AI is driving more breaches, at an average cost of $6m

One in four malicious breaches were AI-enabled – a 56% increase over last year – and these breaches cost an average of $6-million, roughly $1-million more than the global breach average of $4,99-million. This is among the findings from IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach...

AI automation is having an impact on entry-level hiring

Nearly a quarter (22%) of CHROs report that at least one business leader in their organisation has stopped hiring for entry-level roles due to AI automation, according to Gartner. The 4Q25 Gartner survey of 110 heads of HR also found that 95% of organisations have...

Africa’s young people want jobs, clean government

Africa’s young people are more optimistic about the future of their countries, economies and the continent than at any point since the pandemic - but they are demanding jobs, cleaner government, safer communities, a stronger political voice and a model of democracy...

Even without data centres, Africa faces water bankruptcy

A new United Nations (UN) report says the world has moved past a water crisis into water bankruptcy – and Africa’s utility numbers already show what that looks like.

Consumers labour under debt burden

Sunday (26 March) will mark three years since South Africa went into lockdown, which had a devastating event had on the local economy. To add to this, South Africa was recently placed on the money laundering grey list, and economists are predicting a 45% chance of a...

What’s holding East African start-ups back?

A new regional survey of tech start-ups across East Africa reveals that while investment levels remained relatively stable over the last 12 months, the heart of Africa's start-up ecosystem perceives many roadblocks as having the potential to disrupt the region's...

IBM unveils z15 with industry-first data privacy

IBM today announced IBM z15, a new enterprise platform delivering the ability to manage the privacy of customer data across hybrid multicloud environments. With z15, clients can manage who gets access to data via policy-based controls, with an industry-first...

Banks gear up to tackle financial crime

A new independent survey by research firm Ovum on behalf of global analytic software firm FICO has found that most banks plan to integrate their fraud and financial crime compliance systems and activities in response to new criminal threats and punishing fines. Ovum...

New Cisco SA head no stranger to the company

Cisco has appointed Garsen Naidu as its new country manager for South Africa. Naidu has been with the company for eight years, his most recent position being head of the Partner and System Engineering organisations for Sub-Saharan Africa. "Garsen has led our Partner...

The aliens are coming …

During what has been a content-rich summer season across the northern hemisphere, children have shown significant interest in viral memes about Area 51, according to Kaspersky's annual summer report into kids' online safety. Area 51 is commonly believed to be a...

Ignore app Ts & Cs and become clickbait

South Africa's Wireless Application Service Providers' Association (WASPA) says millions of mobile users are potentially putting themselves at risk by not reading the associated terms and conditions when downloading an app. WASPA has previously cautioned cellular...

Strong Q3 growth for SA unlikely

Declining economic transactions in August offer little hope of a 3% growth recurring in the third quarter. This is according to BankservAfrica's monthly economic transactions index (BETI) which fell even after July's figures were revised slightly upwards following the...

AI neural network improves heart attack detection

Researchers have developed a neural network approach that can accurately identify congestive heart failure with 100% accuracy through analysis of just one raw electrocardiogram (ECG) heartbeat, a new study reports. Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a chronic...

Declining sales, trade war don’t dull Apple sentiment

Despite declining iPhone sales for the second consecutive quarter and the ongoing US-China trade war, the overall sentiments for Apple remain high. This is according to GlobalData's Company Filing Analytics platform, which analyzes and showcases sentiments across...

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