Rennie Naidoo, Professor of Information Systems at the Wits School of Business Sciences. Few ideas in cyber security have been repeated as often, or accepted as easily, as the claim that the end-user is the weakest link. It appears in awareness programmes, boardroom presentations, vendor messaging, academic journals and conference speeches. The reasoning is familiar….
MyPillow founder Mike Lindell has long denied President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election. Now, he’s refusing to accept his own election loss in the GOP primary for governor of Minnesota. The Minnesota Supreme Court rejected Lindell’s bid Saturday to order a full recount of his Aug. 11 loss to state House Speaker…
Nvidia’s B300 GPU South African start-up Stratos Lab has begun deploying what it and its partners say will be the most powerful AI cloud on the continent, built on Nvidia’s latest shipping B300 “Blackwell Ultra” GPUs and hosted at a data centre in Centurion, north of Johannesburg. The stack will be up within three months….
One person has died and five people are injured after shots were fired at an event in northern Switzerland overnight, local police say. “The manhunt for the unknown perpetrator is under way,” Aargau Cantonal Police said in a statement. “Possible motives as well as the exact circumstances of the crime are still unclear.” The force…
A technician documents fibre and CPE equipment during a home installation – the moment every sign-up is trying to reach. (Image: Splynx) For an internet service provider, a sale doesn’t happen when the truck arrives to install the router. It happens earlier – the moment a user lands on the sign-up form and decides whether…
The death toll from Wednesday’s devastating flash floods in Nepal and along the border with China has risen to nearly 700, with around 3,000 people still missing, as rescue operations entered their fourth day. The combined toll in Nepal and Tibet, an autonomous region in China, rose to 691 dead and over 3,000 people missing…
Telviva CEO David Meintjes Telviva, a provider of cloud-based unified communications, has launched Viva, an intelligent voice and text-based digital agent designed to make enterprise-grade AI practical, affordable and accessible for South African businesses. Built and hosted locally, Viva is the next step in Telviva’s work on business conversations, changing how companies route interactions and…
A memorial display in Berlin has recreated the scene of the killing of six-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab by Israeli forces in Gaza. Activists displayed a vehicle representing the Rajab family car, which was found with 335 bullet holes. Published On 30 Aug 202630 Aug 2026 Share Bullet-riddled car on display in Berlin to remember…
Why people hate repeating themselves: The psychology of contact centres. There are few phrases in customer service that can change the emotional temperature of a conversation as quickly as: “Can you explain the issue again?” It sounds harmless and sometimes it is even necessary. Yet for the customer, the request can feel like far more…
When I interviewed Dolly Parton in 2015, the woman famous for her relentless optimism surprised me by talking candidly about a period when she had struggled with depression. “I was having some personal problems and beginning to feel a little guilty about my success,” the trailblazing singer-songwriter told me during a conversation at her beloved…
