To be useful, an AI model has to make judgment calls. That means ranking things: deciding that this matters more than that. Judgment calls imply values, and values are central to what we call character. Applied across thousands of decisions, that ranking shapes an AI’s character. Even in humans, character does not apply itself evenly….
Minister Dr Leon Schreiber at the Home Affairs Quantum Leap: A Vision for the Future of Government event. (Photograph by the Department of Home Affairs) Home Affairs plans to use machine learning to make yes or no decisions on visa applications through its Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) system, with humans only stepping in when an…
Information security and privacy consultant Anthony Olivier. On 15 July 2026, a law came into force in China that I believe deserves attention. The Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interaction Services regulate the chatbots and virtual companions that hundreds of millions of people now speak to every day. Providers must remind users…
Ali Yilmaz, Senior Manager of Solution Architects for Turkey and MEA at Picus Security. Modern cyber security has to move at machine speed to outperform automated attacks, which can exploit vulnerabilities at scale in a matter of minutes. This is according to Ali Yilmaz, Senior Manager of Solution Architects for Turkey and MEA at Picus…
Seid Mohammedbirhan with the sewing machine that kickstarted his business empire. Today, it sits on display inside a shopping mall he owns. Seid Mohammedbirhan was born in 1960 in the town of Adi Awro, in a rural part of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. He was the younger of two sons in a family of small-scale…
iOCO CEO Rhys Summerton iOCO has struck its second acquisition in four months, agreeing to buy enterprise resource planning specialist Astraia Technology as CEO Rhys Summerton makes good on his promise to return the group to “serial acquirer” status. The JSE-listed technology group said on Friday it has entered into a binding agreement – signed…
Capitec built its position on a bet most of the banking industry declined to make: that a customer who is poor today will be valuable in five to seven years, if their financial life develops normally. By then their income will have grown, they will have a credit history – and they will trust the…
Valve has officially opened reservations for its highly anticipated Steam Machine console, revealing a standard architecture alongside a lottery-based system designed to thwart scalpers. Read: Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Review: Brilliant brains, flawed physics The base Steam Machine features 512GB of storage and is priced at $1,049 for the standalone console. Purchasing it alongside the…
With most breaches originating in identity, the explosion of non-human identities presents a serious risk to organisations, warns BeyondTrust.
Recent events did not create SA’s xenophobic online machine. They reveal how entrenched, interconnected and politically influential that machine has already become. South Africa’s latest wave of xenophobic mobilisation did not begin with a political speech or a major violent incident. It began with a missing-person campaign. Yet this resurgence would not have been possible…
