AI leaders join call for a slowdown in new developments

The call for a global slowdown on artificial intelligence (AI) development is gaining traction, with the leaders of the some of the world’s largest AI companies adding their voices. On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dr Dario Amodei penned an essay calling for AI companies to...

Unmanaged AI poses new ‘shadow agent’ crisis

A growing “shadow agent” crisis threatens to overwhelm businesses. According to the Veeam Software’ latest research, organisations across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are battling unmanaged AI on two fronts. On the data security front, 70% of organisations...

A third of employees laid off due to AI will need to be rehired

As AI continues to accelerate the pace and scope of work, CIOs must prepare for four shifts that will influence the future of work, says Gartner. “When business and IT executives look back on the early AI-era, they will realise their greatest mistake was believing...

IT channel pivots to add value as AI takes off

Kathy Gibson reports from Pinnacle TechScape - Artificial intelligence (AI) may be at the peak of the hype cycle, but this doesn’t detract from the value that the technology will bring to the industry. That’s the word from Tim Humphreys-Davies, CEO of Pinnacle, who...

WiFi 7 surges as WLAN shows signs of recovery

There was a glimmer of hope in the enterprise class wireless LAN (WLAN) market as revenues increased Q/Q to $2,2-billion, according to a Dell’Oro report. The adoption of Wi-Fi 7 accelerated, with Huawei shipping over half of the world’s units. “While WLAN revenues...

New phishing campaigns aimed at students and educators

As the international back-to-school season starts, Kaspersky has warned that cybercriminals are exploiting academic topics with sophisticated phishing campaigns to specifically target the theft of personal data from students, educators, and administrators. Fraudsters...

Liquid completes Telrad acquisition

Liquid Intelligent Technologies has finalised its 100% acquisition and delisting of Telrad, an Israeli-based technology company. According to Nic Rudnick, deputy-chairman of Liquid Intelligent Technologies: “Earlier this year, Liquid had entered into a definitive...

Solid improvement in SA business debt

There has been a strong improvement in business debt conditions in Q1 but this trajectory is likely to decline in the coming quarters, according to new insight from Experian South Africa. The Experian Business Debt Index (BDI) increased in Q1 from Q4 2021, rising to...

Darknet forums target corporate infrastructure

Selling access to corporate infrastructure is one of the most popular topics on Darknet forums currently, accounting for 12% of all messages in trade forum sections analysed. This is according to Yuliya Novikova, head of security services analysis at Kaspersky, who...

Virtual assistants, digital humans could be close to acing Turing Test

Nvidia has announced the Nvidia Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE), a suite of cloud-native AI models and services that make it easier to build and customize lifelike virtual assistants and digital humans. By bringing these models and services to the cloud, ACE...

AI-equipped drones study dolphins on the edge of extinction

Small in size and with a distinctive, rounded dorsal fin, Māui dolphins are one of the rarest and most threatened dolphins in the sea, with a known population of just 54. Decades of fishing practices, such as gillnetting off the west coast of New Zealand in the South...

AI, analytics key to developing African hydrocarbons

Africa has had massive oil and gas discoveries in recent years ­– including the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim offshore Senegal and Mauritania, the Luiperd and Brulpadda in South Africa and the Rovuma Basin discoveries offshore Mozambique, among others – but development has...

Betelgeuse slowly recovers after blowing its top

Analysing data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories, astronomers have concluded that the bright red supergiant star Betelgeuse quite literally blew its top in 2019, losing a substantial part of its visible surface and producing a gigantic...

New challenges as we move beyond digitalisation

While digital transformation has meant the increasing prominence of digital technologies in traditional industries, there will be decreasing prominence of digital technologies in the next era. This is the word from the Gartner Research Board, which adds this isn't a...

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New Presence Technology offering from Jasco

Jasco Enterprise, a proud partner of Presence Technology, announces the availability of the new Presence IVR Software module (Interactive Voice Response) designed to improve customer contact. One of the features of the Presence IVR software module includes a “strategy...

Foster Melliar, iSolve Learning merge

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Huawei wins at 5G World Summit 2015

Huawei was awarded Biggest Contribution to 5G Development at 5G World Summit 2015 for its continuous innovation and industry contributions to 5G particularly for the new air interface technologies. With the rapid development of mobile broadband and the Internet of...

Visual comms breaks free of the boardroom

High-quality videoconferencing is leaving the boardroom and hitting smart devices everywhere – from your smartphone and up. And the smart telecoms providers are getting in on the act. It all begins with a little thing called WebRTC, says Rob Lith, business development...

It’s all about the who and the woo

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Increase vigilance to avoid being hacked

The term “heist” conjures up images of slick professionals outsmarting and conning banks, government agencies, casinos, organisations and individuals, before robbing them and getting away with wads of cash. The film industry has, in general, established the genre as...

Mobile a shortcut to open access broadband

Government’s recent announcement that owners of fibre optic networks - including itself - would be compelled to share capacity with other Internet service providers shows the high expectations it has of the digital world.  Broadband access is linked to economic...

Avanade helps Henkel with digital journey

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Eaton integrates with SimpliVity solution

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