South Africa’s Two-Pot Pension System – Protecting Savings from Cyber Fraud
Soon, South Africans could have the option of placing their retirement fund contributions in two ‘pots’ – the one being the retirement pot and the other being a savings pot that can be accessed by members while still in employment. BDO recently referred to this as three pots, in fact,
Read moreRandomized response and local differential privacy
Differential privacy protects user privacy by adding randomness as necessary to the results of queries to a database containing private data. Local differential privacy protects user privacy by adding randomness before the data is inserted to the database. Using the visualization from this post, differential privacy takes the left and
Read moreStop Trying to ‘Formalise’ SMEs – Fintech offers a better way to boost growth in Africa
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) present a significant opportunity for Africa to build on the positive fintech momentum to grow GDP – but we need to stop thinking about formalising them and instead provide further fintech solutions that bridge information gaps and meet their credit needs. SME’s Engine of Africa’s
Read more6 Factors That Determine Whether You Will Succeed or Fail
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Read moreWhat you should look out for when migrating to the cloud
Most business today, if they have not yet undertaken a cloud migration, are certainly in the process of planing such a move. The desire to do so is fueled by the multitude of benefits that are loudly proclaimed, including scalability, flexibility and cost-efficiency. Benjamin Coetzer, Director at local VMware, a
Read moreUber Celebrates 10 Years in SA by Launching its First Electric Mobility Product
Uber Commemorates 10-year Anniversary in South Africa. To celebrate the milestone, they officially launched the country’s first electric mobility product, along with a number of new innovative mobility and delivery products and the expansion of existing features to new geographies in the country. Speaking at the celebration, Kagiso Khaole General
Read moreLocalisation in Xcode 15
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Read morePATE framework for differentially private machine learning
Machine learning models can memorize fragments of their training data and return these fragments verbatim. I’ve seen instances, for example, where I believe an LLM returned phrases verbatim from this site. It’s easy to imagine how medical data might leak this way. How might you prevent this? And how might
Read moreMeta will start requiring disclosures for political ads manipulated with AI
In 2024, Meta will begin requiring advertisers running political or issue ads on its platforms to disclose when their ads are “digitally created or altered” through the use of AI. Facebook and Instagram ads about elections, politics and social issues will soon require the extra step, which advertisers will handle
Read moreSamsung unveils ChatGPT alternative Samsung Gauss that can generate text, code and images
Just a few days after OpenAI’s developer event, Samsung unveiled its own generative AI model, Samsung Gauss, at the Samsung AI Forum 2023. Samsung Gauss, developed by the tech giant’s research unit Samsung Research, consists of three tools: Samsung Gauss Language, Samsung Gauss Code and Samsung Gauss Image. Samsung Gauss Language is
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