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.

With the ability to handle complex calculations and data-intensive tasks at unprecedented speeds, quantum computing holds the promise to revolutionise how financial institutions analyse data, manage risks, and optimise operations, writes Johan Steyn.

It’s the next chapter for the controversial USS Zumwalt.

How will the rest of the world respond?

Using a chip-based optical frequency comb, researchers transmitted almost double the global internet traffic in a single second.

We spoke to a cybersecurity expert about what to do in this highly ironic situation.

As hurricane-force winds knock out traditional utilities, distributed energy systems with less points of failure can pick up the pieces.