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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Software CEOs say AI won’t kill SaaS as they fight back against the death-of-software narrative.
MTN Group has swung from a loss to a profit as Nigeria and Ghana drove a 67% surge in earnings.
MTN Group will spend up to R6-billion buying back and cancelling its own shares over the next three years.
South African start-up AirhostSwap lets Airbnb hosts swap their empty nights for stays at properties worldwide.
JSE-listed fintech Optasia has smashed its listing guidance, with revenue up 76% and users climbing 43% to 432 million.
Strong growth in Ghana and Uganda has pushed transaction volumes past the half a trillion dollar mark.
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Apple’s overseas suppliers have increased production of the company’s new iPad models.
Microsoft and OpenAI are working on plans for a data centre project that could cost as much as $100-billion.
Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a judge on Thursday for stealing $8-billion.
Apple will hold its Worldwide Developers Conference, WWDC 2024, in June.
Before all the revelations about his divorce, dubious workplace behaviour and ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates was just America’s huggable billionaire techno-philanthropist.
There are more than 10 effective Covid-19 vaccines in use around the world, so it’s easy to forget those still in development. That’s a mistake.
