NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, today announced that Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP® is now a supported external storage option for Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon EVS, now generally available, is a new AWS service that allows users to run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) directly…
Here are the key events on day 1,260 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Here is how things stand on Thursday, August 7: Fighting Russian artillery shelling on a car belonging to Ukraine’s state emergency services killed three people, including an emergency worker, and injured four others in the southeastern Ukrainian town of Nikopol, the regional…
Image for illustration purposes only Maziv-owned telecommunications infrastructure provider Dark Fibre Africa said on Wednesday that an R800-million upgrade to its network is helping it put instability issues in recent years firmly behind it. The company said the upgrade, which has focused first on Gauteng, will soon expand to the rest of the country in…
A sign marks the location of a Honda dealership in Libertyville, Illinois, on Dec. 18, 2024. Scott Olson | Getty Images Japanese auto giant Honda‘s first-quarter operating profits fell 50% year over year on Wednesday, missing estimates due to U.S. auto tariffs and a stronger yen. Here are Honda’s results compared with the mean estimates…
rAge 2025, taking place 5-7 December, will be one of the first events to be hosted at Fourways Mall’s brand-new rooftop event space, a unique venue boasting over 50,000m2 of covered space, and access to a shopping and entertainment environment. Image supplied This move marks another innovative milestone for rAge, the first gaming and geek…
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported that 56 people had died and 132 were missing after a vessel carrying 200 migrants capsized off the coast of Shuqrah, in Yemen’s Abyan Governorate on 3 August. With many victims believed to be Ethiopian nationals, this heartbreaking incident highlights the “urgent need to address the dangers of…
Global Voices Advox This statement was originally published on globalvoices.org on 1 August 2025. ‘Technology-facilitated gender-based violence isn’t a side effect of digital growth. It’s the price women pay for being online.’ In early 2025, researchers tracking African elections uncovered a wave of AI-generated deepfake videos targeting women journalists and female candidates in Ghana, Senegal,…
Stanford University’s student newspaper on Wednesday sued the Trump administration over two provisions in federal immigration law that they say the officials have wielded against those with pro-Palestinian views. The Stanford Daily, in addition to two former college students, filed the lawsuit against Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem,…
Nvidia’s Chief Security Officer, David Reber Jr., has publicly pushed back against pressure to add “kill switches” and backdoors to the company’s GPUs. In a recent blog post, he insisted that Nvidia’s chips “do not and should not have kill switches and backdoors,” addressing concerns from both the U.S. and China. Read: Google Deepmind launches…
ADDIS ABABA – Africa is moving forward with finalizing the second phase of the Climate for Development in Africa (ClimDev-Africa) Program business plan, aiming for completion before November 10, 2025, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). A major step toward that goal, according to ECA, was the successful convening of the…
