Spy cockroaches and AI robots: Germany plots the future of warfare
For Gundbert Scherf – the co-founder of Germany’s Helsing, Europe’s most valuable defence start-up – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed everything. Scherf had to fight ...
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Linda Yaccarino resigns as CEO of X
Linda Yaccarino, X CEO has announced that she is stepping down after two bumpy years running X. X is Elon Musk’s social media platform. Yaccarino posted a positive message Wednesday about her tenure...
Instagram wrongly accuses users of breaching child sex abuse rules – BBC Report
Instagram users have told the BBC of the “extreme stress” of having their accounts banned after being wrongly accused by the platform of breaching its rules on child sexual exploitation. T...
WhatsApp to start showing ads to users in parts of the messaging app
WhatsApp said Monday that users will start seeing ads in parts of the app, as owner Meta Platforms moves to cultivate a new revenue stream by tapping the billions of people that use the messaging serv...
FG unveils Digital Innovation Park in Ogun to power $1 Trillion economy vision
The Federal Government has launched a state-of-the-art Digital Innovation Park in Abeokuta, Ogun State, as part of efforts to build Nigeria’s digital economy and achieve President Bola Ahmed Tinubu�...
Quitting Nigeria does not absolve Meta of liability says FG
The Federal government has responded to Meta’s proposed exit from Nigeria. The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission says: ‘WhatsApp’s claim that it may be forced to...
Nigerians may lose access as Meta threatens to cut off Facebook and Instagram
Nigerian’s may lose access to Facebook and Instagram after the parent company Meta, said it faced large fines and “unrealistic” regulatory demands from the Nigerian authorities. Nige...
TikTok hit with 530M euro privacy fine in China data transfer
European Union privacy watchdogs fined TikTok 530 million euros ($600 million) on Friday after a four-year investigation found that the video sharing app’s data transfers to China breached the E...
Tribunal upholds FCCPC’s $220 Million fine against Facebook/Whatsapp
The Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal today delivered its judgment in the appeal filed by Meta Platforms Incorporated (Facebook) and WhatsApp LLC against the Federal Competition and Consume...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is ending its fact-checking program
Starting Monday, fact-checking on Meta platforms will officially end in the US and around the world. The newly appointed chief of global policy Joel Kaplan announced the deadline on Friday in an X pos...
Teen builds Lamborghini out of carboard
A teenage automobile enthusiast has built a fully functional Lamborghini-inspired car- entirely out of cardboard. Etsenumhe Ahmad, 18, spent two years constructing the car, which runs on a small motor...
Falana sues Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook, request $5m damages over invasion of privacy
Human rights lawyer Mr Femi Falana SAN, has filed a $5 million (Five Million US Dollars) lawsuit before a Lagos High Court against the US-based company, Meta Platforms Inc., over an alleged invasion o...
