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The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is procuring multiple cybersecurity partners to protect its customs technology stack, moving away from a single-supplier model in a shift that points to growing concern about concentration risk in critical…
Equity Bank Kenya has confirmed that one of its customers suffered a loss after her email account was compromised and said it has opened proceedings with law enforcement to recover the funds. The Kenyan bank claims it has established that…
Kenya is in the middle of a fuel crisis, and President William Ruto is responding with a policy shift that has been a long time coming. On Friday, speaking at State House Mombasa after meeting transport sector stakeholders, Ruto declared…
At Google I/O 2026, the company announced what it’s calling a shift into the “agentic era” of AI. That phrase gets thrown around a lot, but what Google showed in Mountain View last night has some numbers and actual products to back it up.…
Truecaller, the caller ID app used by over 500 million people, has added a travel eSIM product to its app. The idea is rather simple: instead of hunting for a local SIM card at the airport or coming home to a roaming bill, you buy a data…
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has postponed its Stakeholder Validation Forum on the proposed Kenya Information and Communication (KICA) Regulations 2026, originally scheduled for Thursday, May 21. The notice cites unavoidable…
There is a reason football Twitter treats Arsenal differently from every other club. Not just because Arsenal fans are loud, though they are. Not just because rival fans hate them, though they do. It is because Arsenal generates content on…
Kenya’s Statistics Bill 2026 is currently in public participation, and the deadline is today, May 20. The Bill responds to major developments since 2006, including the promulgation of the Constitution, the devolution of government, the…
A GitHub employee installed a malicious VS Code extension, and that single mistake gave hackers access to roughly 3,800 of the company’s internal code repositories. GitHub confirmed the data breach today, saying its security teams detected…
Arsenal, the North London-based football team, are now champions of England, having won the English Premier League (EPL). This feat comes after 22 years of waiting and is one that has some significant meaning in the world of social media.…
Kenya’s taxman has a new face at the top. On May 18, 2026, Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi appointed former Industrialization Cabinet Secretary Adan Mohamed as the new Commissioner General of the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA).…
Most discussions about cryptocurrency growth revolve around Bitcoin, blockchain upgrades, institutional adoption, or emerging digital assets. Investors often spend their time researching new projects, comparing market opportunities, and…
TikTok removed more than 93,700 accounts in Kenya in Q4 2025 after suspecting they belonged to children under 13. They were banned as accounts opened or used by minors violate the platform’s own policies. According to the company, “TikTok…
You know how Android phones keep running out of storage? Even after deleting photos, uninstalling unused apps, clearing WhatsApp, and backing up your camera roll to Google Photos, you still end up seeing the “Storage Almost Full” warning…
A High Court ruling in Nairobi has put every company that collects personal data on notice, and the lesson is not about fines. It is about who owns the problem when your systems fail. The case, Constitutional Petition E095 of 2026,…
Kenya’s shilling has been moving with a calmer tone lately, and traders have noticed. After periods when the currency felt under constant pressure, this steadier phase feels like the market has finally taken a slow breath. Importers are…
Kenyan commuters today woke up to a rough reality. Matatu fares went up by 50% on Friday after the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) raised Super Petrol prices by KES 16.65 per liter and Diesel by KES 46.29 per liter.…
When Safaricom waived charges on small M-PESA transactions during COVID-19, the intent was partly practical: get money moving when people couldn’t. What followed was a case study in what happens when you remove friction from a payment…
Private networks and IoT deployments rarely fail due to “bad signal” alone. More often, the problem is an incomplete connectivity stack that cannot keep routing secure, SIM operations predictable, or device performance visible as…
Lately, AI has been finding its way into Kenyan courtrooms, and not always gracefully. Lawyers are using it to draft filings, research cases and build arguments, often quietly, and sometimes with consequences that end up before a judge.…
I recently came across a WhatsApp status from someone we’re in the same group with, even though we’ve never interacted. It confused me because I thought we had both saved each other’s numbers. Turns out that’s not how it works. You do not…
Starting today, May 15, Kenyans will pay KES 214.25 for a liter of Super Petrol and KES 242.92 for Diesel in Nairobi. Those are not typos. Diesel has just recorded its highest pump price in Kenya’s history, rising by KES 46.29 in a single…
Introduction Imagine that you have discovered a stock video that perfectly suits your marketing campaign; however, there’s one issue: a watermark is spread right across the image. It not only hides the visuals but also makes the whole…
The United States Justice Department is preparing to drop criminal charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani. Prosecutors plan to dismiss fraud and bribery charges that accused Adani of orchestrating a $265 million scheme to bribe…
