Roman space telescope begins its quest to the dark universe

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has begun a three-month, million-mile journey to its final orbit where it is hoped it will reveal the universe’s darkest secrets. The mission launched at 7:26 AM EDT Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch...

Crackdowns alone won’t stop online wildlife trafficking

A new major global review shows that platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube are fueling a fast-growing and difficult-to-track illegal wildlife trade. The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Dr Annette Hübschle, a co-author of the study, says closing...

Nvidia’s quarter was bigger than TSMC’s entire year

Nvidia generated more revenue in a single quarter than the company that manufactures its chips generated in the whole of last year. This comparison puts the scale of the result into sharp focus, says deVere Group CEO Nigel Green. Nvidia reported quarterly revenue of...

AI dominates the corporate risk landscape

AI-enabled discovery of cyber vulnerabilities emerged as the most critical emerging risk facing organisations worldwide in the second quarter of 2026, according to Gartner. The Gartner Quarterly Emerging Risk Report series compiles insights and perspectives from...

Cyber resilience now a critical priority for manufacturing

As 60% of manufacturers race toward full digitalisation, cyber risk is increasingly manifesting as a business risk, according to a new global report by Kaspersky and VDC Strategy. This means cybersecurity is not merely a compliance function, it is a cornerstone of...

Top 20 African Business Heroes advance to semi-finals

The Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) Prize Competition, a philanthropic initiative of Alibaba Philanthropy, has announced the 20 entrepreneurs who will advance to its 2026 semi-finals in Nairobi later this week. The top 20 were selected from an expanded top 100 cohort...

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...

Africa must build resilience as US-China tech divide deepens

Africa’s AI choices are becoming geopolitical choices. As the US and China accelerate the development of increasingly distinct and incompatible AI technology stacks, African governments and companies can move quickly to avoid long-term dependency, technology lock-in,...

Claude has also been infiltrating systems

Anthropic has revealed that its Claude model has also gone rogue and is responsible for three cybersecurity incidents. “In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while...

AI-generated inferences will take biggest privacy toll

By 2029, most privacy incidents will result not from the direct exposure of personally identifiable information (PII), but from AI-generated inferences about individuals, according to Gartner. “There is a fundamental shift underway from data exposure to insight...

Spacecraft on Swift rescue mission runs into trouble

The spacecraft sent to lift the sinking Neil Gehrels Swift Obsevatory has run into trouble and is spinning away. The LINK servicing spacecraft from Katalyst’s LINK servicing spacecraft has experienced issues with attitude control, causing the spacecraft to spin and...

How SA property trends have changed

Rising property prices, local socioeconomic trends, and the effects of global instability are shaping the South African housing market and its buyers in 2026. “This is being compounded by poorly designed property market mechanics not producing sufficient stock fast...

How criminals turn ordinary people into money mules

As digital banking grows, so too do the tactics used by criminals. One of the fastest-growing threats is the use of money mule accounts, where ordinary people are recruited to move illicit funds, sometimes without realising they're participating in a crime. Bonolo...

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I pulled Excalibur from the stone and used it to trim my hedges

By Barry Buck, with Claude Fable 5 - This week Anthropic handed the village folk the keys to the armoury. Claude Fable 5 – a Mythos-class model, the tier whose legend of being too dangerous to release precedes it – is now generally available for a limited period. Its...

Unpacking the risks major event organisers must manage

The Comrades Marathon is one of South Africa’s most enduring symbols of resilience, with thousands of runners taking to the road each year in a display of grit and determination, while millions of spectators watch with pride. Yet the spectacle that unfolds on race day...

Salesforce to transform football fan engagement

Salesforce has announced a landmark partnership, becoming an Official Tournament Supporter of the FIFA World Cup 2026 in North America and Europe and the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2027 in North America and the host country Brazil. The multi-tournament partnership brings...

Lenovo powers FIFA World Cup 2026 operations

Lenovo is delivering a near real-time AI-powered infrastructure platform for the FIFA World Cup 2026 to enable ultra-low-latency IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) video distribution in addition to the traditional cable and satellite broadcast, intelligent content...

Mining and banking payouts drive growth

South African dividends increased 75% year on year to R143,2-billion during Q1 2026, says Computershare. The global financial services company says that the increase reflects higher dividend payments from metals and mining companies, as well as banks. The rebound from...

AI in the boardroom: the personal liability of the board

Company directors who delegate their fiduciary duties to an AI model or adopt its output as their own decision risk losing their Business Judgement Rule protection. “The King V Code, the Companies Act and common law all dictate that corporate decisions must be made by...

Blue Pearl accelerates enterprise modernisation with IBM Bob

IBM today is announcing a significant milestone in how Blue Pearl is leveraging IBM Bob, an agentic AI-powered software development partner, to accelerate modernisation of their legacy Java codebase. The agentic AI helps increase engineering productivity, strengthen...

NTT Data expands collaboration with Google Cloud

NTT Data has announced an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud to help enterprises move from AI experimentation to scaled deployment of agentic AI solutions built with Gemini Enterprise. The collaboration is focused on enabling AI-powered reinvention, helping...

Chat commerce starts with service, not sales

Businesses are no longer asking whether AI, chat, and conversational commerce will shape customer engagement. They are asking where to start. There is a lot of excitement around agentic AI, and understandably so, writes Richard Eberlein, Weaver executive for growth...

What businesses need to know about AI-built software

AI has made software creation faster and more accessible, but speed is not the same as quality. The competitive advantage is shifting from who can write code to who can define the problem, guide the build, test the output, manage risk and keep the system maintainable....

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