296 Dado Ruvic/Reuters Intel shares surged nearly 9% in pre-market trading on Friday as investors rallied behind CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s aggressive cost-cutting measures that helped the chip maker surpass quarterly profit estimates…
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Passwords are dying – here’s the tech that’s replacing them
308 Passwords are the keys to our digital lives – think how many times you log in to websites and other systems. But just like physical keys, they can be lost, duplicated…
Obsidian leads the shift from Opsgenie to Jira
282 Obsidian Systems CEO Muggie van Staden Opsgenie may be reaching its end of life, but for South African IT teams, that marks the beginning of a smarter, more unified incident-management journey….
CoJ loses two more high court incorrect billing cases
287 The City of Johannesburg (CoJ) has been ordered to apply the applicable pensioner’s rebate to the municipal account of an 81-year-old pensioner and reverse the charges on his account from a…
Trump pardons convicted Binance founder CZ Zhao
279 Changpeng “CZ” Zhao. Tyrone Siu/Reuters US President Donald Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the convicted founder of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange, the White House said on Thursday, in the latest move…
How SA missed the chance to launch its home-grown electric vehicle
206Joule EV project founder believes SA still has the capability – but isn’t sure whether it should try because of the dominance of Chinese automakers in this market. South Africa missed an…
Will South Africa finally get off the FATF greylist?
214 Government and the private sector are waiting with bated breath for the FATF plenary on Friday, where the organisation will decide if South Africa can be removed from the greylist. The…
South Africans are rethinking unit trusts …
263 And turning to active ETFs instead. Actively managed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are rapidly outpacing traditional unit trusts on EasyEquities, the low-cost online investment platform owned by Purple Group, as investors look…
Vodacom, MTN join GSMA coalition to deliver $30 smartphone for Africa
212 Global mobile telecommunications industry body the GSMA has partnered with six of Africa’s largest mobile operators – Airtel, Axian Telecom, Ethio Telecom, Orange, and South Africa’s Vodacom and MTN – to…
The company building a ‘living computer’ with human cells
194 The invention of the silicon transistor was fundamental to the success of the digital age, driving the core of the modern-day digital economy. The rise of generative AI has put hardware…