Avoid the hidden costs of AI agents
Cisco’s latest Splunk State of Observability 2026: Restoring Predictability in the AI Era report exposes a significant disconnect: the urgency to deploy AI agents is rapidly outpacing the ability to monitor them. This year’s research surveyed 2 050 ITOps and...
NASA develops batteries to power a return to the Moon
If you’ve ever had your car start sluggishly, or not at all, on a particularly frigid winter morning, you know standard batteries do not like extreme cold. That’s why NASA researchers are working to develop a battery that could function in the brutal cold of the...
AI-driven security within customer-controlled infrastructure
Building on its continued collaboration with Nvidia, Trend Micro says it is bringing the chip maker’s Nemotron open models into TrendAI Vision One for Sovereign and Private Cloud (SPC). The integration brings AI-assisted security operations into customer-controlled...
Cassava scales its AI offerings
As the AI boom continues apace, Cassava Technologies has expanded its AI Factory capabilities with Nvidia Nemotron open models, aimed at helping enterprises and service providers to grow and innovate with AI more effectively and affordably. Cassava is deploying Nvidia...
AI is changing leadership faster than organisations are adapting
AI is accelerating how quickly work gets done, but the leadership structures, skills, and safeguards needed to manage that speed are struggling to keep pace. A new report from The Conference Board highlights the challenges emerging for leaders as organisations...
Barcode scanners in cybersecurity threat to warehouse industry
As part of a security audit of a warehouse digital ecosystem, Kaspersky experts have discovered a new cyberattack vector via a widely used barcode scanner model that could expose e-commerce supply chains to cyberattacks. Modern warehouses are far more than simple...
10 000 developers gear up for the 2026 FNB App of the Year Hackathon
More than 10 000 developers have registered to participate in this year’s FNB App of the Year Hackathon, making it one of the biggest hackathons in South Africa. Taking place from Friday, 23 October to Sunday, 25 October 2026, the event will bring together developers...
Credential protection the new foundation of cyber resilience
Identity protection must be integral to cyber resilience. Although organisations continue to invest heavily in data protection and backup strategies, most breaches begin with compromised credentials, often privileged Active Directory (AD) accounts that give attackers...
Know your rights: When work goes wrong, know where you stand
Most people do not expect to need legal advice to deal with their employer. Then a disciplinary notice lands in their inbox, a salary deduction appears on their payslip, or they are suddenly told that their employment is ending. Knowing your rights and where to get...
Why SA businesses must become intelligent enterprises
South African businesses have never been more digitised than they are today. For much of the past decade, migrating to the cloud and accelerating automation became more than transformation buzzwords; they became central to how organisations modernised operations,...
Pay transparency is a requirement and an opportunity
A pay-gap report may satisfy a compliance requirement, but it could also raise difficult questions that many organisations are not yet ready to answer. South African employers therefore need to be ready to explain not only what the numbers show, but the decisions and...
Owning the security tools is not the same as being secure
Most companies believe they are protected right up until they have been breached. So why do the tools create a false sense of safety, and what closes the gap between tools and actual security, asks Mohammed Pochee, cybersecurity product manager at Vox. There is a...