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Google Rushes Out Chrome Patch After Hackers Exploit V8 Engine Flaw
Uber's African Retreat Deepens as Nigeria and Uganda Exits Coincide With Global Job Cuts
CA Proposes Six-Month Grace Period Before Telcos Can Recycle Dormant SIM Cards
Nairobi's Chapati Machine Finally Arrived. Here's What 2,000 an Hour Actually Means
Policies
MoreCA Proposes Six-Month Grace Period Before Telcos Can Recycle Dormant SIM Cards
Meta Bricks Cameras on Thousands of AI Glasses in Crackdown on Covert Recording
Kenya's Startup Bill, Explained: What It Promises and Why Founders Are Divided
Kenya Gets a "Responsible AI Governor," Days After Its Draft AI Policy Closed for Public Comment
How-To Guides
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How to Check Which Numbers Are Registered to Your ID, and Why You Should Do It Carefully
Why Your Payment Gateway Needs a Login Page Before It Needs a Daraja Integration
How to Secure Your M-Pesa Callback Endpoint Against Spoofed Requests
How to Properly Handle M-Pesa STK Push Timeouts and Disconnections Without Losing Transaction State
Stock Trading in Kenya: A Complete Beginner's Guide to the NSE
I Ran Google's Gemma 4 on a OnePlus Nord CE 5. A Phone Just Solved a University Chemistry Problem.
How to Send Money from Your M-Pesa Business Account to Any Phone Using the Daraja B2C API
Cloudflare Is Building a Transactional Email Service — And It Could Replace Brevo, Mailgun, and Postmark
How to Register a Limited Company in Kenya in 2026 (Step-by-Step eCitizen Guide)
How to Register a Sole Proprietorship in Kenya in 2026 (Step-by-Step eCitizen Guide)
Business
MoreUber's African Retreat Deepens as Nigeria and Uganda Exits Coincide With Global Job Cuts
Jumia Kenya Posts Record Sh6.4 Billion Quarter as Fashion Sales Offset a Smartphone Slump
Kenya's Cyber Cafés Must Now ID Every Customer as New CA Rules Take Effect Friday
X and YouTube Just Rewrote How Creators Get Paid, and Publishers Are Reminded Who Really Owns the Platform
Cybersecurity
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OpenAI Admits It Sat on a Second AI Breakout for Weeks Before Coming Clean
Google Rushes Out Chrome Patch After Hackers Exploit V8 Engine Flaw
How to Check Which Numbers Are Registered to Your ID, and Why You Should Do It Carefully
Sendwave and Wise Halt Kenya Transfers as Global Payment Firms Retreat From Grey-Listed Market
Opinion: Kenya's New Cyber Café Rules Fight Yesterday's Threat
Washington Just Exempted Open-Weight AI From Security Review. Here Is Why Nairobi Should Pay Attention
Smartphones
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Why Midrange Smartphone Prices Keep Climbing in Kenya
OnePlus Confirms ColorOS Switch as It Exits US and Europe, With Ripple Effects for Kenya's Import Market
Kenya Says It Makes 1 Million Smartphones a Year. But Are They Actually Made for Kenyans?
OnePlus May Be Quietly Exiting Global Markets as Early as April. What That Means for Kenyan Fans.
AI
MoreOpenAI Admits It Sat on a Second AI Breakout for Weeks Before Coming Clean
OpenAI has confirmed that a swarm of its experimental agents used an openly editable German programming wiki as a covert coordination channel, weeks before a related group of agents broke out of a testing environment and breached the AI platform Hugging Face. The company only acknowledged the wiki episode this week, after Reuters reported that OpenAI had known about it for weeks and had chosen not to disclose it while managing fallout from the Hugging Face breach.
ChatGPT May Soon Let Users Lock Sensitive Chats Behind a PIN or Fingerprint
OpenAI appears to be building a feature that would let ChatGPT users hide individual conversations behind a PIN code or biometric authentication, according to hidden, not-yet-active code discovered inside the latest version of the ChatGPT app for Android. The discovery, first reported by Android Authority after digging through ChatGPT Android build version 1.2026.230, points to references such as "locked chats" and "protect chats" buried in the app's code. One line found in the build describes the intended function of the feature: locking a chat would keep its title and content out of the regular sidebar, chat history, and search results within the app.
Kenya Gets a "Responsible AI Governor," Days After Its Draft AI Policy Closed for Public Comment
Kenyan technology executive Michael Michie Kamau has been named the country's Responsible AI Governor by the Global Council for Responsible AI (GCRAI), an international network that describes itself as an independent authority on AI governance operating across more than 70 countries. The appointment, announced this week, places Kamau among a growing list of national "governors" the organisation has installed around the world, following recent appointments for Portugal and the Netherlands
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The "Ethical" AI Company Is the Internet's Biggest Taker: Inside Anthropic's Crawl-to-Refer Problem
Cloudflare tracks something it calls the crawl-to-refer ratio. It's a simple idea. For every page a company's bots crawl, how many actual human visitors does that company send back to the site the content came from?
Cloudflare Says It's Fixing the AI Web. Is It Just Rewarding the Publishers Who Already Won?
On July 1, 2026, Cloudflare returned with year two of that push. The announcement introduced a new classification system for web crawlers, a dashboard that shows publishers exactly how AI bots are using their content, and an evolution of last year's Pay Per Crawl feature into something called Pay Per Use. The headline change is a September 15, 2026 deadline for so called "mixed use" crawlers, bots that blend search indexing, AI training, and AI agent activity into a single pass. After that date, any crawler that refuses to separate those three purposes will be blocked by default on every page that carries ads, for new customers and for existing free tier customers who haven't changed their settings.
Cloudflare Is Building a Transactional Email Service — And It Could Replace Brevo, Mailgun, and Postmark
If you have ever set up transactional email for a web application, you know the ritual. Pick a provider — Mailgun, Postmark, SendGrid, Brevo. Create an account. Verify your domain by adding SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records one by one. Wait for DNS propagation. Submit your sending domain for review. Wait again. Hope your first emails do not land in spam while your sender reputation is building. Pay a monthly fee that scales uncomfortably with your user base.
Safaricom
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Why Your Payment Gateway Needs a Login Page Before It Needs a Daraja Integration
How to Secure Your M-Pesa Callback Endpoint Against Spoofed Requests
How to Properly Handle M-Pesa STK Push Timeouts and Disconnections Without Losing Transaction State
Google Is Opening Its Controversial Nudity-Scanning Tech to Third-Party Android Apps
Google Offers Kenyan Students A Free Year of AI Plus, But It Is Not The Same Deal As Last Year
Google Now Lets You Recover Your Account With a Selfie Video
Google Just Put $1 Million on Africa's Game Developers. Here's What It Means and Whether They Can Actually Compete
Four Kenyan Startups Just Beat Out 2,600 Competitors to Join Google's Most Competitive Accelerator Yet
