it's the realization that the AI arms race has turned Google from a business that hands you cash into one that needs yours.”
UJ's Innocent Musonda says digital tools and AI in construction would expose decisions and bring transparency to infrastructure delivery.
“And I've always argued that, you know, corruption hurts technology, and technology hurts corruption. I've been in me”
x
“The future skills that we need, academia needs to come in. And, you know, you're thinking about cyber security.”
A Naked Scientists guest tells Cape Talk AI that designs helpful bacteriophages could also be misused to engineer more dangerous pathogens.
“Zara writes, he's raised questions around biosecurity, specifically AI lowering the technical barrier to synthesize pathogens or dangerous biocompounds. What's the risk, Zara asks? Yeah, hi, Zara.”
Asked by Kaya Breakfast who will win the metros, an AI says mayors are chosen by councils and a prediction would nudge voters.
“Win and then claim that the election was in Rich. Speaking of elections, we asked AI yesterday with six days to go based on polling and news sentiment, who's going to win the metros?”
Israeli filmmakers behind the documentary NASA describe how soldiers said AI-based systems and collateral damage numbers were used in Gaza.
“And we are showing in the film the way in which the Israeli military relied on these AI-based systems, knowing that they had an error rate. So it was a statistical kind of approach.”
The Money Show host presses a regulator on proposed eSIM rules and whether foreign visitors' eSIMs would be covered.
“But let me just put it like this: once these new regulations, if they go in as you've proposed them, if someone from Beijing were to come to South Africa tomorrow, would they be able to buy an ESIM in Beijing, land at…”
A Global Initiative analyst says gang leaders keep control from prison via smuggled phones, and gangs are spreading into rural Western Cape towns.
“In this current gang monitor, is that, and this has been reiterated by the Correctional Services Commissioner, who said that we essentially alluded to the fact that correctional facilities are becoming operational hubs…”
BCX's acting CEO says Telkom's election network is its most advanced yet, with multiple backups, though cyber attacks and disinformation remain risks.
“And behind the results dashboards lies a complex network of systems, of security controls, and technical teams that have got to perform under intense pressure.”
The story so far
2 moments on 2 stations
Thu 29 Oct, 05:05SAfm
IEC declares results system ready a week before 4 November pollsThu 29 Oct, 12:45Moneyweb@MiddayThis one
BCX says election network has four layers of redundancy
A 702 host recounts how twins from Ghana and a Hawaii woman lured elderly victims in the US and Europe, until FBI arrests.
“Crimes linking Ghana to the USA. Be careful of global dating sites. Absolutely that. Yes. And of course, it doesn't always look like a global dating site.”
A SAfm commentary says coordinated bot accounts drove over a quarter of anti-foreigner online talk, and WhatsApp forwards turn it into community 'truth'.
“You see online is engineered by machines. But bots do not run themselves. Digital forensic researchers repeatedly find that these coordinated networks are funded and directed by unseen operators.”
The story so far
2 moments on SAfm
Thu 29 Oct, 07:47SAfmThis one
Bots drove 27% of anti-migrant outrage online, SAfm commentary says
Fri 30 Oct, 07:46SAfm
Speaker: blaming migrants hides the real enemy, corrupt officials and digital puppeteersA 43-year-old author with 16 years' experience tells Power FM how an AI workflow drafts her novels, with humans editing and reading them.
“Like, you know, if you had told someone about who's maybe an author about five years ago that there would be an author that would write 300 books.”
A Power FM guest argues fear of missing out and doom scrolling raise anxiety, and that surrendering our emotions to AI will harm mental health.
“You know, the thing that started with social media where people started saying things like form of fear of missing out. That is how the algorithm works. That is how the information that is being captured works right now.”
Comedian Olga Neymar says her decade-old joke was lifted by a deepfake AI account that out-drew her original by millions of views.
“Without permission and put in the mouths of synthetic, deep fake AI women in skimpy clothing, with the videos attracting millions of views on social media.”
A tech firm says waiting hours for maintainer Andre to package the PHP fix exposed risks of relying on volunteer open source developers.
“To intentionally take ourselves offline. And then once PHP did release the fix, it was then a scramble with us and the rest of the world to get that fix in place.”
A SAfm host says Gauteng's e-panic button programme cost R118.8 million, distributed 2,000 devices at R908 each and appears mothballed.
“Well, even more of your money has been wasted because the Gauteng government spent 118.8 million rand on an e-panic button program and distributed just 2,000 devices. They cost 908 rand each.”
A Cape Talk guest says AI threatens artists and the creative side of music, though he urges musicians to work alongside it.
“Well, if AI died tomorrow, I'd be very happy.”
A guest on SAfm says 34.4% of South African artists use AI and that Western-trained models fail African accents, so Aura.afita was built.
“You have to take that and go into a studio, which can be on your phone or it can be on your laptop. And in there, you are able to sing, rap, speak, and you actually work with AI in your process.”
A SAfm caller says unrecorded SIM cards hamper crime investigations, citing the 2021 unrest findings, and blames politicians for stalling enforcement.
“Lalain Polakwani, let's talk about sim cards. Good afternoon, Ashraf. Ashab, the issue or the solution to what we've been discussing with the guy from eating association, the sim card is a problem.”
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