The land marked for construction of CWA is 25km away from Cape Town International airport. According to the Airports Company South Africa, around 10.4mn two-way passengers passed through Cape Town International Airport’s terminals in 2024, a 7% jump from the previous year. Of these, three million were international. Air volumes also recorded growth, with a…
A cyber-espionage campaign centred on vulnerable versions of Microsoft’s server software now involves the deployment of ransomware, Microsoft said in a late Wednesday blog post. In the post, citing “expanded analysis and threat intelligence”, Microsoft said a group it dubs “Storm-2603” is using the vulnerability to seed the ransomware, which typically works by paralysing victims’…
Aydin Geeringh, technical pre-sales professional at Info.Blueprint. A large language model (LLM), no matter its inherent architectural sophistication, is only as brilliant as the information it is fed. Businesses looking to take advantage of the potential of LLMs need to understand the crucial role of data quality. An LLM learns from the data it is given….
The world’s best known artificial intelligence accelerationists have been in Silicon Valley. Now there’s one sitting in the White House. President Donald Trump’s AI Action Plan, launched on Wednesday, represents a great loosening of rules around the ChatGPT boom. It’s an ambitious screed aimed at keeping America ahead in the race for AI supremacy. “China”…
Louis van der Westhuizen, Solutions Architect: DMS at Datacentrix. Data is a critical asset to any business, and its protection has become more complex and essential than ever before. And so, as organisations continue to scale their digital transformation initiatives, the need for robust, reliable and resilient backup strategies has never been greater. Just like…
Patrick Pleul/Reuters Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday that US government cuts in support for electric vehicle makers could lead to a “few rough quarters” for the company before a wave of revenue from self-driving software and services begins late next year. Shares fell nearly 5% after Musk responded on a quarterly results conference…
The Kuunda STEAM hackathon targets under-resourced schools to ensure no learner is left behind. Standard Bank Group, in partnership with the Kuunda Disrupt Programme and Gordon Road Girls’ School, has launched the science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) coding challenge in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). According to a statement, the initiative brings together 21 quintile level…
Netflix has launched an on-the-job training initiative in South Africa aimed at nurturing talent in the country’s television and film production industry. The US streaming giant said the ScreenCraft Pathway programme has been developed in partnership with the Gauteng Film Commission and the KwaZulu-Natal Tourism and Film Authority. It will be administered by Tshikululu Social…
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SpaceX’s Starlink suffered one of its biggest international outages on Thursday when an internal software failure knocked users offline, a rare disruption for Elon Musk’s powerful satellite internet system. Users in the US and Europe began experiencing the outage at around 9pm SAST, according to Downdetector, a crowdsourced outage tracker. Starlink, which has more than…
