Intel admits range of chips vulnerable to hack
Intel has confirmed a report saying that its chips contain a feature that makes them vulnerable to hacking, though it said other companies’ semiconductors are also susceptible. Intel is working with chip makers including AMD and
Zuckerberg talks up cryptocurrencies
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave cryptocurrency enthusiasts a little optimism for the new year. Zuckerberg referenced cryptocurrencies in a posting Thursday in which he laid out how he will spend 2018 trying to correct persistent
Intel’s chip security problem: what you need to know
Intel said on Wednesday that most of the processors running the world’s computers and smartphones have a feature that makes them susceptible to attack. The largest chip maker is working with rivals and partners on a fix, but
Intel’s chip woes an opportunity for AMD
AMD is the sad sack of semiconductor makers. A security hole in its biggest rival’s computer chips gives it a small opening to change its fortunes. The bad news for Intel was a report that a design flaw in its widely used computer chips
TalkCentral: Ep 202 – ‘Toby-Wan Kenobi’
Stuff magazine publisher and editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak joins Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg to wrap up the biggest technology stories of 2017. Stories covered include bitcoin and cryptocurrencies; privacy
In defence of the Woan, by Sipho Maseko
South Africa must unlock the economic promise that information and communications technology presents, while also keeping communication affordable. The wireless open-access network proposed in the recent draft Electronic
The case for Universal Basic Internet
In 2015, Facebook launched its Free Basics app, offering a limited suite of Internet services for free in partnership with mobile network operators around the world. This provoked widespread debate on whether Free Basics violated
SA’s ICT sector is facing its Brexit moment
I noted, with an element of morbid curiosity, the following exchange in the UK’s house of commons two days ago: “The government has not carried out any impact assessments of leaving the EU on the UK economy, Brexit secretary David Davis
Ramaphosa’s plan to fix SA’s economy
After winning a bruising battle for control of South Africa’s ruling party, deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa now faces an even more daunting task: rebuilding an economy battered by years of misrule, corruption and the appointment
The best movies of 2017
From science-fiction sagas to neo-Westerns to superhero epics to back-to-basics action, 2017 had plenty to offer at the movies. This list of the pick of the year is based only on South African cinematic releases for 2017 and excludes
