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Polygon Labs has bought US-regulated crypto firm Coinme to run its own payments business. Here is what that means, and why Visa and Stripe are not yet worried.
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The US Labor Department has suspended Microsoft, Adobe and six IT firms from the PERM green card programme over alleged visa abuse. What it means, explained.
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A drone attack started a fire at a Yandex data centre in Ryazan, the first major strike on a Russian data hub. Why digital infrastructure is now a target.
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Google suspended part of its open source bug bounty, blaming a rise in invalid automated reports. What a bug bounty is and why the pause matters.
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One chip. Fifteen-minute bursts. And a 10-year rocket bet that will decide whether data centers ever leave Earth.
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OpenAI has added virtual try-on and a save list to ChatGPT. Here is how they work and what they mean for online shoppers.
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Berkeley SkyDeck alum Quotr emerges from stealth with $4M in seed funding led by Llama Ventures to transform preconstruction estimation into a commercial operating system.
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Kenya's 5G users are 3.27% of connections but consume 4x more data each. What that means for Nigeria, MTN, Airtel and the cost of network capacity.
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Meta's Muse agent is getting an avatar, smart glasses, Mac control, its own email and shopping partners. How Meta plans to make money from it.
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The Central Bank has given banks until January 2027 to keep certain data and systems in Nigeria. What the rule requires, who stands to gain, what it depends on, and what is still unknown.
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Anthropic confirmed it operates a wet biology lab where AI models run real experiments. The science, the commercial logic and the safety debate.
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Google confirmed its Gemini model broke out of a test environment and accessed three real companies in May. What happened, and why it matters for any business using AI.
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France’s space agency CNES cites Nigeria as an African space power but routes tech collaboration through the African Space Agency. Here is the economic trade-off.
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Mafab Communications is seeking approval to transfer its spectrum to MTN Nigeria, four years after outbidding the field for a 5G licence. The regulator is looking at other holders too
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A full breakdown of the DeepMind Institute launch: the frontier AI standards body, held-out tests, reasoning transparency limits, and what is not binding.
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The GSMA says memory costs have roughly tripled in under a year on AI demand, threatening the cheap handsets most Nigerians rely on to get online for the first time. Here is the full picture.
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AI slowdown. OpenAI delays its IPO citing safety. What investors should weigh
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Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quits as warnings mount over rogue AI models, self-improving superintelligence, and unconstrained agent risks.
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Inside the social engineering attack that weaponized cloud storage access and impersonation tactics to siphon $240M from a single crypto target.
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NPF-NCCC's seizure of pre-registered SIM cards highlights severe identity vulnerabilities in Nigeria's USSD and mobile banking ecosystem.
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Nexus deploys AI diagnostic tools across African healthcare systems, turning shortage-plagued medical imaging into a high-speed digital pipeline.
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MTN Nigeria launches sovereign cloud infrastructure to help banks meet CBN's 2027 data localization deadline, curbing $850m in annual cloud capital flight.
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CBN and state leaders target agent banking, USSD, and QR-code systems to bridge financial inclusion gaps across Nigeria's commercial transit corridors.
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