As Trump slashes science funding, young researchers flee abroad. Without solid innovation, the US could cease to have the largest biomedical ecosystem in the world
In April 2025, less than three months after Donald Trump returned to the White House, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put out its latest public health alert on so-called “superbugs”, strains of...
India’s digital payment platforms process trillions of dollars a year through UPI, the government-built real-time payments rail that handles more than 90% of all payment transactions in the country, but one of their largest net revenue line items is not a payment product at all: it’s a cheap plastic speaker that sits on a shopkeeper’s counter and reads out incoming payments aloud. The roughly...
The Sage Intacct cloud-based accounting system incorporates AI agents to automate accounting processes and gives users real-time visibility, automation and scalable control.
The Huawei Developer Competition, Code4Mzanzi, has kicked off in partnership with the Department of Small Business Development and various academic institutions, including the University of Cape Town, the University of Johannesburg, the University of Pretoria, and the University of the Witwatersrand. The competition, which is part of a larger international initiative, brings together South...
From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Tech companies are conflating traditional artificial intelligence with generative AI when claiming the energy-hungry technology could help avert climate breakdown, according to a report. Most claims that AI can help avert climate breakdown refer to machine learning and not the energy-hungry chatbots and image generation tools driving the...
Cyber security professionals have reacted to SONA 2026, urging government to classify digital security as critical infrastructure and prioritise skills development.
On a busy afternoon in Cape Town, a customer taps her crypto card at a café counter. The transaction clears in seconds. The barista hands over the receipt and moves on to the next order. What makes the exchange different is not visible to anyone in the queue. The payment was made using crypto. Until […]
Synthetic identities are becoming a quick and easy way to establish trust, bypassing business processes by exploiting those who hold the keys, says Antonios Christodoulou, founder and CEO of Cyber Dexterity.
Eighty-two percent of local companies invest more in preventing attacks than in preparing to recover from them, says Musa Masungwini, data protector and cyber defender at Dell Technologies SA.
While edtech solutions promise to address long-standing challenges in the education system, a lack of contextual awareness and support means that many fail to deliver.