The human side of AI takes centre stage at ASUS Business breakfast
ASUS breakfast explored how companies can adopt AI without losing human judgment and creativity.
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Connectivity is now a boardroom issue, not an IT afterthought
Downtime means lost revenue, trust and productivity – which is why connectivity is now strategic.
Online Scams Have Evolved in the A.I. Era. Here’s What to Do.
A criminal could be masquerading as a celebrity, web store or family member asking for your money. Detecting scams requires a new approach.
Why Africa’s Agentic Enterprise Needs A Unified Operating System, Not Just Better AI
The conversation surrounding AI in South Africa and across the continent has reached a critical inflection point. For the past two years, boardroom discussions have been dominated by the sheer intelligence of Large Language Models (LLMs). But as the initial hype settles, local business leaders are confronting a sobering reality: the most critical challenge in […]
I Tried to Sell My House With A.I.
Over five frantic days, I gambled my family’s life savings on a hunch that A.I. could outperform a real estate agent.
Spinnaker launches in South Africa, backed by Motsepe’s ARC
Spinnaker has launched in South Africa, promising to tackle costly ERP software support for local organisations.
Can Your Grocery Basket Help Unlock Access To Credit? Bloomberg Names Omnisient One Of Africa’s Startups To Watch
Bloomberg has named South African-founded fintech Omnisient one of its African Startups to Watch in 2026, recognising the company’s work in helping banks and insurers assess people who are excluded from affordable financial services because they lack traditional credit histories. Bloomberg positioned Omnisient around a simple but powerful question: what if your grocery basket could […]
MortgageMarket Secures First Direct Origination Deals With All SA banks In 25 Years
MortgageMarket, a FinTech and the largest online marketplace for home loans in South Africa, today announced a landmark industry development becoming the first company in 25 years to secure direct bank mortgage origination contracts with major lenders including FNB, Absa, Standard Bank, Nedbank, RMB and Investec. This milestone fundamentally changes how industry players such as, […]
King’s College team wins access to cutting-edge Google quantum chip
King’s College London researchers hope the chip will help answer previously unanswerable questions about the most important natural processes.
South Africa’s education sector needs more than digital transformation
An MTN-IDC roundtable and new white paper map a blueprint for connected, secure, future-ready institutions.
Paratus serves up pro padel in Maputo
Paratus Mozambique is sponsoring the highly anticipated Paratus Pro Padel Challenge.
Perfect Randomness Realized For the First Time
ETH Zurich researchers say they have generated certified “perfect randomness” for the first time by using a quantum Bell-test setup with two entangled superconducting chips connected by a 30-meter cooled link. “In the long term, this work could play a similar role in digital security as atomic clocks do for timekeeping: a physically certified source of randomness that other systems can rely...
Meet the CIO | Absa CITO Johnson Idesoh on AI, cyber and the future of banking
Absa Group CITO Johnson Idesoh on AI, cybersecurity, software write-downs and the future of banking.
Are robots nearing their ChatGPT moment? – podcast
Last month at Beijing’s half marathon, a robot named Lightning beat the human world record by nearly seven minutes. It’s the latest in a string of AI-powered milestones that have got people wondering whether robots are about to enter our everyday lives, just as chatbots have. And the country leading the charge is China, where the government has pledged to invest more than £100bn in...
Websites Have a New Way To Spy On Visitors: Analyzing Their SSD Activity
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Now sites have a new way to spy on their visitors: measuring subtle interactions with their solid-state drives. The technique, named FROST (fingerprinting remotely using OPFS-based SSD timing), allows sites to monitor other sites a visitor is viewing and what apps are open on their devices. The technique, laid out in a research paper (PDF),...
Google worker charged for using internal data to make $1.2m on Polymarket
A longtime Google employee was charged in New York on Wednesday for breaking insider trading laws.
Meta To Start Testing AI Subscription Services
Meta will begin testing paid subscriptions for its Meta AI app and website, with a $7.99/month Meta One Plus plan and a more capable $19.99/month Meta One Premium plan offering. The test will start next month in Singapore, Guatemala, and Bolivia as Meta looks for AI revenue beyond advertising while continuing to offer a free tier. CNBC reports: Naomi Gleit, the head of product at Meta, revealed...
Nvidia To Spend $150 Billion a Year In Taiwan
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company plans to spend around $150 billion a year in Taiwan, calling it the “epicenter of the AI revolution.” “Four years ago, five years ago, Nvidia was spending about $10, $15 billion dollars a year in Taiwan. Now we’re spending $100, going to $150 billion dollars in Taiwan each year,” Huang said. Reuters reports: Huang was speaking at a launch celebration in...
Rust Will Save Linux From AI, Says Greg Kroah-Hartman
Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman says Rust can help Linux deal with a flood of AI-discovered security bugs (namely Dirty Frag, Copy Fail, and Fragnesia) by preventing common C mistakes around memory, locking, error handling, and untrusted data at build time rather than during human review. It’s “not a silver bullet” and does not mean rewriting the whole kernel, but he said new...
Nasa images show wildfire damage to island dubbed ‘Galapagos of California’
The satellite visuals reveal vast burn scars after blaze tore through rare ecosystems on Santa Rosa Island
Images from a Nasa satellite showcased the devastating scars left behind by a wildfire that consumed roughly a third of Santa Rosa Island, one of the five that make up Channel Islands national park off the southern California coast.
Taken on 20 May, the Moderate Resolution Imaging...
The AI Fight Brewing Inside the New York Times
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: How newsrooms should use AI — or if they should at all — has been a recurrent debate within the media industry over the last several years. Increasingly, these rules are being hammered out at the bargaining table between unions and publishers. Right now, employees at The New York Times are gearing up for a fight. Unionized staff with the Tech...