Experts blame a compromised engineer’s laptop for the Binance breach, but warn that AI is raising the risk for everyone.
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South Africa’s biggest telecoms operators say they cannot endorse Icasa’s biometric Sim rules as drafted.
AI is easier to adopt than to monetise, and agents raise the stakes for market infrastructure, writes Alicia Greenwood.
AI tools that reverse engineer paid programs are producing free clones of Office, Photoshop and other software.
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South Africa’s key inflation number hit 4% in April, with fuel prices still rising and interest rate hikes now looking likely.
MTN Group will install GPUs at its African towers to build a distributed AI inference grid, while also investing in AI data centres.
Disney+ has hiked the price of its Premium monthly subscription in South Africa by more than 12%.
Google has put agents into Search and slashed prices to win enterprise business from rivals OpenAI and Anthropic.
Pro-AI commencement speakers are getting booed as Gen Z turns against the technology and its layoffs.
There are big concerns about the attacks that have been mounted against South African hosting companies in recent days.
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The global tech outage caused by CrowdStrike impacted nearly 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft said at the weekend.
Friday’s IT chaos, which disrupted businesses worldwide, has been linked to a piece of software called CrowdStrike Falcon.
South Africa’s Capitec Bank was a victim of the global outage caused by a rogue software update.
Netflix added more than eight million subscribers in its second quarter following a password-sharing crackdown.
Crypto assets are advanced tools of globalisation that work in complex, well-functioning markets. They’re not protections against the depredations of hostile governments.
Small business development minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams seem intent of doing the opposite of what is really required of her. By James Peron.
