42 After three-and-a-half decades, the verdict on “Know Your Customer” (KYC) and the Financial Intelligence Centre Act (Fica) is unmistakable: it is a regime of enormous cost, derisory efficacy and significant collateral…
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a new benchmark in pro-grade smartphone photography
49 Smartphones have long evolved beyond simple communication devices. Today they are our primary cameras, content studios and storytellers. With the launch of its flagship Xiaomi 15T Series, co-engineered with Leica, Xiaomi…
How Beijing’s army of robot dogs and AI drones could redefine warfare
40 China’s state-owned defence giant Norinco in February unveiled a military vehicle capable of autonomously conducting combat-support operations at 50km/h. It was powered by DeepSeek, the company whose artificial intelligence model is…
South Africa’s biggest data centres, ranked
69 Teraco’s recently completed JB5 data centre, photographed at dusk at the company’s Isando campus South Africa’s data centre capacity has been growing steadily over the years as demand for cloud computing…
JSE to wave goodbye to MultiChoice in December
58 MultiChoice’s run as a public company is drawing to a close, with its ticker set to blink for the last time on Wednesday, 10 December 2025. The end came not with…
Signs of life at Intel
96 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…
Passwords are dying – here’s the tech that’s replacing them
51 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
66 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….
Trump pardons convicted Binance founder CZ Zhao
56 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…
Vodacom, MTN join GSMA coalition to deliver $30 smartphone for Africa
77 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…