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Infotech Headlines Today
[Tue-18-Mar-2025]

Updated: 28 mins ago

7 ridiculous questions Nigerians have asked Grok - Techpoint

7 ridiculous questions Nigerians have asked Grok - Techpoint

A critical Apache Tomcat RCE flaw is being exploited, letting attackers take over servers via a PUT request; Wallarm: the attack "requires no authentication" (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer) - Techmeme

A Google-backed weapon to battle wildfires made it into orbit - Techcrunch

A RevenueCat report, covering data from 75K+ mobile apps and $10B+ in revenue across 1B+ transactions, shows most apps fail to reach $1K/month after two years (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica) - Techmeme

After securing exits for its angel network, HoaQ is expanding with a dedicated VC fund - Techcabal

Alphabet Back In Talks To Buy Wiz For $30 Billion - Slashdot

Amazon sues the US CPSC, accusing it of stretching consumer safety law by ruling Amazon responsible for recalling products sold by third parties on Amazon.com (Emma Roth/The Verge) - Techmeme

Apple To Launch Thinner iPhone 17 'Air' as Step Toward Port-Free Design - Slashdot

Apple's iPhone 17 Air seeks to redefine the future of the phone - Pocket Lint

Binance secures $2 billion investment from Abu Dhabi's MGX - Innovation Village

Bose Coupon Codes & Discounts: 10% Off - Wired

Brand Press: your story, amplified by Africas tech pulse - Techpoint

BYD Unveils New Super-Charging EV Tech With Peak Speeds of 1,000 kW - Slashdot

CEI Africa invests EUR 1.1 million in MPower Ventures to enhance solar energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa - Innovation Village

Chams, CWG profits soar to billions for first time in 13 years - Techcabal

Copilot conundrum: Microsoft's accidentally kills its AI chatbot in new Windows Update - Pocket Lint

Disasters spur investment in flood and fire risk tech - BBC

Donald Trump Held Another Million-Dollar 'Candlelight' Dinner'With Elon Musk in Tow - Wired

Flexport accuses former employees of stealing its source code to create a rival startup - Techcrunch

GIMP 3.0 Released - Slashdot

Google Is Switching Legacy G Suite Users To Pooled Workspace Storage - Slashdot

Google revives talks to acquire Wiz at higher valuation - Techcrunch

Google's new call interface mixes Material You with Android telephony - Pocket Lint

Hollywood Urges Trump To Not Let AI Companies 'Exploit' Copyrighted Works - Slashdot

How to check your JAMB result in 2025: A complete guide - Techcabal

How to Renew Your Driving License Online in Kenya (Step-by-Step Guide) - Techcabal

How to stop doomscrolling - Techcrunch

Huawei To Pivot To Linux, HarmonyOS as Microsoft Windows License Expires - Slashdot

I used One UI 7 on my Samsung Galaxy, and these 5 features impressed me the most - Pocket Lint

In an open letter to the OSTP, Ben Stiller and 400+ Hollywood creatives urge President Trump to not let Google, OpenAI, and others "exploit" copyrighted works (Todd Spangler/Variety) - Techmeme

Intel could be in for significant changes as Lip-Bu Tan takes on CEO role - Techcrunch

Kenya Govt Cancels Ad Placements with Standard Media Group - TechMoran

Khula, South African Agri-Tech Startup Raises $6.8 Million in Series A Funding - TechMoran

LG Promo Codes: Extra 20% Off - Wired

Liam Fedus, VP of research in charge of post-training at OpenAI, is leaving the company to found a startup focused on using AI to discover new materials (The Information) - Techmeme

Microsoft Warns of StilachiRAT: A Stealthy RAT Targeting Credentials and Crypto Wallets - Hackers News

Mistral debuts Mistral Small 3.1, a 24B-parameter multimodal and multilingual open-source model it says outperforms Gemma 3 and GPT-4o-mini and runs on 32GB RAM (Michael Nuez/VentureBeat) - Techmeme

MPower Ventures Secures $2.7 Million to Expand Energy Solutions Across Africa - TechMoran

MTN Group to Spin Off Fintech Units in Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda Amid Mastercard Deal - Innovation Village

MTN Groups earnings drop 69% amid currency woes - Techpoint

MTN Nigeria falls from top revenue spot for first time since 2019 following '400.4 billion loss - Innovation Village

MTN Nigeria loses top revenue spot for first time since 2019after '400.4 billion loss - Techcabal

New Form of Parkinson's Treatment Uses Real-Time Deep-Brain Stimulation - Slashdot

Next Wave: Secondaries are limiting Africa's VC ecosystem. Can data help - Techcabal

Nigeria's inflation slows to 23.18% in February on stable naira and lower fuel prices - Techcabal

Nigerian government to launch $40 million fund for early-stage technology startups - Innovation Village

Nigerian lender Sycamore expands into asset management with SEC licence - Techcabal

One of the best foldable phones is on sale - save big on the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold - Pocket Lint

OpenAI exec leaves to found materials science startup - Techcrunch

People Are Using Google's New AI Model To Remove Watermarks From Images - Slashdot

People are using Google's new AI model to remove watermarks from images - Techcrunch

PitchBook: China led Asia with 715 AI VC deals in 2024, totaling $7.3B, South Korea followed with 308 deals worth $1.8B, and India with 306 deals totaling $1.7B (Nikkei Asia) - Techmeme

Pixel 9a review videos surface online ahead of Google's official reveal - Pocket Lint

President Trump's World Liberty Financial says it raised $250M in its second token sale, bringing the total amount of coins sold to $550M (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC) - Techmeme

Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon G3 Gen 3, G2 Gen 2, and G1 Gen 2 for gaming handhelds, saying the G3 Gen 3 offers a CPU 30% faster than the previous generation (Zhiye Liu/Tom's Hardware) - Techmeme

Rippling sues Deel, Deel denies 'all legal wrongdoing,' and Slack is the main witness - Techcrunch

Roku Tests Autoplaying Ads Loading Before the Home Screen - Slashdot

San Francisco grants Waymo a temporary permit to map SFO roads with human-driven cars, paving the way for future commercial operations (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch) - Techmeme



Infotech Headlines Yesterday
[Mon-17-Mar-2025]

THN Weekly Recap: Router Hacks, PyPI Attacks, New Ransomware Decryptor, and More - Hackers News

4 tips and tricks for troubleshooting Android digital car key setup - Pocket Lint

4 ways to add Android Auto to your car - Pocket Lint

7 Best Video Doorbell Cameras (2025): Smart, Battery, AI, Budget, and Subscription-Free - Wired

8 Best Down Comforters (2025), Tested and Reviewed - Wired

A look at "coachbots", AI-powered virtual coaches like CoachHub's Aimy and Valence's Nadia that advise on salary talks, work habits, and role-play conversations (Emma Jacobs/Financial Times) - Techmeme

A profile of Chetan Nayak, who leads Microsoft's Station Q team trying to build a quantum computer; source: Microsoft spends ~$300M annually on quantum research (Tom Dotan/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme

Absa Appoints Kenny Fihla as New Group CEO - Innovation Village

Adobe: traffic from AI sources to US retail sites in February rose 1,200% from July 2024; 39% of US consumers used generative AI for shopping, 53% plan to do so (Mike Pastore/Search Engine Land) - Techmeme

AFR-IX telecom secures 14.3m EU funding for Medusa Africa Submarine Cable System - TechMoran

AgDevCo exits Saise Farming Enterprises, transfers ownership to Buya Bamba - Innovation Village

AI in Cybercrime: Derek Manky Predicts the Next Wave of Threats - Itnewsafrica

AI slop, shared by thousands of prolific accounts, is brute forcing virality, and platforms like Meta embrace it; some AI videos get 350M+ views (Jason Koebler/404 Media) - Techmeme

Airtel Africa Launches Truecaller-Like AI Powered Spam Alert Service - TechMoran

Airtel launchesAI-powered spam alert service to combat SMS fraud in Nigeria - Techpoint

Alphabet spins off laser-based internet company Taara from its X "moonshot" incubator; Taara, which raised new funding, has its origins in Loon, closed in 2021 (Stephen Morris/Financial Times) - Techmeme

Alphabet Spins Off Laser-Based Internet Project Taara From 'Moonshot' Unit - Slashdot

Alphabet's Starlink competitor Taara is spinning off into an independent company - Engadget

Alterra Capital Partners receives a $20 million investment from BII - Innovation Village

Amazon devices chief Panos Panay aims to unveil the first products he has overseen in the fall, talks of new premium devices, hints at wearables like AR glasses (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

An interview with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel on Snap's fifth-generation smart glasses, unveiled in September 2024, competing with Apple and Meta, Snap OS, and more (Austin Carr/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

Apache Tomcat Vulnerability Actively Exploited Just 30 Hours After Public Disclosure - Hackers News

Apple AirPods Max with USB-C charging are back on sale for $480 - Engadget

Apple Considered Removing Ports from iPhone 17 Air - TechCity

Apple reportedly considered building the iPhone 17 Air without ports - Techcrunch

Apple should focus on fixing Siri, not redesigning iOS again - Engadget

Apple's 10th-gen iPad is on sale for $80 off - Engadget

Bitwarden Review: The Best Password Manager - Wired

BlueSky Proposes 'New Standard' for When Scraping Data for AI Training - Slashdot

Boeing Starliner astronauts finally head home, nine months later - Engadget

Bumble adds ID verification and other safety features - Engadget

Bumble heightens safety measures with new ID verification feature - Techcrunch

Bumble rolls out new ID verification in the US, the UK, Australia, France, India, and six other markets, as founder Whitney Wolfe Herd returns as its CEO (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

Carl Lundstrom, who financed file sharing service the Pirate Bay, died in a plane crash in Slovenia; at its peak, the Pirate Bay had an estimated 20M+ users (Michael Levenson/New York Times) - Techmeme

Cascador launches $2 million Catalytic Fund to support mid-stage entrepreneurs in Africa's tech ecosystem - Innovation Village

Cascador Launches $2M Fund to Empower Nigerian Entrepreneurs - TechMoran

CIG Motors takes charge as Zenolynks LagRide contract is cut - Techpoint

CIG Motors Takes Control of LagRide's operations - Innovation Village

Consumer Groups Push New Law Fighting 'Zombie' IoT Devices - Slashdot

CoreWeave's upcoming IPO in a soft IPO market serves as a bellwether for both the tech industry and how the public market perceives AI in the years ahead (Rachyl Jones/Semafor) - Techmeme

Cost of issuing cards could crash from 1,800 to 400 with contactless payment boom - Techpoint

Crusoe, a startup helping build the first data center for Stargate, says it secured a deal with a gas turbine owner to generate 4.5 gigawatts of energy by 2027 (Anissa Gardizy/The Information) - Techmeme

Crypto exchange OKX says it has "temporarily" suspended its DEX aggregator services, used to launder the $1.5B Bybit hack, after reported EU scrutiny under MiCA (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

Cybercriminals Exploit CSS to Evade Spam Filters and Track Email Users' Actions - Hackers News

Dangote-backed tech Fund secures $20m from UK's BII - Techpoint

Director of rural broadband program exits with a warning about shift to 'worse' satellite internet - Engadget

Discord launches a Social SDK to let developers offer friends lists, cross-platform messaging, voice, and more, with console and mobile support "coming soon" (Jay Peters/The Verge) - Techmeme

Discord launches SDK to help developers enhance social experiences in their games - Techcrunch

Discord Unveils Free SDK to Power Next-Gen Social Gaming Experiences - Innovation Village

Do viruses trigger Alzheimer's - The Economist

Does your smartphone speed carry the weight it used to - Pocket Lint

DOGE staffer violated Treasury rules by emailing unencrypted personal data - Techcrunch

DOGE's Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread - Wired

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, acquires a generative AI video startup - Techcrunch

European Tech Firms Push EU for 'Buy European' Tech Mandate - Slashdot

European tech industry coalition calls for 'radical action' on digital sovereignty ' starting with buying local - Techcrunch

Everything You Say to Your Echo Will Soon Be Sent to Amazon, and You Can't Opt Out - Wired

FSF's Memorabilia Silent Auction Begins Yesterday - Slashdot

Gemini AI Removes Watermarks in Image Editing Feature - TechCity

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