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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Many DStv subscribers never watch sport. The cross-subsidy funding SuperSport is getting harder to sustain.
ACT has abandoned its court case against home affairs after mobile operators decided to pursue direct negotiations.
AI skills are no longer niche in South Africa’s jobs market, but verifying real proficiency remains a challenge.
Investors question OpenAI’s $852-billion valuation as the ChatGPT maker pivots to enterprise to counter Anthropic.
Telkom is targeting start-ups and seasonal operators with a prepaid fibre product running on Openserve’s footprint.
Six months on from the Canal+ takeover, the question is: what kind of company is MultiChoice now?
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The exodus is now nearly complete for the Apple design group that worked under Jony Ive.
The US has revoked licences that allowed US companies to ship chips used for laptops and handsets to Huawei.
Nigeria has vowed to ban person-to-person cryptocurrency trading in the naira in an effort to protect the local unit.
Full repairs to three submarine internet cables damaged in the Red Sea in February are being held up by disputes.
Will banking meet the sorry fate of newspapers? With the tech industry creeping up on licensed deposit-taking institutions in India, it’s time to take the question seriously.
The world’s best-selling smartphone may not be tops when it comes to navigating life during a global pandemic. At least that’s what I discovered — and it’s why I ditched my iPhone.

































