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.

Power of symmetry key in new quantum breakthrough

By taking advantage of nature’s own inherent symmetry, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have found a way to control and communicate with the dark state of atoms. This finding opens another door towards building quantum computing networks and...

Defining trends that will impact business in 2023

The year 2022 has been one of substantial change, especially in the workplace, where organisations of all shapes and sizes have had to navigate through the post-pandemic normal. From embracing the work-from-home phenomenon to improving how they attract and nurture...

First exascale supercomputer is on the cards

Intel and the US Department of Energy (DOE) will deliver the first supercomputer with a performance of one exaFLOP in the US. The contract is valued at more than $500-million and will be delivered to Argonne National Laboratory by Intel and sub-contractor Cray in...

How to ease daily travel with smarter cities

Visa, in collaboration with Stanford University, has launched one of the largest global studies examining the growing demand for public and private transportation, and the important role digital commerce plays in driving sustainable growth. According to the UN, by...

Phishing attacks more than doubled in 2018

Kaspersky Lab's anti-phishing system prevented more than 482-million attempts to visit fraudulent web pages during 2018, a two-fold increase on 2017, when 236-million such attempts were blocked. Annual rises in the number of phishing attacks have been observed for the...

Server revenue sees healthy growth

The worldwide server market continued to grow through 2018 as worldwide server revenue increased 17,8% in the fourth quarter of 2018, while shipments grew 8,5% year over year, according to Gartner. In all of 2018, worldwide server shipments grew 13,1% and server...

Users happy with channel shift – on their terms

As new methods of interaction such as webchat and chatbot-based communication in customer service become more and more commonplace, new research by Aspect Software has found that two-thirds of consumers (67%) are comfortable with moving beyond traditional channels of...

Independent SUSE commits to open source community

SUSE has announced the creation of the largest independent open source company following the completion of its acquisition by growth investor EQT from Micro Focus. With its ongoing momentum, portfolio expansion and successful execution in the marketplace, as a...

SqwidNet challenges students to embrace IoT

SqwidNet has launched the second round of its IoT SA University Challenge. The nationwide technology competition is aimed at getting university students to solve real-world challenges using the Internet of Things (IoT). "We developed this initiative in partnership...

Ford integrates Waze for hands-free navigation

Waze users in South Africa can now project the app's real-time traffic and navigation service on to the touch screen in Ford vehicles via SYNC 3 AppLink and control it through voice command. For owners of Ford SYNC 3-equipped vehicles, this allows easier access to...

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