SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has attacked South Africa’s head of public diplomacy, Clayson Monyela SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has called a senior South African government official “a fucking racist” and an “asshole” in the latest escalation of his long-running public dispute with Pretoria over the licensing of his Starlink satellite broadband service. The exchange, which…
BeyondTrust sales director Nick Black. Identity is a primary attack surface and is considered one of the biggest blind spots in cyber security. This is according to global cyber security and identity company BeyondTrust, which has confirmed its participation in ITWeb Security Summit JHB 2026. BeyondTrust sales director Nick Black and the company’s senior solutions…
Steve Nesius/Reuters If you missed the live broadcast – or simply want to relive the moment in full cinematic quality – this 4K footage of the Artemis II launch is essential viewing. Nasa’s Space Launch System rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at 6.35pm US Eastern on 1…
Matt Balcomb, Sales Director SA, Smarsh. Organisations across regulated industries are managing increasing complexity across multiple communication vendors. What began as a practical use of point solutions has evolved into fragmented systems and workflows. As channels expand and regulations tighten, maintaining visibility and oversight is becoming more difficult. This can slow operations and limit access…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Vertiv, a global leader in critical digital infrastructure, is hosting the next edition of its AI Innovation Roadshow for Africa, this time in a fully digital format. The webinar is set to take place on Wednesday, 15 April at 11am SAST. Under the theme “AI-ready data centres for Africa: building infrastructure for what’s next”, the…
Edward Müller, Senior Solutions Architect, Mint Group. It’s no surprise to learn that students at all levels are using artificial intelligence tools, specifically large language models such as Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. But adoption rates are nonetheless staggering: 92%, according to surveys by Oxford’s Higher Education Policy Institute. Such a figure will be cold…
