Home affairs says smart ID replacements are now offered at 753 bank branches, beating its target.
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The co-founder who led Nvidia for 33 years has resigned after a week of scandal. CFO Colette Kress takes over as interim CEO.
Bob Group says customers’ card details should be treated as exposed after a breach of its systems in late October.
SunCentral 1 supplies three customers. SolarAfrica says its next two plants will share their output among 42.
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MTN Group has swung to a half-year profit as economic conditions and forex rates showed improved stability.
Standard Bank has warned of a rise of “spoofing” scams, where where fraudsters use AI to impersonate bank officials.
Absa Group’s IT spend for the six months to 30 June reached R8.2-billion as it ramped up spending on security and AI.
Market consolidation in South Africa’s telecoms sector is “long overdue”, MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita has said.
Stricter and more widespread use of biometric authentication by mobile operators could help reduce the growing Sim-swap fraud menace in South Africa.
The South African internet pioneer has a new documentary film releasing next week on life in Ukraine amid the Russian invasion.
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Women may have more to worry about than men from a coming wave of automation and artificial intelligence.
Samsung Electronics unveiled its latest foldable smartphones as it seeks to challenge Apple’s dominance in the premium segment.
Meta’s Threads is adding four new features, including a much-requested chronological timeline. A web version is coming, too.
The US Federal Trade Commission is finalising a long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.com
The smartphone era is only just over a decade old, but the pocket-sized computers at the heart of that societal transformation are only really possible because of another technology: lithium-ion batteries.
Internet services such as search engines and social media platforms have increasingly been provided by a small number of very large tech firms. The blockchain could help consumers wrest control of their privacy away from them.

































