161 Disney+ has increased the price of its Premium monthly subscription in South Africa. The Premium plan now costs R179/month, up from R159 previously. That is a 12.6% increase. The change took…
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Why online learning is the future of education
126 If you grew up in the 1990s and 2000s, you’ll probably remember sitting down at a specific time to watch your favourite show. You had to quickly run to grab a…
Google launches the biggest reinvention of search in 25 years
119 Google on Tuesday put AI agents directly into its search box and rolled out a faster, cheaper version of its Gemini model, aiming to blunt gains by rivals Anthropic and OpenAI among…
Eskom threatens to cut power to Joburg
180 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…
Troubling questions over South African internet infrastructure attacks
118 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
135 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
159 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
114 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
184 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
119 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…
