Zambia To Host Digital Government Africa 2025 Summit From 7th –9th October 2025
The Electronic Government Division, Smart Zambia Institute (SZI), in partnership with AfricanBrains, is pleased to announce that Zambia will host the 2025 Digital Government Africa Summit (DGA2025) in Lusaka from 7th to 9th October 2025. The high-level Summit will convene senior government officials, ministers and digital transformation leaders from across
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For the first time, acquirers and merchants in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EEMEA) can now settle transactions in USDC across Mastercard’s global payments network. This milestone is part of an expanded partnership between Mastercard and Circle, deepening their collaboration to integrate fully reserved, regulated stablecoins like USDC
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Anthropic is making some major changes to how it handles user data. Users have until September 28 to take action.
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems has raised nearly $3 billion to commercialize its fusion power plant. It hopes to send electricity to the grid in the early 2030s.
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Bluesky says it would block access to its service in the state of Mississippi, rather than comply with the new age verification law.
Read moreDithered QR codes
I saw a post by Dave Richeson on Mastodon about making QR codes that look like images. Turns out you can shrink a black square in a QR code by up to a factor of three while keeping the code usable. This gives you the wiggle room to create dithered
Read moreHow technical skills management platforms build stronger teams
Technical skills management platforms are tools designed to assess, track, and develop employee skills within an organization. They’re crucial for identifying technical skill gaps, aligning workforce capabilities with business needs, and planning for the future. This guide walks you through powerful tools for assessing and developing skills at scale so
Read moreThreads tests a way to share long-form text on the platform
With this new feature, users can attach a block of text to a post instead of creating a thread of several different posts when looking to share more in-depth thoughts and ideas.
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I heard someone say that Bitcoin is dangerous because you could easily make a typo when entering an address, sending money to the wrong person, and have no recourse. There are dangers associated with Bitcoin, such as losing a private key, but address typos are not a major concern. Checksums
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