Exclusive Networks Africa Expansion: New Offices in Nigeria
Cybersecurity specialist Exclusive Networks Africa has achieved a significant milestone in its journey of market development in Africa, marked by the official inauguration of its new office in Lagos, Nigeria. This milestone underscores the company’s unwavering dedication to investing in the region and strengthening its presence in West Africa, affirmed
Read MoreTemu accused of breaching EU’s DSA in bundle of consumer complaints
Consumer protection groups around the European Union have filed coordinated complaints against Temu, accusing the Chinese-owned ultra low-cost e-commerce platform of a raft of breaches related to the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA). Temu only launched in the region about a year ago but recently reported blasting past 75 million
Read MoreSenate study proposes ‘at least’ $32B yearly for AI programs
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Read MoreFBI seizes hacking forum BreachForums — again
The FBI along with a coalition of international law enforcement agencies seized the notorious cybercrime forum BreachForums on Wednesday. For years, BreachForums has been a popular English-language forum for hackers and cybercriminals who wanted to advertise, sell and trade stolen data. Just recently, a threat actor advertised Dell customers’ personal
Read MoreNetflix to take on Google and Amazon by building its own ad server
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Read MoreMatt Garman taking over as CEO with AWS at crossroads
It’s tough to say that a $100 billion business finds itself at a critical juncture, but that’s the case with Amazon Web Services, the cloud arm of Amazon, and the clear market leader in the cloud infrastructure market. On Tuesday, the company announced that CEO Adam Selipsky was stepping down
Read MoreGoogle still hasn’t fixed Gemini’s biased image generator
Back in February, Google paused its AI-powered chatbot Gemini’s ability to generate images of people after users complained of historical inaccuracies. Told to depict “a Roman legion,” for example, Gemini would show an anachronistically diverse group of soldiers, while rendering “Zulu warriors” as uniformly Black. Google CEO Sundar Pichai apologized, and Demis
Read MoreGoogle’s call-scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warn
A feature Google demoed at its I/O confab yesterday, using its generative AI technology to scan voice calls in real time for conversational patterns associated with financial scams, has sent a collective shiver down the spines of privacy and security experts who are warning the feature represents the thin end
Read MoreThe top AI announcements from Google I/O
Google’s going all in on AI — and it wants you to know it. During the company’s keynote at its I/O developer conference on Tuesday, Google mentioned “AI” more than 120 times. That’s a lot! But not all of Google’s AI announcements were significant per se. Some were incremental. Others
Read MoreUber has a new way to solve the concert traffic problem
Uber is taking a shuttle product it developed for commuters in India and Egypt and converting it for an American audience. The ride-hail and delivery giant announced Wednesday at its annual Go-Get event in New York City that it will launch a shuttle service in certain U.S. cities this summer.
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