229 Chloe Castle, channel partner lead at Backspace Technologies Connectivity has become the lifeblood of businesses and households, yet there is a tension between South Africa’s need for job creation and economic…
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Mastercard opens African cybersecurity hub
241 Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach Mastercard has launched an Africa Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence, a pan-African initiative it said will help financial institutions, government bodies and businesses share threat intelligence and shore…
Profits arrive at Takealot, but Naspers stays cautious
261 Takealot has reported its first full-year adjusted operating profit, capping a turnaround for South Africa’s largest online retailer in the first full financial year it has faced Amazon. Yet its owner,…
US government puts GPT-5.6 behind closed doors
209 Image: Jernej Furman OpenAI said on Friday it was delaying a full public launch of GPT‑5.6 at the US government’s request, limiting the AI model’s initial access to a small group…
Top SA computer scientist on IBM’s chip breakthrough
275 IBM this week claimed the first sub-nanometre chip, a generation it calls the 0.7nm, or 7-angstrom, node. It says the design packs nearly 100 billion transistors onto a fingernail-sized surface, about…
Telcos agree plan to tighten Sim registration under Rica
323 South Africa’s mobile operators have agreed on a framework to strengthen Sim-card registration and submitted proposals to government for legislative reform of Rica, in a coordinated push to curb the fraudulent…
Gigabit fibre arrives in Joburg township for R5/day
211 Fibertime founder Alan Knott-Craig Fibertime, the pay-as-you-go township fibre network founded by serial telecoms entrepreneur Alan Knott-Craig, has reaveled that it has recorded download speeds of 1Gbit/s on its network in…
Standard Bank deal cuts the dollar out of China trade
251 Standard Bank has become the first African-based lender authorised to clear renminbi transactions on the continent, a step that deepens the financial plumbing connecting Africa to China and moves more of…
Starlink lines up a frontal assault on mobile operators
228 The entrance to the SpaceX rocket launch area in Brownsville, Texas. Veronica Gabriela Cardenas/Reuters SpaceX has told investors it plans to launch a Starlink mobile service for US consumers, the Financial…
When the AI costs more than the coder
255 The price of letting an AI write your code is rising fast, and by 2028 it could rival what you pay the developer sitting next to it – sooner in lower-cost…