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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FirstRand has deepened its bet on AI fintech Optasia, spending R1.48-billion to lift its stake to 26.1%.
CIVH has swung to profitability after the implementation of Vodacom’s landmark Maziv fibre transaction.
Truecaller says it is cooperating with the Information Regulator’s ongoing Popia probe in South Africa.
Namibia’s telecoms regulator has explained why Starlink has been denied a licence to operate in the country.
Prominent podcasters have warned parliament that over-regulating the fledgling industry could cripple its growth.
Maziv CEO Dietlof Mare says the Vodacom deal has given the fibre group the firepower to expand at scale.
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Adobe is in the early stages of allowing third-party generative AI tools inside its widely used video editing software.
The attempt to insert a secret backdoor into XZ Utils “may not be an isolated incident”.
Half of the world’s poorest countries are seeing a widening income gap with the wealthiest for the first time this century.
Tesla’s layoffs add to the narrative of being a car company dealing with a slowdown. Yet its stock doesn’t reflect this.
The solar industry has spent decades slashing the cost of generating electricity direct from the sun. Now it’s focusing on making panels even more powerful.
Five years ago, Microsoft and Google agreed to cease using their substantial lobbying firepower against each other. That truce, forged at the time by two new CEOs wanting a fresh start, expired in April.
