The Weaponisation of PDFs : 68% of Cyberattacks begin in you inbox, with 22% of these hiding in PDFs
Over 400 billion PDF were opened last year, and 16 billion documents were edited in Adobe Acrobat. Over 87% of organisations use PDFs …
Employee phishing tests have gained popularity as a way for organisations to gauge how vulnerable their employees are to phishing attacks and improve their awareness of cybersecurity. However, some have questioned whether it is app…
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes integral to banking and financial services institutions (BFSIs) across Africa, fostering consumer trust in AI-driven systems is critical to ensure long-term success. Fortunately, BFSIs can balance in…
AI-Media, the global leader in AI-powered language technology and solutions, is thrilled to announce an advanced partnership with AudioShake, a pioneering audio technology company specializing in sound separation. This partnership will enh…
Investor excitement surrounding the robots has been mounting amid increased mentions from tech leaders like Nvidia's Jensen Huang and ambitious plans from Tesla's Elon Musk.
However, analysts warn that U.S. firms could lose out to Chi…
China can use domestically developed tools to make advanced semiconductors, countering U.S. curbs on Beijing's access to high-end chipmaking technology, an executive at a major Chinese supplier said on Thursday.
Du Lijun, president of c…
Apple’s most profitable product could finally be getting a much-needed change.
The tech giant is soon expected to make its biggest bet in years, introducing a significantly slimmer iPhone to hopefully reinvigorate interest in its bigges…
Audio startup Krisp on Wednesday said it is launching a new feature that uses AI to change a user’s accent during calls. The company is initially rolling out support for changing Indian English accents to U.S. English.
The startup say…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on Wednesday that the rollout of ChatGPT’s viral new AI image features to free users would be delayed, citing significantly higher demand than the company expected.
“Images in ChatGPT are wayyyy more po…
Fashion retailer H&M is to use artificial intelligence (AI) to create digital "twins" of 30 models.
It says it will use the AI doppelgangers in some social media posts and marketing in the place of humans, if given permission by model…
After teasing a return to “OG Facebook” earlier this year, the social network on Thursday announced an update that will give users a simple way to connect with friends. The company is introducing a new Facebook Friends tab that will only…
AI web-crawling bots are the cockroaches of the internet, many software developers believe. Some devs have started fighting back in ingenuous, often humorous ways.
While any website might be targeted by bad crawler behavior — sometime…
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Mozilla has fixed a security bug in its Firefox for Windows browser that was “being exploited in the wild.”
In a brief update, Mozilla said it updated the browser to Firefox version 136.0.4 after identifying and fixing the new bug, t…
Jay Springett, a tech strategist and podcast host, joined the social media app Butterflies AI out of curiosity, and ended up staying for more than six months.
The idea of Butterflies is to allow human and AI personas to interact.
M…
WhatsApp launched a new feature on Friday, where users can include brief music clips in their Status updates, reminiscent of the Myspace era.
Status resembles Instagram Stories and allows users to share photos, videos, and text that d…
AI-Media, a global leader in AI-powered language technology and solutions, is set to make a major impact at NAB Show 2025 in Las Vegas. From April 6-9, attendees can visit Booth #W1915 to explore AI-Media's suite of industry-leading AI so…
Google said it has fixed a vulnerability in its Chrome browser for Windows that malicious hackers have used to break into victims’ computers.
In a brief note on Tuesday, Google said that it fixed the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025…
Amazon continues to infuse AI into its shopping tools to encourage customers to make more purchases. The company announced on Wednesday a new feature called “Interests,” aimed at creating a more personalized and conversational search exp…
We tried one of Amazon's Zoox toaster-shaped autonomous vehicles, which don't have human controls. Can it really compete with Waymo?
There’s nothing normal about riding in a vehicle that actually, really drives itself.
The sensation …
Dear reader, while I do like Game Pass—it's often a good deal when the lineup's strong—I think you'll agree when I say I've never enjoyed the experience of using the Xbox app. Microsoft can't seem to cobble together a user interface that w…
TikTok (www.TikTok.com) hosted its second Annual Africa Safer Internet Summit in Cape Town, South Africa, bringing together government officials, regulators, and industry leaders from across Sub-Saharan Africa. Delegates from South…
The OnePlus 13T might be the official name for the compact OnePlus 13 Mini smartphone we’ve been hearing so much about, but it may well pack a super-sized battery.
Regular tipster Digital Chat Station has taken to Weibo to reveal a fasc…
Vietnam will cut its tariffs on several U.S. products including LNG and cars, and moved to approve Starlink services, as the country tries to avoid being hit with U.S. tariffs because of its large bilateral trade surplus.
The Southeast …
During a livestream on Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the first major upgrade to ChatGPT’s image-generation capabilities in over a year.
ChatGPT can now leverage the company’s GPT-4o model to natively create and modify images …
OpenAI released updates Monday for Advanced Voice Mode, its AI voice feature that enables real-time conversations in ChatGPT, to make the AI assistant more personable and interrupt users less frequently.
Manuka Stratta, an OpenAI post-t…
Top Trump administration officials used messaging app Signal to share war plans and mistakenly included a journalist in the encrypted chat, spurring calls by Democratic lawmakers for a congressional investigation into the security breach.
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Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that co-CEO Han Jong-hee had died of a heart attack, leaving newly-appointed boss Jun Young-hyun solely in charge of the tech giant as it revamps its underperforming chip business and navigates trade unc…
China has narrowed the AI development gap with the United States to just three months in some areas, because firms such as DeepSeek have worked out how to use chips and apply algorithms more efficiently, the CEO of Chinese startup 01.AI Le…
A growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in job applications risks employers hiring candidates who cannot do the work, a business owner has said.
Advertising boss James Robinson said he and other business leaders were seeing a "r…
BlackRock has launched its first bitcoin exchange-traded product in Europe, in a bid to tap growing demand for cryptocurrency exposure in new markets after attracting more than $50 billion into similar products in the United States.
The…
The roar of the Zambezi is deafening as millions of gallons of water crash over rocks and tumble down rapids.
But there's another sound cutting through the trees of the Zambian bush - the unmistakable high-pitched whine of a bitcoin m…
Negotiations on a potential contract between Elon Musk's satellite internet operator Starlink and the Italian government have stalled, reflecting broader geopolitical tensions, Italy's defence minister said on Saturday.
Prime Minister G…
OpenAI and Meta Platforms have held separate discussions with India's Reliance Industries over potential partnerships to expand their artificial intelligence offerings in the country, technology news website The Information reported on Sat…
Apple Inc said on Monday it will set up a new clean energy fund in China worth 720 million yuan ($99.22 million), coinciding with a Beijing visit of its CEO Tim Cook.
Apple said in a statement that it is a move aimed at expanding its cl…
German software company SAP overtook Danish healthcare company Novo Nordisk as Europe's largest company by market capitalisation on Monday.
At 0900 GMT, SAP had a market cap of $340 billion, slightly more than Novo Nordisk, according to…
Computers and smartphones might be where most writing is done these days, but typewriters still have work to do in the US.
Pretty much every day, another customer clutching an old typewriter will walk into Mike Marr's shop in Pawt…
New Galaxy A series smartphones bring first-ever Awesome Intelligence, advanced camera features and enhanced durability
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. early this month unveiled Galaxy A56 5G, Galaxy A36 5G and Galaxy A26 5G, the latest …
Saudi Aramco-backed industrial software company Cognite has opened an AI services centre in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru and said it is exploring potential contracts with top conglomerates in the country.
The Norwegian company …
Microsoft will launch its first cloud region in Malaysia with three data centres by mid-year, the tech company said on Thursday, nearly a year after it announced a $2.2 billion investment in the Southeast Asian country.
The data centres…
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has added image generation capabilities to its API.
Only one model is available in the API at the moment, “grok-2-image-1212.” Given a caption, the model can generate up to 10 images per request (limited t…
OpenAI is bringing new transcription and voice-generating AI models to its API that the company claims improve upon its previous releases.
For OpenAI, the models fit into its broader “agentic” vision: building automated systems that can…
Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab is shaking up its executive ranks to get its AI efforts back on track after months of delays, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday citing people familiar with the situation.
Some AI improvements to voice ass…
Chinese artificial intelligence startup Manus on Thursday registered its China-facing AI assistant and was featured for the first time in a state media broadcast, highlighting Beijing's strategy of boosting domestic AI firms that have rece…
It’s well established that AI models developed by Chinese AI labs like DeepSeek censor certain politically sensitive topics. A 2023 measure passed by China’s ruling party forbids models from generating content that “damages the unity of …
Anthropic’s AI-powered chatbot, Claude, can now search the web — a capability that had long eluded it.
Web search is available now in preview for paid Claude users in the U.S., Anthropic said in its blog, with support for free users and…
It all started with one question.
A query last week from an X (formerly Twitter) account called Toka was enough to propel Elon Musk's built in-chatbot called Grok 3 into a viral storm across India's digital landscape.
And no, it wa…
A viral filter which made people appear overweight has been removed from TikTok, after the BBC reported it had sparked a wave of user criticism.
Known as a "chubby filter", the artificial intelligence (AI) tool took a photo of a perso…
Mike Johns didn't expect his return trip from Los Angeles to Scottsdale, Arizona in December to go viral.
To get to the airport he booked a driverless taxi and enjoyed a thrill when he jumped in with curious bystanders looking on.
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Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab will open a quantum computing research lab in Boston, where it plans to collaborate with scientists from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CEO Jensen Huang said on Thursday.
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