Category: Technology

OpenAI has appointed Fidji Simo as its new CEO of Applications, a strategic move that allows Sam Altman, the company’s CEO, to focus on research, computation, and safety. Simo, who has been on OpenAI’s board since March 2024, will oversee product development, operations, and finance, reporting directly to Altman . Simo brings a wealth of […]

Research England is investing £30 million into four ambitious regional projects through its university commercialisation ecosystems initiative. These projects will bring together universities, industry and other partners to deliver a step change in knowledge exchange activity. This includes: building new and strengthening existing collaborations expanding the pipeline of high-quality investible new spin-outs supporting scale up […]

The race for AI dominance continues as major tech giants ramp up capital expenditures (CapEx) to expand cloud infrastructure and AI capabilities. Leading the charge is Amazon Web Services (AWS), which reported a $25 billion CapEx for Q4 2024, marking a 67% year-over-year increase. Top AI Investors and Their Spending Strategies Strategic Implications The hyperscalers […]

Law enforcement agencies across Europe and North America have intensified their coordinated efforts to dismantle DDoS-for-hire (also known as “booter” or “stresser”) services, with Europol announcing another round of website takedowns and arrests. On May 8, 2025, Europol revealed the shutdown of six additional platforms—Cfxapi, Cfxsecurity, Neostress, Jetstress, Quickdown, and Zapcut—that facilitated thousands of distributed […]

A Santa Clarita man, Ryan Mitchell Kramer, has pleaded guilty to hacking the personal computer of a Disney employee, illegally obtaining login credentials, and stealing confidential company data via the employee’s Slack account. The Cyber Attack In early 2024, Kramer posted a malicious program on platforms like GitHub, disguised as an AI-generated art tool. When […]

Apple is reportedly preparing to overhaul its Safari search experience by integrating generative AI-powered alternatives—potentially ending or reshaping its lucrative $20 billion-per-year default search partnership with Google. According to multiple industry sources cited by Bloomberg and The Information, Apple is actively exploring partnerships with firms like OpenAI to embed AI search tools directly into Safari […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fast becoming a transformative force across Africa, reshaping critical sectors from agriculture and healthcare to education and manufacturing. Yet despite its growing relevance, the continent’s ability to fully harness AI’s potential depends on one critical factor: infrastructure. In an op-ed for Developing Telecoms, Angela Wamola, Head of Sub-Saharan Africa at GSMA, […]

At Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona, global leaders gathered to discuss the challenges and opportunities in expanding high-quality Internet connectivity to underserved communities. Among them were Dr. Cosmas Zavazava, Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT), and Mr. Liu Jie, Huawei’s FDD Product Line Vice President (R&D), who explored the financial and logistical […]

San Francisco, CA – May 2025An American jury has ordered Israeli surveillance technology firm NSO Group to pay over $167 million in punitive damages, alongside $444,719 in compensatory damages, to WhatsApp over the unlawful use of its Pegasus spyware to target users of the encrypted messaging platform. The verdict, delivered Tuesday by a federal jury […]

pathdoc/Shutterstock It can be difficult to find the right words to show you really mean it when you apologise. But there are linguistic cues you can use to get your message across. My recent research suggests that the length of the words that we choose influences how sincere the apology seems. Apologies are often described […]