Alberton, Johannesburg-based music producer Justin Erasmus Samro, the Southern African Music Rights Organisation, now requires members to disclose how much AI went into a song when they register it with the body. But it sets no minimum level of human contribution, and disclosure “does not, in itself, constitute a determination of copyright eligibility or an…
Lawyers present hallucinated cases, a judge had ChatGPT reconcile car payments and another tested it on dubious citations, while experts say judges must stay accountable.
Uganda says modern outbreak science has changed what investigators can know. Is it time to rethink the 42-day rule? When Uganda’s Ministry of Health announced on July 28, 2026, that the country had declared the end of its latest Ebola outbreak, something unusual happened. There was no public congratulatory statement from the World Health Organization’s…
The pace at which artificial intelligence is reshaping the threat landscape is outstripping the ability of most organisations to defend themselves, with shadow AI, synthetic identity attacks and a looming quantum computing disruption all converging at once. That’s the view of DataGroupIT CEO Werner Lindemann, who joined Duncan McLeod on the TechCentral Show to unpack…
The authors, Altman Solon’s Björn Menden and Switala Ventures’ Thomas Switala When the competition authorities last year finally approved Vodacom’s acquisition of a 30% stake in Maziv – the parent of Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa – they quietly reshaped the rules of engagement for South Africa’s digital infrastructure market. For years, open access has been…
