How to stay safe on X Money
X Money, a core part of Elon Musk’s mission to turn X into an “everything app” has just launched. Scammers are likely already preparing social engineering campaigns to trap users. Under the X Money rules of engagement, only Premium Plus subscribers are eligible for up...
Chinese brands dominate in EV growth
Electronic vehicle (EV) adoption is maturing into a structural trend rather than a short-term reaction. This is the headline finding from a new OLX study, “The Great Acceleration: East Meets Electric”, which examines consumer demand for electric vehicles across five...
Taxpayers advises to declare cypto assets before SARS connects the dots
Significant local and international developments in the crypto asset taxation environment require taxpayers to tread with caution when submitting their tax returns for the 2026 Filing Season. South Africa adopted the Crypto Asset Reporting Framework (CARF), effective...
Vodacom, UJ, AWS aim to grow SA’s AI talent pipeline
Vodacom has partnered with the University of Johannesburg (UJ), in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), to help address South Africa’s growing demand for job-ready artificial intelligence (AI) and data science skills. The partnership brings industry, academia...
Apple regains position as world’s most valuable company
Apple is once again the most valuable company in the world, as Nvidia stocks dropped. It’s been two years since Apple ceded the title first to Microsoft, then to Nvidia. The margin by which Apple took the title is extremely narrow and will probably slip within days....
Chinese startup unveils powerful open AI model
A Chinese firm has launched an open-weight artificial intelligence (AI) model said to be equivalent to Anthropic’s Claude Fable. Kimi K3 is a 2,8-trillion parameter model from Moonshot AI that is particularly suited to advanced reasoning and long-horizon coding....
Worried about water security? A UCT lecture not to be missed …
By 2050, 60% of global economic growth and 70% of global population growth are expected to occur in the Global South - with Africa playing a significant role in driving these changes. But this increase in population and economic activity affects how water and other...
How to test for AI-ready healthcare data
Healthcare AI is moving quickly from ambition to implementation, but the harder question is whether the data environment can support it in practice, writes Reven Singh, solutions engineer at InterSystems South Africa. In South Africa, healthcare information often...
WISPs should start planning now for the next wireless phase
South Africa's wireless industry now has a clearer view of the next phase of spectrum allocation. However, operators cannot treat the innovation spectrum bands as immediately available for deployment. By Teresa Huysamen, wireless business unit manager at Duxbury...
Successful business transformation is an endurance race, not a sprint
For many organisations, enterprise transformation begins with technology. Yet despite significant investment in ERP platforms, AI initiatives and digital modernisation, many transformation programmes continue to fall short of delivering their intended business value....
Why hybrid cloud became a compromise and what comes next
For more than a decade, hybrid clouds have been positioned as the ideal middle ground in enterprise IT. It promised flexibility without disruption and transformation without upheaval. In theory, it offered the perfect balance between on-premises control and cloud...
Why SA’s advanced AI voice bots could become (polite) high-tech roadblocks
When a consumer calls a service line, they do not care about the size of an organisation’s large language model (LLM) or the neural networks running behind it. They want their query resolved. By Bruce von Maltitz, CEO of 1Stream Many South African organisations...