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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MultiChoice said on Friday that it has concluded proceedings against an importer of counterfeit power supply units.
Meta has launched facial recognition tools aimed at fighting the scourge of scams and account takeovers in South Africa.
Unsanctioned changes at xAI led to Grok spouting conspiracy theories about “white genocide” in South Africa.
Customer data is key as retailers like Shoprite move towards hyper-personalised shopping.
The geyser, which uses a “nano” heat pump, consumes just 0.6kW of electricity but costs nearly R25 000.
The Public Investment Corp has appointed Patrick Dlamini as its new CEO, effective 1 June.
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Meta Platforms is set to commence company-wide layoffs as it works towards founder Mark Zuckerberg’s goal of greater efficiency.
Bitcoin miners are finally feeling the sunshine after a cold, hard crypto winter.
The Luno crypto exchange plans to pull out of the Singapore market and scrap its application for a licence in the city-state.
Tencent said its self-developed video transcoding chip Canghai has entered mass production.
As Facebook celebrates 15 years of virtual friendship this week, social science has compiled an expansive body of research that documents the public’s love-hate relationship with its best frenemy.
Predictions that autonomous cars powered by artificial intelligence will create a safer, more harmonious world may be off base.

































