The CSIR FuturePHARMA facility was launched in Tshwane to help advance scientific discoveries into pharmaceutical products. The source says South Africa imports about 98% of the active pharmaceutical ingredients used to make medicines locally.
The Subsidy Advice Unit accepted a request to report on the proposed Strategic Charging Infrastructure Scheme, advising the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles.
Gauteng launched a digital system for processing transport operating licences. The source says it is intended to improve access, efficiency, transparency and regulatory compliance.
The source frames a shift from optimism about the internet during the Arab Spring to a more sober view of what defending it takes. It provides no further event details.
The excerpt says NSF-supported researcher Rajesh Menon discusses work combining optical systems with nanofabrication. It gives no further details about the work.
Illustrative image: Electricity Distribution Terminal, Skidby , East Riding of Yorkshire , England. This major electricity terminal lies west of Dunswell Lane and beyond the Hull-Beverley railway. — George Robinson/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
A power outage in East England was in progress, with 40 customers confirmed without power. The outage began at the supplied coordinates on 2026-10-06; no estimated restoration time was provided.
The source describes a list of organisations that have signed the Cyber Resilience Pledge. Individual signatories are not named in the supplied excerpt.
The UK Ministry of Defence extended its Airbus contract by £190m, targeting a 30% improvement in availability for the Royal Air Force's tactical and strategic airlift fleet.
A National Opt-Out Registry system is described as enabling consumers to block unwanted direct marketing communications. The briefing is scheduled in Pretoria, South Africa.
The source reports a planned launch of a KwaZulu-Natal portal for viewing government property, proposing uses, and submitting complaints or queries. It says an audit covered 10,067 assets and that 81 unused buildings and land parcels were released to the public.
The source describes an independent external audit of an election results system and a review by party-designated ICT experts. It says the audit was concluded and the review period runs from 5 to 12 October 2026.
President Ramaphosa praised the newly launched FuturePHARMA facility at the CSIR campus in Tshwane, saying it would strengthen South Africa’s capacity for local vaccine and medicine research and pandemic preparedness.
SMG launched an LED keycap keyring in Seoul as part of its first “Stress Relief” series, connected to the Vibrant 24-Hour Economy initiative. The excerpt lists a price of KRW 14,900.
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Illustrative image: The personality test results for ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini across two distinct prompting experiments. Recent research (2025) introduces PsAIch (Psychotherapy-inspired AI Characterisation), a protocol evaluating frontier Large Language Models (LLMs)—ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini—as psychotherapy clients rather than tools. By eliciting "developmental histories" and administering psychometric tests over several weeks, the study found that these models often meet clinical thresholds for psychiatric syndr — Afshin Khadangi, Hanna Marxen, Amir Sartipi, Igor Tchappi, Gilbert Fridgen (from SnT, University of Luxembourg)/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned that time to establish guardrails on artificial intelligence is running out. He cited a race among companies and countries and concerns about human safety and humanity’s survival.
The source describes how football, basketball, and esports communities in Indonesia connect through group chats, livestreams, and other online content. It cites estimates of internet penetration and social media use in the country.
SCE reports an active, unplanned power outage in Riverside County, California affecting one customer and attributed to equipment problems. The outage record includes coordinates (33.811812492035514, -116.96300879698529) and a start time in the source data.
A planned, active power outage in El Dorado County, California was reported by PGE affecting 63 customers, with start and estimated restoration times and coordinates provided by the source. The outage is labeled as a planned shutdown and remains active in the supplied record.
Illustrative image: illustration to promote cybersecurity submitted in the Cybersecurity Visuals Challenge 2019 hosted by OpenIDEO — Rebecca Wang/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
The source describes a Citrix NetScaler memory-buffer vulnerability that could allow denial of service. It calls for vendor-directed mitigations and compliance with cited CISA guidance.
A charter inviting organisations and public bodies to express interest and sign to take a ‘reuse first’ approach to IT assets. The stated aim is to help close the digital divide.
The Competition and Markets Authority is investigating an anticipated acquisition by Liberty Global, Telefónica and InfraVia, via their joint venture nexfibre, of Substantial and its brands Netomnia, Brsk, Brsk ISP and YouFibre. The information comes from a gov.uk announcement of a CMA merger inquiry.
Zammad contains an improper privilege management vulnerability that can allow the local zammad user to escalate privileges to root. The excerpt directs applying vendor mitigations and following CISA’s BOD 26-04 guidance and forensics triage requirements.
CVE-2026-102489 is a session fixation vulnerability in Zammad GmbH’s Zammad that can be chained with CVE-2026-102490 and can lead to remote code execution as the zammad user. CISA advises applying vendor mitigations per its BOD 26-04 guidance or discontinuing use if mitigations are unavailable.
The Competition and Markets Authority has imposed a conduct requirement on Google concerning its general search services. The report is published on gov.uk on 2026-10-01.
A report describing the final phase of Building Digital UK legacy voucher schemes was published. The source excerpt provides no further details about findings or scope.
A program promoting secure software development and aiming to strengthen the resilience of the cyber ecosystem. The source excerpt provides a brief description but no operational details, locations, or timeline.
