Cloudflare lets site owners manage AI crawlers
Cloudflare has introduced new tools that let web site owners control whether AI bots are allowed to access their content for model training. First, customers can let Cloudflare create and manage a robots.txt file, creating the appropriate entries to let crawlers...
Say goodbye to the Blue Screen of Death
Users around the world know and dread seeing what is universally known as the Windows Blue Screen of Death. But it may soon be a thing of the past. Announcing new Windows resiliency features, Micsosoft says the familiar blue screen will be replaced with this...
Intel raises the bar for AI performance on Xeon processors
In the latest MLCommons AI performance benchmark suite – MLPerf Inference v4.1 - Intel submitted results across six MLPerf benchmarks for 5th Gen Xeon Scalable processors and, for the first time, its Xeon 6 processors with Performance-cores (P-cores). Intel Xeon 6...
IBM unlocks capabilities for enterprise-scale AI
IBM has revealed architecture details for the upcoming IBM Telum II Processor and IBM Spyre Accelerator - new technologies designed to significantly scale processing capacity across next generation IBM Z mainframe systems and help accelerate the use of traditional AI...
Nvidia Blackwell sets new standard for GenAI in MLPerf benchmarks
As enterprises race to adopt generative AI and bring new services to market, the demands on data centre infrastructure have never been greater – training large language models (LLMs) is one challenge, but delivering LLM-powered realtime services is another. In the...
Gold Fields migrates SAP environments to AWS
Gold Fields has migrated its end-to-end SAP and treasury systems to AWS as part of its digital transformation strategy. The collaboration has enabled Gold Fields to modernise technology infrastructure, while enabling AWS’s analytics, machine learning (ML), and...
R50bn in Sanral tenders in the market
The South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) is currently evaluating 96 tenders worth R35-billion, while 86 contracts worth R15-billion have already been awarded since the start of the 2024/25 financial year on 1 April 2024. The tenders currently in evaluation...
Early African humans used a form of ‘biogasification’ to make glue
Researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT) have found that in the Middle Stone Age, early Homo sapiens in South Africa used adhesive substances to attach stone tools to wooden handles and spears. Until now, it was thought that only trees of the genus...
Former MTN CEO dies
Sifiso Dabengwa, formerly chairperson of Eskom and CEO of MTN, died yesterday (1 September) from cancer. Dabengwa was CEO of MTN from 2011 to 2015, and chaired Eskom from 2018 to 2020. Dabengwa is survived by his wife and four children.
Capitec enhances CX with cloud-based services
Kathy Gibson reports from AWS Summit in Sandton - Capitec is adding features to its AWS-based app that will allow customers to place calls from within the app. Customers can already access the app without having to use data - and now the calls to Capitec will also be...
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Epson SA relocates office and LFP showroom
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UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority adds technology escrow as a resiliency option
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An ABC of ERP
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How to boost your WiFi signal
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How technology can drive farm profits
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How MVNOs can support digital transformation
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Gerhard Fourie is Commvault’s new channel lead
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Beachhead Solutions advances MSP reseller program across Africa
Beachhead Solutions, which provides cloud-managed PC & mobile device encryption, security, and data access control for MSPs, has announced an updated channel reseller program for South Africa and the appointment of Cyber Retaliator Solutions (CRS) as regional...
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