Dis-Chem doubled spending on its X, bigly labs unit as headline earnings per share fell 12.8%.
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AI tools that reverse engineer paid programs are producing free clones of Office, Photoshop and other software.
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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The decision whether to award Elon Musk’s Starlink an operating licence in South Africa will ultimately rest with Icasa.
IBM plans to have a practical quantum computer by 2029, and has laid out the detailed steps it will take to get there.
Stadio has become the first educational institution to launch an MVNO in South Africa.
Telkom on Tuesday reported a 62.3% rise in full-year earnings and resumed dividends after a four-year suspension.
WeThinkCode has secured R35-million in grant funding to develop and an AI training programme in South Africa and Kenya.
Telkom Group has appointed Beauty Apleni as the new CEO of its Openserve fibre business from 1 July.
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Samsung has suspended an internal review that explored replacing Google with Bing on its smartphones.
Twitter has alleged that Microsoft violated an agreement over using the social media company’s data.
Apple has restricted the use of ChatGPT and other external AI tools for its employees as it works to develop similar technology
Google will phase out third-party cookies for 1% of the users of its Chrome browser in the first quarter of 2024.
Bitcoin spiked briefly above $5 000 on Tuesday, a level it hasn’t reached since it crashed spectacularly in November. But whatever the explanation, there’s no good reason to turn bullish on crypto.
A black beetle the size of a sesame seed is killing South Africa’s trees, and no one knows how to stop it.
