327 Standard Bank has acknowledged that client data stolen in a cyber incident first disclosed on 23 March 2026 “now appears to have been published” online, marking a significant escalation in what…
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Gemini gets personal for South African users
231 Google has launched Personal Intelligence in the Gemini app for South African users, a feature that lets the chatbot draw on a user’s Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube and Search history to…
TrendAI opens South African data centre, plans Africa expansion
176 Assad Arabi, TrendAI regional MD for Africa, the Mediterranean and the CIS countries Enterprise cybersecurity firm TrendAI used a customer event in Cape Town on Wednesday evening to announce it has…
Consumers get new weapon against direct marketing spam
239 South Africa’s direct marketing industry faces a significant new compliance regime after trade, industry & competition minister Parks Tau gazetted amendments to the Consumer Protection Act (CPA) that require all direct…
Fibre: the backbone of South Africa’s digital health ecosystem
179 For millions of South Africans, access to healthcare does not begin in a clinic or hospital. It begins online. The internet has quietly become one of the most powerful tools for…
Stafford Masie: South Africa risks regulating away its AI future
191 Stafford Masie. Tadek Szutowicz/TechCentral Prominent technology investor Stafford Masie has launched a stinging public critique of South Africa’s draft National Artificial Intelligence Policy, warning that the document risks “regulating away” the…
Adobe bets on AI agents to fend off cheaper rivals
168 Kylie Cooper/Reuters Adobe is releasing a new AI assistant designed to help users carry out tasks across its suite of software for editing photos, videos and other digital content. The Firefly…
BYD shuns price war in South Africa
164 The BYD Dolphin Surf Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD is deliberately avoiding a price war in South Africa as competition ramps up in the continent’s second biggest car market, its local…
R85-million for SA start-up reinventing the stethoscope with AI
174 Cape Town-based medtech start-up AI Diagnostics has raised R85-million in a pre-series-A funding round to scale the deployment of an AI-powered digital stethoscope, which is designed to detect tuberculosis through lung-sound…
Werner Lindemann on how AI is rewriting the infosec rulebook
156 The pace at which artificial intelligence is reshaping the threat landscape is outstripping the ability of most organisations to defend themselves, with shadow AI, synthetic identity attacks and a looming quantum…