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Because most fake news is spread on social media where young people feel comfortable, the government should ask for their help
Battle of the websites: Dlamini-Zuma vs Ramaphosa
Her platform says little about her ambitions but the images stretch beyond South Africa’s borders.
Active-Active: It’s no longer down to downtime
The Huawei Cloud Congress presents the Active-Active data centre as a solution to the increasingly memory captive website, writes Liron Segev.
M&G Women site: A ghetto or a platform?
Was launching M&G Women a smart move? Site editor Aliki Karasaridis and editor-in-chief Chris Roper debate the pros and cons with readers.
20 years on, the world’s first web page to be reborn
The world’s first web page will be dragged out of cyberspace and restored as part of a project to celebrate 20 years of the web.
Free State: Our website budget was audited
The Free State has defended the more than R40-million allocated for its website revamp, saying the budget was assessed by the auditor general.
Act puts noose around the internet’s neck
A badly drafted law easily allows anyone to censor the content of websites hosted in South Africa, writes Leon de Kock
Web policing a global challenge
Whether it be child pornography or a politically sensitive painting, banning content widely distributed online is often pure symbolic futility.
Pittsburgh paper launches online charging scheme
<i>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</i> starts members’ club offering readers extra content, access to journalists and special events.
Pirate Bay file-share four guilty, get year in jail
A Swedish court handed down a guilty verdict and a year in prison on Friday to all four defendants in a copyright test case involving The Pirate Bay.
MySpace, Google team up to pull more users
MySpace is teaming up with internet search leader Google to extend MySpace’s reach and counter the expansion of their common rival, Facebook.
Hacker compromises DA website
The DA website has been offline for the past week and is likely to stay so for the next, thanks to an unknown hacker’s attack on the site.
Giant online security hole slowly shrinking
A giant vulnerability in the internet’s design is allowing criminals to redirect traffic silently to websites under their control.
China lifts ban on Tiananmen websites
Websites on sensitive subjects are accessible in the Chinese capital as the authorities lifted more internet restrictions ahead of the Olympic Games.