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15+ hour, 50+ min ago (12+ words) Icasa data confirms the scale of South Africa's pay-TV collapse'TechCentral...
Gaping holes in South African government cyber defences
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (377+ words) The findings are contained in the Auditor-General South Africa's consolidated general report on national and provincial audit outcomes for 2024/2025, which paints a damning picture of the state of information security across the public sector. Of the 70 entities assessed, 45 (64%) had notable…...
Synthesis helps financial enterprises transform with new Gemini Enterprise
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (285+ words) Digicloud Africa partner Synthesis is taking the lead in terms of local Google Gemini Enterprise implementations, becoming the first of its partners to deploy the latest Google Cloud AI-powered agentic platform in the whole of Africa, and implementing it for…...
Modernise infrastructure with next-gen compute using HPE VM Essentials
1+ week, 11+ hour ago (591+ words) South African businesses face familiar pressures: workloads keep growing, data volumes expand each year and budgets remain tight. Many IT teams still run estates built over several hardware generations. Servers sit underutilised, power consumption climbs and management becomes complex. Solutions…...
AnyDesk - high-performance remote access built for the modern enterprise
2+ week, 21+ hour ago (661+ words) As organisations across Africa accelerate digital transformation, remote access has shifted from a support tool to a core business enabler. Hybrid work, distributed teams, multi-site operations and cloud infrastructure demand secure, reliable connectivity " not just for convenience, but for continuity,…...
SA start-up uses AI to build websites for R69/month
2+ week, 5+ day ago (453+ words) Lekker.build is an AI-powered website builder that guides users through a series of natural language prompts, allowing them to build their own production-grade website for just R69/month. Created by South African entrepreneur Anthony van Tonder, the lekker.build platform…...
SA start-up HyperDev wants to turn your AI-built app into a real company
2+ week, 1+ day ago (697+ words) Vibe coding tools have made it trivially easy to build an app. But almost nobody is turning those apps into actual businesses " and a South African start-up thinks it knows why. HyperDev is an AI-powered software development tool that aims…...
OpenAI plans desktop 'super app"
2+ week, 3+ day ago (148+ words) OpenAI has'confirmed a Wall Street Journal report that it plans to fold its ChatGPT app, coding platform Codex and browser into a single desktop "super app" to simplify user experience. OpenAI president Greg Brockman will temporarily oversee the product overhaul…...
Nvidia targets $1-trillion in AI chip sales as inference demand surges
2+ week, 6+ day ago (607+ words) Nvidia said the revenue opportunity for its AI chips may reach at least US$1-trillion through to 2027, as the company outlined a strategy to compete more aggressively in the fast-growing market for running AI systems in real time. CEO Jensen…...
AI won't kill SaaS - but it will reshape it, software CEOs say
2+ week, 6+ day ago (859+ words) Oracle's Mike Sicilia is the latest software CEO to wade in to the debate on whether AI tools that heavily automate human tasks will mean the demise of his industry. His verdict was a resounding "no. "You've all heard " that…...