Professor Kerry-Lynn Thomson, Director of the School of Information Technology at Nelson Mandela University. Organisations should move beyond trying to eliminate Shadow AI and instead focus on governance, visibility and employee education to reduce cyber risk while enabling responsible AI adoption. This is according to experts from the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa…
Airports Company South Africa is preparing to add AI chatbot functionality and augmented reality navigation to its mobile app as the state-owned airports operator works to turn the software into a genuine travel companion – and to get more travellers actually using it. Speaking to TechCentral in an interview on Thursday, Acsa chief technology officer…
No African teams made it past the quarter-finals of the 2026 men’s football World Cup, but their strategic and tactical play left a lasting impression. The success of African teams doesn’t come out of the blue, it’s the result of a long process. It’s therefore surprising that African football remains underrated and downgraded by experts,…
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…
