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		<title>Effects of a recession on IT departments</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 07:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You should also URGENTLY READ this During periods of economic downturn, there is no money. South Africa is entering recession and possibly a depression. To prepare for this you need to take stock of all software licensing fees. You have to start reducing ALL expenditure on American Software Licensing to as close to R0 as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>URGENT WARNING</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2025 12:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[South Africa CAN COLLAPSE as a country, please read below and please THINK for yourself. This post is a National Emergency Post and immediate action is required from South Africans. (what can you do? &#8211; Spread the word! Start using Open Source products for critical applications) If you do not take immediate action South Africa [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>AngloGold Ashanti Appoints Marcelo Godoy as Chief Technology Officer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2021 07:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[AngloGold Ashanti is pleased to announce the appointment of Marcelo Godoy as Chief Technology Officer, effective November 1st, 2021. Marcelo joins from Newmont Corporation, where he is currently Senior Vice President, Exploration. He joined Newmont in 2012 as Group Executive in Technical Services and was promoted to Vice President, Resource Evaluation and Mine Planning in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Google Search updates the way it works and the service it offers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2021 09:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the past day, Google stopped offering some of it&#8217;s users any service, by forcing users to enable all javascript. The writer is still evaluating all the different changes, but client side, here is one important one as it relates to privacy and security: So, if you do not enable Javascript, you can today not [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is your domain name protected against email spoofing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2019 06:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over 90% of South African Companies do not have adequate anti cybercrime protection for their co.za domain names. a Quick dig @1000 co.za random company domain names result in over 90% (912) providing limited or no anti fraud, anti spoofing and anti cybercrime protection! So few South African companies are protecting their domains against email [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>co.za Domain Space UPDATE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2019 07:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Get information about co.za domain name owner or registrant The ZACR company has made available a PROATIA Request from, FORM C, in terms PAIA, where anyone can request information about co.za domain name So, you can download the form by clicking on the link above, complete the form and if there are any fee&#8217;s due, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>ZA Domain Space Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2019 04:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Do you even know who owns your co.za domain name? Can you verify it independently? (Answer: No) Can you check your own domain name at the central registry yourself? (Answer: No) Can you pay anyone to independently verify your domain registration? (Answer: No) But, there are laws about that though? (Answer: No) Okay, but at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Huawei reveals new Open Source Operating system: Harmony</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2019 05:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Huawei has revealed that they will release their own open source operating system called HARMONY. This means that the source code of Harmony will be available to anyone (no secrets) and anyone will be able to add, edit or change the operating system code. According to Huawei, they have also implimented distributed architecture and distributed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>South African Government Hacked</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2018 05:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Multiple confirmed reports of scams and criminal activity originating from the Department of Justice has been received, verified and confirmed. More technical information below this report. Recipients received the following from the Department of Justice email SERVERS (more than one): +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hi I wish to let you know that as you read this, I have [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Molecular neuromorphic computing device discovered</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2018 05:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reservoir computing devices are predicted as the next-generation artificial intelligence. Scientists developing  neuromorphic chips (silicon based chips that mimic brain structure) has, up to now, not been able to replicate the action of nerve impulses (spikes) to mimic the human brain. Under the leadership of Megumi Akai-Kasaya, a group of researchers from Kyushu Institute of Technology [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>More bad news for users as yet another Intel CPU Security issue is exposed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2018 12:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After Spectre and the Spectre NG (Next generation Spectre), where exploits saw passwords and other data leaked from memory, one would have mistakenly thought that NG would have been the last of the related security vulnerabilities. Dr Christian Rossow published a paper detailing a new &#8216;inverse&#8217; predictability attack. The security flaw relates to the return [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>PC Shipments Grew For the First Time in Six Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2018 05:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In US News, the research and consulting vendor, Gartner published the numbers of US PC shipments, by vendor for the second quarter of 2018. Quoted from the release: &#8220;Worldwide PC shipments totaled 62.1 million units in the second quarter of 2018, a 1.4 percent increase from the second quarter of 2017, according to preliminary results [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SDA New Specification 985MB/sec up to 128TB SD Cards possible</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2018 06:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The SD Association has released SD Express specification, which they call &#8220;a Revolutionary Innovation for SD Memory Cards&#8221;  From the press release: &#8220;The PCle interface delivering a 985 megabytes per second (MB/s) maximum data transfer rate&#8221; and &#8220;the maximum storage capacity in SD memory cards grows from 2TB with SDXC, to 128TB with the new [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wikipedia hosts annual conference in South Africa 18-22 of July 2018</title>
		<link>https://it-web.co.za/wikipedia-hosts-annual-conference-in-south-africa-18-22-of-july-2018/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2018 09:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the first time ever, Wikipedia will host their annual conference in the Global South this year (broadly representing Africa, Asia and Latin America), as it examines how to improve knowledge equity on its sites, given that most of its editors still hail from the Global North. Bridging these knowledge gaps include expanding its non-Western [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Microsoft to buy GitHub</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2018 04:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg reported that Microsoft has concluded a deal to purchase GitHub. GitHub is an open source code repository website and system and is valued at several billion dollars, even though GitHub is not yet profitable and has no CEO. Tom Preston-Werner, the former CEO and one of the co-founders resigned in 2014 after a female [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>G.D.P.R &#8211; General Data Protection Regulation  &#8211; Download &#038; Simplified</title>
		<link>https://it-web.co.za/g-d-p-r-general-data-protection-regulation-download-simplified/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2018 04:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The new EU (European Union) Privacy Legislation came into operation yesterday (25th of May 2018) and affects all South African Companies operating in the EU. You can DOWNLOAD THE G.D.P.R Here G.D.P.R Simplified In Breach of the G.D.P.R? &#8211; Companies can be fined up to 4% of their GLOBAL revenue. No tracking on the Internet [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Intel releases Details and Mitigation Information for Variant 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2018 04:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[a Few hours ago, May 21, 2018, Intel released a statement about: Details and Mitigation Information for Variant 4  This is relevant to consumers as this is the fourth variant of the &#8220;Spectre&#8221; family of security issues related to processors. Intel states that: &#8220;This new derivative is called Variant 4, and it’s being disclosed jointly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>US FTC advises consumers to change their Twitter passwords</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2018 04:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The FTC yesterday advised all American consumers to change their Twitter passwords. The FTC Said in a statement on their website: &#8221; You may have heard the recent news that Twitter discovered a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log. What does this mean? If you are a Twitter user, your password could [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>6G may be optical lasers leading to terahertz frequencies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2018 04:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[6G promises to be hundreds of times faster than Wi-Fi you use today. Scientists have discovered that they can turn a laser (optical light) into a device capable of modulating at microwave frequencies.They discovered that a laser allows multiple and different pieces of information to be transmitted through a single frequency channel. How this discovery [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Your Data is gone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2018 07:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So, it turns out that Facebook has a lot more data than you thought it did. But that is not the worst. As an example of how bad this is, when you connect to Facebook Messenger all your phone contacts are uploaded to Facebook. Facebook NEVER deletes any data and also tracks whom you &#8216;unfriend&#8217;, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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