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      Shoprite ranks cybersecurity as its number one risk - Pieter Engelbrecht

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      9 October 2026
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      How to tell telemarketers to get lost – officially

      9 October 2026
      Data centres are the new front line in the Russia-Ukraine war

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      9 October 2026
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      9 October 2026
      The AI PC is finally here. It's just very expensive - Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella

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      8 October 2026
      The memory crunch is making Samsung fabulously rich

      The memory crunch is making Samsung fabulously rich

      8 October 2026
      SpaceX to borrow $40-billion to buy Nvidia chips

      SpaceX to borrow $40-billion to buy Nvidia chips

      7 October 2026
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      The internet has a Strait of Hormuz problem

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      15 July 2026
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      8 October 2026
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      29 September 2026
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      9 October 2026
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      5 October 2026
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      South Africa’s next energy crisis is in the accounts department

      29 September 2026
      The steam engine lesson AI doomsayers keep missing - Sam Clarke

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      28 September 2026
      Let South Africans jailbreak their way to digital sovereignty - Dirk de Vos

      Regulating AI: apply the laws we have first

      21 September 2026
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    How AI is being deployed in the fight against cybercriminals

    By Mark Nasila8 April 2022

    New technologies like artificial intelligence have made it easier for cybercriminals to scale up their attacks and make them more effective, writes FNB’s Mark Nasila.

    Huawei P50 Pocket Premium Edition delivers a pocket-sized work of art

    By Huawei South Africa8 April 2022

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    Helping mid-market entities with their digital transformation journeys

    By Tarsus and Dell Technologies8 April 2022

    Promoted | Vendors don’t often get it right when targeting mid-market companies, despite a high demand for solutions. Tarsus and Dell Technologies are changing that.

    Icasa’s data expiry rules could penalise the poor: Vodacom

    By Lungile Msomi7 April 2022

    Icasa’s draft amendments to regulations governing the expiry of data bundles, if implemented, could undermine product innovation that has made it more affordable for the poor to get online, Vodacom said.

    Seacom to acquire EOH telecoms assets for R145-million

    By Duncan McLeod7 April 2022

    Seacom has agreed to buy two businesses from JSE-listed EOH Holdings, Network Solutions (EOH-NS) and Hymax, for R144.9-million.

    Spam phone calls in South Africa: how to stop (some of) them (maybe)

    By Lungile Msomi7 April 2022

    The Protection of Personal Information Act came into full force last year, yet spam calls have not stopped plaguing South Africans. There is a way to fight back.

    Would you pay to use X? Musk mulls subscriptions for all

    Elon Musk’s arrival stirs fears among some Twitter employees

    By Agency Staff7 April 2022

    News of Tesla CEO Elon Musk taking a board seat at Twitter has some Twitter employees panicking over the future of the social media platform.

    South Africa’s neighbourhood WhatsApp groups fuel surveillance, racism

    By Agency Staff7 April 2022

    Growing disillusionment with the police has contributed to a rise in community WhatsApp groups where residents engage in amateur surveillance.

    ‘Zuck Bucks’: Meta plans virtual currency, creator coins

    By Agency Staff7 April 2022

    Meta Platforms is readying plans to introduce virtual tokens and cryptocurrencies to its family of apps, the Financial Times reported.

    BlackBerry to settle lawsuit over defunct smartphone OS

    By Agency Staff7 April 2022

    BlackBerry plans to settle a more than eight-year-old lawsuit claiming it defrauded shareholders by inflating the success of its long-discontinued BlackBerry 10 smartphones.

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