SMBs targeted in enterprise-level attacks
The illusion that small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) can fly under the radar of cybercriminals is becoming obsolete. Kaspersky warns that attackers are deploying the same methods against smaller businesses as they do against large enterprises. To help strengthen...
Drop in factory activity drives PMI down
The seasonally adjusted Absa PMI declined from 46.8 to 45.8 in August, marking its lowest reading so far in 2026 and a fourth consecutive month-on-month decline. The deterioration was driven by a sharp fall in factory activity and a renewed weakening in new orders,...
Is AI making employees less able?
Although AI has provided an immense boost to workforce productivity, 50% of employees say they rely too much on the technology, and 30% feel they can’t function without it. More concerning still, 39% feel their overreliance on AI tools is eroding their skills and...
AI workloads won’t run at scale on quantum hardware soon
No enterprise AI workload at scale will run on quantum hardware by 2028 and classical accelerated AI will dominate every production benchmark according to Gartner. “When vendors claim to deliver ‘quantum AI,’ they usually refer to hybrid or quantum-inspired...
Drought could impact three-quarters of the world by 2050
The poorest and the most vulnerable are generally those that suffer the most from water scarcity. This is the word from University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Professor Djiby Thiam, director of the Water and Production Economics Research Unit at the Faculty of Commerce,...
Warning: the AI trade is fracturing fast
AI investors should follow three priorities for the rest of 2026, as sharp swings are exposing which parts of the AI trade are built on real demand and which are not. Nigel Green, MD of deVere Group points out that this year’s AI rally is splintering sharply, with...
Cost of fake engagement on social media isn’t the issue
Have you ever been drawn to an advertised product when reviews and comments were all positive, with a good user experience, and a large number of views? You have most likely been tricked into content that has been boosted with fake engagement. Surfshark has revealed...
R150m SME Youth Jobs Fund set to create employment
In response to South Africa's deepening youth unemployment crisis and the financial constraints that often prevent small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from expanding their workforce, Business Partners Limited has established a R150-million SME Youth Jobs Fund. The...
Huawei SA opens applications for the 2026 Women in Tech Digital Skills Training Programme
As South African small businesses accelerate AI adoption faster than many developed economies, Huawei South Africa has opened applications for the 2026 Women in Tech Digital Skills Training Programme. The programme will take place from 26 to 28 August in Johannesburg....
Another day, another rogue AI attack. This time from Meta
Meta has confirmed that its Muse Spark 1.1 AI model breached an external company's internal systems during cybersecurity testing. According to the company, independent testing company Irregular caused a misconfiguration that gave one of its AI models Internet access...
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Connectivity becomes a board-level strategic issue
There was a time when connectivity was seen as infrastructure, or worse, as background noise for the IT department while business decision-makers focused on more important decisions. Those days are long gone, writes Willem van Zyl, chief technology officer at...
Cyber governance central to effective enterprise risk management
Across many organisations, cyber governance is still treated as a parallel discipline to enterprise risk management rather than a core component of it. By Ryan Boyes, senior security administrator at Galix This separation is difficult to sustain, as information...
Banks have digitised the wrong things, and customers are paying for it
Technology has advanced. Human needs haven’t. The industry has confused removing friction with delivering care, writes Bradley Elliott, CEO of RelyComply. Your chatbot just told a grieving widow to check the FAQ. Somewhere, a product team celebrated the deflection...
AI’s hardware squeeze drives storage rental
Enterprises are being battered by a perfect storm in data storage, writes Hemant Harie, group chief technology officer at Data Management Professionals South Africa. Artificial intelligence (AI) workloads consume capacity at a pace no legacy architecture can sustain,...
The case for treating cybersecurity as a corporate sustainability metric
ESG discussions in South African boards generally default to carbon, community impact and governance process. While those remain essential, they don’t tell the full story of organisational sustainability, writes Richard Ford, group chief technology officer of...
Data and AI can enable a proactive government
For decades, public service delivery has largely followed a reactive model: citizens identify a need, submit an application, and wait for a response. By Ntsako Baloyi, data and AI lead, and Varaidzo Mureriwa, MD in the health and public service business at Accenture,...
AI, global uncertainty to top talks at Southern Africa’s leading cyber security event
Geopolitical uncertainty and AI’s impact on the security landscape are expected to top the agenda when over 1,000 cyber security stakeholders gather for the annual ITWeb Security Summit in Johannesburg next month. The ITWeb Security Summit, renowned as the must-attend...
Discovery Bank rolls out AI-powered services
Discovery Bank has announced a major expansion of its AI-powered banking capabilities, alongside new security and servicing enhancements, as well as a rewards partnership with DStv. Hylton Kallner, CEO of Discovery Bank, says: “We are entering the next phase in...
Future-proof your career with transferable skills
Having a relevant qualification and experience in your profession can help you to land an interview for your dream job. But showing that you have the skills and qualities to thrive in a fast-changing working environment can often be the factor that gets you the offer...
From the spaza to the cloud: closing the digital divide
There is a story South Africa has been telling itself about the digital divide, and it is only half true. The dominant narrative frames the problem as one of connectivity: lay the fibre, lower data prices, extend mobile coverage, and the informal economy will follow....
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