
Tim Cook steps down as Apple CEO
The long-serving Apple chief executive will be replaced by senior VP of hardware engineering John Ternus, effective 1 September.
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The long-serving Apple chief executive will be replaced by senior VP of hardware engineering John Ternus, effective 1 September.

Cyberrey’s Noko Terrence Tuwe will explain why integrating exposure management with real-time breach intelligence is critical at ITWeb Security Summit JHB 2026.

A limited number of customers were directly affected, but implications for organisations relying on Next.js are significant, says Check Point.

Seacom is targeting regional ISPs with a cheaper route into South Africa’s national peering infrastructure.

The firm claims it is the first network operator in Africa to establish active 400Gbps peering at the Johannesburg Internet Exchange.

Liquid Intelligent Technologies has escaped a looming debt maturity wall, but the new funding comes with a steep price tag.

Cyber attacks wreak havoc on the financial, healthcare, retail and e-commerce sectors, severely damaging reputations and life-critical missions.
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman posted an out-of-this-world iPhone video on Sunday, showing Earth disappear behind the Moon at 8x zoom. “I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view,” said Wiseman, noting that this video is “uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom” and “quite comparable to the view of the human eye.” The New York Times...

Apple chief executive Tim Cook resigns after 15 years. What’s next for the tech giant? Rajat Roy, Bond University Today, Apple announced the tech company’s longtime chief executive Tim Cook will step down and transition to the role of executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors. This change will take effect from September 1 2026. John […]

The API solution delivers secure e-mail gateway grade protection, including URL inspection, malware sandboxing and behavioural AI, without infrastructure changes.

A serious AI escrow arrangement should be tailored to the use case, says Guy Krige, legal counsel at ESCROWSURE.

Asset management fails when reality moves faster than records, says Sagaren Kanniappen, COO of Nkgwete IT Solutions.

Business process architecture connects strategy to execution, says Mpho Tladi, manager at SoluGrowth.

The local community network operators were chosen for the Advancing Sustainable Connectivity and Community-Led Digital Economies project.

To date, Netcampus has successfully trained about 6 000 government leaders using Microsoft Elevate.

With a tailored, human-focused approach, companies can turn their employees into their strongest line of defence, says Heino Gevers, senior director of technical support at Mimecast South Africa.

Meta Platforms has started trialling a paid WhatsApp tier offering themes, premium stickers and expanded chat pinning.

Anthropic has handed a select few US banks a powerful new tool – and left other institutions looking for answers.

Apple announced that Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors and John Ternus, senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple’s next chief executive officer effective on September 1, 2026. The transition, which was approved unanimously by the Board of Directors, follows a thoughtful, long-term succession planning process. Cook will […]

The story of a screw with 10 extra grooves reveals how Apple’s next CEO, John Ternus, thinks about leadership.

Earlier this month the AI company Anthropic said it had created a model so powerful that, out of a sense of responsibility, it was not going to release it to the public. Anthropic says the model, Mythos Preview, excels at spotting and exploiting vulnerabilities in software, and could pose a severe risk to economies, public safety and national security. But is this the whole story? Some experts...