Duncan McLeod

Editor @TechCentral. (Not hanging around much on Twitter/X anymore.)

[Duncan McLeod @mcleodd]

@nickpiquita That will never get past the competition regulators

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Aggressively priced. The fight between Amazon and Takealot is now well and truly under way...

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BREAKING | Amazon Prime launched in South Africa https://t.co/QzJEbEsIOz

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@DilBradly A lot of this is hype, and it is starting to feel a bit like the late 1990s again in terms of froth and frenzy. Still, we are making staggering advances.

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@JSvHeerden A bit. They were aimed mainly at indoor Wi-Fi and heavily restricted on power. As I read it, new regs add "standard power" outdoor (30/36dBm), so now useful for providing access services. 3.8-4.2GHz band also new. Plus the dynamic spectrum access framework.

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Significant development in South Africa's telecoms industry. Not great news for the MNOs, but likely very good news for consumers... 👇

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Huge win for South Africa’s Wi-Fi lobby in spectrum fight https://t.co/doXS7Ueb5o

[Duncan McLeod @mcleodd]

The Strange Rise of Arch Linux https://t.co/Qjz8JCmci6

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The team working on the covers @TheEconomist really deserve kudos. Incredible run of amazing cover designs in the last year...

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The (paper) wealth of these tech CEOs is absolutely astonishing

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@apesrcrazy 🤣

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Massive cyberattack against South Africa's internet infrastructure is currently taking place, impacting many websites and services. No information yet on the attackers, but it appears it may be an extortion effort.

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BREAKING | Extortion fears as DDoS attacks hit SA internet infrastructure https://t.co/C7IZ546anJ

[Duncan McLeod @mcleodd]

@crcouve Likely a botnet, as is typical with DDoS attacks

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Priorities...

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Google using iPhones, not Pixel/Android devices, in some of its demos at this I/O keynote. I guess that's a nod to the amount of money they're about to get from Apple to power Siri.

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Google I/O keynote is now live-streaming. Likely to be the most interesting Google developer keynote in years https://t.co/s9f9CCwXoe

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@julianrademeyer @TechCentral The latest: https://t.co/IhlMCt4LCu

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"The knock-on map through the ISP and reseller chains is exactly the dependency picture a hostile actor would want to validate."

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Troubling questions over South African internet infrastructure attacks https://t.co/thopjqCbhl

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DDoS extortionists ‘carpet bomb’ South African internet hosts https://t.co/5CHiVYI83i

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“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots.”

— Umberto Eco

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@RyanCoetzee @peterfrankopan @FranLitFest AI is going to dramatically accelerate this problem