Category: IT Security

Africa remains balanced on the edge of the digital divide. As of 2024, only 37-38% of Africans used the internet due to limited access and high costs, and approximately half the population – 600 million people – lack access to electricity.

Agentic AI systems—autonomously managing tasks like supply chain optimisation and financial forecasting—are on track to transform enterprise operations in the coming decade.

Johannesburg, South Africa// — Beneath the surface of GenAI’s outputs lies a massive, mostly unregulated engine powered by data – your data. And whether it’s through innocent prompts or habitual oversharing, users are feeding these machines with information that, in the wrong hands, becomes a security time bomb.

From Naruto to Attack on Titan, cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting Gen Z’s favourite anime and other shows as lures in their schemes.

Johannesburg, SA – RED HAT SUMMIT — //Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, and Google Cloud today announced an expanded collaboration to advance AI for enterprise applications by uniting Red Hat’s open source technologies with Google Cloud’s purpose-built infrastructure and Google’s family of open models, Gemma.

Artificial intelligence is reaching a new chapter in its development by entering an era of self-optimisation. As such, AI is becoming capable of discovering and improving algorithms autonomously.

Johannesburg, South Africa//-SAP today released a new report, ‘Africa’s AI Skills Readiness Revealed’, which provides research into how African companies are transforming their skills development efforts to meet the demands of the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing our world, from scientific research and infrastructure to communication, finance, and efforts to fight climate change. As this technology develops, it is becoming a powerful force in both the public and private sectors.

Worldwide partnerships between governments, law-enforcement bodies, cybersecurity specialists and civil-society NGOs are turning the tide against the scourge of content piracy on the African continent.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an emerging source of productivity and economic growth that’s also reshaping employment and investment.