Energy regulator Nersa wants to keep fully automated trading off South Africa’s new wholesale electricity market for its first five years. The proposal is contained in an 87-page draft framework for the platform on which participants will trade in the South African Wholesale Electricity Market (Sawem). Nersa has published it for public comment as the…
Incognito Software Systems, a leading global provider of service orchestration, device management, and network intelligence solutions, today introduced NEXA, an AI-driven network intelligence and automation platform that enables broadband service providers to turn operational data into action. NEXA unifies network, device, service, and subscriber data in a single intelligence layer, delivering real-time and predictive insights…
Meta is rolling out First Draft, a new Instagram editing feature designed to streamline short-form video creation by automatically trimming silences and awkward pauses from raw footage. Read: Apple refreshes Mac Mini with 2nm M6 chip and debuts Quad-Die M5 Ultra Mac Studio Users can access the tool immediately after capturing new video or by…
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, or AP) has hit Uber with an €824.9 million ($966 million) fine for violating the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The regulatory watchdog concluded that the ride-hailing company systematically deactivated driver accounts between 2018 and 2022 using fully automated systems without human intervention, illegally stripping drivers…
Meta hosted the 2026 Youth Online Safety Summit this week. Social media company Meta has deployed a mandatory system update that automatically shifts teenage user profiles into highly restricted safety configurations. According to Meta, the backend product overhaul – known as “Teen Accounts” – structurally reshapes data visibility, privacy configurations and messaging access defaults across…
The State IT Agency has unveiled its automated supply chain management platform. Often in the news for its archaic and manipulation-prone procurement processes, the State IT Agency (SITA) this morning unveiled its automated supply chain management (SCM) platform. The soft launch took place at the GovTech conference, in Durban, with the government ICT procurement arm…
How a bank digitised, automated document output to unlock paperless savings and 100% compliance. Most vendors promise savings. This bank delivered them, to the tune of R48 million a year. With full audit compliance, no paper and zero dev bottlenecks, this is what real document automation looks like in financial services. From chaos to control…
Tlali Tlali, head of corporate affairs at SITA. Characterised by arduous manual processes, the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) plans to introduce automation in its supply chain environment. This is according to SITA head of corporate affairs Tlali Tlali, commenting on the new regulation that allows government departments to procure IT services outside of SITA….
The State IT Agency (Sita) has said that recent regulatory changes giving government departments the option to procure IT services from entities other than itself have been misinterpreted. In a statement, Sita spokesman Tlali Tlali said government departments are still required to approach Sita first for their IT needs, with the option to procure services…
Sonke has collaborated with Unilever, the UK government and EY to drive the circular economy through its automated refill store, SKUBU. Sonke, a South African tech start-up, in collaboration with impact accelerator TRANSFORM, led by Unilever, the UK government’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office and EY, has launched its first automated refill store, SKUBU. The…
