The stuff that doesn’t fit on the quote

by nouman | Aug 28, 2026 | Company News, Graeme Millar, IT services, Sections, SevenC, SevenC Managed IT Services

The thing that keeps clients never fits on a quote, writes SevenC MD Graeme Millar.

Koeberg is completely offline (update: unit 1 restored)

by nouman | Aug 28, 2026 | Energy and sustainability, Eskom, Koeberg, National Nuclear Regulator, News, Sections

Koeberg unit 1 tripped just before 1am on Thursday. Unit 2 has been down since April. No load shedding is expected.

Anthropic moves AI agents out of software and into the lab

by nouman | Aug 28, 2026 | Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Automata, Carnegie Mellon University, Danaher, Doosan Robotics, Genentech, HHMI, Hugging Face, MBF Bioscience, News, QIAGEN, QuEra Computing, Raspberry Pi, Science, Sections, Tecan, Tetsuwan Scientific, Universal Robots, University of Washington

A new standard developed by Anthropic lets AI models operate microscopes, robotic arms and lasers.

Forget the iPhone: Apple’s real next act is your home

by nouman | Aug 27, 2026 | Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Electronics and hardware, Google, John Ternus, Johny Srouji, News, Nvidia, OpenAI, Sections, Tim Cook, TrendForce

The clue to what comes next is a small aluminium box Apple announced this week with no keynote at all.

Meta wins by settling

by nouman | Aug 27, 2026 | Adam Mosseri, Alphabet, Eric Goldman, Facebook, Instagram, James Grimmelmann, Mary Graw, Meta Platforms, News, Sections, Snap, Snapchat, Social media, TikTok, YouTube

US states sought $1.4-trillion before trial. Meta Platforms settled for $18-billion and its shares went up.

A Limpopo solar farm is now powering a smelter in Richards Bay

by nouman | Aug 27, 2026 | Energy and sustainability, Eskom, Growth Arm, International Finance Corporation, News, Renewable Solutions, Richards Bay Minerals, Rio Tinto, Sections, Voltalia

A 148MW solar plant in Limpopo now supplies a Rio Tinto-owned smelter 600km away in KwaZulu-Natal.