Your SOC cannot outrun AI

Cybersecurity has acquired a speed problem. Attackers are increasingly using AI to automate work that once required specialist skills, while security teams are still trying to make sense of thousands of alerts. By Kurt Goodall, technical director of Troye The...

What scammers still can’t fake in isiZulu

The next scam message to reach your phone will be spelled correctly, carry your bank’s real logo, your name, and possibly the correct suburb a parcel for you might need to reach. Nothing about it will look wrong. It will also, almost certainly, be in English....

AI is accelerating the next generation of leaders

AI is changing not only how people work, but how quickly the best people can develop. Experience still matters. But the way people build that experience is changing fast. By Christian Schmitz, CEO of International Workplace Group AI is not lowering the bar for...

Maintenance, not technology, will decide if SA’s solar boom pays off

South Africa has installed solar and battery energy storage systems (BESS) faster than almost anywhere else on the continent over the past three years. But according to Rhino Energy Solutions (RES), the industry has spent that growth spurt solving the wrong problem....
Daft Technologist

Daft Technologist

By Barry Buck, with Claude Opus 4.8 – Every second video on my feed this month is someone whose life is now run by the agent of the week. It reads their email, books their travel, ships their code and, presumably, walks their dog. Meanwhile, here is my actual...

When your IT provider is hacked, your balance sheet could be next

For many South African businesses, critical operations and customer data now rely on outsourced IT service providers (OSPs), including cloud hosts, software platforms, managed service providers and payment and fintech vendors. This dependence creates a risk that is...