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31.5% of Kenyan Users Hit by Malware in New Cyber Report
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31.5% of Kenyan Users Hit by Malware in New Cyber Report

A recent study of Kenya’s cyberthreat landscape shows that there has been a sharp increase in sophisticated attacks targeting both individuals and organizations across the country. From January to September of this year, Kaspersky…

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Airtel Restores RCS Support After Year-Long Standoff With Google
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Airtel Restores RCS Support After Year-Long Standoff With Google

Bharti Airtel has renewed its partnership with Google to roll out Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging on its network in India, ending a year-long standoff between the telecom operator and the US tech giant. The move is a major…

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How to Make Gold Through Player Housing in World of Warcraft
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How to Make Gold Through Player Housing in World of Warcraft

The War Within is slowly coming to an end, ready to pass the torch to the next expansion, Midnight. While the full release is still a while away, the Midnight beta is already live, giving players a good taste of what to expect. Among all…

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Airtel Money Adds Direct Merchant Payments to DTB Till Moja Network
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Airtel Money Adds Direct Merchant Payments to DTB Till Moja Network

Airtel Money and Diamond Trust Bank (DTB) have rolled out a new mobile money integration that allows customers to make direct payments to DTB Till Moja merchants using their Airtel Money wallets. The update also enables instant deposits…

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Latitude59 Opens in Nairobi with Focus on AI and Startup Capital
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Latitude59 Opens in Nairobi with Focus on AI and Startup Capital

Latitude59, Estonia’s flagship startup and technology conference, officially opened in Nairobi, setting the stage for European-African tech collaboration while spotlighting startups, investment, and agentic AI at the center of Africa’s…

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Kenya to Sell 15% Safaricom Stake to Vodafone for $1.57 Billion
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Kenya to Sell 15% Safaricom Stake to Vodafone for $1.57 Billion

Vodafone is buying more control of Kenya’s biggest telco, and the government needs the money. In what is shaping up as Kenya’s largest corporate transaction in years, Vodafone Kenya will pay $1.57 billion to acquire 15% of Safaricom from…

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Micron Is Killing the Crucial Brand to Chase AI Money
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Micron Is Killing the Crucial Brand to Chase AI Money

Micron just pulled the plug on Crucial, its consumer-focused memory brand, and the timing couldn’t be worse for anyone building or upgrading a PC. The company announced yesterday it’s shutting down Crucial’s consumer operations to focus on…

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AI Race Heads Into Space With Immense Possibilities
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AI Race Heads Into Space With Immense Possibilities

It’s no secret that the AI industry has been booming and ever faster since the launch of ChatGPT. We have seen a meteoric rise in AI-related stocks and companies. Organizations like Google, Microsoft, ByteDance (the company that owns…

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7 Best IT Resource Management Tools for Effective Planning
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7 Best IT Resource Management Tools for Effective Planning

Walk into any IT department on a Tuesday afternoon and you’ll witness the same scene: project managers juggling spreadsheets, team leads playing resource Tetris with calendars, and someone inevitably double-booked across three critical…

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MKBHD Shuts Down Panels App After One Year
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MKBHD Shuts Down Panels App After One Year

Marques Brownlee, better known as MKBHD, is officially shutting down Panels, the iOS and Android wallpaper app he launched just over a year ago. The announcement was shared through a notice on the Panel’s website along with a detailed…

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KenGen to Operate First Nuclear Power Plant in Kenya
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KenGen to Operate First Nuclear Power Plant in Kenya

Kenya has taken a major step toward introducing nuclear energy into its electrical grid after the government confirmed that the Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) will operate the country’s first nuclear power plant. The…

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Netflix Kills Phone-to-TV Casting for Most Users
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Netflix Kills Phone-to-TV Casting for Most Users

Netflix has quietly gutted the ability to cast shows from your phone to your TV, and users are furious. The change rolled out in recent weeks with no announcement. People just started noticing the cast button had vanished from their…

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SmartTube Pulled From Fire TV and Android TV After Security Breach
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SmartTube Pulled From Fire TV and Android TV After Security Breach

SmartTube, a widely used third-party YouTube client for Fire TV and Android/Google TV devices, is facing a major security incident. The app’s digital signature was exposed, prompting both Google and Amazon to automatically uninstall it…

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ChatGPT May Soon Start Showing You Ads
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ChatGPT May Soon Start Showing You Ads

OpenAI appears to be preparing an advertising system for ChatGPT, based on new details discovered in the latest ChatGPT Android beta. As spotted by Tibor Blaho on X, the beta version 1.2025.329 includes references to an “ads feature,” with…

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Safaricom Cuts No-Expiry Data by 50% Without Warning
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Safaricom Cuts No-Expiry Data by 50% Without Warning

Safaricom has cut the data allocation in several of its popular mobile bundles by more than 50%, effectively doubling what customers pay per MB. The changes rolled out over the weekend without any warning or official announcement from…

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High Court Strikes Down Ban on Broadcasting Live Protests
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High Court Strikes Down Ban on Broadcasting Live Protests

The Kenyan government just lost a major legal battle over press freedom. The High Court has thrown out a directive that banned live television and radio coverage of protests, ruling it was both illegal and unconstitutional. Justice John…

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Google Prepares Aluminium OS to Replace ChromeOS on Future Laptops
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Google Prepares Aluminium OS to Replace ChromeOS on Future Laptops

For more than a decade, ChromeOS has been Google’s main ticket into the laptop market. It was lightweight, fast, and widely adopted in schools, but it never truly broke into the mainstream PC ecosystem dominated by Windows and macOS. Now,…

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X Under Fire as New Location Feature Fuels Confusion and Panic
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X Under Fire as New Location Feature Fuels Confusion and Panic

Last week, X (Twitter) rolled out a new transparency tool under “About This Account” that surfaces the location or geographical origin (country or region) of the device used to create or operate a given profile. But as soon as it rolled…

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Which Is Better AI or Manual Editing for Long Video to Short Video
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Which Is Better AI or Manual Editing for Long Video to Short Video

Which Is Better AI or Manual Editing for Long Video to Short Video Nowadays, social media scrolling is similar to changing TV channels—if a video does not catch the viewer’s attention within the first few seconds, it will be skipped.…

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Infinix Unveils Holiday Deals with Big Smartphone Discounts
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Infinix Unveils Holiday Deals with Big Smartphone Discounts

Infinix has launched its Green Holidays campaign in Kenya, running from November 24 through December 31. The promotion covers 5 smartphone models with price cuts ranging from modest to massive, plus weekly giveaways and a grand prize draw…

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