Avoid the hidden costs of AI agents
Cisco’s latest Splunk State of Observability 2026: Restoring Predictability in the AI Era report exposes a significant disconnect: the urgency to deploy AI agents is rapidly outpacing the ability to monitor them. This year’s research surveyed 2 050 ITOps and...
NASA develops batteries to power a return to the Moon
If you’ve ever had your car start sluggishly, or not at all, on a particularly frigid winter morning, you know standard batteries do not like extreme cold. That’s why NASA researchers are working to develop a battery that could function in the brutal cold of the...
What Gen Z expects from the future of technology
Yesterday (14 October 2026) was International E-Waste Day, and Kaspersky is highlighting an emerging paradox in Gen Z’s behaviour: while Gen Z is the most digitally immersed generation, it also leads in awareness of technology’s environmental impact. Indeed, one in...
Digital growth is reshaping Africa’s A&E market
Digital growth is reshaping Africa’s entertainment and media (E&M) industry, creating new ways for audiences to discover, experience, and engage with content while human connection remains at the heart of the industry’s future. PwC’s Africa Entertainment &...
IBM and Siemens collaborate on Nanostack architecture research
IBM, in collaboration with Siemens, has announced new research aimed at advancing IBM’s nanostack architecture, a new transistor architecture unveiled by IBM earlier this year. The collaboration will bring together IBM's leadership in semiconductor device innovation...
How will your career withstand the impact of AI?
New research from The TEFL Academy’s South African Career Resilience Report 2026 reveals that 57% of local respondents have questioned whether their chosen career or qualification will still be valuable because of artificial intelligence - while 84% say AI has already...
Economic activity dips in September as fuel prices threaten outlook
South Africa’s economy showed early signs of a modest quarterly recovery, despite a monthly decline in economic activity in September 2026, according to the latest PayInc Economic Index. However, rising fuel prices driven by renewed tensions in the Middle East...
Surge in election-related deepfakes
New Surfshark research identifies 235 election-related deepfake incidents reported by news media across 46 countries with a combined population of 4,2-billion. The US accounts for 87 of them, or 37% of the global total. The earliest election deepfake incidents...
Threat intelligence teams turn to agentic AI as cyberthreats accelerate
Cybersecurity firm Flashpoint has released a new report which examines the challenges shaping enterprise threat intelligence programmes as AI-fueled attacks accelerate, where teams plan to expand coverage, and how they're approaching agentic AI as they plan for 2027....
Why SMEs fail: Lessons from the experts
Widely cited research by the University of the Western Cape (UWC) estimates that between 70% and 80% of small businesses in South Africa fail within their first five years. But perhaps more tellingly, the same research found that approximately 40% of the success of...
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AI forces Africa to rethink business cybersecurity
African organisations risk falling behind global counterparts as artificial intelligence reshapes cyber defence. This is according to NEC XON, which argues that many organisations on the continent are retrofitting AI into legacy cyber security architectures instead,...
How to get more from your rewards
You're feeling pretty smug. You've waited for the double-points weekend, you've got a cashback offer loaded, and you're buying something you needed anyway. You’ve got this loyalty thing on lock-down. Then a friend casually points out that if you'd paid with a...
Money for nothing …
By Barry Buck, with Claude Opus 4.8 - Last week OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, and the AGI era was declared — mostly by people with something to sell. OpenAI’s president closed the launch briefing with “Welcome to the AGI era.” Nvidia’s CEO, whose chips trained it,...
The last thing rural SA needs is a competition holiday
The Association of Comms and Technology (ACT) wants a five-year exemption from parts of the Competition Act so that six of South Africa’s largest network operators can coordinate parts of their rural infrastructure rollout. By Paul Colmer, executive member of the...
The role of flash storage in the era of physical AI
While artificial intelligence (AI) has been particularly good at answering questions, many may be wondering how else the technology could help us in our daily lives. Well, we are already starting to see the next phase of AI, where intelligence has leapt off the screen...
Peak retail season prep starts now
The online retailers who win Q4 are the ones who do the hard work in September. By the time November comes around, it is too late, writes Melinda Ellis van Zyl, enterprise sales lead of Shiprazor. Most South African digital retailers lock their systems down weeks...
The model is the easy part. What happens around it determines if AI works
Many AI projects start when someone sees an impressive demonstration and asks where the technology could be used. This is usually where the conversation moves towards products before anyone has established which business problem needs attention or what a worthwhile...
The future of customer service is automated, but must retain a human heart
Customer self-service is not a new phenomenon; it’s just much easier than in years gone by, writes Kelvin Brown, customer operations executive at Telviva. Yet, despite this, everyone reading this will relate to being “trapped” in a seemingly never-ending loop in...
The business case doesn’t end at go-live
A migration, modernisation programme or new application may be delivered on time and still fail to produce its expected return. The difference is usually made in the months and years after launch, writes Byron Phillips, head of managed operations at Synthesis. Go-live...
SA’s fibre market enters its next chapter: what happens after the rollout race?
The South African fibre landscape is currently dominated by noise, from the arrival of LEO satellites to infrastructure operators launching their own retail ISPs. Trevor van Zyl, CEO of Octotel, says the focus must shift from simply laying cable to solving complex,...
Solutions Architect (Enterprise software · Java / Spring · Azure) at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
Design scalable, secure and maintainable enterprise software solutions. The role needs a strong development background, with the architect comfortable across application architecture, cloud, integration, infrastructure and distributed systems. The right person has...
Solutions Architect (Enterprise software · Java / Spring · Azure) at Sabenza IT & Recruitment – Gauteng Pretoria
Design scalable, secure and maintainable enterprise software solutions. The role needs a strong development background, with the architect comfortable across application architecture, cloud, integration, infrastructure and distributed systems. The right person has...
Junior Developer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
The Junior Developer contributes to the design, build, test, support and maintenance of enterprise applications. The role sits in a mission-critical integration setting, where applications exchange data between systems and must remain reliable, secure and...
Junior Developer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment – Gauteng Johannesburg
The Junior Developer contributes to the design, build, test, support and maintenance of enterprise applications. The role sits in a mission-critical integration setting, where applications exchange data between systems and must remain reliable, secure and...
Senior Java Developer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
Ready for your next big development challenge? We're looking for an experienced Senior Java & Angular Developer to join a highly skilled development team working on enterprise-grade, mission-critical applications. If you enjoy solving complex technical problems,...
Senior Java Developer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment – Gauteng Pretoria
Ready for your next big development challenge? We're looking for an experienced Senior Java & Angular Developer to join a highly skilled development team working on enterprise-grade, mission-critical applications. If you enjoy solving complex technical problems,...
Senior IT Security Specialist at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
Protect ICT infrastructure against vulnerabilities and keep security aligned to best practice. The role covers information security governance, risk and incident management, and the running of endpoint, antivirus and related security controls.CISMInformation security...
Senior Java & Angular Developer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
Java is your thing. Angular is your thing. Building mission-critical software? Even better. ? We're looking for Senior Java & Angular Developers to join the Lynx Core Team and play a key role in developing enterprise-grade applications where performance,...
Senior IT Security Specialist at Sabenza IT & Recruitment – Eastern Cape Eastern Cape
Protect ICT infrastructure against vulnerabilities and keep security aligned to best practice. The role covers information security governance, risk and incident management, and the running of endpoint, antivirus and related security controls.CISMInformation security...
Senior Java & Angular Developer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment – Gauteng Pretoria
Java is your thing. Angular is your thing. Building mission-critical software? Even better. ? We're looking for Senior Java & Angular Developers to join the Lynx Core Team and play a key role in developing enterprise-grade applications where performance,...
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