The World Bank Group has projected global commodity prices to fall to lowest level in six years in 2026, marking the fourth consecutive year of decline. According to its latest commodity markets outlook, the organisation forecast prices to drop by seven percent in both 2025 and 2026, driven by weak global economic growth, a growing…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella departs following a meeting of the White House Task Force on AI Education in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Sept. 4, 2025. Eric Lee | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft was hit with outages in its Azure cloud and 365 services on Wednesday, hours before the…
Cairo, Egypt — Africa’s multilateral lender, African Export-Import Bank, marked the end of an era as President and Chairman of the Board, Professor Benedict Oramah, concluded his decade-long tenure with a legacy conference in Cairo attended by over 2,000 dignitaries, including African heads of state, business leaders, and policymakers on Friday. Oramah, who took office…
AWS is observing early signs of recovery for some impacted AWS services. Cloud computing platform Amazon Web Services (AWS) has suffered a global outage that is affecting users. Providing updates on the AWS Health Dashboard, the company says it is investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 region. “This…
U.S. President Donald Trump’s renewed threat to impose a 100% tariff on all movies produced outside of the country could upend the global industry — and deliver a heavy blow to Britain’s already fragile sector. The White House leader first announced duties on movies produced outside the U.S. in May this year. He than reiterated…
Dr Stanley Mpofu, CIO of Wits University. The University of the Witwatersrand has confirmed its Oracle E-Business system has been hit by a cyber attack that has compromised its system in multiple countries. “This is a ‘zero-day’ event − a cyber attack which exploits a software vulnerability that is unknown to the software vendor and…
A ransomware group has claimed that it has successfully attacked the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) and is demanding a ransom payment, TechCentral has learnt. The church fell victim to the apparent attack earlier this month, with some details – though not the entire leak – published on the dark web on 2 October…
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Microsoft is rolling out a major restructuring and significant price increases for its Xbox Game Pass subscription service in South Africa, with some plans seeing hikes of up to 109%. The overhaul is part of a global adjustment but brings controversial changes to the local market, including a dramatic reduction in the game library for…
Maski, a South African-built WhatsApp-based AI tutor for students in grades 1 to 12, has surpassed the 100 000-user mark just six months after the platform launched in March. It was built by Bytefuse in collaboration with textbook publisher Maskew Miller Longman. The two companies believe Maski’s AI foundations make it appropriate for individualised learning…
