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.

Load shedding drives manufacturer confidence lower

Confidence levels in the manufacturing sector dropped 9 points to 17 in the first quarter of 2023, according to the Absa Manufacturing Survey. "Manufacturers are feeling pessimistic as load shedding, especially at higher levels such as stage 6, continues to have a...

Ethernet founder wins AM Turing Award

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Bob Metcalfe as recipient of the 2022 ACM AM Turing Award for the invention, standardisation, and commercialisation of Ethernet. Metcalfe is an Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at...

SA Innovation Summit aims to jump-start African start-ups

Entrepreneurs from across the world are competing for their share of investment opportunities and prizes valued at over R20-million at the 2019 SA Innovation Summit. The SA Innovation Summit, taking place from today (11 September) to Friday (13 September 2019) at the...

The link between climate change and fires

Hot and dry. These are the watchwords for large fires. While every fire needs a spark to ignite and fuel to burn, it's the hot and dry conditions in the atmosphere that determine the likelihood of a fire starting, its intensity and the speed at which it spreads. Over...

Employers reserved about Q4 hiring intentions

South African employers report soft hiring intentions for the last quarter of the year. According to the latest ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey, while 10% of employers anticipate an increase in payrolls, 6% expect a decrease and 82% forecast no change. Once...

Gartner identifies a framework for digital society regulation

Current rules and regulations are under stress as society increases its digitalisation. Gartner says CEOs, CIOs and other executives must collaborate on new rules to protect individuals and groups while encouraging an innovative growing economy. "Trust in digital...

Cyber readiness stalls as attacks reach new intensity

There has been a sharp increase in the number and cost of cyber-attack, with more than three out of five firms (61%) reporting one or more attacks in the past year. But the proportion of companies achieving top scores for their cyber security readiness is marginally...

Training makes legal departments more cost-effective

Cost-effective legal departments allocate almost twice as much of their in-house budget to training than higher-cost peers, according to Gartner. The most cost-effective legal departments commit to a strategy of continuous improvement of their in-house capabilities,...

Is SA food insecure or are we wasting too much?

South Africans are not heeding the call to save food. According to a new report, "2017 Food Loss and Waste: Facts and Futures" from the World Wide Fund for Nature South Africa (WWF-SA), a third of all food in the country is not eaten but wasted. Quantified, this...

Wits spearheads African AI research initiative

The Molecular Sciences Institute (MSI) at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), in partnership with the Cirrus Initiative, has announced plans for a new artificial intelligence (AI) research operation in Africa. Professor Zeblon Vilakazi, deputy vice-chancellor:...

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