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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...

Airline profitability to strengthen despite headwinds

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced updates to its 2025 airline industry financial outlook, showing improved profitability over 2024 and resilience in the face of global economic and political shifts. Key highlights from the expected 2025...

Lenovo delivers on its ‘pocket to cloud’ promise

AI is no longer coming – it is here. This is the word from Yugen Naidoo, GM: Lenovo Southern Africa, who says IT must be about innovation with a purpose. “In southern Africa, Lenovo has made real progress, bring smarter technology to customers, supporting the channel,...

Increase in demand for APIs will come from AI

More than 30% of the increase in demand for application programming interfaces (APIs) will come from AI and tools using large language models (LLMs) by 2026, says Gartner. "With technology service providers (TSPs) leading the charge in GenAI adoption, the fallout will...

AI companies dominate the unicorn club

Last year, fewer than 100 companies joined the global unicorn club - the lowest number since 2017 and a steep drop compared to 2022 and 2023, which saw hundreds of private startups valued at $1-billion or more. Still, in a year that showed becoming a unicorn is much...

Tech industry most geopoliticised in the world

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Asset tokenisation to drive blockchain revenue boom

The blockchain industry, although volatile and nascent, has made significant progress in a short span of time, driven by remarkable innovation. Global blockchain platform and services revenue is set to grow from $12-billion in 2023 to $291-billion in 2030. This growth...

Wearables set for rebound

The wearable devices market declined 0,9% YoY in the fourth quarter of 2023 (4Q23), says IDC, adding that despite improved economic conditions, mature markets such as the US, Western Europe and Japan recorded declines in 4Q23 due to muted demand, tough comparisons...

Microsoft boosts AI healthcare market

Microsoft's recent announcement that it will be further integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into its applications is expected to contribute significantly to the 31% CAGR in the AI healthcare space between 2022 and 2027, says research group GlobalData. In the last...

Strong momentum for security spend in Europe

European security spending will grow by 12,3% in 2024, marking another year of strong momentum with double-digit growth, according to IDC's Worldwide Security Spending Guide. Spending in the region is expected to increase at a steady pace throughout the whole 2022 to...

Illegal cigarettes cost SA billions

South Africa has been losing billions of rands on illegal cigarettes - more than R100-billion since 2010. New research from University of Cape Town (UCT) academics Dr Nicole Vellios and Professor Corné van Walbeek says that in 2022 alone, the government lost...

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Would you gamble flipping a coin for the effectiveness of your cybersecurity plan? Heads: you're able to prevent - or recover from - a cyberattack. Tails: you fall victim to a cybercriminal, lose critical business data, suffer immense business productivity and...

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Moscow starts testing on 5G pilot zone

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AI: is it artificial ignorance?

The hype around artificial intelligence (AI) is currently a media frenzy and if we aren't careful, we will ruin the name before it has had a chance to really prove itself due to a lack of knowledge around it, writes Carey van Vlaanderen, CEO at ESET South Africa. AI...

Vodacom invests in rAge expo

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Hiring? Look out for sexual harassers

Sexual harassment in the workplace is not uncommon, as highlighted in a 2018 survey by Columnite Insites Consulting which surveyed 1000 South African employees. The review revealed that 30% of women and 18% of men indicated that they were victims of sexual harassment...

Women make better investors

A recent study by the Warwick Business School, which analysed the behaviour and returns of 2 800 investors over three years, found that women outperform men by 1,8%. By looking at a range of criteria, the study was able to ascertain a number of significant differences...

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