Tech billionaires promise AI abundance underwritten by a basic income. Run South Africa’s budget and the thesis unravels.
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Phillip Dukashe, Eskom’s group executive for generation – and a 26-year veteran of the state-owned power utility – has resigned.
Icasa said on Monday that it still more time to probe South Africa’s subscription television industry and come up with possible regulations.
After a lull of just two days, Eskom will revert to cutting the power because it can’t keep up with demand for its only product.
A striking number of mid-sized companies in South Africa that have been hit by ransomware attacks are paying the attackers, new research has found.
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Eskom on Monday warned that its system is again under “severe” pressure, and that load shedding during the evening peak is a distinct possibility.
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Facebook and WhatsApp will be forced to share users’ encrypted messages with British police under a new treaty between the two countries, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Huawei Technologies founder Ren Zhengfei is ready to license his 5G networking technology only to one other company – and he wants that potential arch-rival to be American.
Microsoft, Mastercard and the Hewlett Foundation are funding a new organisation that is planning to help dissidents and other vulnerable groups across the world defend against hackers.
China has become a major player in global social media manipulation campaigns, researchers say, amid an overall increase in the number of countries sharing misinformation online.
China’s digital pay-television company StarTimes walked away the winner on Tuesday in the TopTV takeover saga, although at least one of the losing consortiums is considering challenging the legality of the deal. Government will be the biggest loser with losses over R1bn. The meeting
Three weeks ago, in mid-April, Absa became the last of South Africa’s big banks to launch a mobile transactional banking application for smartphones and tablets, beating at the finish line by First National Bank, Standard Bank, Nedbank and Investec. But Absa, South Africa’s
