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businessday. co. za > opinion > 2026-04-30-rufaro-mafinyani-the-code-that-hacks-itself

RUFARO MAFINYANI | The code that hacks itself

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (565+ words) The most dangerous thing about Anthropic's Mythos is not that it can break systems. It is that it erases the time between discovering how to break them and actually doing it. That narrow gap " once measured in days, sometimes weeks…...

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businessday. co. za > business-times > 2026-04-25-luncedo-mtwentwe-sas-ai-push-exposes-smes-to-rising-cyber-risks

LUNCEDO MTWENTWE | SA's AI push exposes SMEs to rising cyber risks

5+ day, 14+ hour ago  (742+ words) South Africa's draft AI policy suggests the country is taking an expansive approach to artificial intelligence " and rightly so. AI is being adopted at unprecedented speed, with tools like Chat GPT now reaching more than 900-million users weekly, growing far…...

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businessday. co. za > lifestyle > arts-and-entertainment > 2026-04-24-digital-weapons-fabricate-realities-that-easily-transcend-adversaries-borders

Information warfare dives ever deeper into deception

1+ week, 9+ hour ago  (543+ words) What we are witnessing today is the next step in this evolution " from print, radio and TV to social media. If the First Gulf War was the CNN war, the 2025 and 2026 conflict between the US, Israel and Iran can be…...

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businessday. co. za > opinion > 2026-04-24-richard-ford-machine-identities-invisible-workforce-poses-security-risks

RICHARD FORD | Machine identities: Invisible workforce poses security risks

1+ week, 9+ hour ago  (319+ words) Meet the invisible workforce The hijacking of digital trust The risk stopped being merely theoretical a while ago. Imagine an AI legal assistant integrated into a firm's workflow to review contracts and draft correspondence. If an attacker manages to hijack…...

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businessday. co. za > opinion > 2026-04-22-ismail-lagardien-privatising-everything-is-an-intended-consequence-of-particular-wars

ISMAIL LAGARDIEN | Privatising everything is an intended consequence of particular wars

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (640+ words) There's a rather tedious old saying that the fog of war causes confusion and uncertainty on the battlefield, and within what American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick referred to as "war rooms. Particular wars involving large powers also tend to draw the…...

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businessday. co. za > opinion > 2026-04-21-news-from-the-future-the-church-of-big-data-is-the-fastest-growing-new-religion

NEWS FROM THE FUTURE: The Church of Big Data is the fastest growing new religion

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (537+ words) Dateline: June 22 2038 To those who don't know its secrets, science is indistinguishable from magic. In times of exponential technological growth many people can no longer logically comprehend the way the increasingly digitised world around them works. Instead, people are turning…...

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businessday. co. za > companies > 2026-04-20-discovery-bank-makes-inroads-in-customer-deposits

Discovery Bank makes inroads in customer deposits

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (404+ words) Challenger banks are not making headway in attracting customer deposits " a vital part of the banking system, ensuring that banks remain stable, liquid and able to provide services to clients " with the exception of Discovery Bank and, to some extent,…...

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businessday. co. za > news > 2026-04-20-draft-ai-policy-leaves-businesses-with-unanswered-questions

Draft AI policy leaves businesses with unanswered questions

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (646+ words) The government's draft national policy on AI appears to have generated more questions for businesses than it answers. Fortunately, the policy is still only in draft form and presently out for comment. AI investment has grown exponentially in recent years,…...

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businessday. co. za > lifestyle > 2026-04-16-transforming-sa-patient-care-with-a-digital-health-wallet

Transforming SA patient care with a digital health wallet

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (655+ words) Every person in the South African healthcare system, public or private, needs to carry a digital health wallet at all times, containing their full medical and health record on their mobile phone app or a QR-coded card for patients without…...

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businessday. co. za > world > international-companies > 2026-04-15-jane-street-in-6bn-deal-for-coreweaves-cloud-services

Jane Street in $6bn deal for Core Weave's cloud services

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (295+ words) Bengaluru " Trading firm Jane Street has committed about $6bn for Core Weave's cloud services, marking the third major deal for the Nvidia-backed neocloud company in a week and underscoring surging demand for computing capacity. Jane Street also made a $1bn equity investment…...