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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MTN is planning AI-enabled data centres in South Africa and Nigeria as it bets on Africa’s infrastructure boom.
Eskom has marked 300 consecutive days without load shedding, with plant outages down 53% year on year.
Prepaid woes and rising bad debts have dragged MTN South Africa’s earnings down, despite strong enterprise growth.
Meta may cut one in five workers as it pours billions into AI infrastructure and talent, three sources have said.
Shoprite has agreed to acquire a majority stake in R&A Cellular, targeting the informal retail sector.
Liquidation looms for the Post Office as its rescue practitioners warn government they intend to wind it up.
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Elon Musk said xAI chatbot Grok will be enabled for all premium subscribers of his social media platform X.
Vodafone Germany aims to save around €400-million as part of a restructuring that will hit some 2 000 jobs.
Swift is planning a new platform to connect CBDCs now in development to the existing finance system.
Nigeria is seeking an international arrest warrant for the company’s regional manager for Africa.
While clearly useful, Apple’s new AirTags can also potentially be misused. Concerns have been raised they might facilitate stalking, for example.
Apple and Microsoft are both looking to dominate the next big things in tech – from artificial intelligence and cloud computing to gaming, tablets, custom processors and mixed-reality headsets.
