by admin | Apr 5, 2024 | coding, hacking, Internet, Internet News, News, The Conversation
Outside the world of open-source software, it’s likely few people would have heard about XZ Utils, a small but widely used tool for data compression in Linux systems. But late last week, security experts uncovered a serious and deliberate flaw that could leave...
by admin | Mar 9, 2024 | coding, digital innovation lab, Limpopo, News, Other Tech News, Samsung, South Africa
Through a collaboration with Samsung, the University of Limpopo has launched what it calls a ‘Digital Innovation Lab’ (DIL) — where the whole idea is to help build up the province’s skills in software development and ultimately enhance “the prospects of employment or...
by admin | Jan 8, 2024 | AI, coding, Copilot, meetings, News, Other Tech News, The Conversation
Microsoft recently launched a new version of all of its software with the addition of an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that can do a variety of tasks for you. Copilot can summarise verbal conversations on Teams online meetings, present arguments for or...
by admin | May 13, 2023 | AI, App News, coding, Github, Google, I/O, Internet News, News, Other Tech News, Studio Bot
Want to learn to code? Too bad. Google is bringing out a new ‘coding bot’ – powered by AI (because of course it is) – which’ll do all that hard work for you. Studio Bot is its name, announced during Google’s I/O event, held on Wednesday. The company said that it would...
by admin | Mar 4, 2023 | coding, News, Other Tech News, Robotics, school, school curriculum, South African schools
The introduction of coding and robotics to South African schools has been on the cards for a few years now. Some schools didn’t wait around for a plan from the government and have already implemented the subjects their own way. Hopefully, the recently announced...
by admin | Jan 31, 2023 | coding, Columns, low-code, News, Other Tech News, small businesses
When I first started working on the Mail & Guardian’s website, the first news site in Africa, I had to learn to code HTML. HyperText Markup Language is the glue that holds the internet together – and makes those underlined blue links click through to another...
