Climate Change Act comes into effect
President Cyril Ramaphosa, has proclaimed the Climate Change Act, 2024 (Act No. 22 of 2024) (the Act), with the notice published in the Government Gazette on 17 March 2025. The Act is intended to enable the development of an effective climate change response and a...
Sustainability key for data centre growth
Data centres can be likened to an ecosystem of computing facilities that contain many facets required to store and handle data. IDTechEx's latest report, "Sustainability for Data Centres 2025-2035: Green Technologies, Market Forecasts, and Players", unpacks efforts...
Anglo American partner on EV batteries
Anglo American has announced the launch of a research and development project in collaboration with GEM, one of China's largest battery and battery material recyclers, to explore new and more efficient technologies for the use of existing and alternative raw materials...
Création Africa extends application deadline
Création Africa, a R24-million initiative to mentor, incubate and provide financial support for emerging culture and creative businesses in Lesotho, Malawi and South Africa, has issued its final call for applications. Entrepreneurs have until 31 January 2024 to apply....
JINX dark fiber upgrades set the stage for SA internet growth
JINX completes dark fibre upgrades The multisite Johannesburg Internet Exchange (JINX) has completed the installation of high-speed dark fibre across the span of the entire network to radically boost the exchange's resilience and backbone capacity in 2024. "Successful...
Hubble finds water vapour in small exoplanet’s atmosphere
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have observed the smallest exoplanet where water vapour has been detected in the atmosphere. At only approximately twice Earth's diameter, the planet GJ 9827d could be an example of potential planets with water-rich...
Dark fibre network market set for steady growth
The global dark fibre market size is predicted to attain $13,45-billion by 2030, according to a new report by Grand View Research. It is anticipated to progress at a CAGR of 12,8% from 2023 to 2030. Dark fibre has emerged as a sustainable solution for various...
Steady growth for mobile security
The global mobile security market size is anticipated to reach $30,8-billion by 2030 with a projected CAGR of 20,5% from 2024 to 2030, according to a new report by Grand View Research. Increase in the adoption of smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other portable...
Dark web swarms with info on GenAI
Kaspersky's Digital Footprint Intelligence service has found nearly 3 000 dark web posts mainly discussing use of ChatGPT and other LLMs for illegal activities. Threat actors are exploring schemes, from creating nefarious alternatives of the chatbot to jailbreaking...
Five cybersecurity trends to watch in 2024
The year ahead presents cybersecurity defenders with a host of new challenges as threat actors continue to evolve their tactics, writes Zaheer Ebrahim, solutions architect at Trend Micro MEA, who shares the top insights from the security specialist's latest research -...
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Even Superwoman needs a sicknote occasionally
As South African Women's Day rolls round again, we can draw satisfaction from the small victories achieved along the way. For instance, we have successfully challenged the old 'weaker sex' stereotypes, writes Mosima Selekisho, director of Signium Africa....
Venezuelan military under attack by cyber spies
ESET researchers have discovered an ongoing cyberespionage campaign against high-profile targets in Latin America. More than half of the attacked computers belong to Venezuelan military forces. However, among the included targets are institutions ranging from police...
Software AG gets highest IIoT use case scores by Gartner
Gartner, in its new Critical Capabilities for Industrial IoT Platforms report, has given Software AG the highest score in every use case in the report - Monitoring Use Case, Predictive Analytics for Equipment Use Case, and Connected Industrial Assets Use Case for its...
Cyber security key as public sector education transforms
The implementation of South Africa's far-reaching schools digitisation plans is a welcome development; but cyber security transformation should take place simultaneously to mitigate cyber risk to all levels of education departments, and to learners themselves. Ron...
Ericsson, Telefónica make 5G car manufacturing a reality for Mercedes-Benz
Ericsson is teaming up with Telefónica Germany to enable 5G car production via a private 5G network for Mercedes-Benz at the company's Sindelfingen plant in southern Germany. All production systems and machines in the new-build Factory 56 will be connected and...
Chatbots enable a better customer experience
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CA Southern Africa appoints new channel partner
CA Southern Africa has announced the appointment of a new channel partner - Cyber Sentinel, a cyber security services company with a dedicated team of information security experts, business analysts and software engineers. According to Cyber Sentinel principal...
LG Counts on G+D Mobile Security
LG has launched the LG Pay mobile payment service supporting Mastercard and Visa in the US, the first market outside of its home country South Korea. The Convego CloudPay service from G+D Mobile Security is used for deployment, provisioning and lifecycle management of...
Make sure of change management success
Implementing a compliance project within an organisation is always challenging. This is the word from Sandi Hager, senior change management consultant at Bizmod, who adds: "The primary reason for this is that the leadership team often fails to realise the significant...
CRS offers tax advisory service
CRS Technologies has partnered with Tax Debt Compliance to bring a tax advisory service to its HR and payroll clients. In the current economic climate many cash-strapped businesses find themselves unable to pay their outstanding tax debt to SARS. Some try to put the...
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