At the Augmented World Expo (AWE), Qualcomm announced its next major leap in spatial computing with the debut of the Snapdragon Reality Elite processor. Designed to power premium augmented and mixed reality (AR/MR) hardware, the new flagship chipset promises to make future headsets significantly smaller, sleeker, and more thermally efficient. Read: Meta rolls out WhatsApp…
Large enterprises face a cybersecurity mismatch: rising AI-powered attacks and advanced persistent threats (APTs) outpace understaffed teams. Fragmented tools create visibility gaps and alert fatigue. To build resilience, organisations should consolidate platforms, automate responses and embed AI-driven detection, shifting from reactive firefighting to intelligence-led protection at scale. In the space of a few short years,…
Anand Eswaran, CEO at Veeam. Market research by data and AI trust company Veeam has revealed that 80% of leaders say they can scale AI safely, yet only one in three can produce evidence to prove it. The research coincides with the company’s launch of a Data and AI Trust Model, a framework designed to…
Lukas van der Merwe, Associate Director, Cyanre. Cyanre, a specialist DFIR firm, is proud to announce its participation at the ITWeb Security Summit 2026, where it will address one of the most critical gaps in modern cyber security: how organisations respond when defences inevitably fail. Taking place at the Century City Conference Centre in Cape…
Kisumu Governor Prof Anyang Nyongo when he visited Bishop, Rt. Rev. Charles Ochieng’ Ong’injo, of ACK Maseno South on April 16, 2026. PHOTO/UGC. The ongoing attacks on Bishop, Rt. Rev. Charles Ochieng’ Ong’injo, of ACK Maseno South are less about him and more about the failure of a section of Luo Nyanza’s elected leaders to…
Africa’s long-articulated dream of integration is slowly edging from rhetoric toward reality—but not fast enough. At the heart of this ambition lies the African Continental Free Trade Area, a flagship initiative of the African Union aimed at creating a single market for goods and services across the continent. If fully implemented, it promises to reshape…
Novartis‘ CEO warned Tuesday that the U.S. drug pricing policy under President Donald Trump poses a “very difficult situation” and the reality will soon catch up with both drugmakers and patients. “The longer-term implications are significant,” CEO Vas Narasimhan told CNBC’s Carolin Roth. “The reality of MFN is going to set in in the next…
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — When Africa’s Heads of State and Government gathered in Addis Ababa on 14 February 2026 for the African Union’s 39th Ordinary Session, they did more than adopt another resolution. They made a choice: to place at the centre of the agenda the most fundamental, life-sustaining and strategic resource our continent possesses:…
Investors are becoming wary of AI companies’ spending on AI. (Graphic: Nicola Mawson | GenAI and Freepik) The concerns US investors have over the sustainability of hyperscalers’ artificial intelligence (AI) spending has crossed the Pacific, to not only weigh on Naspers subsidiary Tencent, but also on the JSE-listed company. These worries are reflected in the…
Despite global trends towards consolidation, unique conditions across sub-Saharan Africa call for infrastructure specialisation, according to SES. There is a trend towards consolidation in the telecommunications sector, largely driven by rising infrastructure costs and shrinking margins as data overtakes voice as the primary communication medium. In the African context, MTN Group’s recent announcement that its…
