134 Global tier-1 carrier Cogent Communications is now live at Digital Parks Africa’s Samrand data centre, giving customers direct access to one of the world’s largest IP backbone networks from within the…
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Extortion fears as DDoS attacks hit SA internet infrastructure
219 At least three South African web hosting and network providers have had services disrupted by large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks since Monday, in a run of incidents that one provider has…
AI won’t fix your culture
146 The author, Jackie Kennedy When leaders ask me what AI will do to workplace culture, my answer is always the same: AI will reveal the culture you already have. AI will…
Toyota plugs in at last: bZ4X is its first EV for South Africa
162 Toyota South Africa has finally put a price on its first battery-electric vehicle, the bZ4X. The country’s largest car brand – which builds vehicles at its Prospecton plant in Durban for…
Vatican confronts the age of artificial intelligence
185 Pope Leo. Edgar Beltrán/The Pillar Pope Leo will address the rise of AI in his first in-depth text outlining his concerns, the Vatican said on Monday, adding that it would be…
Another African nation licenses Starlink
164 A Starlink satellite terminal Uganda has become the latest African country to clear the way for Elon Musk’s Starlink, signing an operational licence agreement with the satellite broadband provider even as…
Elon Musk’s war on OpenAI ends in crushing defeat
127 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk during the trial. Manuel Orbegozo/Reuters A US jury on Monday ruled against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI, finding the AI company not…
Netstar brings coding and robotics to inner-city Joburg
143 From left, Collin Govender, Altron Group chief operating officer; Leona Pienaar, MES CEO; Marisa Jansen van Vuuren, Altron Group chief marketing officer; Innocent Mabusela, Jozi My Jozi CEO; and Warren Mande,…
South Africa leads rest of Africa in AI adoption
188 South Africa is the highest-ranked country on the African continent for adoption of generative AI, according to new data from Microsoft – though the figures also show just how far the…
Investec’s contrarian AI bet: people over machines
181 Investec Specialist Bank CIO Graeme Lockley South Africa’s banks are placing strikingly different bets on artificial intelligence. Investec is resisting the AI-first turn that competitors such as Discovery and Capitec are…
