Cassava doubles down on AI in Africa
Kathy Gibson reports – Cassava is using the first batch of 12 000 Nvidia GPUs it has secured to build the first of five African AI factories in Cape Town. This week, the group has also been appointed as Africa’s first preferred Nvidia Cloud Partner (NCP), adding to...
SARB becomes 50% shareholder in PayInc
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has subscribed to a 50% shareholding in PayInc, previously known as BankservAfrica. Concurrently, Capitec and Investec have subscribed as direct shareholders of PayInc. In a related transaction, Access Bank, African Bank,...
New hacktivist threat poses global risks
Newly-emerged hacktivist group DieNet has claimed responsibility for more than 60 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in just two months, including its most recent and widely reported action: the global disruption of X (formerly Twitter). The DieNet group...
SA traders urged to guard against deepfake scams
Last week, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) issued an urgent warning about sophisticated scams targeting traders. Fraudsters are now using deepfake videos to impersonate well-known business leaders, officials, and brokers to lure South Africans into fake...
Huawei to power SA’s first grid-forming system
Huawei Digital Power Sub-Saharan Africa has been selected as the exclusive original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partner for the Palabora Mining Company (PMC) solar and battery energy storage system (BESS) project, a flagship initiative led by the Mzansi Energy...
Telco-powered credit score enables better access to finance
TransUnion Africa, in partnership with MTN and its digital platform business, Chenosis, has launched TransUnion Telco Data Score, a new credit scoring solution that uses mobile phone call data records to help South Africans with limited or no formal credit history...
Lenovo and F1 in AI pilot
Formula 1 and Lenovo have announced a successful trial of Lenovo’s AI-powered ThinkPad X9 Aura Edition laptop at the Event Technical Centre (ETC), showcasing the possibilities the new era of intelligent computing can have in motorsport operations. As part of a...
Tech helps reunite users with unclaimed benefits
An estimated R90 billion in unclaimed assets lies dormant across South Africa, belonging to millions of individuals who remain unaware that these funds are rightfully theirs. Since the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) brought the issue to light in its 2022...
FNB scoops brand accolades
FNB has been recognised as the top performing financial institution across three categories at the 15th Brand Africa 100 South Africa’s Best Brands awards, being named the Most Admired Financial Services Brand, Most Admired Banking Brand and Most Admired African Brand...
Proba-3 mission creates artificial solar eclipse
The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission has unveiled its first images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere – the solar corona. The mission’s two satellites, able to fly as a single spacecraft thanks to a suite of onboard positioning technologies, have succeeded in...
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Safeguard essential business data against emerging threats
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