Michael Benjamin (on the music midnight makes)

The growing use of AI-generated posters by government departments and other institutions will eventually come back to haunt them. By normalising AI-generated visuals in official communication, they are making it increasingly difficult for the public to distinguish genuine announcements from fabricated ones. People are already creating fake posters that look remarkably similar to official communications. The danger is that misinformation can now spread under the appearance of credibility

A full-blown taxi war is unfolding in Cape Town, with taxi drivers and owners seemingly targeting one another. The violence is so unpredictable that telling commuters to be careful hardly seems enough. Gunmen strike without warning, opening fire in public spaces. A commuter was among those killed during an attack on taxi operators in Delft this morning. Now, another active crime scene in Maitland, where two taxi operators have been shot.