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South Africans fight back as spam calls surge past 17bn

Despite a massive surge in AI-driven scam calls exceeding 17 billion in South Africa, citizens are fighting back by answering fewer unknown numbers as new regulations and opt-out registries loom.

South Africans fight back as spam calls surge past 17bn

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Authorize Can't See Your Data

The first authorization bug I ever shipped wasn't a missing [Authorize] attribute. It was the opposite — everything had [Authorize] , the tests were green, and it still let one user edit another…

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