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18/06/2026

As it sets up a local presence in South Africa, DJI Enterprise has appointed Rectron as a master distributor and onboarded its first official resellers.
DJI Rectron South Africa

Kathy Gibson reports – Drone manufacturer DJI Enterprise is strengthening its South African presence and focus, having set up a local presence, appointed a master distributor and named its first official resellers. Lethu Buthelezi will head up DJI Enterprise’s South African office, working with ...

17/06/2026

Just when we thought we'd found a hero, it's been snatched away. has had to withdraw Fable 5, so we're back to fighting dragons with older-generation tools, says IT-Online columnist Barry Buck.

By Barry Buck and Claude Opus 4.8 – Last week I confessed to pulling a Mythos-class sword from the stone and using it to trim my hedges — and promised that if the dragon ever came, it would find me well practised and the blade sharp. Reader, the dragon came. They always come on a […]

12/06/2026

Large enterprises face a cybersecurity mismatch: rising AI-powered attacks and Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) outpace understaffed teams. Fragmented tools create visibility gaps and alert fatigue. To build resilience, organisations are advised to consolidate platforms, automate responses and embed AI-driven detection, shifting from reactive firefighting to intelligence-led protection at scale.
Kaspersky

Large enterprises face a cybersecurity mismatch: rising AI-powered attacks and Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) outpace understaffed teams. Fragmented tools create visibility gaps and alert fatigue. To build resilience, organisations should consolidate platforms, automate responses and embed AI-dr...

01/06/2026

Nvidia has made a major collection of open source physical AI skills and tools available to help developers turn complex robotics, autonomous vehicle (AV), vision AI and industrial digital twin workflows into agent-executable tasks — reducing the costs, time and complexity of building physical AI workflows at scale.
NVIDIA

Nvidia yesterday announced a major collection of open source physical AI skills and tools that help developers turn complex robotics, autonomous vehicle (AV), vision AI and industrial digital twin workflows into agent-executable tasks — reducing the costs, time and complexity of building physical ...

01/06/2026

Worldwide spending on AI is forecast to total $2,59-trillion in 2026 – a 47% increase year-over-year. Most of that growth will be from vendors, with servers set to dominate.

Worldwide spending on AI is forecast to total $2,59-trillion in 2026 – a 47% increase year-over-year – according to Gartner. “Through the next several years, the need for capacity will make AI infrastructure – including AI-optimised IaaS, AI-optimised servers, AI network fabric, AI processin...

27/05/2026

NASA is embarking on one of the most ambitious space endeavors in its history: building the Moon Base near the lunar South Pole, establishing humanity’s first sustained presence on the Moon. The lunar South Pole is one of the most strategically and scientifically valuable regions on the Moon, offe...

14/05/2026

Yes, AI could be the silver bullet that enables the one-man unicorn, as Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are predicting. But it will have to be an exceptional man (or woman) – a hero, in fact.
IT-Online columnist Barry Buck tries to gain some clarity amid the unremitting avalanche of work requests.

By Barry Buck – Anyone who has stood in a Champions League stadium knows the sound. Stomp, stomp, clap. The White Stripes riff converted into a 60 000-person chant before kick-off. There is no better soundtrack for enterprise project queues in 2026. The work keeps coming. The deadlines compress. A...

12/05/2026

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11/05/2026

The latest issue of Channelwise is out - and we are celebrating our 30th birthday! We also look at how is positioning itself for growth by harnessing the innovation and opportunities on its own shores.
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Into Africa with First Distribution, Barry Buck unravels the secrets of AI, how to weather the memory and CPU crisis, and Channelwise at 30.

07/05/2026

Cybercrime is no longer a series of isolated campaigns: it’s a system, with malicious hackers operating across an end-to-end life cycle and compressing the attack life cycle with shadow agents. This is the headline finding from the 2026 Global Threat Landscape Report from FortiGuard Labs.
Fortinet

Cybercrime no longer functions as a series of isolated campaigns. Today, it operates as a system, with malicious hackers operating across an end-to-end life cycle and compressing the attack life cycle with shadow agents. This is the headline finding from the 2026 Global Threat Landscape Report from....