Voice assistants, smart-speakers, and voice-assisted systems are becoming increasingly popular in the modern workplace. However, this increasingly popular wave of voice-activated accessibility is creating a whole new privacy vulnerability for the organisation. A 2025 review on Privacy in Speech Technology found that voice interfaces can hear conversations occurring in the same acoustic space and can…
A mysterious object filmed hovering over Tehran has sparked online speculation, with theories ranging from a children’s kite to advanced military surveillance equipment, while Iranian authorities have not identified it. Published On 21 Sep 202621 Sep 2026 Share Mystery object spotted hovering over Tehran on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo
Ethiopian Armed Groups Form Alliance Against Government Seven armed groups in Ethiopia have allied together to overthrow Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government and form an all-inclusive transitional administration. The alliance is comprised of the Amhara Fano National Movement, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front and the Oromo Liberation Army, as well as four smaller regional groups. The…
Henry Myburgh, senior regional account manager southern Africa at Vertiv (l) with Richard Lace, business unit manager at Pinnacle ICT (r). Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), which positions itself as a global leader in critical digital infrastructure, has announced a distribution partnership with Pinnacle ICT, which positions itself as Africa’s leading ICT company, extending the availability of…
An Iranian woman expelled to the Central African Republic; a gay Ghanaian man sent back to his country and threatened with death. Their stories are part of a vast international investigation into the Trump administration’s mass deportations. Since coming to power, more than 20,000 migrants have been sent back to some thirty countries in Latin…
Novo shares fell as much as 7% on Monday after the company laid out new growth ambitions to revive its fortunes in the booming obesity drug market. The Danish company seeks to convince investors it can compete in an increasingly crowded field it helped pioneer. The company said it aims to launch more than five…
Airtel Africa is considering cutting the size of Airtel Money’s planned London initial public offering after feedback from investors, as the mobile payments business moves closer to a listing that could start as soon as next week. The company is now seeking to raise at least $800 million, below an earlier target of $1.5 billion…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Anthropic is considering rolling out a new AI model to counter OpenAI’s momentum since its launch of GPT-6 Astra, according to three sources, ahead of an expected public listing and after its CEO called for an industry-wide slowdown. The timing of a potential launch aimed at…
JPMorgan will launch a new benchmark for frontier-market local-currency government bonds by the end of September, giving African debt markets the largest regional weight. The GBI-EM Edge will track about $328 billion across 425 bonds in 26 countries and 24 currencies. African markets will account for about 44.5% of the index, compared with 31.5% for…
HONG KONG — The United States has proposed a new AI safety notification mechanism for President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to consider at their summit in Washington this week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday, amid global concern over whether the world’s two leading AI powers can work together to contain the…
