Nvidia focuses on water and power consumption with DSX platform
Nvidia says that some of Europe’s leading ecosystem partners, including CoreWeave, Firmus, Nscale and Google Cloud, are planning to adopt Nvidia DSX AI Factory Platform to build AI factories that minimise water consumption for cooling and use less power for the same...
Lazarus rises again with new threat campaign
Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has revealed its findings on a new cyberespionage campaign attributed to the Lazarus APT group – Operation FlashHole. The campaign has already affected at least three organisations in South Korea across the...
AI phishing puts SMEs in firing line, but many still see no need for cyber cover
Micro enterprises face severe financial exposure to cyber risk due to a dangerous perception gap regarding their actual risk - many small business owners falsely believe they are too insignificant to be targeted. However, the rise of AI-powered phishing tools now...
Partnership aims to support small business exports
The International Trade Centre (ITC) and South Africa's Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic) have signed a memorandum of understanding to support South African businesses to expand into regional and international markets. The agreement establishes...
The case for friction in the age of automation
Businesses have always focused on removing friction from their processes, with faster approvals, quicker responses and more automated decisions being key markers of efficiency. By Professor Yudhvir Seetharam, chief analytics officer at FNB Commercial More recently, AI...
SA’s datacentre and AI boom needs to be treated like critical infrastructure
As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in the systems running the economy, the buildings housing that intelligence become part of its attack surface – whether or not anyone ever finds them on a map. By Gary Peel, cloud business development manager: southern...
Peer pressure works on AI agents
In July 2026, AI agents being tested by OpenAI broke out of their test environment and into Hugging Face’s production systems. Hundreds of them had found a way to leave notes for each other in a shared software cache, turned it into a makeshift message board, and...
Why are we still fighting yesterday’s fraud?
For years, organisations treated fraud as a transaction problem: identify a suspicious payment, compromised account or fraudulent application and stop it before money leaves the system. By Amritha Reddy, senior director of fraud product management at TransUnion Africa...
SA businesses are building with AI faster than they can secure it
AI is making it possible for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to build customer-facing software without a traditional development team. As more business owners use the technology to create booking systems, customer portals and online stores, securing the...
The AI disclosure gap: Are insureds telling insurers enough?
The pattern of commercial innovation in business is familiar: adopt new technology, discover its exposures, and then look to the insurance market to respond. AI has not altered this trend, but what is different is that the insurance may already be in place, write...
VAT modernisation the next test of SA’s digital readiness
For many South African businesses, VAT still feels like a deadline-driven administrative cycle: collect invoices, reconcile the numbers, submit the return and wait to see whether SARS has questions. By Yolandi Esterhuizen, director of global compliance: product...
Users urged to update PHP now to fix critical vulnerabilities
A global cybersecurity crisis is currently underway, following the emergency disclosure of two critical, unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in PHP, collectively dubbed "PHP2Shell.”. Tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, these flaws...