Thabiso Hlatshwayo, Director – Solution Consulting and Growing Markets, OpenText. While AI adoption soars globally, executives and researchers from leading AI developers have warned that the commercial race to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI) is moving faster than the world’s ability to build safety boundaries. To balance staying abreast in the AI race with mitigating…
A bill to strengthen tobacco control in South Africa is slowly making progress. Parliament’s Health Committee voted in favour of the Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill earlier this year, allowing it to move forward for a clause by clause review. The proposed law which was meant to prohibit point-of-sale product displays, make…
Vodacom Group will keep the Safaricom shares that gave it control of the Kenyan operator until a fast-tracked appeal is heard, according to a court order seen by TechCentral. The order, issued by Kenya’s court of appeal in Nairobi on 13 October, records that “the parties agreed that the hearing of the substantive appeal be…
Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella on Saturday called for advanced artificial intelligence systems to be built with containment, independent controls and an “emergency brake” that lets authorized people pause or shut a model down mid-task. “We need to surround non-deterministic models with strong, deterministic system design, human controls, and reliable operating procedures, and establish…
New Global Survey Finds Majority of VMware Users Are Choosing Alternative Paths for Cost Control, Roadmap Flexibility and Better Support Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), the Software Support and Agentic AI ERP Company™ and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software, today announced findings from the 2026 IT Virtualization Survey –…
Middle East oil exports, excluding those from Iran, surpassed their pre-war levels last week, despite attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz, according to data from the maritime tracking firm Kpler. For the first time since the U.S. and Israel launched their offensive against Iran at the end of February, the weekly average of…
This blog was originally published on the APMEN website. On 18 August 2026, the APMEN Vector Control Working Group, in collaboration with the Outreach Network for Gene Drive Research and Malaria Consortium, convened a special World Mosquito Day webinar that explored the future of mosquito vector control. The webinar brought together over 700 professionals from…
11m ago School books seen among rubble after deadly strike in Lebanon School books and remnants of furniture were among the rubble left by Israeli strikes that hit a building in the Lebanese town of Kfar Rumman, according to an AFP photographer who saw the debris. The building was destroyed, and 11 people were…
For years, cloud sovereignty was shorthand for data residency. Keep it local, keep it compliant, so the thinking went, and you’ll keep regulators happy. But as AI rewires what organisations actually need from their infrastructure, sovereignty is now more than simply where a server sits. Ashesh Badani, senior vice president and chief product officer, Red…
The technology is designed to support tasks ranging from routine drug discovery experiments, to laser calibration on quantum computers. (Image source: iStock) Anthropic has opened a research preview of a new Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a specification designed to allow artificial intelligence (AI) agents to safely operate and coordinate physical devices used in scientific research…
