A US Army Special Forces master sergeant, Gannon Ken Van Dyke, has been arrested for allegedly using classified military intelligence to orchestrate a lucrative insider trading scheme on the prediction marketplace Polymarket. Van Dyke is accused of leveraging his direct involvement in the planning and execution of the operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolás…
Spatial Corp., the leading software development kit provider for design, manufacturing and engineering solutions and a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes, today announced new enhancements across several of its product lines. These updates further strengthen Spatial’s commitment to delivering high-performance solutions that optimize interoperability, data preparation, and advanced modeling workflows. Designed to improve efficiency and robustness…
Remote access has evolved far beyond its original role as a simple IT support tool. In today’s distributed business environment, it has become a strategic layer of enterprise infrastructure – enabling not only connectivity, but also visibility, control and security across complex IT ecosystems. For organisations across Africa, where hybrid work, multi-site operations and limited…
Robin Ramokgadi, Business Unit Manager, Torque IT. AI may be edging into the IT workplace, but there is still high demand for job-ready tech talent – particularly people with specialised skills. This is according to Torque IT, which positions itself as a leading provider of ICT training, certification and skills enablement solutions. Robin Ramokgadi, Business…
SK Hynix said on Wednesday that it plans to invest the equivalent of US$12.85-billion (R212-billion) in a new manufacturing plant in South Korea for advanced packaging, to meet rising global demand for AI memory, with construction starting this month. The Nvidia supplier, one of the world’s largest memory chip makers, has been expanding production capacity…
Cliff MacGregor, Managing Director and founding member, Inlexso. Employers must conduct an immediate audit of all the employee health information they process, store or transfer, and should also review and update employment contracts, HR policies and data processing agreements to be compliant with new regulations in the Government Gazette. Failing to do so could result…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Bhawika Chhabra/Reuters Google CEO Sundar Pichai is deepening a push into enterprise software, signalling to investors at Google’s annual cloud conference that AI agents — human-like digital assistants — are a lynchpin of its strategy to monetise artificial intelligence. At the three-day conference in Las Vegas that starts Wednesday, Pichai and…
Luke Bainbridge, Azure Channel Manager, Westcon-Comstor Southern Africa. Cloud computing is something every business is now expected to master. From global manufacturers to fintech disruptors, organisations are scaling, innovating and competing in the cloud. But not all clouds are created equal. As the market matures, the conversation is shifting away from simply migrating infrastructure and…
Capitec Bank’s mobile virtual network operator, Capitec Connect, more than doubled its net income contribution to R442-million in the year to 28 February 2026, as subscribers, data traffic and voice minutes all surged. The Cell C-hosted operator, which launched in late 2022, reported 1.5 million clients active in the past three months of the reporting…
Clicks’ retail trading was further affected by aggressive competitor discounting during the festive season. (Image source: Clicks) Pharmacy retail giant Clicks’ retail revenue has been negatively impacted by delays in implementing a warehouse management system at the company’s distribution centre in Cape Town. This emerged yesterday when Clicks published its interim financial results for the…
