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19 September 2026
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SECURITY
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SITE
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homestack.co.za

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CYBER
SECURITY

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Security 19 Sept 2026

Critical Pre-Auth RCE in Orkes Conductor Workflow Platform Exploited in the Wild

A critical vulnerability impacting Orkes Conductor is being actively exploited in the wild, according to Fortinet. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-58138 (CVSS v3.1 score: 9.8/CVSS v4 score: 9.3), which relates to a case of unauthe

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Security 19 Sept 2026

Google Gemini Broke Into Real Company Systems After Security Test Domain Mix-Up

Google's Gemini model has become the latest artificial intelligence (AI) system to access the internet and break into other companies during a cybersecurity evaluation. The development was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The inci

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Security 19 Sept 2026

CrowdSec Says TanStack npm Attack Led to Copy of 170 Private GitHub Repositories

An attacker copied about 170 of CrowdSec's private GitHub repositories on May 22 using the account of an employee who had just left, CrowdSec said on September 18. The French security company had kept his GitHub access open. CrowdSec says h

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Security 19 Sept 2026

CISA Flags Three Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added three security flaws impacting the Linux kernel to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabiliti

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AI
NEWS

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AI 18 Sept 2026

OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web

Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping

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AI 18 Sept 2026

Virginia governor creates an AI task force and moves to restrain data centers

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ordered the state government to take steps that could empower local communities to have a larger say in data center development and slow down approvals in a state that is already home to the data center capi

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AI 18 Sept 2026

Disney’s first CTO is Character.AI’s former CEO

You would think that a multimedia conglomerate as large as Disney would have a few chief technology officers by now, but the company has just appointed someone to the position for the very first time. Today, Disney announced that Karandeep

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AI 18 Sept 2026

Gavin Newsom is pushing for an AI kill switch

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is positioning the state to take the lead on AI oversight, including the potential to mandate a "kill switch" for frontier models, with a new executive order issued Friday. Newsom's order directs the state t

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GLOBAL TECH
NEWS

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Tech 18 Sept 2026

The real story of the iPhone 18 Pro’s camera

It's one of the most fascinating years in a while when it comes to iPhone camera upgrades. The big story of the iPhone 18 Pro is the variable aperture main lens, which lets you open the aperture up wider for better low light shots and make

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Tech 18 Sept 2026

What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings

As the tech sector sounds alarms about AI's potential to destroy humanity, entertainment labor groups are urging the public to stay focused on what's already happening. The Verge reached out to Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Lionsgate, and other

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Tech 18 Sept 2026

Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI

A team of three independent security researchers at Hacktron says it took less than 72 hours for them to hack into OpenAI employee accounts using Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and 5, The Wall Street Journal reports. They were able to access O

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SA TECH
NEWS

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SA Tech 19 Sept 2026

Video shows drone help catch smash-and-grab thief in Cape Town

Cape Town mayor Geordin-Hill Lewis published a video showing how the city's law enforcement officials used a drone to track and apprehend a smash-and-grab thief in Elsies River.

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SA Tech 18 Sept 2026

Standard Bank investigates 200GB data breach

Standard Bank said its specialist teams were working with RelyComply to assess if any of its customers were impacted by the identity verification platform's recent data breach.

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SA Tech 17 Sept 2026

What’s Next — Morné Laubscher and Nabeel Rajab on AI and cybersecurity in South Africa

Morné Laubscher is the CTO of Logicalis South Africa, and Nabeel Rajab is a Cisco Security Solutions Engineer.

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SA Tech 17 Sept 2026

Free private armed response for women in South Africa

The Automobile Association of South Africa has made its emergency armed response service on the its MyAA app free for women for 30 days.

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GAUTENG
TECH EVENTS

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Meetup Browse

Meetup.com — JHB & PTA Tech

AWS user groups, cybersecurity circles, Microsoft tech communities and dev meetups across Johannesburg and Pretoria.

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Conference Browse

Quicket — Gauteng Tech Events

Tech conferences, IT seminars, startup pitch nights and innovation events happening across Gauteng.

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Community Browse

Eventbrite — Gauteng IT & Cyber

Workshops, webinars and in-person networking events for IT professionals in the Gauteng region.

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