Every security team is being asked about its AI strategy. Fewer are being asked a simpler question: do you know what’s in your environment? Boards want to know how fast you can find the blast radius of an incident and recover from it. You can’t answer that with data you don’t trust. It’s a theme…
Key takeaways Residency answers where. Sovereignty answers who – A data centre inside the border settles the first question and says nothing about the second: who holds the keys, who can reach the data, who patches the engine beneath it and whether you could take all of it back. Control leaks through copies, not borders…
City Power wants a platform to monitor prepaid electricity purchases in near-real-time. (Graphic: Nicola Mawson | Pexels) City Power’s R3.96 billion in non-technical electricity losses is the target of a tender for near-real-time monitoring of prepaid purchases, but experts warn analytics will flag suspects, not recover money. According to City Power’s latest annual report, the…
Brain signals recorded by a gaming headset or a wellness gadget could one day be used as evidence against you in court, according to a new UN report which warns that neurotechnology is outpacing the laws meant to protect human rights. Presenting the Secretary-General’s report to the General Assembly on Thursday, senior human rights official…
Much of what scientists know about how genetic differences affect health comes from studying populations outside Africa. This matters because genetic information is increasingly being used to understand disease, interpret genetic tests and, in some cases, guide treatment. Africa has the greatest human genetic diversity in the world, yet African populations remain poorly represented in…
Ukraine struck and partly disabled a data centre operated by Russian technology company Yandex on Friday, a day after it hit a larger and more important facility, widening its attacks on Russia after Moscow targeted data hubs inside Ukraine. Yandex, which is heavily involved in Russia’s AI development and is sometimes called Russia’s Google, said…
There is a sentence in Jason Goodall’s remarkable confession this week that I keep coming back to. “Our undisclosed interests were held through nominees in a structure designed to keep our names hidden,” the former Dimension Data and NTT Ltd CEO wrote, in the course of admitting that he had sat on both sides of…
The launch of the Africa Credit Rating Agency (AfCRA) is a welcome step towards strengthening the continent’s voice in how its economies are assessed. Its mandate to draw on African data, expertise and economic realities deserves support. Credit ratings have consequences far beyond financial markets. They influence investors’ decisions, access to borrowing and the interest…
Former Dimension Data Group CEO Jason Goodall Jason Goodall, the former group CEO of Dimension Data and NTT Ltd, has admitted that he secretly took part on the buying side of the 2019 sale of Dimension Data’s Johannesburg head office while advising NTT on the selling side. He has agreed to pay NTT about R208.6-million…
At the 2026 International Astronautical Congress in Turkiye, SpaceX unveiled a new visualisation of its plan to put a million satellites in space to power AI data centres. Published On 7 Oct 20267 Oct 2026 Share Inside SpaceX’s new look for AI data centres in orbit on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on…
