OpenAI agent goes rogue and raids digital library

A rogue OpenAI agent is responsible for a completely autonomous attack on Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The AI models responsible were being tested at the time, and managed to hack into the popular digital library, compromising some internal datasets and...

Transnet on track with R129bn recovery

Transnet will spend more than R129-billion over the next five years to restore the organisation’s sustainability and credibility. This is the word from group chief executive Michelle Phillips, addressing delegates at the SAPICS Conference in Cape Town. Phillips told...

Voyager 1 on track to reach one light-day from Earth

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Cisco partners with Jozi My Jozi on inner city revitalisation

Kathy Gibson reports form Johannesburg - Cisco and Jozi My Jozi today launched a new partnership aimed at harnessing technology to help develop the Johannesburg inner city. The new initiative, Masibambisane, is part of Cisco’s global 40 Communities social impact...

Ambitious reforms needed to boost productivity, employment

South Africa has extraordinary growth potential, though low public investment and high costs of doing business have been holding back growth. Major structural reforms are needed to boost productivity and advance the country towards meeting its goals of durably...

Don’t be fooled by fake AARTO news

The Road Traffic Infringement Agency (RTIA) has noted with concern the proliferation of fake news and misinformation surrounding the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) Act rollout. The agency urges members of the public to exercise caution...

Hybrid working becoming the norm in SA

Hard lockdowns may feel like a lifetime ago but working from home (WFH) isn't going anywhere, according to new data from Discovery Insure. Analysing the driving trends of Vitality Drive programme members, the insurer has revealed that 23% of its clients who began...

AWS beats Azure to top global cloud market share

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has 31% of the global cloud market share, surpassing Microsoft Azure, according to research group Stocklytics.com. "The cloud market is proving competitive with players keen to tap into new users," says Edith Reads, financial analyst at...

AI should enable, not replace, customer service employees

Leaders are looking to self-service and emerging technologies like generative AI to reduce the need for agents and generate greater returns. High-quality assisted service is increasingly expensive and difficult to provide as organisations struggle to attract and...

Healthy growth for digital healthcare SCM

The global digital healthcare supply chain management market is forecast to reach $5,4-billion by 2030 - growing at a CAGR of 9% from 2024 to 2030 - according to a new report by Grand View Research. Major factors driving the market growth include adopting the GS1...

Smart city technologies continue to shape cities of tomorrow

IoT specialist Berg Insight has released the latest edition of its comprehensive smart city technology report comprising in-depth studies of five key technology areas: smart street lighting; smart parking; smart waste collection; urban air quality monitoring; and...

IBM inks MoU with Spain to advance AI strategy

The Government of Spain and IBM have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote their collaboration in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI supercomputing; advance the development and practical deployment of open, ethical and responsible...

March is 10th month in a row to break heat records

Global record-breaking heat continues as March 2024 has come in as the hottest month on record – making it the 10th in a row. The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts on behalf of the European...

PC shipments return to growth and pre-pandemic volumes

After two years of decline, the worldwide traditional PC market returned to growth during the first quarter of 2024 (1Q24) with 59,8-million shipments, growing 1,5% year over year, according to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC)...

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Two consulting firms, Cova Advisory and XNovos, have announced a partnership to produce a software system to help companies to cope with the requirements of the new Carbon Tax. They have signed an MOU, and are committed to helping meet demand for a comprehensive...

BT delivers security services for icare

BT has signed a contract to deploy a cloud-based SIEM service for icare, a regional provider of insurance and care services to the businesses, people and communities of New South Wales, Australia. By selecting BT, icare will benefit from market-leading cyber security...

SUSE enhances delivery of containerised, cloud native applications

SUSE has announced updates to its application delivery solutions that help customers accelerate production of modern containerised and cloud native applications. These updates advance SUSE's delivery and support of solutions to create, deploy and manage workloads...

Vox expands SME assessment programme

Vox has introduced its IT Assessment Programme, which is aimed at ensuring that small and medium enterprises' IT infrastructure is up to date and secure, and that it is maintained in line with global best practice. "We have developed a software tool that...

DHL rolls out eShop to more countries

Since its initial introduction in April of this year, the DHL Africa eShop app has seen its user base grow rapidly and, within the first three months of operation, it had already been rolled out to 20 countries across sub-Saharan Africa. DHL Express has announced that...

FNB customers send billions in eWallet funds

The volume of money sent via FNB's eWallet has grown 19% to 46-million by end of June 2019. The total value transmitted was over R25-billion for the year, with regular recipients continuing to grow. FNB Consumer CEO, Dr Christoph Nieuwoudt, says: "The record volumes...

Prosus lists in Amsterdam, Johannesburg

Prosus, a global consumer internet group and one of the largest technology investors in the world, has started trading through a primary listing on Euronext Amsterdam and a secondary listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. With assets valued in excess of...

4IR: ICT and energy sectors equally crucial

Energy has played an enabling role in each of the past industrial revolutions, and the fourth is no different. By Vino Govender, executive for strategy, mergers and acquisition and innovation for Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) But instead of powering factory machinery and...

VMware delivers disaster recovery

ACS, a division of Altron and a provider of secure electronic transaction solutions, has implemented VMware Cloud Director and VMware Cloud Availability for a failproof cloud-hosted disaster recovery (DR) environment for the business and its clients. Established in...

Vodacom Tanzania, Smart Lab partner to boost start-ups

Vodacom Tanzania and Smart Lab have launched the Vodacom Digital Accelerator, a programme that intends to help early-stage and growth-stage technology startups become profitable and revenue generating businesses. The new programme, which will run yearly, aims at...

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Business Analyst – Gauteng Hazeldean

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IT Technician – KwaZulu-Natal Durban

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