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Boards of directors are pressing for productivity gains from large-language models and AI assistants. Yet the same features that makes AI useful – browsing live websites, remembering user context, and connecting to business apps – also expand the cyber attack surface.Tenable researchers have published a set of vulnerabilities and attacks under the title “HackedGPT”, showing how indirect prompt injection and related techniques could enable data exfiltration and malware persistence. Some issues have been remediated, while others reportedly remain exploitable at the time of the Tenable disclosure, according to an advisory issued by the company.Removing the inherent risks from AI assistants’…

Opposition party Chadema said that its deputy secretary-general, Amani Golugwa, was arrested early on Saturday.Published On 8 Nov 20258 Nov 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2SharePolice in Tanzania have arrested a senior opposition official after more than 200 people were charged with treason over a wave of protests against last month’s general election.Opposition party Chadema said that its deputy secretary-general, Amani Golugwa, was arrested early on Saturday. He is the third senior Chadema official in detention, after leader Tundu Lissu and deputy leader John Heche were arrested before the October 29 vote.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe…

Amid pressure to deploy generative and agentic solutions, a familiar question is surfacing: “Is there an AI bubble, and is it about to burst?”For many organisations, this new wave of generative and agentic AI is still very much in experimental stages. The primary focus, and the low-hanging fruit, has been internal. Most businesses are looking to AI to increase efficiency gains, such as automating workflows or streamlining customer support. The trouble is, those gains are proving elusive.Ben Gilbert, VP of 15gifts, points out that “those benefits often take years to show real returns and are hard to measure beyond time…

Prominent members of Tunisia’s political opposition have announced they will be joining a collective hunger strike in solidarity with jailed politician Jawhar Ben Mbarek, whose health they say has severely deteriorated after nine days without food.Ben Mbarek, the cofounder of Tunisia’s main opposition alliance, the National Salvation Front, launched a hunger strike last week to protest his detention since February 2023.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listBen Mbarek’s father, veteran activist Ezzeddine Hazgui, said during a news conference in the capital Tunis on Friday that his son is in a “worrisome condition, and his health is deteriorating”.Hazgui said his…

When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang initially told the Financial Times that China would “win the AI race” before softening his stance, it crystallised a predicament that’s been years in the making. The world’s most valuable chipmaker now finds itself caught between two superpowers, each wielding the Nvidia AI chip ban as a weapon in a broader technological cold war—and the company’s attempt to please both sides may ultimately satisfy neither.From dominance to zero: A market collapseThe numbers tell a stark story. Speaking at a Citadel Securities event in October, Huang revealed that Nvidia’s share of China’s AI accelerator market has collapsed from roughly…

WFP says a ‘deepening hunger crisis’ is unfolding and that it may have to pause food aid due to record low funding.Published On 7 Nov 20257 Nov 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareThe number of people facing emergency levels of hunger in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has nearly doubled since last year, the United Nations has warned.The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday a “deepening hunger crisis” was unfolding in the region, but warned it was only able to reach a fraction of those in need due to acute funding shortages and access difficulties.Recommended Stories…

Microsoft is forming a new team to research superintelligence and other advanced forms of artificial intelligence.Mustafa Suleyman, who leads Microsoft’s AI division overseeing Bing and Copilot, announced the creation of the MAI Superintelligence Team in a blog post. He said he will head the group and that Microsoft plans to put “a lot of money” behind the effort.“We are doing this to solve real, concrete problems and do it in such a way that it remains grounded and controllable,” Suleyman wrote. “We are not building an ill-defined and ethereal superintelligence; we are building a practical technology explicitly designed only to…

Nouadhibou, Mauritania – When Omar*, a 29-year-old bricklayer from rural Gambia, crossed the border into Mauritania in March, he came in search of the better pay he’d heard he could find.He settled in Nouadhibou, Mauritania’s second-largest city, where he shared a one-room shack with four friends, and found work as a casual labourer on construction sites, earning two to three times more than he had back home.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe oldest of nine children and the son of a rice farmer, Omar was able to save enough to support his family in The Gambia and pay…

When Dubai launched its State of AI Report in April 2025, revealing over 100 high-impact AI use cases, the emirate wasn’t just showcasing technological prowess—it was making a calculated bet that speed, not spending, would determine which cities win the global race for AI-powered governance.In an exclusive interview, Matar Al Hemeiri, Chief Executive of Digital Dubai Government Establishment, revealed how Dubai’s approach to AI government efficiency differs fundamentally from both its regional competitors and established Asian tech hubs—and why the emirate believes its model of rapid deployment paired with binding ethical frameworks offers a blueprint other governments will eventually follow.The DubaiAI advantage:…

The DOJ argued that the federal judge did not have the authority to make the decision.Published On 6 Nov 20256 Nov 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareA United States judge in Texas has approved the Department of Justice’s request to dismiss a criminal case against Boeing despite his objections to the decision.On Thursday, Judge Reed O’Connor of the US District Court in Fort Worth dismissed the case, which will allow the plane maker to avoid prosecution over charges related to two deadly 737 MAX crashes: the 2018 Lion Air crash in Indonesia and the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash.Recommended Stories…