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Information security has become a great cause of concern as can be referred to in this article on MyBroadband: South African construction company hit by cyberattack.Read the article Threat intelligence in SD-WAN over on LinkedIn.

In a recent news article Bloomberg's has reported on the return of reel-to-reel tape into the music market. Ironically, in Information Technology, tape is also maligned and has been assigned to the scrapheap of history like the VCR. In most cases, the alternative of hard disks, also known as spinning rust, is promoted as the only storage solution required. Ironically, spinning rust is the derogatory term used by the protagonists of flash arrays or SSDs, who in term predict the death of hard disks.Read the full article: The death of tape has been greatly exaggerated

Daar heers groot ongelukkigheid onder leeu boere in die Vryburg en Tosca omgewing. Die boere het, volgens ‘n betroubare bron, glo reeds regsadvies ingewin by ‘n prokureur in Vryburg oor die moontlikheid om regsstappe te neem teen ‘n groep oud leerders van Grey kollege in Bloemfontein. Volgens die bron, ene Sarie Talkalot, wil die boere die groep manne dagvaar vir skadevergoeding nadat die prys van geblikte leeus oornag geval het na aanleiding van ‘n berig wat in Die Volksblad verskyn het onder die opskrif “Dronk leeu laat Bfn-manne bewe, duik en hol.”

Mej Talkalot, ‘n tikster in die prokureur se kantoor, het alles aan ons ondersoekende verslaggewer, Henry Vrabaie, uitgeblaker nadat hy haar, soos hy dit stel, “n bietjie gedruk het vir inligting”. Mej Talkalot , wat nou nie net swanger is nie, maar ook sommer in groot moeilikheid by haar werkgewer is, sê dat sy gewoonlik glad nie baie praat nie en eintlik enige geheim goed kan bewaar. Sy het egter voor Mnr Vrabaie se sjarme geswig nadat …

One of the most shocking things to me during the current COVID-19 crisis is that the infrastructure we’ve come to depend upon for our work, entertainment, and lifeline to the outside world has continued to function quite well despite surging demand. Our home Internet has become like the dial-tone it replaced, and Netflix and other streaming services like our cable. We expect it to be on and working.

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