Pick ‘n Pay customer data compromised
An early version of Pick n Pay’s on-demand app was been breach, with customer information compromised. Records from 2022 in the app previously known as Bottles and later as Pick n Pay asap! were leaked. The data includes names, contact details and birth dates,...
Same job, different province, different pay
New jobs data shows significant variances in how much professionals in different parts of South Africa can earn based on regional, labour market dynamics. This is according to Pnet’s May 2026 Job Market Trends Report, which includes an exploration of how salary ranges...
Cybersecurity jobs booming – so why aren’t graduates being hired?
South Africa’s cybersecurity sector is facing a growing paradox: demand for cybersecurity professionals continues to rise, yet many graduates are struggling to secure employment. According to experts from the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South...
Is a global hidden hiring bias locking out black graduates?
In corporate graduate recruitment worldwide, candidates are often assessed not only on competence, but also on their relatability – and a new UCT co-led study theorises relatability as a racialised cultural-affective filter that covertly sustains inequality. The new...
Market for enterprise AI coding agents enters new phase
The market for enterprise AI coding agents has entered a new phase of expansion and competitive realignment, according to Gartner, which says this shift is driven by frontier model providers moving up the stack, more agentic workflows, expansion across the software...
Local expertise puts AI to work in East Africa
By Kathy Gibson – East African companies are seizing on the myriad benefits that artificial intelligence (AI) has to offer – but it’s vital that they do so in a considered manner that achieves their productivity goals while safeguarding their corporate systems. With...
Omnisient named as an African startup to watch
Bloomberg has named South African-founded fintech Omnisient one of its African Startups to Watch in 2026, recognising the company’s work in helping banks and insurers assess people who are excluded from affordable financial services because they lack traditional...
Wall Street has found AI’s new choke point
SK Hynix and Micron crossing the $1-trillion valuation mark shows Wall Street has already moved into the next phase of the AI trade - and many investors are still positioned for the last one – according to a leading global financial advisory. deVere Group CEO, Nigel...
AMD ploughs $10bn into Taiwan ecosystem investments
To meet the growing demand for AI infrastructure, AMD has announced more than $10-billion in investments across the Taiwan ecosystem to expand strategic partnerships and scale advanced packaging manufacturing for next-generation AI infrastructure. “As AI adoption...
Tech enables abuse in the form of stalking and doxing
Kaspersky has launched a report on tech-enabled abuse based on its global study*, which reveals that 8.5% of respondents had experienced digital stalking, and 5.4% reported being doxxed. The report also includes an analysis of dark web offerings related to stalking...
Mobile services in China set for modest growth
China’s mobile services market is set for steady, but modest revenue growth through 2030 as rising mobile data service revenues offset the continued decline in voice and messaging revenues, says GlobalData. The research group’s China Mobile Communications Forecast (Q4...
Vertiv expands liquid cooling portfolio
Vertiv has expanded its end-to-end thermal chain with the launch of the Vertiv CoolChip CDU 2300 and Vertiv CoolChip Fluid Network Row Manifolds in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). These liquid cooling technologies support the growing demands of AI and...