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Kenya is moving to modernize its postal and courier industry as the government prepares new regulations to accommodate digital delivery businesses, strengthen consumer protection, and expand access to services in underserved areas. The…
Anthropic is expanding text watermarking across more Claude models, adding a way to identify AI-generated writing without visibly changing the responses users receive. The change takes effect on November 3, 2026, and covers Claude Mythos…
The idea of taxing phones when they first connect to a Kenyan network is back in the conversation, after KRA Board Chairperson Ndiritu Muriithi defended it at a media engagement in Laikipia, arguing that import-stage checks are being…
Zoho is expanding its Analytics platform with a new generation of AI agents designed to help businesses move beyond collecting data and reporting on it to using that information to make decisions and initiate actions. The update introduces…
A fraud suspect who had been on the run for nearly two years over a KES 15 million overseas jobs scam has been arrested. Isaac Kipkemei Barmasai, the sole director of Eldoret-based recruitment agency Proline Travel Advisors Limited, was…
When you copy a link from X (formerly Twitter), the link tells people what device you used. For example, you might copy a link like this: ‘x.com/post/123?s=46&t=…’ That part at the end, ‘?s=46’, is the secret. It means: The ‘t=’ part is…
Most social media apps ask what you are doing right now, and by tomorrow your post is buried under everyone else’s. ThingsBook is built on the opposite instinct. It is a text-first social platform and journaling app where every post is…
Somewhere in the United States, a person who has never set foot on a college campus may soon open a letter claiming they owe money for classes they never took. That quiet damage sits at the center of Operation Ghostbusters, the US…
Binance is facing one of the largest cryptocurrency security incidents ever recorded, after an investigation into suspicious withdrawals revealed that approximately $6.3 billion in digital assets had been transferred from wallets…
Nairobi drivers filling up since 15 October are paying as much as KES 226.96 for a liter of petrol and KES 227.76 for diesel, roughly 13% and 22% more than a year ago. Researchers and policy advisers said that Kenya’s car purchases, not…
Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, is dealing with what looks like the biggest crypto theft ever recorded. Roughly $3 billion of the money tied to the incident has been frozen so far, according to the company’s latest update.…
Google’s parent company had a very bad Thursday. Alphabet shares fell 12%, erasing a record $460 billion of market value, after investors learned the company burned through cash last quarter and that its new AI search feature is making…
Safaricom’s 2026 Sustainable Business Report is hardly about sustainability, but it gives a detailed account of how the company’s technology runs. Safaricom ended the year with 57.93 million customers in Kenya (up 20.1%) and 13.6 million…
A Kenyan High Court judge has ruled that Safaricom can take part in a legal dispute over how much telecom companies should pay for the radio airwaves that carry phone calls and mobile internet. The ruling, by Justice John Anuro, overturns…
Anthropic has begun developing experimental medicines itself, moving from supplying the software to working at the lab bench. In an update published on October 27, 2026, the company said it has started drug discovery programs of its own,…
Veteran Kenyan journalist Yvonne Okwara has joined Shuga Global as Head of Investments and Partnerships, taking her career from the newsroom into the non-profit sector. Shuga Global announced the appointment on Wednesday, October 28, 2026,…
China’s AI industry is going through a sharp financial correction, and the question now is whether years of heavy spending on AI companies and data centers were a bubble that has finally burst. The numbers make a strong case. The STAR 50…
Kenya is planning to expand its fiber-optic network by a further 44,000km as the government seeks to improve internet access, connect public institutions and help more young people participate in the digital economy. The proposed expansion…
On Monday, October 27, Anthropic filed to sell shares to the public for the first time. The company behind the Claude AI system plans to trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, and reports say the first day of trading could come as soon…
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) will stop clearing imports that lack a digital marine cargo insurance certificate from 1 November 2026, putting customs enforcement behind a rule that has existed on paper for nearly a decade. In a notice…
Kenya’s cybersecurity authorities have acknowledged a breach in the e-government sector earlier this year. However, the Communications Authority of Kenya‘s (CA) latest quarterly report does not say which system was hit, how attackers got…
Safaricom has launched Family Share, a plan that ties a Home Fibre subscription to mobile data and voice bundles the account holder can share with up to five family members. Both new and existing Home Fibre customers can sign up, and…
DStv has spent the past year watching Kenyan subscribers leave, and its new lineup reads like a company that has worked out why. The four packages, Starter, Select, Sports, and Ultimate, take effect on November 5, with monthly prices…
Between July and September 2026, Kenya’s national cyber monitoring team detected 2,696,335,021 cyber threat events. That works out to roughly 29 million a day, and it is 14.45% more than the April to June quarter. The numbers come from the…
