How South African executives can crack the AI ROI code
South African executives are under pressure to show AI ROI. Workday offers a practical playbook for the C-suite.
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OpEd: Will it be Dell that breaks the EEIP spell?
Using equity equivalents to let huge vendors avoid B-BBEE relies on a magic trick, writes ITWeb contributor Phillip de Wet.
Clean up your digital clutter or face the risks, firms warn
International Digital Cleanup Day highlights the dangers of ‘data toxicity’, with cyber security experts warning that unmanaged information is a liability.
Disruptive Technologies, Skills And Investment Will Define The Future Of South African Mining
South Africa stands at a decisive moment for its mining industry, shaped not only by rising global demand for critical minerals, but also by leveraging the knowledge, skills and research capacity required to extract them responsibly, efficiently and competitively. As artificial intelligence, automation and digital systems reimagine mining worldwide and the industry undergoes a promising […]
China Is Helping Drive Cuba’s Solar Boom
AleRunner writes: “China is helping Cuba race to capture renewable solar energy as the United States imposes an effective oil blockade on the Caribbean island, creating its worst energy crisis in decades,” reports The Washington Post. Later in the article, it states that “China’s decades-long push into clean energy technology is now helping to protect it from the soaring oil and gas crisis...
Everything you need to know about online fraud
Online fraud harms companies and consumers alike, and places an unwelcome burden on consumers to prove they are not trying to commit fraud.
Adapt, automate or step aside: The junior lawyer’s AI reckoning
AI is institutional scaffolding, not a shortcut, and juniors should explore all the ways it can be utilised, says Webber Wentzel.
Smart solutions for safety in high-hazard critical industries
IOT technologies can connect people, equipment and environmental conditions into a single integrated safety ecosystem, says Quentin Daffarn, CEO at UC-Wireless.
The sustainable choice for the AI era
Companies should partner with colocation data centres that have the infrastructure and scale to underpin the AI journey, rather than attempting to do so in-house, says Dr Ayotunde Coker, CEO of Open Access Data Centres.
False online posts fuel self-diagnosis, says study
Norfolk and Suffolk researchers say the false information about autism and ADHD is most worrying.
OpenClaw fever grips China
OpenClaw, the AI agent dubbed “the next ChatGPT”, has captured the imagination of millions in China.
OpenAI plans desktop ‘super app’
OpenAI plans to merge ChatGPT, Codex and its browser into a single desktop “super app”.
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EU Cloud Lobby Asks Regulator To Block VMware From Terminating Partner Program
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: A lobbying trade body for smaller cloud providers is asking the European Commission to impose interim measures blocking Broadcom from terminating the VMware Cloud Service Provider program, calling the decision a death sentence for some tech suppliers and an illegal squeeze on customer choice. As The Reg revealed in January, Broadcom...
U.S. Says 3 Tied to Silicon Valley Server Maker Broke Export Laws
Prosecutors said the men, including a co-founder of the company, Super Micro, had diverted servers containing Nvidia A.I. chips to China.
US Takes Down Botnets Used in Record-Breaking Cyberattacks
The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets had used clever techniques to worm into home networks, infecting more than 3 million devices in total, according to the US Justice Department.
Online Bot Traffic Will Exceed Human Traffic By 2027, Cloudflare CEO Says
Cloudflare’s CEO predicts AI-driven bot traffic will surpass human internet traffic by 2027, as AI agents generate vastly more web requests than people. “If a human were doing a task — let’s say you were shopping for a digital camera — and you might go to five websites. Your agent or the bot that’s doing that will often go to 1,000 times the number of sites that an actual human would visit,”...
Jeff Bezos in Talks to Raise $100 Billion Fund to Transform Companies With A.I.
The new fund would operate alongside the Amazon founder’s A.I. start-up, Project Prometheus.
4Chan Mocks $700K Fine For UK Online Safety Breaches
The UK regulator Ofcom fined 4chan nearly $700,000 (520,000 pounds) for failing to implement age checks and address illegal content risks under the Online Safety Act, but the platform mocked the penalty and signaled it won’t pay. A lawyer representing the company responded with an AI-generated cartoon image of a hamster, writing in a follow-up post on X: “In the only country in which 4chan...
‘Uncanny Valley’: Nvidia’s ‘Super Bowl of AI,’ Tesla Disappoints, and Meta’s VR Metaverse ‘Shutdown’
In this episode, we dive into Nvidia’s annual developer conference and what CEO Jensen Huang is saying about the future of the company.