https://techinkenya.com Your premier source for tech news, reviews, and insights in the Silicon Savannah. en Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:53:40 GMT https://techinkenya.com/articles/dci-warns-over-flashy-forex-crypto-influencers-as-investment-scams-climb https://techinkenya.com/articles/dci-warns-over-flashy-forex-crypto-influencers-as-investment-scams-climb Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:01:19 GMT The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has warned Kenyans that the cash stacks, hired luxury cars and trading dashboards flaunted on social media can be bait for fraud, in an advisory aimed at what it called "Masharp Boys/Girls." The alert, issued on Monday, September 28, comes as official data show investment, forex and crypto schemes among the most frequently reported forms of online fraud in the country, and as regulators prepare for a November 4 deadline that will require crypto firms serving Kenyans to hold a licence editor@techinkenya.com (Caleb Musili) https://techinkenya.com/articles/quickmart-plans-nse-listing-owners-sell-half-supermarket-chain-no-cash https://techinkenya.com/articles/quickmart-plans-nse-listing-owners-sell-half-supermarket-chain-no-cash Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:35:12 GMT Quickmart PLC, Kenya's second-largest supermarket chain, has announced plans to list on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) through the sale of 2 billion existing shares, equal to 50% of its issued share capital. The offer is expected to open on or around September 30, 2026, subject to approvals from the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) and the NSE. editor@techinkenya.com (Caleb Musili) https://techinkenya.com/articles/epra-scraps-15000-kwh-cap-kenyas-kes-16-ev-charging-tariff https://techinkenya.com/articles/epra-scraps-15000-kwh-cap-kenyas-kes-16-ev-charging-tariff Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:48:57 GMT Kenya's Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) has removed the 15,000 kilowatt-hour (kWh) monthly limit that restricted access to the dedicated e-mobility electricity tariff, allowing commercial EV charging operators to grow their power consumption without being moved into a costlier billing category editor@techinkenya.com (Caleb Musili) https://techinkenya.com/articles/avocado-exporter-karakuta-files-nse-listing-as-exports-fall-60-market https://techinkenya.com/articles/avocado-exporter-karakuta-files-nse-listing-as-exports-fall-60-market Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:16:52 GMT Karakuta Fresh Produce, a Juja-based exporter of Hass and Fuerte avocados and fresh herbs, has applied to list on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) by introduction. The filing would take a business that grew revenue 350% in 2025 into the public market at a difficult moment: the company's export volumes are down about 60% this year, and the NSE has just recorded the largest single-day loss in market value in its history. editor@techinkenya.com (Caleb Musili) https://techinkenya.com/articles/gta-6-online-2027-twitch-ceo-gives-first-timeline-rockstar-not-confirmed https://techinkenya.com/articles/gta-6-online-2027-twitch-ceo-gives-first-timeline-rockstar-not-confirmed Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:09:13 GMT Twitch chief executive Dan Clancy has told Bloomberg that Grand Theft Auto 6 will get its multiplayer mode next year, the first public hint at a timeline for an online component that Rockstar Games has not discussed. Neither Rockstar nor its parent company, Take-Two Interactive, has confirmed the claim, and Bloomberg described it as something Clancy anticipates rather than an announcement. The single-player game launches on November 19, 2026, on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. editor@techinkenya.com (Samuel N Kamau) https://techinkenya.com/articles/high-court-voids-safaricoms-15-stake-sale-vodacom-reopening-kenyas-biggest https://techinkenya.com/articles/high-court-voids-safaricoms-15-stake-sale-vodacom-reopening-kenyas-biggest Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:29:09 GMT Kenya's High Court has nullified the government's sale of a 15 percent stake in Safaricom PLC to Vodacom Group, declaring the KES 204.3 billion ($1.6 billion) transaction unconstitutional and ordering the shares restored to the state. The ruling, delivered on September 15, 2026 by a three-judge bench of the Constitutional and Human Rights Division comprising Justices Francis Gikonyo, Roselyne Aburili and Tabitha Ouya, unwinds a deal that had only closed eleven weeks earlier and that gave Vodacom outright majority control of East Africa's most valuable listed company editor@techinkenya.com (Caleb Musili) https://techinkenya.com/articles/cloudflare-just-gave-publishers-way-out-googles-all-nothing-trap https://techinkenya.com/articles/cloudflare-just-gave-publishers-way-out-googles-all-nothing-trap Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:23:36 GMT Cloudflare announced on September 15 a new security setting called Disallow AI Training, designed to solve a problem that has quietly reshaped the economics of the open web: the mixed-use crawler trap. For years, the same bot that indexed a site for Google Search also fed that content into Google's AI training pipeline, and site owners had no way to block one without blocking the other. Cloudflare's fix lets a publisher stay indexed in search while refusing to let that same crawler train an AI model on their articles. Apple, Google, and Microsoft have committed to honoring the new preference. editor@techinkenya.com (Sandra Safari) https://techinkenya.com/articles/murkomen-names-google-ai-executive-zetech-don-cybersecurity-agency-board https://techinkenya.com/articles/murkomen-names-google-ai-executive-zetech-don-cybersecurity-agency-board Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:09:06 GMT Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has appointed Lorna A. Omondi Ogolla and Dr. Joy Kibor to the Board of Directors of the National Cybersecurity Agency, adding artificial intelligence and academic cybersecurity expertise to the young institution's governing structure. editor@techinkenya.com (Caleb Musili) https://techinkenya.com/articles/twiga-foods-core-operating-entity-enters-statutory-administration-after https://techinkenya.com/articles/twiga-foods-core-operating-entity-enters-statutory-administration-after Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:50:19 GMT GT Flow Limited, the operating entity formerly known as Twiga Foods One Limited, has been placed under statutory administration in Kenya, marking one of the most significant collapses in East Africa's venture-backed technology sector. According to a gazette notice published in the Kenya Gazette on September 11, 2026, the administration order took effect on August 17, 2026, under Section 541(2) of Kenya's Insolvency Act. Insolvency practitioner Mohamed Mohamed was appointed administrator, a move initiated by GT Flow's own board of directors rather than by court order or creditor petition. editor@techinkenya.com (Caleb Musili) https://techinkenya.com/articles/airtel-africa-winds-up-kenyan-wholesale-fibre-unit-after-two-years-zero https://techinkenya.com/articles/airtel-africa-winds-up-kenyan-wholesale-fibre-unit-after-two-years-zero Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:35:54 GMT Airtel Africa has begun the formal liquidation of Airtel Kenya Telesonic Limited, the wholesale fibre and data infrastructure subsidiary it registered in Kenya in July 2022, after the company failed to record a single shilling in revenue throughout its existence. editor@techinkenya.com (Caleb Musili) https://techinkenya.com/articles/openflix-wants-turn-your-phones-messy-video-folder-into-personal-netflix https://techinkenya.com/articles/openflix-wants-turn-your-phones-messy-video-folder-into-personal-netflix Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:37:39 GMT A new open-source app out of Nairobi-linked developer Caleb MS Group is betting that Kenyans sitting on gigabytes of downloaded movies and series, scattered across SD cards and phone storage with cryptic filenames like Movie.2023.1080p.WEBRip.x264-GROUP.mkv, want something better than a barebones file manager to watch them. OpenFlix, an Android app with a companion desktop player for Windows and Linux, repackages local video libraries into a streaming-service-style interface, complete with poster art, synopses, multi-profile support, and cross-device casting, without uploading a single file to a remote server. editor@techinkenya.com (Sandra Safari) https://techinkenya.com/articles/ps5-emulator-kytyps5-runs-gta-vs-prologue-60fps-timing-no-accident https://techinkenya.com/articles/ps5-emulator-kytyps5-runs-gta-vs-prologue-60fps-timing-no-accident Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:23:56 GMT An experimental build of the PlayStation 5 emulator KytyPS5 has managed to run the native PS5 version of Grand Theft Auto V (build PPSA04264) at between 40 and 60 frames per second during the game's opening bank robbery mission in North Yankton. The result circulated through footage shared by developers on X marks the furthest KytyPS5 has pushed a major commercial PS5 title into actual gameplay, rather than just menus or loading screens. editor@techinkenya.com (Samuel N Kamau) https://techinkenya.com/articles/openai-admits-sat-second-ai-breakout-weeks-before-coming-clean https://techinkenya.com/articles/openai-admits-sat-second-ai-breakout-weeks-before-coming-clean Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:55:58 GMT 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. editor@techinkenya.com (Sandra Safari) https://techinkenya.com/articles/google-rushes-out-chrome-patch-after-hackers-exploit-v8-engine-flaw https://techinkenya.com/articles/google-rushes-out-chrome-patch-after-hackers-exploit-v8-engine-flaw Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:24:39 GMT Google has shipped an emergency security update for the desktop version of Chrome after confirming that attackers are actively exploiting a high-severity flaw in the browser's V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-85046, carries a CVSS severity score of 8.8 and is classified as a type confusion bug, a class of memory-handling error that can let an attacker corrupt how the browser interprets data in memory editor@techinkenya.com (Sandra Safari) https://techinkenya.com/articles/ubers-african-retreat-deepens-as-nigeria-uganda-exits https://techinkenya.com/articles/ubers-african-retreat-deepens-as-nigeria-uganda-exits Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:48:52 GMT Uber Technologies has shut down its ride-hailing operations in Nigeria and Uganda, effective September 2, 2026, marking the fourth and fifth African market exits for the San Francisco based company in just over a year. The closures landed on the same day CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced the company's largest round of layoffs since the COVID-19 pandemic, cutting approximately 3,300 jobs, or 10 percent of its global workforce editor@techinkenya.com (Caleb Musili) https://techinkenya.com/articles/ca-proposes-six-month-grace-period-before-telcos-can-recycle-dormant-sim https://techinkenya.com/articles/ca-proposes-six-month-grace-period-before-telcos-can-recycle-dormant-sim Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:57:44 GMT The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has published draft procedural and technical safeguards governing the deactivation and recycling of inactive mobile numbers, opening a public participation window that runs until September 11, 2026. The notice, issued on September 1, 2026, sets out a multi-stage process that extends the runway before Safaricom, Airtel Kenya, and other licensed operators can reclaim a dormant line and reassign it to a new subscriber, while also imposing privacy safeguards on how recycled numbers are handled. Under the draft framework, a mobile number will only be flagged for potential deactivation after it records no revenue-generating activity, defined as calls, SMS, data usage, airtime top-ups, or value-added services, for three consecutive months. Once flagged, the operator cannot proceed straight to deactivation. It must spend a further three months attempting to reach the subscriber through the contact details collected during Know Your Customer (KYC) registration. Combined, this brings the minimum dormancy period to roughly six months before a number can formally enter the recycling pipeline, unless the subscriber resumes revenue-generating activity in the interim. "Number deactivation and recycling shall be triggered when a number records no revenue-generating activity, such as making/receiving a call, sending/receiving an SMS, using data, topping up airtime, or using the number for value-added services, for a period of 3 months," the draft guidelines state. editor@techinkenya.com (Sandra Safari) https://techinkenya.com/articles/meta-bricks-cameras-thousands-ai-glasses-crackdown-covert-recording https://techinkenya.com/articles/meta-bricks-cameras-thousands-ai-glasses-crackdown-covert-recording Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:11:06 GMT Meta has confirmed that a mandatory software update has permanently disabled the cameras on thousands of its AI-powered glasses, after the company detected users tampering with the small recording indicator light built into the devices. The confirmation came on Tuesday, with Meta stating that the enforcement action affected less than one tenth of a percent of all Meta AI glasses sold globally. editor@techinkenya.com (Caleb Musili) https://techinkenya.com/articles/gta-vi-will-launch-30fps-consoles-delayed-ps6-could-hand-pc-players-frame https://techinkenya.com/articles/gta-vi-will-launch-30fps-consoles-delayed-ps6-could-hand-pc-players-frame Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:45:15 GMT Grand Theft Auto VI is set to run at 30 frames per second on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 5 Pro, and Xbox Series X|S when it launches on November 19, 2026, according to Rockstar North co-studio head Rob Nelson. The confirmation came not through an official Rockstar press release but through content creators, including Brazilian YouTuber Davy Jones of Flow Games, who were given a hands-off, two-hour look at the game at Rockstar North's Edinburgh studio ahead of the game's Extended Look premiere on Netflix. The disclosure matters for two reasons. First, it settles months of speculation over whether Rockstar's most expensive and most anticipated release would ship with a 60fps performance mode out of the gate. It will not, at least not initially. Second, it lands at almost the same moment that reports out of Bloomberg suggest Sony may push the PlayStation 6 back to 2028 or 2029, a delay driven by a global memory chip shortage rather than by choice. Put those two developments together and a scenario opens up where PC gamers, who typically wait the longest for Rockstar's biggest games, could end up with meaningfully better performance than console players for the entirety of GTA VI's current-generation life cycle editor@techinkenya.com (Samuel N Kamau) https://techinkenya.com/articles/nairobis-chapati-machine-finally-arrived-heres-what-2000-hour-actually https://techinkenya.com/articles/nairobis-chapati-machine-finally-arrived-heres-what-2000-hour-actually Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:58:52 GMT Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja unveiled a chapati-making machine at Toi Primary Kitchen in Kibra this week, more than a year after President William Ruto first pledged to fund one for the Dishi na County school feeding programme. Sakaja said the machine can produce up to 2,000 chapatis per hour and will now be used to add chapati to the rotation of meals served under the programme, which currently reaches more than 324,000 learners across 230 public schools in Nairobi's 17 sub-counties. editor@techinkenya.com (Caleb Musili) https://techinkenya.com/articles/gta-vis-netflix-debut-signals-new-playbook-game https://techinkenya.com/articles/gta-vis-netflix-debut-signals-new-playbook-game Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:17:06 GMT Rockstar Games premiered "Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look" on Netflix on August 27, giving the streaming platform's global subscriber base a six hour head start on the most detailed footage yet released for the highly anticipated title. The 26 minute presentation, captured entirely from in game footage on PlayStation 5, went live on Netflix at 3:00 p.m. ET before being uploaded to Rockstar's YouTube channel and the official GTA VI website at 9:00 p.m. ET the same day, according to Rockstar's newswire post and Netflix's Tudum publication editor@techinkenya.com (Samuel N Kamau)