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…
Across the world, healthcare has suffered more than 10,000 attacks in the past eight years, including during the brutal conflict in Ukraine and efforts to contain the current Ebola outbreak spreading rapidly in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). That information comes from the World Health Organization (WHO) which on Friday reiterated that…
The latest hack comes after an autonomous agent escaped a controlled test and accessed AI firm Hugging Face’s servers. Published On 29 Jul 202629 Jul 2026 The rogue artificial intelligence model that broke out of a controlled test and hacked another AI company also compromised a customer at a second technology firm, the Reuters news…
Google’s new selfie verification system adds another layer of identity confirmation for eligible consumer Google accounts. (Image created via ChatGPT) Google has introduced a new account recovery feature that allows users to use a short selfie video as a backup method to regain access to their Google accounts when they are locked out, or unable…
According to Lynette Hooker’s family, the story her husband Brian has been telling about the night she went missing in the Bahamas is apparently not what investigators believe actually happened. Cristian Benavides has the update.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has apologized to members of a Canadian community where a mass shooting took place earlier this year for not flagging the ChatGPT account of the shooter to law enforcement. “The pain your community has endured is unimaginable,” Altman wrote in a letter shared Friday on social media by the British Columbia…
Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is seen in Tehran, Iran, on Dec. 14, 2016. Reza B | Afp | Getty Images Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, has a new “verified” account on X, the influential social media platform owned by Elon Musk. Khamenei, whose X handle is…
WhatsApp’s ‘strict account settings’ are rolling out gradually. Meta-owned instant messaging platform WhatsApp has released ‘strict account settings’ − a new security feature to protect users against cyber attacks. It introduces lockdown-style protections aimed at users who face higher risks of targeted cyber attacks, including journalists and public-facing figures. According to Statista, WhatsApp has over…
Predictors of financial access and implications for domestic capital mobilisation Key findings Financial inclusion in Africa operates on two distinct but overlapping tracks. Ownership of mobile-money accounts is far more widespread than ownership of traditional bank accounts, indicating that digital platforms have become the primary gateway to financial services for a majority of Africans. Both…
The U.S. military’s early September strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat — the first salvo in a months-long string of attacks — has drawn new scrutiny in recent days, as the White House confirmed that the vessel was struck twice. The confirmation followed a Washington Post report that the first boat was struck a…
