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While the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) continues to urge beneficiaries to complete their eLife Certification, many social grant recipients across South Africa report that the portal remains unusable.

Despite Sassa's claims that initial technical glitches have been resolved, beneficiaries cite consistent failures with facial recognition and one-time pins (OTPs).

IOL has been inundated with emails and calls from beneficiaries nationwide claiming they were unable to complete the mandatory certification process.

The eLife Certification was implemented on March 30, 2026, as a dig

AI chatbots and politicians who aren't even pretending to try anymore are a match made in heaven.

Exhibit A: Canadian lawmaker Bill Oliver, who made a strange, cyborgian digression in a speech addressing the New Brunswick legislature last month.

"Public confidence in the office of an advocate matters," Oliver intoned, before offering a bizarre non sequitur.

"Here's a more natural, flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech rather than a series of short points," he added.

Oliver, in a distinctly 2026 twist, had accidentally read a prompt from an AI chatbot. Credit

Last week, Hugging Face disclosed a new kind of security incident⁠(opens in a new window)after they detected and contained an AI agent that compromised their infrastructure, something we expect to become more commonplace with the proliferation of increasingly cyber-capable models. After investigating, we now know that this particular incident was driven by a combination of OpenAI models --- including GPT‑5.6 Sol and an even more capable pre-release model, all with reduced cyber refusals for evaluation purposes --- while being internall

CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. - Cherokee Sheriff's investigators arrested two agency members Monday after an internal database audit revealed multiple employees used automated license plate readers for non-law enforcement purposes.

Georgia law violations

What we know:

On Monday, authorities made two additional arrests for the exact same offenses. 

Lieutenant Chris Bryant, 45, of Acworth, and Sergeant Mike Creeden, 35, of Cartersville, were arrested and booked into jail. 

Both men face one felony count of violation of oath of office and one misdemeanor count of prohibition on

WASHINGTON, July 17 (Reuters) - Amazon.com self-driving car unit Zoox said Friday it will recall its fleet of 105 autonomous vehicles because they may not detect heavy smoke and could impede emergency personnel.

Last week, the ‌top U.S. auto safety official said self-driving car companies must quickly address a "clear pattern" of driverless vehicles interfering with law enforcement and other first responders that had raised significant safety concerns.

Zoox said Friday that on June 20 an unoccupied Zoox autonomous vehicle encountered heavy smoke that obscured an active emergency fire scene.