South Africa faced more than 213,000 DDoS attacks in the first half of 2025, the highest in Africa. Morocco, Kenya and Tunisia also saw rising volumes and increasingly complex strikes.
A record-breaking supply chain attack has compromised 18 npm packages with over two billion weekly downloads, exposing the risks of open-source dependencies.
What looks effortless often isn’t. In this week’s Cortex, Kal explores how true intelligence — human or AI — lies in the discipline of making thought appear simple without being shallow.
South Africa’s steel industry is buckling under energy costs and global competition. Can the cooling Vanderbijlpark furnaces spark a new industrial chapter instead of collapse?