Jury rules Meta violated California privacy laws by quietly collecting Flo users’ menstrual health data
The class-action suit was brought by users of period tracking app, Flo, who alleged that the tech giant collected private menstrual health data without users' consent and used it for ad-tracking purposes.
Read moreFlutterwave CEO: Cross-Border Payments, Key Infrastructure for Africa’s Economic Growth
Flutterwave Founder and CEO Olugbenga “GB” Agboola has emphasized that seamless and interoperable cross-border payments are central to unlocking Africa’s next phases of economic growth. Flutterwave provides multinational giants like Uber, notable payment service providers (PSPs), and African enterprises like Bamboo and Wakanow with a unified API that facilitates cross-border
Read moreAI-powered fintech Alaan raises $48M, one of the largest Series A rounds in MENA
When Parthi Duraisamy was a consultant at McKinsey’s Dubai office, he discovered that the American Express cards his company relied on for corporate expenses were rarely accepted in the Middle East. This forced Duraisamy to cover significant travel expenses out of pocket and file endless expense reports. “It was a
Read moreBeing unambiguous in what you want: the software engineer in a vibe coding world
Quinn Slack, CEO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, joins the show to dive into the implications of AI coding tools on the software engineering lifecycle. They explore how AI tools are transforming the work of developers from syntax-focused tasks to higher-level design and management roles, and how AI will integrate into
Read moreM-PESA Sokoni Caravan Rolls into Nairobi
M-PESA Sokoni Caravan has now made a grand entrance into the Nairobi Region, bringing with it a range of exciting prizes for Safaricom customers. Nairobi marks the climax and final leg of the nationwide tour, which began in June and has been delighting customers across the country. The caravan tour
Read moreUzbekistan’s first unicorn, Uzum, leaps to a $1.5B valuation
Uzbekistan's Uzum has raised $65.5 million in a new funding round co-led by China's Tencent and the New York- and London-based VR Capital, with participation from U.S.-based FinSight Capital.
Read moreFactoring RSA100
Earlier today I wrote about factoring four 255-bit numbers that I needed for a post. Just out of curiosity, I wanted to see how long it would take to factor RSA 100, the smallest of the factoring challenges posed by RSA Laboratories in 1991. This is a 100-digit (330-bit) number
Read moreJeh Aerospace nets $11M to scale the commercial aircraft supply chain in India
Indian startup Jeh Aerospace has secured $11 million in a new funding round to help ease global supply chain bottlenecks.
Read moreA top designer was banned from Dribbble. Now he’s building his own competitor.
Dribbble is enforcing its terms of service that lets it take a cut of designers' work, and kicking out those who don't comply. One top designer has had enough, and is building his own startup instead.
Read morePairing-unfriendly curves
A couple days ago I wrote about two pair of closely related elliptic curves: Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and Pallas and Vesta. In each pair, the order of one curve is the order of the base field of the other curve. The curves in each pair are used together in cryptography,
Read more