Media watchdog bans access to 64 websites creating pornographic deepfakes

MTN sheds prepaid customers as voice decline accelerates

MTN South Africa lost 1.1 million prepaid users between March and June as it purged credit-dependent customers.

9h ago ·techcentral.co.za

C++ Tool That Extracts Text From Scrolling Screen Recordings

Palimpsest: I Built a C++ Tool That Extracts Text From Scrolling Screen Recordings (94% Accuracy, 323 FPS on a Laptop) Most of the code was AI-generated from a detailed architecture prompt.

• C++ programmer develops Palimpsest tool
• Achieves 94.56% accuracy, 323 FPS
• Converts banking regulation videos to text

9h ago ·dev.to

6 Pitfalls of Building a Multilingual Site with Next.js 15: From Query Strings to URL Paths

I built a 150+ tool website with Next.js 15 on Cloudflare Pages (utlkit.com). Half the traffic was from China, half from elsewhere. Time to add i18n. I thought it would take a day.

• redirect() function doesn't work with static export for language-based redirection
• Pitfall 3: Passing locale to generateMetadata results in all tool page titles appearing in English

9h ago ·dev.to

Hey DEV! I'm Stefan — TYPO3 dev, and I just launched a page of free browser tools

Hey, I'm Stefan I'm a freelance web designer & developer based in Klagenfurt, Austria — though these days most of my work happens for clients well beyond Austria's borders.

• Stefan, Austrian freelance web developer, launched free browser tools page
• Tools include Palette & Contrast Checker, Icon Generator, Optimizer, Minifiers
• All tools run client-side with no data leaving browser

9h ago ·dev.to

New Zealand plans social media ban for under-16s

The country is emulating Australia, which became the first country in the world last year to implement such a law

9h ago ·businesstimes.com.sg