Google has officially marked its calendar for May 19 and 20, confirming that Google I/O 2026 will return to the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View. As the company’s premier developer event, it serves as the launchpad for the next year of software innovation. While the conference is technically for developers, the opening keynote, which will…
Africa accounts for less than 1% of global data centre capacity. (Image source: 123RF) Despite its meteoric rise in data centre development and it accounting for 20% of the global population, Africa still only has 0.6% of global data centre capacity. This is based on the 2026 Economic Report: Data Centres in Africa, published by…
Obsidian Systems’ Bennie Kahler-Venter Vibe coding’s transformative impact on developer productivity is having adverse consequences for the open-source ecosystem, potentially exposing enterprises reliant on open-source software to risk. A paper from the Central European University (CEU) in January found that vibe coding – driven by AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor and Lovable…
Fans of the legendary bounty hunter and his diminutive Force-sensitive apprentice are finally getting a substantial look at their upcoming jump to the big screen. It is almost surreal to consider that it has been over six years since a Star Wars film graced the cinema, a gap that followed years of discourse regarding “franchise…
Araxi CEO Bradley Sacks. JSE-listed payment solutions provider Araxi will acquire B2B payment solutions company Pay@ in a R1 billion deal, to be settled in cash. The consideration comprises R200 million from the Araxi Group’s existing cash reserves and R800 million in senior debt already committed. Forty percent of the shares of Pay@ are currently owned…
There is a website called RentaHuman.ai that exists to connect autonomous AI agents with human beings who can carry out physical tasks in the real world – things the agents cannot yet do themselves. Its tagline? “Clear briefs, no drama.” It sounds like science-fiction. It is, in fact, very real. More than half a million…
Nvidia has announced a massive multiyear agreement to supply Meta Platforms with millions of its high-performance artificial intelligence chips. The deal covers a broad spectrum of Nvidia’s hardware, including the current Blackwell architecture and the forthcoming Rubin AI chips. Crucially, the agreement also includes Nvidia’s Grace and Vera central processing units (CPUs), signalling a direct…
At V3, Vasion Co-Founder and CEO Ryan Wedig unveiled the Intelligent Print Automation platform and challenged every Vasioneer to embrace a Mission of Aspirational Performance that demands collaboration, creativity, and courage. With Vasion’s recent FedRAMP High Authorization, the company is making digital transformation attainable for everyone, including federal agencies with the most stringent security requirements….
The author, Entersekt’s Andries Maritz Rather than new types of fraud, what we’re seeing in the banking sector is a step change in how adaptable, realistic and efficient existing attack patterns have become. Bots can learn, adapt and personalise continuously once they’re interacting with live systems – and the implications for customer exposure are serious….
Capitec has appointed Andrew Baker as chief information officer (CIO), succeeding Wim de Bruyn as the bank adjusts its executive structure to support its next phase of technology development. Andrew Baker | image supplied Baker previously served as chief technology officer and has been with the bank for four years. In his new role, he…
