South Africa should pause before blindly copying European AI regulation, writes Martin van Staden.

How artificial intelligence agents are reshaping super apps with smarter, simpler user experiences.

The Consumer Goods Council of South Africa’s counterfeit goods reporting platform is helping it crackdown on the crime. However, it says no illicit tech products have been reported to date.

Google has unveiled the biggest update to its Android mobile operating system in years.

Investec, the JSE- and LSE-listed private banking group, has lodged an application with South Africa’s National Energy Regulator (NERSA) for a licence to trade electricity. If approved, the bank will purchase solar power from the Illikwa Solar PV Facility in the Free State and supply its Sandton headquarters. The application states: “Investec Bank hereby notifies that […]

PluxNet Fibre prides itself on its community-first approach to delivering world-class fibre connectivity services in South Africa.

Google unveiled the biggest update to its Android mobile operating system in years.

Rogue communication devices have been found in some Chinese solar power inverters, sources have said.

Altron Security will leverage Sectigo’s cloud-native CLM solutions to strengthen its digital certificate management offering.

Eskom and municipalities are making life hard for solar power installers who want to play by their rules.

President Cyril Ramaphosa and US President Donald Trump are set for a pivotal diplomatic meeting next week, with negotiations expected to unlock new trade agreements in agriculture, energy, and transport sectors., Business Day reports. A high-level ministerial team, including Trade Minister Parks Tau, International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola, and Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen, has...

GenAI-based security technologies can help surface higher priority risks and drive automated response procedures.

Microsoft is laying off some 3% of its workforce, or around 6 000 employees, as the technology giant looks to rein in costs.

Home Affairs is only assisting naturalised citizens and permanent residents with passports from visa-exempt countries for now. It will announce when the next phase of applications open.

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Microsoft on Tuesday said that it’s laying off 3% of employees across all levels, teams, and geographies, affecting about 6,000 people. “We continue to implement organizational changes necessary to best position the company for success in a dynamic marketplace,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement to CNBC. The company reported better-than-expected results, with $25.8 […]

Research looking at hygiene and healthcare habits of the primates finds implications for understanding origin of human healthcare

Humans are not unique in having a host of hygiene and healthcare habits, researchers have found: chimpanzees also wipe their bottoms, tend each other’s wounds and even clean up after sex, according to a new study.

The research from the University of Oxford is not the...

A new report by shareholder activist organisation Just Share has shown that South Africa’s largest polluters pay so little carbon tax that it barely has any impact on their greenhouse gas emissions. This, the report says, has in turn led to a failure to lower greenhouse gas emissions by big South African polluters. South Africa […]

The Auditor-General issued the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) a qualified audit opinion for 2023/24, citing poor internal controls and nearly R1-billion in underspent grant funds. Grant delays were mainly caused by vacancies and weaknesses in grant processing and oversight. The audit revealed repeated non-compliance, unachieved performance targets, asset mismanagement and failure to...