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22/10/2026

Eye-catching

The ATK Blazing Sky Phantom is a 44g wireless gaming mouse with a hollow carbon fibre composite shell. The 300mAh battery runs up to 200 hours at 1 000Hz.

Photograph by The Gadget Flow
https://thegadgetflow.com/product/atk-blazing-sky-phantom-wireless-gaming-mouse/

21/10/2026

jeremy engelbrecht took time out of his busy schedule to swing by the ITWeb studio and unpack how SoftiDoc approaches biometric verification, their liveness detection process and the road ahead as digital identity starts to take shape.



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21/10/2026

Tahir Latif and Mark Govender stopped by the ITWeb studio to discuss the results from the Veeam-ITWeb Data Resilience Survey. They discussed how cybercrime is evolving, the gap between business security confidence and data recovery after an incident, why infrastructure and power still top Africa’s outage risks, and what organisations must do to reach best-in-class resilience by 2026.
https://www.itweb.co.za/videos/LPwQ57lbOXkqNgkj

21/10/2026

On this episode of ITWeb TV, Dané Liebenberg, AI executive for FNB Retail and Business Banking, unpacks how the bank is assessing the value of its artificial intelligence investments through four key pillars.

https://youtu.be/TTEw3eDE93E

21/10/2026

Lightweight tunes

Japanese audio brand Final has introduced the Porta wireless on-ear headphones, which rethink the headband design. The Porta uses a minimal, single-wire structure called AirWire, reducing the headphones’ weight to 40 grams, making extended listening more comfortable.

Photograph by Yanko Design
https://www.yankodesign.com/2026/10/20/finals-porta-wireless-on-ear-headphones-strip-back-the-headband-to-just-40-grams/

20/10/2026

ITWeb TV Biz: Why data trust matters more than confidence in AI

Most organisations across SA have already decided to adopt AI. But adoption is only the beginning of the conversation. The more difficult questions are whether AI can be trusted, whether the data underpinning it can be trusted, and whether that data can be recovered cleanly and accurately when something goes wrong.

ITWeb Business TV speaks to Tahir Latif and Mark Govender of Veeam about the gap between how confident African organisations feel about AI and whether they can prove that the data underpinning it is visible, governed, protected and recoverable.

20/10/2026

Minimalist design

CMF, the budget-oriented consumer electronics sub-brand of Nothing, has released its first portable speakers. Resembling milk cartons, with chunky k***s and physical controls, the inclusion of Bluetooth 6 means it works up to 100m away from the audio source.

Photograph by New Atlas
https://newatlas.com/consumer-tech/cmf-milk-carton-speaker-nothing-bluetooth-portable/

19/10/2026

[SPONSORED] South Africa has a mature cloud market with widespread adoption, but as many gripes about pricing and lagging efficiency. Many organisations have fallen short with underwhelming cloud migrations, shaking their faith in cloud's promises, says TrueMark.

A mature cloud market has high expectations, and TrueMark stepped up to meet them.