Cyber incidents drive shareholder value down
A major cyber incident resulted in a 9% decrease in shareholder value - over and above the market - in the year following an event. This is the headline finding from Aon's 2023 Cyber Resilience Report, which helps business leaders benchmark their organisation's cyber...
What Americans know about AI, security and big tech
While digital literacy is widely seen as an essential skill, Americans' understanding of digital topics varies notably depending on the subject, according to a new report from Pew Research Centre. The report finds that Americans answer a median of five out of nine...
Russian spacecraft crashes into the moon
Russia's first moon mission in 47 years has failed, after its Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and smashed into moon. The state space corporation Roscosmos, said on Sunday (August 20), that it had lost contact with the craft shortly after a problem occurred...
4th Gen AMD EPYC powers Amazon EC2 instances
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded its 4th Gen AMD EPYC processor-based offerings with the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) M7a and Amazon EC2 Hpc7a instances, which offer next-generation performance and efficiency for applications that...
Adobe co-founder Dr John Warnock dies
Adobe co-founder, Dr John Warnock, died on Saturday (19 August 2023), at the age of 82 Dr Warnock co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Dr Charles Geschke after meeting as colleagues at Xerox. Their first product was Adobe PostScript, new technology that sparked the desktop...
Massive surge for photo, video apps
As a key part of the social media experience, photo and video sharing has evolved over the past years. Today, photo and video apps have more users than ever, thanks to hundreds of millions of people willing to spend money on brushing up their digital presence and...
Kaspersky shares intelligence with Interpol in Africa
Kaspersky has supported Interpol with threat intelligence data in its Africa Cyber Surge II operation, which enabled investigators to identify compromised infrastructure and apprehend threat actors suspected of cybercrimes across the African region. The operation...
Bolt SA tops 400m rides
Bolt, the leading on-demand mobility platform in Africa, recently turned 10 globally and celebrated seven years of operating in South Africa. Since launching in Johannesburg in 2016, Bolt has hit over 400-million trips across 2-billion kilometres in South Africa. Bolt...
Nominations open for Africa Tech Festival Awards 2023
The achievements of some of the African technology, telecommunications, and media industry's best pioneers and tech entrepreneurs will be showcased at the Africa Tech Festival Awards, taking place in Cape Town on 15 November 2023. Award categories are: * Creative...
Smart store paves the way for 21st century supermarkets
As the world's population continues on its course to reach 10-billion people by 2050, investments in sustainable food retail and storage are urgently needed to ensure we are able to feed the growing number of people on the planet. The pressure is growing, both on...
Automate business processes through the power of AI
Most mid-sized to large organisations in South Africa have made significant investments in IP-based surveillance systems, with a heavy focus on detecting and preventing crime. From warehouses, factory floors and offices to shops and parking lots, organisations have...
Digital transformation success hinges on effective change management
Organisations seeking to unlock efficiency and optimisation gains through the deployment of new technologies run the risk of having their digital transformation efforts undermined through poor user adoption. This is the view of Valencia Karageorgiades, technology...