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…
Crew members of a Yemeni commercial ship who survived a deadly attack by Houthi rebels earlier this week said a second missile struck the vessel just as rescue efforts from the initial strike were underway, causing even more chaos and casualties. Three ballistic missiles fired by the Iran-backed Houthis struck the ship in the Bab…
A business today functions as a complex ecosystem in which every participant influences the results, the reputation and, more importantly, the sustainability of the wider organisation. Every business sits inside a vast network of partners, suppliers and service providers whose actions ripple across industries. Resilience therefore depends not only on internal protection measures but on…
ZARP Stablecoin co-founder Simon Dingle South Africa should scrap exchange control altogether, according to Simon Dingle, co-founder of rand stablecoin ZARP, who said the country’s capital controls have achieved the opposite of what they were designed to do. “Ultimately, South Africa has to abolish foreign exchange control,” Dingle told TechCentral. “Unfortunately the damage has already…
British Columbia Premier David Eby told a news conference on Saturday that one fire official had likened the fire to “a bomb going off”. “Homes have been lost, and properties have been destroyed. Some people became trapped as conditions changed very quickly, and needed to be rescued,” the premier said. A state of emergency allows…
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — Evidence is growing that the people most affected by HIV are also the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Climate change is reshaping health systems and lives across the globe, but its impact on the HIV response has received far less attention than it deserves. Floods, droughts and…
The US and Iran have been exchanging waves of strikes, as a dispute over control of the Strait of Hormuz threatens to derail efforts to end their war. BBC correspondent Barbara Plett Usher, reporting from Jerusalem, examines the latest tensions over the key international shipping channel. Over the weekend, Iran announced that the strait was…
The successful bidder will develop and implement a multi-factor authentication system for the Department of Home Affairs. (Image source: 123RF) It’s not just road traffic that has slowed down due to school holidays, it’s also activity on National Treasury’s eTenders Portal as public sector attention favoured fast-turnaround requests for quotation. This means that after weeks…
