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3 weeks ago | 
itweb.co.za | Joanne Carew
The City of Cape Town’s municipal solar plant in Atlantis, Cape Town, is now one-sixth complete. The facility is the first utility-scale renewable energy project in Cape Town and the first-of-its-kind in South Africa to be owned and operated by a city. Since construction on the project began in October 2024, around 2 400 solar panels have been installed.
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3 weeks ago | 
itweb.co.za | Joanne Carew
By Joanne Carew, ITWeb Cape-based contributor. Johannesburg, 04 Jun 2025Delivering the minister’s address at the Africa Tech Week Conference in Cape Town yesterday, communications minister Solly Malatsi discussed the balance modern governments need to find between regulation and innovation. “As government, we spend a lot of time confronting the country’s most complex and urgent challenges.
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3 weeks ago | 
itweb.co.za | Joanne Carew
You don’t have to look very far to find examples of businesses targeted by cybercriminals. Almost every day, there’s a new headline about an organisation being hit by ransomware or suffering a data breach. Most recently, the UK retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) stopped taking orders after a major cyberattack. The incident forced M&S to use pen and paper to move products.
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3 weeks ago | 
itweb.co.za | Joanne Carew
“There was a bit of PTSD every time I walked through the office door.” This is a quote from the 2024 Journal of Cybersecurity. It was shared by Lukas van der Merwe, associate director for cyber security sales and client development at Cybercom, during his presentation about the psychological impact of cyber attacks at the ITWeb Security Summit in Cape Town.
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3 weeks ago | 
itweb.co.za | Joanne Carew
Just a few years ago, it was fairly easy to spot a deep fake video or an AI-generated voice clip. Think unnatural eye movements, mismatched lighting, blurry features and unnatural rhythm and intonation. But now, detecting AI generated audio and video isn’t so simple. Just ask the employee of a multinational firm who accidentally paid $25.6 million to cyber scammers.
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brainstorm.itweb.co.za | Joanne Carew
Computing power to the people Cape Town’s Centre for High Performance Computing aims to “democratise” its computational capability. Here’s how. 01 June 2025 Mervyn Christoffels, CHPC The only clue that there’s something out of the ordinary going on inside the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) in Rosebank in Cape Town is a line of chillers feeding icy air into the building. The chillers are on stilts, and were lifted out of the way of the Liesbeek River in flood some years ago.
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3 weeks ago | 
brainstorm.itweb.co.za | Joanne Carew
01 June 2025 Styli Charalambous, Daily Maverick At the end of 2023, Sports Illustrated found itself in hot water for publishing GenAI articles written by fake authors with AI-generated profile pictures. The publication blamed a third party, but the damage had been done. Now, news publications everywhere are using GenAI in their newsrooms.
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3 weeks ago | 
brainstorm.itweb.co.za | Joanne Carew
Watching wildlife from your couch Wildlife cameras are transforming conservation across Africa by giving people a front-row seat to the wonders of nature. 01 June 2025 Footage from the Ol Donyo Lodge in Kenya. The Sira curassow has evaded scientists for decades. The only known population of this elusive turkey-like bird is found in remote, high-elevation outcrops of the Peruvian Andes and it’s only been observed by a handful of people since it was discovered in 1969.
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4 weeks ago | 
itweb.co.za | Joanne Carew
By Joanne Carew, ITWeb Cape-based contributor. Johannesburg, 30 May 2025Bernard Munyaradzi Chadenga, founder and CEO of The Cimplicity Institute, hates checklists. Largely because they are just a box-ticking exercise that means very little when something goes wrong and don’t hold any weight when someone needs to be held accountable. Closing out track two at the ITWeb Security Summit in Cape Town on Wednesday, Chadenga’s talk was about the risks posed by third parties and supply chain partners.
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4 weeks ago | 
itweb.co.za | Joanne Carew
The world is in the midst of a “great sorting”, with the danger of global polarisation dragging in cyber security professionals against their will, warns an influential international cyber expert. Delivering a keynote address this week at ITWeb Security Summit 2025 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, Jeff Moss, president of DEF CON Communications and founder of Black Hat conferences, said this sorting is due to a polarised geopolitical landscape and burgeoning online connections.
