Core introduces new AI-powered Microsoft Surface devices in South Africa
TechCentralby Core Group3d ago
Artificial intelligence is changing how people create content, analyse information and make decisions.
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top 29%Remember when bitcoin was killing the planet?
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen3d ago
In my last column, I parked one objection to bitcoin for another day: the energy it consumes. That was mostly because it was an unfair argument to begin with. But let’s try to put it to bed.
Kredete acquires Gravv to build agentic stablecoin infrastructure
TechCentralby Kredete4d ago
Kredete, the fintech platform serving emerging-market and diaspora communities, has acquired Gravv, an agentic stablecoin infrastructure platform that connects banks, blockchain networks and local...
Regulating AI: apply the laws we have first
TechCentralby Dirk de Vos4d ago
Last week, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an open letter calling for a slowdown in AI development, with new guardrails and oversight. Sam Altman and Elon Musk agreed within hours.
AI can find vulnerabilities. Humans find ways in
TechCentralby NEWORDER4d ago
Every South African business is about to receive the same pitch – security testing driven by AI. Continuous instead of annual. Cheaper than whatever you’re paying now.
Anthropic weighs new model launch to blunt OpenAI's Astra surge
TechCentralby Agency Staff4d ago
Anthropic is considering rolling out a new AI model to counter OpenAI’s momentum since its launch of GPT-6 Astra, according to three sources, ahead of an expected public listing and after its CEO...
Hackers hack hackers as dark web feud erupts
TechCentralby Agency Staff4d ago
One of the world’s best-known cybercrime groups said on Sunday it had hijacked one of its chief rivals’ dark web site, bringing what it said was a long-simmering feud out into the open.
GovTech turns 20 and sets out to build South Africa's digital future
TechCentralby GovTech6d ago
For two decades, GovTech has been the room where South Africa’s digital government story gets written. This year, that story reaches a milestone worth pausing on.
Support ended for SQL Server 2016 - and so did the Microsoft subsidy
TechCentralby Ascent Technology6d ago
For most of the last decade, Microsoft made it inexpensive to wait. Each time a SQL Server version reached the end of its extended support – 2008, 2012, 2014 – the same escape hatch was available.
Solar and EVs in South Africa: what the numbers actually say
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen7d ago
South Africans paid R26.92/l for 95 unleaded inland when prices rose on 2 September. Average Brent crude climbed to US$87.88 from $82.37 in the review period, on US-Iran tensions and renewed fears...
ITA presents LEO satellite solutions for the oil and gas sector
TechCentralby Paratus Group7d ago
Internet Technologies Angola (ITA) presented its OneWeb connectivity solution at the Angola Oil & Gas 2026 conference this week (9-10 September) to demonstrate reliable connectivity solutions that...
Hollard client data dumped on dark web
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod7d ago
The criminal group behind the June breach at MIP Holdings is now extorting South African insurers directly after taking a ransom payment from the software supplier in exchange for an undertaking to...
The AI that builds AI has gone from 1% to 26% in five months
TechCentralby Agency Staff7d ago
Anthropic said Claude “leads” 26% of the AI research and development work inside the company, part of new measures that it will publish regularly to show outsiders how quickly AI is building the...
MDF is the IT channel's most underused lever
TechCentralby Publishared7d ago
Every year, technology vendors set aside market development funds (MDF) for the IT channel partners who sell on their behalf. Most of it never does what it was meant to do.
South Africa sees offshore wind powering AI data centres
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen8d ago
Government has pitched offshore wind as a way to power Cape Town’s growing AI data centre industry, but the laws and regulations required do not yet exist and the costs are enormous.
Keeping heart surgeons online in the Tankwa Karoo
TechCentralby Paratus Group8d ago
Paratus South Africa is backing the Revived Pulse Foundation for a third consecutive year as a principal event partner for Le Tour de Spirit of the Great Heart, the foundation’s annual charity...
Cape Town to write new rules for big data centre applications
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen8d ago
The City of Cape Town is drafting new development guidelines for large data centre applications, its first public acknowledgement that the approvals process needs changing, and has confirmed that...
South African boards are sleepwalking into AI lock-in
TechCentralby Martin Dippenaar8d ago
Many South African companies are walking blindly into an unhealthy and unsustainable dependence on public large language models without understanding the commercial and governance risks.
Washington bets big on African fibre with $155-million Wiocc deal
TechCentralby Agency Staff8d ago
The US International Development Finance Corporation said on Wednesday it would invest up to US$155-million in African digital infrastructure provider Wiocc Group, underscoring Washington’s support...
Chinese car design: how China won South Africa's showrooms
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen9d ago
South Africa’s Chinese car boom is usually explained with a price list. But that explanation has stopped being sufficient.