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Other false posts say asylum seekers and undocumented foreign nationals are being registered to vote. A fake poll graphic claimed the ANC had 43% support in Tshwane and said President Cyril Ramaphosa promised to protect ANC members from corruption charges. Africa Check found that claim to be fabricated.

A widely shared video showed a ballot box in Rustenburg. Africa Check investigated it and found the box was sealed and labelled as a home-visit ballot box.

The IEC said ordinary steps, such as video of staff returning and checking special-vote materials, are presented as proof of fraud. It said these unproven fraud claims undermine confidence in the election. The IEC also reported some genuine election-related offences, including arrests. Reports said it received more than 700 disinformation complaints.Share

Critics say the report was littered with false citations. They also say it credited research to the wrong authors. The critics were not named.

The claims are accusations, and the fact sheet gives no response from Accenture.Share

Google announced the option for schools to disable its AI tools. The company said schools that choose to restrict AI entirely will not be able to use Search.

The reason is that AI features are now built into Search. A school cannot block the AI part and keep the rest of the search engine.Share

Reports said the new placements could help Reddit earn more revenue from existing users. The test comes as Google's AI search changes how people find Reddit content.

Reddit has not been reported to have said how long the test will run or how many users will see the ads.Share

The $6.3B figure is described as a record for a heist. Reports did not say here who carried out the theft.

The experts' warnings concerned North Korea's long-running hacking campaigns. They said the state's attacks were persistent and patient.Share

Tau said the delegation is looking at Silicon Valley as it works to carry out South Africa's digitalisation strategy. He said the country continues to work on developing its tech industry.

The minister said the trip will include business-to-business engagement and learning. He said it will also influence future investment decisions in the sector.Share

The video was posted by a Facebook account called TheDebster Jaars, which describes its owner as a digital creator, singer and comedian. When it was examined, the video had about 8,000 likes, 634 comments and 7,600 shares. The identity and motives of the creator remain unclear.

A related AI-generated image also tested positive on SynthID, the watermark detection tool built by Google DeepMind. The video spreads ahead of municipal elections, which are due on Wednesday. The Electoral Commission of South Africa reported a Mandela deepfake to Real411.

The fact check found that the new videos and images give Mandela a political position he never expressed in this form. It said he allegedly warned against unquestioning loyalty to the ANC in a 1993 speech to a Cosatu congress. At an ANC rally for his 90th birthday in 2008, he said he would be nothing without the ANC.Share

The people said Nvidia gave the instruction to cloud computing clients in recent months. The US chipmaker has not been named as confirming the order in the information available.

The claim comes from one exclusive report that cites unnamed sources. The report frames the order as a way to hold back China's technology progress against US competitors.Share

Analysts and experts blame North Korean hackers for the theft from Binance. They say the tokens were worth billions of dollars. Binance is a crypto exchange.

Experts say the hackers are breaking the tokens into small packages in an attempt to hide their tracks. Analysts expect the laundering to take months.Share

Marvell is the buyer and Lumentum is the company being acquired. The deal was announced on 2 November.Share

The notifications told recipients that their iPhones may have been hacked with spyware. Apple sent them on 2 November.

The facts available do not name the spyware or say who is behind the attacks.Share

Two teenagers brought the case. Plaintiff S.J. is 16 and from Illinois. Plaintiff K.D.B. is 18 and from Mississippi. Their attorneys say the platform was designed to be addictive and caused depression, anxiety and eating disorders.

The plaintiffs say they began using YouTube as early as age 3 and the other platforms around age 9. They blame compulsive habits on features such as autoplay and infinite scroll. The companies reject the claims and say they have acted to make their apps safe places for young people.

Attorneys John Morgan and Emily Jeffcott act for K.D.B. They said the settlements let them keep building toward holding social media companies accountable for the effect on children. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel had been expected to testify. A Snap spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In the first case, which ended in March, a Los Angeles jury awarded a young woman $6m (R100m) in damages against Meta and YouTube. In August, Meta settled with nearly every US state and territory over teen harm lawsuits, worth up to $18bn. About $5bn of that depends on states reaching similar settlements with Snap, TikTok and YouTube.Share

Apple made the statement about rising memory chip costs. The company did not say how it will change device prices.

The figures come from a single outlet's account, published on 3 November.Share

The New York Times and other news outlets are the plaintiffs in the case. They claim Brave distributed their copyrighted content to its own customers without permission.

The outlets named Anthropic and Perplexity as customers that allegedly received the content. These are claims by the plaintiffs, and Brave is the defendant.Share

The investigation found that VAST AI never rented out anything and that its list of verified withdrawals was fake. The finding came from an analysis of the platform's code. The scheme's pitch promised to turn R50 000 into R350 000 in two days.

Products cost from R100 for two days to R40 000 for 400 days. At the top VIP10 level, the scheme promised a salary of R300 000 a month. VAST's Telegram channel had 16 400 subscribers.

The operators told members they faced a financial audit. They said the "National Treasury of South Africa" told them to withhold funds for Personal Income Tax. Quentin Peason, named as a manager of a WhatsApp group called AI Working Group, blamed a compliance review and delays in cross-border settlement. He promised 10 times compensation.

A journalist who investigated the scheme said the payment gateway appears to be Chinese-operated and illicit. The journalist also said the platform looks like a reusable system built in Chinese for many countries. It may be run by a syndicate like Morita Forestry, an earlier scheme that used similar tactics.Share

Binance made the claim about the 95% itself, and the figure has not been confirmed by another source. The exchange did not say in the available facts how the breach happened.Share

Lees said smartphones can help learners with their studies. He said they can ease problems such as a lack of resources and a lack of access to teachers, if control and use are deliberate.

He said parents and schools should guide learners on responsible cellphone use. Lees said: "We see the use of phones as quite a big opportunity if the control and usage are done very deliberately."Share

The NAACP brought the lawsuit. It claims that xAI violated the Clean Air Act through pollution from its data center.

The claim is the NAACP's allegation in the lawsuit. The judge has not ruled on whether it is true.Share

OTW first called the outage maintenance and said the work would take at least 12 hours. Later it said restoring the site could take around two weeks, with up to four weeks possible. OTW said it was still working out how far the damage goes.

OTW said no data was deleted, so works, comments, kudos and bookmarks are safe. It said the user database holds user names, email addresses, IP addresses and hashed versions of passwords. OTW said it does not currently believe the database was stolen.

OTW hopes to bring back a degraded version of the site sooner, possibly read-only. It said it might have to take the site down again without warning. Reports said AO3 hosted 18.4 million works as of September.Share

Robert Wiggins, a researcher at What Security in the United Kingdom, found the password in the app's code. The database held customer names, emails, dates of birth, phone numbers and other data. Wiggins said an attacker could also have used the password to change customer data.

Dine Brands, which owns Applebee's, said its security team started an investigation. A spokesperson said the team has not currently found evidence of unauthorized access.

Applebee's had at least 8.5 million rewards members as of last year.Share

Binance said an initial investigation suggests a compromised laptop of a DevOps engineer may have let an attacker submit unauthorised withdrawal transactions. The company said it found no evidence of a wallet private key leak. It said user funds remained safe.

Tether said it froze over 1.567 billion USDT, and Circle said it froze over 800 million USDC. Binance said it will cover all losses with its Secure Asset Fund for Users and company funds. Co-founder Yi He said the exchange expects to start resuming withdrawals within the next 48 hours.

Glassnode, a blockchain analytics firm, used on-chain data to estimate that about $5.3 billion in assets was drained. Binance did not comment on that figure. Former chief executive Changpeng Zhao said the incident looked like a hack, and Binance promised a full post-mortem after its investigation.Share

Intel reported third-quarter revenue of $16.5 billion, up 21%. Earnings were 52 cents a share. Wall Street had expected 40 cents, according to one report.

Intel's chief financial officer, David Zinsner, said the slowdown in the PC market should last until at least the first half of next year. Intel forecast that the PC market will shrink 10% in 2027 after an expected 12% fall in 2026.

Chief executive Lip-Bu Tan said the data center unit would have done better without a shortage of certain raw materials and the closure of an Israeli factory. Intel's shares had risen more than 150% since January before the drop.Share

WAN-IFRA said the terms would require publishers to let Meta collect and reuse their content without payment. This would be a condition of using Meta's business services. The body says its members include almost 20 000 publications in more than 120 countries.

The Oslo District Court has temporarily suspended the plan after a legal challenge by Norwegian media organisations. The UK Competition and Markets Authority said it would examine whether Meta is abusing its dominant position. The authority said the terms would let Meta collect content without offering publishers a choice, and use it to develop its own products, including AI features.

Zuckerberg said Meta would not change its terms until a full consultation with the media industry has ended. WAN-IFRA said Meta platforms are a main gateway to news for many users. In the letter, it wrote: "Producing journalism requires substantial financial resources."Share