After the death of the tech tycoon and six other victims including his teenaged daughter, authorities in Sicily have opened a manslaughter and negligent shipwreck probe into the sinking of Lynch’s yacht.

The body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch was retrieved on Thursday from the wreck of his family yacht that sank earlier this week off the coast of Sicily during a violent storm, a senior Italian official said.

South African job listings are starting to appear that are seeking experts to in large language models, a role that is expected to become more common in the future.

The suspected use of AI to fill truck bookings at the Durban Port has left the logistics industry concerned. Meanwhile, Transnet Port Terminals has said it is investigating the matter.

Recreational golfers’ performance on the course worsens when they use their smartphones for work-related activities but their devices don’t affect their game when used for personal reasons, a study showed.

The case depicted Google as a technological bully that methodically thwarted competition to protect its search engine.

South African artificial intelligence research firm Lelapa AI has launched a language model available in five different African languages called InkubaLM, which has some of the same functionalities as platforms like ChatGPT.

People in South Africa are still illegally accessing Starlink services despite threats from the satellite internet provider to cut users off in April this year.

Google has been taking incremental steps over the past year to increase the prevalence of zero-click searches, says Geoff Cohen.

With a growth rate of 1%, the economic pie is not getting any bigger and entrepreneurs are forced to compete with each other and navigate increasingly narrow operating margins, say Sejeng Matlhako and Stanley Hlamalani Godi.

Big South African firms recovered quickly from the CrowdStrike IT outage on Friday, which brought down global IT systems on an unprecedented scale.

From fearmongering about a looming “World War 3” to false narratives linking a cabal of global elite to a cyberattack, a torrent of online conspiracy theories took off Friday after a major IT crash.

Behind a massive IT failure that grounded flights, upended markets and disrupted corporations around the world is one cybersecurity company: CrowdStrike Holdings.

A global tech failure disrupted operations across multiple industries on Friday, halting flights and forcing a number of broadcasters off-air, as the outage upended everything from banking to healthcare systems.

Microsoft users were unable to access various Microsoft 365 apps and services on Friday morning. Earlier, a Microsoft cloud services outage grounded planes in the US.

South Africans are due to miss out on the massive Amazon Prime Day sales being run this week in every other country with a dedicated Amazon Marketplace.

Research from fintech group Altron has shown that the overall ability of SA’s households to take on and service debt deteriorated in the first three months of 2024.

Machine learning, neural networks, GenAI, LLMs – what? Daniel Malan puts AI developments in everyday perspective for skeptics, non-technical people and anyone who is simply a little bewildered.

A telescope in the heart of the Karoo will soon start looking for exoplanets, adding to a relatively new field of astronomy that is helping to uncover the chances that there is life beyond Earth.

The 10-year-long, R300 million graft at the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure by cyberattackers who were possibly working with officials is the latest in a long list of incidents that exposed local vulnerability to cyberattacks.

In case local consumers are wondering, SA’s largest online retailer, Takealot, has not teamed up with rival Chinese platform Shein.