2+ hour, 10+ min ago  (55+ words) The little economy that could...Daily Maverick They say if you want loyalty, get a dog. So we did. This is Biscuit, the Daily Maverick dog. She gets a treat every time one of our most loyal readers signs up to…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (203+ words) Feb 23 (Reuters) - Shares of International Business Machines recorded their steepest daily drop in more than 25 years on Monday, after AI startup Anthropic said its Claude Code tool could be used to modernize a programming language run on IBM systems. IBM…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (852+ words) Being authentic could end many careers before they start, while bosses too need to know when they must lie. It all speaks to genuinely having somebody's best interests at heart. There is so much utter gumph written about leadership that…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1116+ words) Warning: this article contains disturbing content about sexual violence and child sexual abuse material. As 2025 ended, social media platform X was suddenly flooded with nonconsensual images of people stripped down to bikinis. It began as a "put her in a…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (1530+ words) South Africa is in the grip of an infrastructure supercycle, but it isn't roads or rails. It is the rise of the AI Factory, windowless fortresses consuming small cities worth of power. Drive past the nondescript, high-security compounds in Isando…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (365+ words) In this part of our series, we look under the hood of the modern hyperscale data centre. It is no longer just a room of servers, but a complex industrial plant managing megawatts of power, rivers of coolant and the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (814+ words) Mergers in South Africa often overlook cyber due diligence, risking undisclosed liabilities and hidden costs that can significantly impact the acquired organisation's value and security posture. The uncomfortable truth in any merger or acquisition is that you are not just…...

2+ week, 37+ min ago  (1415+ words) Considering how much data is stored in data centres, it is ironic how little data there is available about how they operate." " former Imperial College London researcher David Mytton, February 2021. Electricity and water are two of South Africa"s most…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago  (345+ words) Other long-standing challenges include broken processes and IT issues, while there has also been a jump in organisations attributing a lack of skills as an obstacle (from 17.6% to 23.3%), suggesting that contact centres are struggling to adapt to the evolving AI…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (532+ words) After two years of AI mania, investors are rethinking which companies will actually profit from the technology. Capital has flooded in, while investor scepticism has been almost non-existent. Commercial viability has been seen as a detail that will be sorted…...