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South Korea’s president has told his government to build defences that can spot and block cyber-attacks before they succeed, after a string of hacks exposed customer data at some of the country’s biggest banks. Speaking at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, President Lee Jae Myung said AI models are believed to have been used in … Read more
SpaceX is reported to be lining up one of the largest debt packages ever raised to pay for artificial intelligence hardware. According to the Financial Times, which broke the story on Tuesday, and Bloomberg, which followed with its own account, Elon Musk’s company is talking to banks and investors about raising $40 billion to buy … Read more
Boston Dynamics announced on October 6 that Rohit Prasad, formerly Amazon’s senior vice president and head scientist for Alexa and artificial general intelligence, becomes its chief executive on October 7, 2026. When a company famous for robots that do backflips picks an artificial intelligence scientist to run it, the hire is a statement of direction. … Read more
Google Messages may be about to take away one of the easiest ways to avoid RCS. A report from Android Authority, based on a look inside a recent app update, says Google is laying the groundwork to remove the setting that lets users force SMS or MMS for an individual conversation. If that happens, Android … Read more
“Waste No More Time Arguing What a Good Man Should Be. Be One” is a comfortable kind of conversation that never actually costs anything: discussing what good leadership looks like, debating what integrity means, arguing over the definition of fairness. These conversations can go on indefinitely, and feel productive while they’re happening, without a single … Read more
Dating apps tend to compete on the same promises: more matches, better filters, fewer fake profiles. The Nigerian platform 8PM has taken a slightly different route with its latest update, building a feature around the app’s own name. A nightly “8PM Tonight” session now pairs users in short blind voice dates at 8 p.m., a … Read more
For decades, the fast-food promise was simple: more food for your money. McDonald’s built part of its identity on that idea, from the Super Size era to the Big Mac combo. Now the world’s best-known burger chain is talking about something close to the opposite, a menu that offers more protein, more control over portion … Read more
That was Tafawa Balewa Square on September 26, when Black Market, a Nollywood crime thriller, played to a verified audience of 51,258 people and earned a Guinness World Records title for the largest attendance at a film screening. Alongside the producers and the Lagos State Government, a roster of consumer brands, PUMA among them, helped … Read more
A medical doctor from Lagos is Nigeria’s next Miss Universe contestant. Danielle Adewusi, who represented Lagos State, was crowned Miss Universe Nigeria 2026 after beating 19 other finalists at the grand finale held in Lagos on Sunday, September 27. She will now carry Nigeria’s colours to the 75th Miss Universe Festival, scheduled for November 24 … Read more
Chanel gave Paris Fashion Week one of its most talked-about evenings on Monday, as creative director Matthieu Blazy marked a full year at the house with a spring/summer 2027 collection built around tiger-print tweed, see-through skirt suits and a sky full of suspended birds. The show at the Grand Palais, the venue Chanel has long … Read more