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Category: Blog

OpenAI is giving ChatGPT free users unlimited text chats

2026-08-062026-08-06 Danie
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“OpenAI is making a big change for ChatGPT users on its free and Go tiers: Starting next week, users on those tiers will be able to have unlimited text chats with the chatbot, according to […]

BlogAI, technology

Team South Africa wins at NASA space engineering competition

2026-08-062026-08-06 Danie
Group of smiling young people proudly holding medals and a South African flag at an award event.

“The international finals for the world’s longest-running space engineering competition were held at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre and the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida from 30 July to 2 August. Team ZA was the […]

Blogsouthafrica, technology

Spam callers face penalties of up to R1,000,000 in South Africa

2026-08-032026-08-03 Danie
Man in suit and glasses speaking at podium with microphones, floral arrangement, and map with South African and Lesotho flags in background.

So a few amendments made, but what I really am happy to finally see, is the loophole closed around marketers opting in or not: “Any direct marketer who is not registered on the opt-out registry […]

Blogsouthafrica, spam, technology

LG Monitors Fill Windows PCs With Adware, and It’s Not Just Recent Displays

2026-07-302026-07-30 Danie
Curved monitor displaying a first-person car racing game, with a steering wheel and dashboard visible, set against a pink LED-lit desk.

“If you’re using an LG monitor and you suddenly see blaring ads for McAfee scam protection, it’s not because your PC’s been hacked (or, rather, not hacked by some unknown third party). LG, the maker […]

Blogprivacy, technology, tracking

It Seems a Lot Like Dead Internet Has Actually Come True

2026-07-282026-07-28 Danie
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“The infamous dead internet theory was originally a conspiracy that posited that the vast majority of the internet was run by bots and thinking machines. Most accounts you saw online were really bots masquerading as […]

BlogAI, bots, technology

EskomSePush app transitioned to neighbourhood service disruptions otherwise it would have died

2026-07-252026-07-25 Danie
Newspaper headline dated May 21, 2015, reading "Eskom-Sepush outstrips Facebook" on a Cape Times front page.

This is the story of how the app evolved from being a high demand app to manage the electricity load shedding across South Africa, to something completely different after load shedding went away. The app […]

Blogsouthafrica, technology

Africa’s most popular phones have a tracking problem and explains where data disappears to

2026-07-252026-07-25 Danie
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“Roughly one in two smartphones sold in Africa is made by a company most buyers have never heard of. Transsion, a Shenzhen-based manufacturer, owns the Tecno, Infinix and Itel brands, which together accounted for about […]

Blogafrica, privacy, technology, tracking

MeshCore Radio for Social Networking and Disasters with zero Internet required

2026-07-242026-07-24 Danie
Flyer for Western Cape Hamnet Meshcore Tech Talk on 23 July 2026 at 19:30 SAST, hosted by Danie ZS1OSS via Zoom.

The Boland Amateur Radio Club (BARC) invited me to do this talk on 23 July 2026. HAMNET Emergency Communications provided the Zoom platform. The audience consisted of radio amateurs, citizens, and disaster management. MeshCore is […]

Blogdisasters, meshcore, opensource, southafrica, technology

FokOffMense is South Africa’s spam block and POPIA toolkit

2026-07-232026-07-23 Danie
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Block community-flagged spam on Android, send formal POPIA opt-outs, and monitor breaches — one SA account, no ads. iOS users can use the website, but there is no iOS app yet (probably also because iOS […]

Blogsouthafrica, spam, technology

Hugging Face Said Last Week It Was Attacked. An Unreleased OpenAI Model Did It, OpenAI Now Says

2026-07-222026-07-22 Danie
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“OpenAI’s blog post essentially says an evaluation was going on that was intended to test the ability of the models to carry out cyberattacks—benchmarks as they’re called. These instances of the models were running theoretically […]

BlogAI, security, technology

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