Banking group Absa and cloud services giant Amazon Web Services have announced an expansion of their commercial relationship that will see AWS become Absa’s “preferred cloud partner”. According to a statement on Monday, the partnership is aimed at delivering more agile, secure and customer-focused financial services. “This partnership reflects our ambition to be a digitally…
India’s finance minister calls for greater collaboration in ‘cybersecurity’ and ‘defence’ between the two countries. Published On 8 Sep 20258 Sep 2025 Israel and India have signed a bilateral investment agreement to expand mutual trade during far-right Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich’s trip to the South Asian country, which deepened its ties with Israel…
IO Interactive, the developer behind the acclaimed Hitman series, is shifting from assassinations to espionage with its new game, 007: First Light. The title is a reimagined origin story that follows a less-than-refined Bond as he hunts down a rogue agent. During a closed-door briefing at Gamescom, the team showed off early gameplay that blends…
A smartphone with the logo of U.S. artificial intelligence company Cognition AI Inc. Timon Schneider | SOPA Images | Sipa USA | AP Cognition, the artificial intelligence startup that acquired Windsurf in July, said on Monday that it closed a $400 million funding round at valuation of $10.2 billion, which includes the fresh capital. The…
Evan Robinson, technical co-founder and now head of product at TaxTim. TaxTim, a South African-based digital tax assistant, has been acquired by a private consortium, led by Twofold Capital, for an undisclosed amount. The consortium, which includes Stellenbosch-based technology group Octoco, provided a successful exit for TaxTim’s non-operational shareholders and a partial exit for co-founder…
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The DA’s Glynnis Breytenbach The Democratic Alliance has called for an independent Cyber Commission to be established to strengthen cybersecurity as more South Africans fall victim to banking cyberattacks. DA justice & constitutional development spokeswoman Glynnis Breytenbach said on Monday that artificial intelligence-driven scams and digital banking fraud are increasing at an alarming rate. However,…
The US Supreme Court has ruled sweeping immigration raids in Los Angeles can continue for now, lifting a federal judge’s order that had barred agents from making stops without “reasonable suspicion”. The Monday ruling is a win for President Donald Trump, who has vowed to conduct record-level deportations of migrants in the country illegally. The…
Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, has agreed to a record-breaking $1.5 billion settlement to resolve a class-action piracy lawsuit brought by more than 500,000 authors. The payout is the largest ever for a copyright case in the United States and sets a major precedent for the AI industry. Read: Study finds signs of…
One of the showcase goals of Liberia’s current national development plan is the achievement of “Top 300 in Africa” status for a Liberian university by 2029. The University of Liberia as the nation’s flagship university certainly has that goal in its sights. But has anybody really wondered what it will take to get there?? I…
