117 Pope Leo XIV. Yara Nardi/Reuters Pope Leo on Monday urged governments to slow down and closely regulate the development of AI systems in his first major document, warning that they spread…
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Sita, Sars rubbish reports they were hacked
163 The South African Revenue Service (Sars) and the State IT Agency (Sita) have both moved to shoot down claims circulating on social media that their systems have been hacked, with each…
Altron walked away from multiple M&A deals
155 Altron Group CEO Werner Kapp Technology group Altron walked away from multiple acquisitions in the past financial year, rejecting deals on grounds ranging from price to corporate structure, CEO Werner Kapp…
Cape Town pioneers pooled wheeling of renewable electricity
193 Cape Town has wheeled renewable electricity across multiple buildings simultaneously for the first time, in a pooled arrangement that its architects say solves one of the biggest commercial obstacles to scaling…
Webinar today: a 30-day plan to protect your SME from cyberattacks
135 In the past few weeks alone, we’ve seen a series of reported breaches and cyber incidents affecting education institutions, technology providers and industry organisations in South Africa. These incidents reinforce the…
Pick n Pay’s online growth slows as Sixty60 lead widens
198 Pick n Pay CEO Sean Summers Pick n Pay’s online business has held onto the profitability it first reported a year ago, but turnover growth has slowed materially as the retailer…
Altron surprises with special dividend
152 Altron Group CEO Werner Kapp Altron Group has declared a R500-million special dividend and lifted its final ordinary dividend by 44% to 72c/share, returning a substantial chunk of cash to shareholders…
Huawei claims chip design breakthrough
162 Ali Song/Reuters Huawei Technologies said on Monday that its high-end chips will have transistor density equivalent to 1.4nm processes in five years, underscoring Beijing’s efforts to neutralise US sanctions that have…
Eskom turned the lights back on
177 Congratulations must go to Eskom for achieving a full year without load shedding. That is a remarkable turnaround from only three years ago when we experienced 300 days of load shedding…
DDoS attacks expose South Africa’s cyber response gap
209 South Africa has the legislative foundation to respond to nation-scale cyberattacks but the practical capacity has yet to be realised. A wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks earlier this week disrupted…