144 The Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the Persian Gulf Iran is signalling that it wants to extract rent from the global data traffic flowing through the Strait of Hormuz,…
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Why the security operations centre is now a boardroom issue
154 Kaspersky sub-Saharan Africa GM Chris Norton In this Q&A article, Kaspersky GM for sub-Saharan Africa Chris Norton explains why security operations centres (SOCs) are becoming a boardroom priority. What is a…
Anthropic to brief financial regulators on Mythos AI risk
178 AI start-up Anthropic is set to brief the Financial Stability Board (FSB) on cyber vulnerabilities in the global financial system identified by its latest model, Mythos, the Financial Times reported on…
The walkout that could hit every laptop and AI server
192 Samsung Electronics and its labour union started talks on Monday in a last-ditch bid to avert the biggest strike in the tech giant’s history, amid concern that a walkout by more…
South Africa marks a full year without load shedding
201 South Africa has reached a milestone that would have seemed unthinkable just three years ago: a full 12 consecutive months without a single bout of load shedding. The last time Eskom…
Absa’s defence against frontier AI cyberthreats: more AI
229 Absa Group CITO Johnson Idesoh Absa Group will deploy AI-powered “super agents” to scan its systems for vulnerabilities and shorten patch cycles as it prepares its defences against a new class…
Green ID’s days numbered as smart ID roll-out accelerates
192 The department of home affairs plans to expand its smart ID rollout to 750 bank branches by year-end – including self-service terminals at Capitec branches – citing the early success of…
Malatsi pitches Reit overhaul to channel capital into digital infrastructure
168 Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT Communications minister Solly Malatsi has backed a proposal to extend South Africa’s real estate investment trust (Reit) regime to digital infrastructure – a reform the…
US, China to coordinate on AI threats
201 US and Chinese delegations are discussing AI guardrails at their Beijing summit and will set up a protocol for best practices to keep non-state bad actors from exploiting the most powerful…
The lessons Seacom learnt from its massive 2024 outage
258 Richard Schumacher, MD of digital infrastructure at Seacom When a Belize-flagged, UK-registered cargo ship called the Rubymar was struck by a Houthi missile in the Red Sea in February 2024, it…