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The official State House President website, president.go.ke, was hacked early this morning, with its homepage replaced by a ransom message directed at President William Ruto. Journalists at Kenyans.co.ke were the first to notice the…
Busia Senator Andrew Omtatah Okoiti is pushing for the Senate to have direct access to county financial transaction data available on the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS). Citing the need for real-time visibility…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers got an unpleasant surprise early Friday morning when their billing dashboards started showing charges that made no sense. Accounts that normally cost a few cents a month suddenly displayed estimated…
Apple Music just got more expensive, and it’s happening everywhere at once. Starting today, the individual plan in the US goes from $10.99 to $11.99 a month. Family plans jump from $16.99 to $19.99, and the student plan moves from $5.99 to…
Kimi K3, the newest model from Chinese startup Moonshot AI, has landed with enough force to get people in Silicon Valley talking again about how close China’s AI labs are getting to the US frontier. The model was introduced on July 17, and…
Amazon’s live-action God of War series has lost its Kratos before the show even aired. Ryan Hurst, who was announced as the lead back in January, tore his bicep while filming a stunt in June and needed surgery. Recovery from that kind of…
The National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) has announced that its online system will be unavailable this weekend due to scheduled preventive maintenance. According to a notice issued by the Director General, the maintenance begins…
Uber has acquired Delivery Hero’s operations in 50 markets, including Kenya, giving the American ride-hailing company control of a business it has spent years competing against on the streets of Nairobi. Under the terms of the voluntary…
An attempt by Airtel Kenya to get regulators to stop Safaricom’s low call prices has failed. The Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) dismissed Airtel’s complaint about Safaricom’s Ofa Moto promotion, ruling that call rates as low as 10…
There is a special kind of frustration that comes from a game that knows exactly how to keep you hooked. It draws you into its story, gets you invested, then stops just before a major plot twist pays off. Unsolved: Hidden Mystery Games…
Kenya has become one of Africa’s biggest testing grounds for digital lending apps. Millions of people who could never walk into a bank and get a loan can now get one from their phone in minutes. That access has been useful for a lot of…
Picture a Kenyan freelancer waiting days for a bank transfer from abroad, only to lose part of the payment to fees while the shilling changes in value before the money arrives. Instead, the client could send a digital dollar, a token built…
OnePlus is exiting the United States and European markets, with a formal announcement expected in mid-July 2026. The move ends more than a decade of the brand’s push into Western territory, where it built a following as a “flagship killer”…
DeepSeek is moving toward a stock market debut, and the timeline is shorter than most people expected. The Chinese AI company, best known for shaking up the industry last year with a model that matched top American systems while using far…
Microsoft’s July 2026 Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11 is being blocked on some Dell computers, and the reason comes down to a driver conflict that started brewing weeks earlier. The update in question, KB5101650, went out on July 14…
During the WSIS 2026 Forum in Geneva, Kenya’s delegation, led by Cabinet Secretary William Kabogo, alongside the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) Director General David Mugonyi, pitched the country as Africa’s digital front-runner.…
Bitcoin’s fear and greed index has whipsawed between “extreme fear” and “greed” six times in 2026 alone. Every swing punishes retail traders trying to nail the perfect entry, panicking when price moves against them, then buying high out of…
Bernard Beya has been named Chief Executive Officer of Liquid Intelligent Technologies‘ Democratic Republic of Congo business, taking over the role permanently from April 1, 2026. Beya is not new to the company. He joined Liquid in…
Safaricom’s FY26 results confirm what many Kenyan traders already know from experience. Pochi La Biashara has grown from a simple M-PESA feature into a key part of how small businesses receive payments across the country. Total merchants…
Every month an ISP cannot scale is a month its competitors gain ground. The providers that grow quickly without placing undue strain on their balance sheets are the ones that capture market share, strengthen customer loyalty, and create…
Every fast-growing fintech, health tech, or insurance company eventually hits the same wall. The product is working, customers are signing up faster than the team can hire, and the engineering org is under constant pressure to ship.…
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, its commercial arm OpenAI Group PBC, and its hardware subsidiary io Products (IO), accusing the ChatGPT creator of orchestrating a systematic theft of confidential Apple information. The suit,…
A Kenyan High Court sitting in Machakos has ruled that Diamond Trust Bank Kenya Limited (DTB) must bear 40% (KES 1,788,601) liability for KES 4,418,601 fraudulently withdrawn from a customer’s account in a SIM swap case. Safaricom will…
Period tracking apps have quietly become one of the more crowded corners of health tech, with most competitors racing to add AI insights, wellness coaching, and subscription paywalls that feel more like a lifestyle platform than a…
