Icasa moves to mandate national infrastructure database

Icasa moves to mandate national infrastructure database

Communications regulator Icasa has published draft regulations that will compel every licensed network operator in South Africa to submit detailed data on their fibre, towers, ducts, poles and planned roll-outs to the regulator on a bi-annual basis. The draft regulations on the rapid deployment of electronic communications networks and facilities, gazetted on Friday — read…

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TODAY’S MASS SIMPLIFIED | Catholic congregations unite in celebration of faith, hope, and community

TODAY’S MASS SIMPLIFIED | Catholic congregations unite in celebration of faith, hope, and community

TODAY’S MASS SIMPLIFIED | Catholic congregations unite in celebration of faith, hope, and community Pope Leo XIV leads prayer vigil for peace in the world at St. Peter’s Basilica. PHOTO/The Vatican. By PATRICK MAYOYO [email protected] Today, Catholics around the world gathered in churches, from small village chapels to towering cathedrals, to celebrate a Mass that…

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SAMRO increases distribution allocation to over half a billion rand for financial year 2025

SAMRO increases distribution allocation to over half a billion rand for financial year 2025

SAMRO ensures composers, authors and publishers are fairly compensated for the use of their musical works. The Southern African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO) has reaffirmed its core mandate of administering and distributing royalties to music creators, announcing total distribution allocation of R630.2 million for the 2025 financial year. The 2025 distribution marks a 1.3% increase…

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Anthropic’s Mythos is the cyberthreat every CISO feared

Anthropic’s Mythos is the cyberthreat every CISO feared

Late last month, the industry learnt that Anthropic is developing Claude Capybara – also referred to internally as Mythos – a powerful new AI model with substantially improved capabilities in vulnerability discovery, exploit development and multi-step attack reasoning. The details emerged through a data leak rather than a formal launch, but the market response was…

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SA’s R142bn connectivity plan: The real question isn’t funding; it’s execution

SA’s R142bn connectivity plan: The real question isn’t funding; it’s execution

Mooketsi Mocumi, strategic communications and corporate affairs adviser. South Africa now has something the telecommunications sector has long called for: a costed, structured roadmap to achieve universal, meaningful connectivity. The proposed investment of roughly R142 billion to deliver 100Mbps broadband to all households by 2035 is ambitious, necessary and overdue. But the most important question…

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Netanyahu next to Middle East map: ‘We strangled them and have more to do’ | Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu next to Middle East map: ‘We strangled them and have more to do’ | Benjamin Netanyahu

NewsFeed Standing in front of a map of the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu describes how six countries ‘wanted to strangle us’ but instead ‘we strangled them… and we have more to do’. Ambassadors from Israel and Lebanon are set to hold talks in Washington DC on Tuesday, but they’ve issued conflicting statements…

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