416 Image: Jernej Furman OpenAI’s US$852-billion valuation is under scrutiny from some of its own backers as the company shifts its focus to the enterprise market to fend off competition from Anthropic,…
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The hidden risk in South Africa’s payment infrastructure
508 South Africa has been off the Financial Action Task Force’s greylist for around six months, and now we risk hitting a different, perhaps more worrying, kind of greyish trap: being “greyed…
Nearly R82m refurbishment of the Agulhas Lighthouse Precinct creates 117 jobs
428 The Agulhas lighthouse precinct is located at Cape Agulhas where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet. Minister of Tourism Patricia de Lille has expressed her pleasure at how many jobs have…
The case for unbundling SuperSport
307 Inside a SuperSport outside broadcast truck on match day SportyTV, a streaming-only platform most South Africans have never heard of, this week announced it has secured pay-television rights to all 104…
Simplify Microsoft Teams calling with Telviva
394 The author, Telviva’s Rob Lith Even as South African organisations embrace online and collaborative working, along with remote and hybrid working environments enabled through tools such as Microsoft’s productivity suite, voice…
Have a credit card with Standard Bank? Fraudsters may be after you
317 It is understood that the majority of Standard Bank credit card customers may have been affected by the data breach. Standard Bank has lifted the lid a little on the extent…
Best Side Hustles for South African Men
396 In South Africa, more men are turning to side hustles to deal with rising living costs, job uncertainty, and the need for extra income. The good news is that you don’t…
the backbone of a billion meals
407 In the quick-service restaurant (QSR) sector, where numerous transactions occur every second, network reliability is not just a matter of convenience but a critical factor that can determine whether a store…
Vox bets on hybrid connectivity
358 The conversation about South Africa’s connectivity future is shifting from single-channel thinking to pragmatic hybrid solutions. That’s according to Theo van Zyl, Vox’s head of wireless, who argues that fibre and…
Municipal water, electricity losses total R25bn a year
319 And you pay for it. South African municipalities lose R25 billion per annum in water and electricity that they buy but never sell, according to National Treasury. In some cities, up…