AI-driven cybercrime moves into operational mainstream

AI, infostealers, vulnerabilities, ransomware, and geopolitical conflict are reshaping organisational risk and compressing the time defenders have to respond, according to Flashpoint’s latest 2026 Global Threat Intelligence Report: Midyear Edition. The threat...

MoonHacker uses NASA data to build lunar digital twins

The barren lunar landscape has some important resources, such as water and minerals like iron and titanium, but extracting and processing them will require special equipment. Where those resources can be found will dictate where to land and how to mine them. To help...

July economic activity reverses two months of decline

South Africa’s economic activity improved in July 2026, following a challenging performance in June and May, according to the PayInc Economic Index. Lower fuel prices provided some relief, while record transaction volumes point to resilient economic activity. However,...

Women embrace AI and narrow the workplace gender gap

South African women are narrowing the artificial intelligence (AI) skills gap with their male counterparts. This is according to the Pnet Job Market Trends Report for August 2026, based on an analysis of 1,5-million jobseeker profiles. Men account for around two...

Phishing in the Classroom

Check Point researchers have uncovered a large-scale active phishing campaign abusing Google Classroom, a platform trusted by millions of students and educators worldwide. Over the course of just one week, attackers launched five coordinated waves, distributing more...

Spear phishing campaign targets cloud admins

Mimecast has identified an ongoing credential harvesting campaign (designated MCTO3030) that specifically targets ScreenConnect cloud administrators. The sophisticated operation has maintained consistent tactics, techniques, and procedures since 2022, demonstrating...

Sluggish demand pushes Absa PMI back to contractionary territory

After the encouraging uptick in July, the seasonally adjusted PMI dropped significantly by 8.8 points to 43.6 in August, down from 52.4 in July. This decline underscores the challenges the sector faces amid ongoing political uncertainty, high but slowing inflation,...

Intel raises the bar for AI performance on Xeon processors

In the latest MLCommons AI performance benchmark suite – MLPerf Inference v4.1 - Intel submitted results across six MLPerf benchmarks for 5th Gen Xeon Scalable processors and, for the first time, its Xeon 6 processors with Performance-cores (P-cores). Intel Xeon 6...

IBM unlocks capabilities for enterprise-scale AI

IBM has revealed architecture details for the upcoming IBM Telum II Processor and IBM Spyre Accelerator -  new technologies designed to significantly scale processing capacity across next generation IBM Z mainframe systems and help accelerate the use of traditional AI...

Nvidia Blackwell sets new standard for GenAI in MLPerf benchmarks

As enterprises race to adopt generative AI and bring new services to market, the demands on data centre infrastructure have never been greater – training large language models (LLMs) is one challenge, but delivering LLM-powered realtime services is another. In the...

Gold Fields migrates SAP environments to AWS

Gold Fields has migrated its end-to-end SAP and treasury systems to AWS as part of its digital transformation strategy. The collaboration has enabled Gold Fields to modernise technology infrastructure, while enabling AWS’s analytics, machine learning (ML), and...

R50bn in Sanral tenders in the market

 The South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) is currently evaluating 96 tenders worth R35-billion, while 86 contracts worth R15-billion have already been awarded since the start of the 2024/25 financial year on 1 April 2024. The tenders currently in evaluation...

Former MTN CEO dies

Sifiso Dabengwa, formerly chairperson of Eskom and CEO of MTN, died yesterday (1 September) from cancer. Dabengwa was CEO of MTN from 2011 to 2015, and chaired Eskom from 2018 to 2020. Dabengwa is survived by his wife and four children.  

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Keep your business safe from cybercrime

Garmin and Twitter recently joined the ranks of a string of global organisations that have fallen victim to crippling cyberattacks. By Byron Gibson, product manager at Seacom A little closer to home, last year, the City of Johannesburg's network was also hacked and...

MTN launches Play Lotto feature on MoMo app

MTN's mobile money solution, MoMo, now features Play Lotto functionality, offering MoMo users a free-to-play, safe and convenient way to try their luck at the South African Lotto. The MoMo advantage is that customers do not need a bank account to play, unlike...

Aveva opens up partner programme

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Telkom products available on Takealot

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Review your insurance cover with remote working

With millions of people around the globe working from home during the novel coronavirus (Covuid-19) pandemic, many organisations had to delve head-first into online working models, stress testing their effectiveness and adopting new working platforms. With the...

Boards must consider social media as key reputational risk

Social media have become a key communications channel, but they pose particular risks for organisations and especially their directors. This is according to Parmi Natesan, CEO of the Institute of Directors in South Africa (IoDSA), who says: "The bottom line is that...

No work, no pay: the Covid-19 salary crisis

The South African lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on industry, market and business. Many organisations were unable to open or function during the first two levels (four and five) of the lockdown, while others were in limbo until...

Tips to enhance resilience

2020 has seen more people speaking of "resilience" than ever before. While some organisations are well underway on their resilience journeys, others still ponder what resilience really means and how to start building it, writes Padma Naidoo, GM: Advisory Services at...

Full Stack .Net Developer – Evdb – Gauteng Johannesburg

You will mostly be working with Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure technologiesThis role works collaboratively with product teams to create and support applications that help clients to securely share their data with banks and other regulated providers as well as...

Data Engineer at Datonomy Solutions

We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our team in Cape Town, on an initial 12-month contract, onsite.The Data Engineer will work within the Business Intelligence team of the information technology division and will be responsible to work closely with our...

Integration Developer at Financial Intelligence Centre

JOB PURPOSE: Design, build, and implement integration solutions that connect various software applications, systems, and databases within an organisation and ensure seamless data exchange and communication between different IT systems meeting the business requirements...

CIS Specialist

We are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Collective Investment Scheme Product Specialist to manage the application processes with the FSCA for new fund applications, ballot processes, fund closures, and S65 applications.Must have completed a Bachelor's Degree...

Data Engineer at Datonomy Solutions – Western Cape Cape Town

We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our team in Cape Town, on an initial 12-month contract, onsite.The Data Engineer will work within the Business Intelligence team of the information technology division and will be responsible to work closely with our...

CIS Specialist – Western Cape Cape Town

We are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Collective Investment Scheme Product Specialist to manage the application processes with the FSCA for new fund applications, ballot processes, fund closures, and S65 applications.Must have completed a Bachelor's Degree...

Senior Project Manager at Datonomy Solutions

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our team in Cape Town, on an initial 12-month contact onsite.Responsibilities:Establish necessary Program/Project Governance and structures.Facilitate the process for Business Case development and approval.Ensure...

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