Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has taken a strong lead in provisional results from Thursday’s presidential election, the electoral agency says. The results announced on Friday morning put Museveni in the lead with 76% of the votes, based on results from 45% of the country’s polling stations. He is followed by opposition leader Bobi Wine with…
Augustine Tumi Mogashoa, Director of IT and Business Continuity Management Specialist, ASQE. (Image: Supplied) Agentic AI is transforming business – and tech executives must now lead with both strategy and soul. “By 2026, AI isn’t the future anymore; it’s the present,” says Augustine Tumi Mogashoa, Director of IT and Business Continuity Management Specialist at ASQE….
The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research arm of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), has announced Falcon-H1 Arabic, a newly developed large language model built on a hybrid Mamba-Transformer architecture. Representing a complete departure from previous transformer-based versions, this new model establishes itself as the highest-performing system on the Open Arabic LLM…
Julien Berteraut Poor and compromised passwords remain a leading cause of cyber incidents worldwide, yet many organisations have not yet mastered the science of mitigating this risk. From weak and re-used credentials to compliance hurdles and endless help desk resets, poor password hygiene continues to leave organisations exposed to costly breaches, downtime and reputational damage….
Argility MultiTRAX deployment provides control and management of deliveries for one of SA’s leading furniture retailers. Argility, which positions itself as a leading innovator and implementer of software and data analytics solutions for retailers, part of the Data and Technology cluster of global enterprise Smollan, has implemented the MultiTRAX delivery management and scheduling solution to…
Global food insecurity is rising while Africa holds the land, people, and potential to feed the world. Under South Africa’s presidency, the B20’s Sustainable Food Systems and Agricultural Task Force has laid out a business case to turn agriculture into a driver of growth. Climate shocks make farming more unpredictable. Conflicts exposing fragile supply chains…
Newly appointed MultiChoice Group CEO David Mignot. Image: (c) Aurelien Pierron MultiChoice Group announced a raft of executive leadership changes on Monday. Following the conclusion of its acquisition by France’s Groupe Canal+, the JSE-listed pay-television group has a new CEO, David Mignot, who replaces incumbent Calvo Mawela. Many are asking who Mignot is and what…
Addis Ababa — The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has warned that cholera remains the leading public health concern in Africa in terms of the number of cases and fatalities. Some 23 cholera-affected African countries have reported a total of 239,754 cases and over 5,274 associated deaths since the beginning of…
The system enables DLTC teams to operate with greater accuracy and reduced administrative burden. In a world where digital transactions dominate the private sector, public-facing institutions are modernising their approach to fragmented systems, manual processes and reconciliation challenges. A quiet revolution is under way at Driver Licensing Testing Centres (DLTCs) in South Africa, one that…
In the era of pervasive digitization and AI-driven operations, data centers function as the nerve centers of enterprises and society. That makes electrostatic discharge (ESD) safety, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance non‑negotiable. Anti-static (ESD) flooring is a foundational layer of this reliability stack: get it wrong and you risk downtime, data loss, or even fire;…
