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Cyber resilience now a critical priority for manufacturing amid rapid digitalisation, Kaspersky and VDC report shows

As 60% of manufacturers race toward full digitalisation, cyber risk is increasingly manifesting as a business risk, according to a new global report by Kaspersky and VDC Strategy. This...

Openserve SASMA Awards Spotlight Tech and South Africa’s Creator Economy

As technology continues to reshape how South Africans create, communicate and build businesses online, the country’s digital creator community will gather in Rosebank on Saturday, 22 August, for the...

Pnet Job market trends report for August 2026: how South African women are embracing AI in the workplace

Pnet, South Africa’s leading online recruitment platform, has released its Pnet Job Market Trends Report for August 2026. Based on analysis of 1.5 million South African jobseeker profiles, the Women’s...

South Africa doesn’t have an AI problem. It has a data problem, and that Is only half the story

Artificial intelligence has become the boardroom conversation of the decade. Across South Africa, organisations are investing in generative AI, copilots, predictive analytics and intelligent automation, driven by the promise...

Obsidian becomes Africa’s only Red Hat Specialized Partner for Server/Cloud OS

Obsidian Systems has achieved Red Hat Specialized Partner status for Server/Cloud OS, becoming the only partner in Africa to hold this specialisation to date. The designation reflects advanced technical expertise...

The human rhythm: the pattern communicators keep ignoring

Every communicator today is fighting for attention. We build messages, shape narratives, and push content into a world that feels increasingly crowded and impatient. Yet beneath all this effort...

Healthy IT habits strengthen cyber resilience, says Kaspersky

At the recent Cyber Security Weekend 2026 conference, Kaspersky shared the findings from its survey titled “Cybersecurity in the workplace: Employee knowledge and behaviour” which was conducted among employees from the Middle East,...

Sandisk showcases NAND innovation for the era of AI inference at FMS 2026

At Future of Memory and Storage 2026 (FMS 26), Sandisk will showcase how NAND innovation is powering the next phase of AI infrastructure. As larger models, longer context windows, and agentic...

Red Hat launches asago Community to Automate AI Safety and Governance from policy to production

New collaborative open source project brings together Red Hat, Alquimia AI, Brave Software, EvalEval coalition, IBM Research, Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria, Microsoft, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, North Carolina State University,...

Beyond human error: Lessons from South Africa’s cybersecurity reality

Every time an organisation traces a breach back to a single click, a rushed approval, or a document shared through the wrong app, it reaches for the same explanation:...

Nielsen Sports SA launches AI-powered platform, putting 150 million sports fan data points at users’ fingertips

Nielsen Sports South Africa used its Annual Sports Trends Breakfast, held on 23 July 2026 at The Forum, Bryanston, to unveil SIYA (Sponsorship Intelligence Yielding Answers), an AI-powered platform...

Your access to AI models is not a competitive advantag

Artificial intelligence models are becoming more powerful, more accessible and less expensive to use. While this is good news for businesses seeking to adopt the technology, it also creates...
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Human-orchestrated AI: why emerging markets need a smarter model of oversight

The debate around artificial intelligence in enterprise strategy is often trapped in a false binary: machine autonomy or human control. Either we allow AI...

Dell Technologies Forum Johannesburg to Focus on Scaling AI, Modern Infrastructure and Cyber Resilience

Dell Technologies Forum 2026 will take place at Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit in Johannesburg on 3 November, bringing together business and technology leaders to...

HCLTech scales South Africa operations with new headquarters featuring an AI Center of Excellence

Doubles down on upskilling of local talent with graduation ceremony of fresh batch of learners from HCLTech’s skills development HCLTech, a leading global technology company,...

Why teachers matter more in the age of AI

Across classrooms in the Middle East, Türkiye, Africa, and beyond, teachers help students understandcomplex ideas, ask better questions, and build confidence. As technology and...

AI agents can now act. Who is accountable when they get it wrong?

Artificial intelligence is crossing an important line. It is moving from technology that tells people what they could do to technology that can increasingly...
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