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Minnesota and Illinois file a lawsuit against the Trump administration to stop aggressive ICE raids, escalating the conflict between Democratic states and the federal government over immigration policy.
A UN Joint SDG Fund feature on International Youth Day celebrated Kenyan youth who are using DigiKen’s Digital Innovation Hubs to turn local challenges into digital solutions, create jobs and promote inclusive development.
Safaricom is rebuilding M-Pesa around an AI-native architecture to boost fraud detection, monitor system performance and predict transaction trends, while mandating AI training for all staff to prepare for the next phase of mobile money evolution.
A sudden leadership change at the Communications Authority of Kenya has sparked speculation about political manoeuvres and the future of the country’s digital infrastructure, as Mary Wambui Mungai is replaced by water executive Charles Kamau Karondo and reassigned to Athi Water Works Agency.
At the center of the grilling was Turkana County, where senators say poor mobile network coverage continues to endanger lives, hamper emergency response, and isolate communities from essential public services.
Members of the Senate Committee on Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) have sharply criticized the Ministry of ICT and the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) over persistent mobile network blackouts in remote and underserved counties.
Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the UK’s JET sustained super-hot plasma for record durations, fuelling optimism that affordable fusion power could arrive within two decades.
Researchers at startup QuEra demonstrated magic state distillation on logical qubits — a pivotal breakthrough toward powerful, fault-tolerant quantum computers poised to outclass classical machines.
Amazon lofted 24 Kuiper satellites while Vietnam approved a Starlink pilot, signalling fiercer competition to blanket Earth with low-latency satellite broadband.
Attackers exploited an undisclosed SharePoint vulnerability to infiltrate about 100 organisations, prompting Microsoft to rush emergency patches and experts to urge immediate updates.
Isomorphic Labs, a DeepMind spin-off, will test the first molecule created entirely by AI, potentially slashing the cost and time of drug discovery.
China’s Walker S2 robot detects low power, walks to a station, removes its depleted pack and inserts a fresh one, enabling true 24/7 autonomous operation.
Alibaba has released Qwen3-Coder, an open-source AI that autonomously writes code and rivals leading Western models, escalating the global AI arms race.
