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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Microsoft estimates 23.1% of working-age South Africans use generative AI – well ahead of the rest of the continent.
State-aligned Iranian media is floating a plan to charge the world’s tech giants rent on subsea cables in the Strait of Hormuz.
Anthropic will brief central bankers around the world on cyber vulnerabilities its new Mythos model has uncovered.
Starlink now operates in two dozen African countries, with Uganda becoming the latest to licence the satellite service.
The recovery is holding, but Eskom’s own modelling warns of a possible return to blackouts by decade’s end.
Group CITO Johnson Idesoh says the bank will deploy “super agents” to scan its systems and shorten patch cycles.
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SpaceX suffered a rare failure of its Falcon 9 rocket in space this week.
EU regulators are worried that X’s use of blue checkmarks for verified accounts “deceives” users.
Apple will open its tap-and-go mobile payments system to rivals, EU antitrust regulators said on Thursday.
AMD will acquire Silo AI for $665-million as it tries to enhance its AI chip capabilities against Nvidia.
