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...

Premium-Class travel now the way to fly

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released its latest World Air Transport Statistics (WATS) which show that Premium-Class travel is now on the up and showing strong growth. Updated annually, WATS provides data related to demand, supply, and...

New battery factory drives industrialisation, job creation

Kathy Gibson reports - Actom has opened a new assembly line for locally-assembled LiFePO₄ battery energy storage systems (BESS). Yesterday, the company also announced that is expanding manufacturing capacity for its high voltage equipment. These moves are significant...

Avoid being a victim of ‘Grand Theft’

Following the official launch of Grand Theft Auto VI game pre-orders late June, which saw a global fan frenzy, threat actors quickly began exploiting the event as a lure, says Kaspersky. Scammers leveraged the heightened demand to deploy deceptive schemes - from fake...

PC shipments tank as memory crunch bites

Worldwide PC shipments fell 4,9% year-over-year in Q2 2026 to 68,2-million units, according to IDC — the first decline after nine consecutive quarters of growth. A persistent memory chip shortage drove the reversal, pushing vendors to pull inventory forward as far as...

Battle of the AI models hots up

Meta and OpenAI have both launched new artificial intelligence (AI) models. Meta Spark is said to be better at coding than the company’s last interation released in April, performing at levels close to the offerings from rival AI companies in writing, reasoning and...

Africa emerges as iGaming fraud hotspot

Africa has emerged as the global epicentre of iGaming fraud. According to Sumsub’s newly released iGaming Fraud Report 2026 the continent records the highest fraud rate of any region analysed worldwide. The findings highlight a rapidly evolving threat landscape in...

AI makes future workspace needs harder to predict

AI is accelerating the pace of business and forcing companies to rethink how much and what style of office space they need, opting for the benefits of flexible and decentralised workspace models. According to a new study of CEOs and CFOs from International Workplace...

Finance organisations on the lookout for digital talent

The promise of AI in the finance function - and challenges in obtaining the required digital talent - are driving leading CFOs to concentrate hiring efforts and development resources on employees with the necessary aptitude and attitude to meet the function’s digital...

Strongest start to new vehicle sales in 13 years

New vehicle sales in South Africa continued their strong start in 2026, with naamsa reporting 209 838 units sold in the first four months, 12,5% higher than the same period in 2025 (186 599 units) and the strongest January-April performance since 2013 (217 296 units)....

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Acer Africa extends Nitro Gaming with Syntech

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Security in the post-Mythos era

The fundamentals you ignored are the only things that will save you, writes Yuri Kramarz, principal engineer at Cisco Talos. In 2023, a colleague and I wrote a cybersecurity guide for businesses of any size. It was not glamorous work. Nobody was asking for another...

Evolve security policies for the AI era

As enterprises accelerate the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and agentic systems, the conversation around data protection is becoming more urgent. Yet, according to Dariel CTO Wayne Yan, organisations should resist the temptation to treat AI as an entirely...

Banks need a decisioning backbone for the AI era

For years, banks have modernised around channels. For example, mobile apps became better, onboarding became faster and customer engagement became more personalised. These improvements matter because customers feel them every day. But there is a more difficult shift...

ISO 27001 is becoming a baseline requirement for doing business

Cyber threats are increasing in both frequency and sophistication, and organisations need a consistent way to manage information security. By Ryan Boyes, senior security administrator at Galix At the same time, businesses are increasingly being asked to prove how...

Correcting the misalignment between digital skills and business needs

The conversation around AI is often dominated by speculation about job losses. By Mark Mc Kerr, managing executive at Paracon by Adcorp Yet this focus distracts from a more immediate and measurable challenge: South African businesses are investing in advanced...

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ENVIRONMENT:WRITE complex SQL reports, setup correspondence templates while analysing & solving business and system problems as the next Senior SQL Developer wanted by a dynamic Financial Services provider. You will also manage the day-to-day Operations on Owls...

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Shift Into the Fast Lane of Innovation!Tired of the same old grind? Ready to apply your analytical superpowers where they actually move the needle — in shaping the future of premium mobility?We are hunting for a standout Business Analyst to join the high-octane...

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