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Rather than retiring from a day of elephant spotting to a four-walled hotel room with a window or two, safari guests of the South Africa’s Cheetah Plains Game Lodge will have plenty of opportunities for extracurricular connections with nature… Continue reading Cheetah Plains safari lodge surrounds wildlife lovers with rustic "Afro-minimalist" charm
A ransomware attack aimed at City Power, the electricity provider for Johannesburg (aka Joburg), South Africa, has resulted in some residents temporarily without power. While the provider’s operational technology (OT) network hasn’t been hi… Continue reading Ransomware attack leaves Johannesburg residents without electricity
Thomas Kurian, the newly-minted CEO of Google Cloud, used the company’s Cloud Next conference last week to lay out his vision for the future of Google’s cloud computing platform. That vision involves, in part, a hiring spree to give businesses that want to work with Google more people to talk to and get help from. […] Continue reading Google Cloud brings on 27-year SAP veteran as it doubles down on enterprise adoption
As we approach Build, Microsoft is ramping up the Azure announcements; here’s everything that happened last month.
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Dating back 73,000 years, the drawing smashes the record for oldest figurative drawing by about 30,000 years. Continue reading This Is the Oldest Drawing by Humans Ever Found
Officials are posting data from individual houses to try and convince people to conserve water—at the cost of their privacy. Continue reading Cape Town Is Surveilling Residents to Shame Them Into Using Less Water
Facing a water shortage, residents can no longer wash their cars with municipal water. And bars are cutting frozen margaritas from the menu. Continue reading Cape Town Residents Tell Us What It’s Like Living in the Shadow of ‘Day Zero’
Are people looking to profit from “Day Zero”? Continue reading Online Vendors Try to Make a Quick Buck as Cape Town Runs Out of Water
Several Western nations are considering an offensive-minded cyberwarfare initiative meant to fundamentally change the way the countries react to attacks from adversary nations, Reuters reports. The accord would guide the deployment of offensive cyberweapons. The agreement, being hammered out by the Denmark, Germany, Norway, Spain, The Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States, may be solidified by 2019. While all the nations involved are members of NATO, a NATO spokesperson speaking to CyberScoop was careful to point out that this is definitively not a NATO-backed initiative. NATO itself recently announced it will establish new command centers to incorporate the cyber domain into operational planning. The alliance has seen an increasing number of attacks against members and institutions and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg recently said cyber-operations are a potential response any kind of attack against member countries. Irina Novakova, a NATO official, detailed for CyberScoop the alliance’s increasing focus on cyberattacks including the decision that a severe cyberattack could […]
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In 1978, Tim Jenkin was a man living on borrowed time, and he knew it. A white South African in his late 20s, he had been born into the apartheid system of brutally enforced racial segregation. By his own admission, he didn’t even realize in his youth that apartheid existed — it was just a part of his world. But while traveling abroad in the early 1970s he began to see the injustice of the South African political system, and spurred on by what he learned, he became an activist in the anti-apartheid underground.
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