New phishing threat uses fake HR updates
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AI could improve accuracy of Earth-observing satellites
Cloud cover can keep optical instruments on satellites from clearly capturing Earth’s surface – but artificial intelligence could go a long way towards mitigating this. Still in testing, JPL’s Dynamic Targeting uses AI to avoid imaging clouds, yielding a higher...
Mistral AI, Nvidia debut new enterprise AI model
Mistral AI and Nvidia have released a new language model, Mistral NeMo 12B, that developers can easily customise and deploy for enterprise applications supporting chatbots, multilingual tasks, coding and summarisation. By combining Mistral AI's expertise in training...
IBM makes Mistral Large model available on watsonx
IBM has announced the availability of Mistral Large on watsonx.ai, as part of our commitment to make high quality, performant foundation models widely accessible to enterprises - and deployable on their own terms. By Armand Ruiz, vice-president: watsonx.ai &...
Half of all satellites belong to Musk’s Starlink
Elon Musk's Starlink is operating total of 6 111 active satellites, accounting for about 50% of all global satellites in space. According to Stocklytics.com, these Starlink satellites primarily consist of LEO satellites, operating at exceptionally low altitudes...
Samsung interns graduate from Tshimologong
Samsung has graduated of the 4th cohort from its Advance Industry Experience programme, in partnership with Tshimologong Digital Precinct. In response to the challenges faced by information and communication technology (ICT) graduates in securing jobs within the...
Printer market close to 5% growth
The global printers market size is anticipated to reach $71,04-billion by 2030. It is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 4,7% from 2024 to 2030, according to a new report by Grand View Research. Technological innovations in the printer market, such as wireless...
GenAI adoption skews IT spending forecast
Worldwide IT spending is expected to total $5,26-trillion in 2024, an increase of 7,5% from 2023, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. This is a decrease from the previous quarter’s forecast of 8% growth, but an increase of the overall spend forecast of...
Engie breaks ground on Grootspruit PV power plant
Independent power producer Engie has broken ground on the construction of the Grootspruit solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant in the Free State. The plant, to operate at a 75MW contracted capacity, will be built and operated by Engie in partnership with Pele Green...
Africa under cyberattack
African organisations are feeling the pressure of the globe's highest number of cyberattacks during the last quarter. New Check Point Software Technologies data on Q2 2024 cyber-attack trends demonstrates that the rise in cyber-attacks is driven by increasing digital...
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People, not technology, deliver digital transformation reality
Digital transformation has become an operational necessity. It is the roadmap to process, the journey to digitalisation success and the GPS coordinates the organisation needs to shift gears into the future. It is the step taken by public and private sector to invest...
Obsidian, Grape unite to secure corporate comms
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HPE SA appoints new channel leads
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Home-grown tech firm takes on SNOW Adaptor
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Covid-19 killed traditional disaster recovery
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MFS Africa acquires Beyonic
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5G and enterprise: a match made for growth
Digital technologies are transforming industries worldwide. With 5G being deployed across the region, service providers increasingly recognise the new business opportunities that digital transformation of the enterprise market will bring, writes by Lucky La Riccia,...
Chatbots can improve workflows in the ‘new normal’
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Click and despair: remote workers come under cyber-attack
The Covid-19 induced shift to remote working has provided a golden opportunity for cybercriminals to target one of a business' biggest cyber vulnerabilities - the workforce. By Zamani Ngidi, cyber solutions client manager at Aon South Africa According to a recent...
Nutanix debuts remote IT solutions for cloud infrastructure management
Nutanix has announced new solutions that will allow IT teams to deploy, upgrade and troubleshoot their cloud infrastructure while working from anywhere - whether at home or from a central office location. The solutions will be delivered via Nutanix Foundation Central,...
Business Intelligence (BI) Developer at Mancosa – KwaZulu-Natal Durban
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ENVIRONMENT:ENSURE visually appealing and seamless user interfaces as the next Junior Frontend Developer sought by a cutting-edge FinTech platform. Working closely with Senior Developers, Designers, and Product Managers, you will help implement clean, responsive, and...
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Graduate – Information Technology at PnP
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Senior Backend Developer (Python, SQL, NoSQL)
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