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Kenya is heading into a campaign period for the 2027 General Election where the fight over who controls the narrative may happen as much on cell towers and Wi-Fi routers as on the podium. Fred Matiang’i’s allegation, reported by Citizen,…
Safaricom has updated My OneApp for iPhone users, with version 5.2.0 now live on the App Store. The update brings four notable additions, most of them aimed at cutting down the number of times customers need to call in or visit a shop for…
Virtual Phone Numbers vs eSIMs: What’s the Difference and When Do You Need Each? They both provide a solution to overcoming the rigidity of telephone services, and as such, they get grouped under one name in casual conversations as…
Every group chat eventually reaches the same point. Someone asks a question nobody can answer right away. One person says they will look it up, switches to another app, and either comes back three minutes later when the conversation has…
Free VPNs look identical to paid ones until the connection has to carry something continuous. Video. Voice. A live stream. That is where the gap opens. The cap disappears in one sitting Most free tiers hand out 500 MB a month. Some stretch…
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has walked back the most alarming interpretation of its new licensing rules for cyber cafe. In a clarification, the regulator confirmed that operators will not be required to keep customers’…
Spotify has a trust problem brewing at the edges of its platform, and it just took its most direct swing at fixing it. The company announced a new label called AI Personas, built to flag artist profiles whose identity is AI-generated…
A High Court ruling out of Machakos has put a number on what happens when someone’s nude photographs slip out of the hands meant to protect them. In Muindi v. Mwandigha, decided on 3 November 2025, the court awarded KES 2.5 million after…
Anthropic has confirmed that new Claude models will carry an invisible signal inside the text they generate. The move responds to transparency rules under the EU AI Act’s Article 50, and it takes effect for any Claude model launched on or…
In rural Kenyan classrooms, some children are expected to learn computer science without ever having touched a computer. At 24, teacher and SomoTech Africa founder Chrisphine Okoth Ogallo is using the skills he gained through Goodwall and…
From August 14, you can no longer walk into a Kenyan cyber cafe and log on without saying who you are. The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has revised the licensing rules for these venues, and from now on operators must record your…
TikTok has begun rolling out a native calling feature, letting users place one-on-one voice and video calls directly through the app’s direct messages, without needing to swap phone numbers or move the conversation to WhatsApp or…
Card games have a reputation for being slow. You build a deck, you sit through long matches, and half the time you’re waiting for your opponent to finish their turn. Marvel Snap throws that reputation out the window. Matches last a few…
Nikita Bier is done running product at X (Twitter). After a little over a year in the job, the serial founder and Lightspeed venture partner announced this week that he is stepping back to become, in his words, an ordinary poster again. He…
Microsoft just handed investors a number that changes how the company’s AI story reads. OpenAI generated $24.1 billion in sales for Microsoft during the fiscal year ending in June, roughly 70% of Microsoft’s entire AI revenue for the year.…
For nearly a decade, mySafaricom App did a few things well. It let you top up your line, pay for Home Fiber, and check your Bonga points. It was never meant to do much more, and it rarely did. While the legacy app focused on basic line…
Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has approved charges against three of the country’s most powerful bank chief executives, accusing them of failing to report suspicious transactions tied to a KES 363 million fraud case that has…
The recent Telegram/Apple episode has exposed something bigger than one company’s bad week. Apple removed a billion-user app from the App Store based on a single flagged post, then restored it once Telegram scrambled to comply. In a post…
Apple briefly pulled Telegram from the App Store on Monday night after its review process turned up child sexual abuse material on the platform. The removal caught users off guard. Searches for Telegram on iOS and iPadOS returned nothing,…
Maurice Otieno is stepping down as Executive Director of Baraza Media Lab after six years at the helm of the Kenyan media innovation organization. He will be succeeded by Eric Kinaga, a governance and public finance specialist. Otieno…
Airtel Money has entered the micro-merchant payments market with Bizna Wallet, a digital business wallet designed for kiosk owners, mobile money agents, and small traders who make up much of Kenya’s informal economy. The move sets Airtel…
Safaricom has revised the cost of running a Pochi La Biashara account, as anyone paying into a Pochi till will now pay a maximum transaction fee of KES 50, regardless of the amount involved. That is down from the previous ceiling of KES…
If you have a Gmail account, Google’s AI is probably reading it right now. Not in a vague, theoretical way, but literally scanning your emails, attachments, bank statements, tax files, and medical letters through Gemini, its AI system.…
Some changes attract attention immediately. Most do not. A pricing adjustment here, a new product there, customers searching for different alternatives, suppliers reacting a few weeks later. On their own, those developments rarely say…
