84 Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters Eskom has issued a formal notice of its intention to reduce, interrupt or terminate electricity supply to several bulk supply points serving the City of Johannesburg, after arrear debt…
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Troubling questions over South African internet infrastructure attacks
69 The sheer scale of the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on South African internet infrastructure in recent days does not make sense considering the relatively small amounts the attackers are trying to…
Setback for Vodacom in Kenya
67 Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub A planned sale by the Kenyan government of a 15% stake in Safaricom to South Africa’s Vodacom Group remains on hold after the high court in…
DDoS extortionists ‘carpet bomb’ South African internet hosts
82 Network Platforms chief technical officer Warwick Ward-Cox A wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks hitting South African web hosts is a deliberate extortion campaign run by a criminal group. That is…
Digital Parks Africa expands global network reach with Cogent
66 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…
Extortion fears as DDoS attacks hit SA internet infrastructure
91 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
85 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
75 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
74 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
95 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…
