South Africa’s biggest telecommunications operators will square off with Icasa at public hearings in Midrand on Monday and Tuesday, after formal submissions revealed near-unanimous industry criticism of the regulator’s draft rapid deployment regulations – rules meant to accelerate broadband roll-out that operators warn could achieve the opposite. The draft regulations, gazetted on 10 April, are…
Cloud platforms have become the primary building block for how organisations build, scale and operate digital services. But as data flows across geographical boundaries, questions of where it lives, who can access it and which laws govern it have moved from niche compliance concerns to central architectural decisions. For organisations spanning Europe and South Africa,…
Mobile operators will have to give subscribers clear warning — and at least two reminders — before deactivating a dormant number under new rules published by communications regulator Icasa. The numbering plan (fourth amendment) regulations, gazetted on 1 July, create a standardised, sector-wide framework for how operators deactivate and recycle mobile numbers that have fallen…
Palo Alto Networks CIO Meerah Rajavel Small software bugs that developers once safely ignored can now be strung together by AI into working exploits – and the code to launch those attacks at scale generated on demand. That is the warning from Meerah Rajavel, global CIO of Palo Alto Networks, who spoke to TechCentral during…
Regulations must enable businesses to use stablecoins for cross-border payments. (Graphic made via GenAI) Proposed foreign exchange regulations risk locking South African businesses out of a fast-growing global payments system built on stablecoins. There is also an outdated understanding of how digital money actually moves, say two of the country’s leading crypto executives. In April,…
A judge ruled Tuesday that transgender people won’t face criminal charges for using Idaho public restrooms that match their gender identities. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Amanda Brailsford puts on hold enforcement of key components of a law adopted…
Google will appeal a German court ruling which said it is legally liable for false claims appearing in AI Overviews, the US tech company said on Friday, in a case that will likely impact other AI developers. The challenge came after a Munich court issued a landmark judgment against Google’s AI-generated summaries that appear above traditional search…
Chipo Mushwana, Nedbank’s executive for payments and technology AI agents are already initiating financial transactions on behalf of people, and South African banks were not built for that. That was the central warning at Nedbank’s Innovation Day in Johannesburg last week, where banking and technology leaders said the industry’s biggest blind spot is not AI…
Mark Palmer, board director for the Cloud Security Alliance South Africa Chapter and security go-to-market lead for Microsoft SA. The explosive enterprise rush to deploy autonomous AI agents has triggered an identity and governance crisis, rendering traditional corporate defence models “completely insufficient” to handle machine-to-machine risk, according to Mark Palmer, board director for the Cloud Security…
Joe Tidy, dedicated cyber correspondent at BBC (Photo: Strike a Pose Studios) Teenage hackers pose an increasingly serious threat to organisations around the world, as they cross traditional lines in their behaviour, and they are motivated by chaos and a desire for infamy as much as they are driven by money. This is according to…
