South Africa’s AI policy will be rewritten. The threat won’t wait, writes Palo Alto Networks’ Justin Lee.
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Longer contracts have become South Africa’s answer to unaffordable smartphones – but at a big long-term cost to consumers.
Co-founders Bradley Wattrus and Lungisa Matshoba will return to CFO and chief product and technology roles.
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Teraco, South Africa’s largest data centre operator, has begun construction of a 120MW solar plant in the Free State.
Threads and Bluesky, rival social networks that look a lot like Elon Musk’s X, have seen an influx of new users.
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An aggressive new US cybersecurity strategy seeks to shift the blame from companies that get hacked to software manufacturers and device makers.
The optimistic narrative about Apple’s iPhone business is falling apart in front of our eyes.
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