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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

In November Voyager 1 will reach an incredible 1 light-day from Earth

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...

Civil unrest, protest activity a top risk in 2025

Businesses have ranked political risks and violence as a top 10 global risk for the past three years, according to the Allianz Risk Barometer 2025, demonstrating that it has become a key concern for companies of all sizes. According to a new report from Allianz...

University of Edinburgh installs largest CS-3 cluster in Europe

Operated by EPCC, the supercomputing centre at the University and part of the Edinburgh International Data Facility, a new cluster consists of four CS-3s using Cerebras’s latest 3rd generation of Wafer Scale Engine processors – the world’s largest AI chip ever built....

Syntech reclaims Customer Care crown

Syntech Distribution has reclaimed the Customer Care Distributor of the Year Award at the 2023 Channelwise Awards. The awards, voted for by reseller partners, goes to the distributor that offers resellers the best value-added services. Resellers pick their favourite...

The votes are in … these are SA’s top IT vendors

South African IT resellers have cast their votes and selected their favourite vendors in the 2023 Channelwise Awards. Resellers cast their votes online in the Channelwise Awards survey, with about 2 200 taking the opportunity to make their voices heard. The results...

5G the fastest-growing subscription type in sub-Saharan Africa

The November 2023 edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report projects that total mobile subscriptions in sub-Saharan Africa will grow at 3 percent annually from 940-million in 2023 to 1,1-billion in 2029. 5G will be the fastest-growing subscription type between 2023 and...

Proxy macOS Trojan uncovered

Kaspersky has identified a sophisticated proxy Trojan designed to compromise the macOS operating system. This latest threat is propagated through the distribution of cracked (pirated) versions of legitimate software, posing a serious risk to users who seek alternative...

The biggest cybersecurity concerns for 2024

Hacking courses, leaked nudes, and AI usage in scams are the most discussed topics on the dark web forums. This is according to NordVPN, which looked into the biggest dark web forum as the basis of its predictions for the year ahead. "Every year we try to predict...

Climate change among top SA worries

Epson's latest Climate Barometer survey - the third edition since the survey began in 2021 - has revealed new insights around South Africans' attitudes and behaviours towards climate change, an imminent climate crisis, and taking action to make a difference for the...

Africa could lose $25bn a year under EU carbon tax

African Development Bank group president Dr Akinwumi Adesina warns that a new EU carbon border tax could significantly constrain Africa's trade and industrialisation progress by penalising value-added exports including steel, cement, iron, aluminium and fertilizers....

SA passes ‘hate speech’ bill

Despite international warnings, the South African parliament has passed new legislation broadly criminalising “hate speech”. The law states that any person who communicates with the intention to “be harmful or to incite harm” and to “promote or propagate hatred” is...

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FNB Connect offers holiday season promo

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Neutrix Cloud 2.0 improves enterprise cloud storage

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Tech, transparency to transform African agribusiness

According to experts, the African population is expected to double by 2050, which means that food demand on the continent is expected to at least double by then. Beyond feeding the population, the social and economic benefits induced by the increase in production and...

Interdependence key for a vibrant telecoms sector

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What are lost sales costing your business?

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New VAT regulations for electronic services soon

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Service Desk Technician at Mintek – Gauteng Randburg

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