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Tharisa Minerals drives connected mining in an African first, with adaptive wireless solution from Datacentrix

eriinfo.com1 week ago012 mins

The Tharisa Mine is an open-pit platinum group metals and chrome mining operation in the North West province. (Image: Datacentrix) Tharisa Minerals, an integrated resource group critical to the energy transition and decarbonisation of economies, has successfully transformed its South African open-pit mining operation into a highly connected, data-driven environment. This is the result of…

SpaceX wants to fly a rocket every 53 minutes

eriinfo.com1 week ago06 mins

Starlink satellites being blasted into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in a file photograph SpaceX is no longer merely dominant in space. It has built something closer to a private monopoly on low-Earth orbit – and its listing prospectus, filed in the US on Wednesday, lays out plans to entrench that position by…

DDoS-for-hire boom blamed for attacks on SA’s ISPs

eriinfo.com1 week ago012 mins

The goal of a DDoS attack is to flood a website, server, or online service with massive amounts of traffic. (Image source: 123RF) South African cyber security experts are raising concerns over the increasingly low ransom demands being issued by cyber extortionists targeting local internet service providers (ISPs) with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The experts…

The Mythos hacking threat is looking overblown

eriinfo.com1 week ago09 mins

Early fears that Anthropic’s new AI model, Mythos, could dramatically turbocharge hacking are looking overstated a month after its release. The company warned at launch in April that Mythos had uncovered thousands of software vulnerabilities — including flaws across every major operating system and browser — and said the fallout from its spread could be…

Global tech distributor enters SA market, pens agreement with Sophos

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago07 mins

Andrew Potgieter, sales director SA, Climb. Climb Channel Solutions (Climb), a global technology distributor and wholly owned subsidiary of Nasdaq-listed Climb Global Solutions, has entered the South African market as part of its ongoing EMEA growth strategy. The company has also penned an agreement with cyber security firm Sophos. According to the agreement, Climb will…

South Africa is sleepwalking into another AI policy failure

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago06 mins

The author, Celeste Labuschagne A pattern is emerging within our schooling system that needs highlighting as South Africa faces its next major technology decision. In coding and robotics, with the best intentions, directives were given, curriculum was developed and then the move forward-stalled. We are beginning to see take shape again with AI. Globally, the…

How AI and tech talent can sustain SA small businesses

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago08 mins

For years, digitalisation was largely the domain of large organisations. Enterprise software was expensive, implementation-heavy, and often designed for operational complexity that small businesses simply did not have. Beyond the software itself, the talent required to configure and maintain these systems placed digitalisation even further out of reach for many SMMEs. Then came the SaaS…

Modern tech to drive SA’s energy stability

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago06 mins

Artificial intelligence, smart meters and data systems are critical to SA’s future energy security and grid resilience. (Image created via ChatGPT) South Africa’s energy future will increasingly depend on digitalisation, with technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), smart meters and predictive maintenance systems used to transform how electricity is generated, distributed and managed. This is…

Eskom to go to market for 5.2GW of new nuclear within a year

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago04 mins

Eskom is in exploratory talks with the World Bank over funding for a multibillion-dollar nuclear programme that could be launched within 12 months, a senior company official said on Wednesday. The state-owned utility, which runs Africa’s only operational nuclear power station near Cape Town, is preparing a request for information covering up to 5.2GW of…

Why simply adding AI tools is failing to deliver productivity

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago08 mins

A new Top Employers Institute report highlights a glaring disconnect: 96% of senior leaders expect AI to boost performance, yet nearly half of the workforce doesn’t understand how to use it effectively. As AI rapidly advances, this widening gap between executive expectation and workplace reality poses a critical risk. Designing Work for the Age of…