Icasa wants mobile operators to check their subscribers’ fingerprints or faces against home affairs records.
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South Africa’s biggest telecoms operators say they cannot endorse Icasa’s biometric Sim rules as drafted.
Blockchain analysts TRM Labs and Chainalysis say the attackers behind the raid were from North Korea.
Datatec CEO Jens Montanana says AI has permanently enlarged demand for computing, networking and cybersecurity.
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South African mobile users spend far less time on 5G than their counterparts in markets like India, a new analysis shows.
Oracle’s total workforce declined 13%, or about 21 000 employees, last year, partly driven by the adoption of AI.
Namibia on Monday said it had dismissed an appeal by Starlink against the rejection of its licence applications.
Johannesburg’s enterprise IT departments, not Cape Town’s start-ups, are driving a worrying tech skills exodus.
A new industry report argues that the sector mistook innovation for inclusion and left informal markets behind.
The Comrades no-fly zone was a reminder that recreational drone flying is far more regulated than people think.
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Europe’s plan to ban the sale of combustion-engine cars from 2035 will lead to a “massive shrinking” of its automotive industry, according to BMW CEO Oliver Zipse.
Meta Platforms is laying off employees across units including Instagram, WhatsApp and Reality Labs, a report said.
Ripple has launched a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar, looking to disrupt a market dominated by two incumbents.
Intel and AMD are forming a group to help make sure software works across their chips.
Could our universe be a computer simulation, with someone (perhaps an advanced alien species) fine-tuning the conditions?
For all the controversy surrounding his purchase of Twitter, Elon Musk has at least one thing right: Twitter really is “like open-sourcing the news”.

































