Trump’s foreign funding freeze exposes how USAID bribed leading media houses to censor news, peddle smear campaigns
Ji said this is concerning given that BBC has expanded its influence through projects like the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), a self-described “industry partnership” that worked with Big Tech forms to identify “misinformation” and “disinformation” on their platforms.
Kenyan media women envisage digitally resilient community of African women who champion safe feminist internet
Common forms of technology facilitated-GBV attacks include; trolling, doxing, body shaming, abusive comments, revenge porn, hacking, impersonation, sextortion, deepfake, digital domestic abuse and online recruitment for exploitation that are motivated by the sexual or gender identity of the target or by underlying gender norms.
China ready to harm US economy: Beijing slaps Google, other US firms with hefty tariffs as trade tensions escalate
Separately, China’s Commerce Ministry said it had put PVH Corp, the holding company for brands including Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger and US biotechnology firm Illumina on its “unreliable entity” list.
Kenya on red alert after minister warns of potential cyber-attack on company registry
The minister assured Kenyans and all other stakeholders that the security and integrity of all government and digital assets is a top priority concern for government.
With 80 per cent of Kenya arid, state drafts agriculture irrigation masterplan to address food security, employment
The principal secretary said that the irrigation plan is in line with the government’s development pillar, the Bottom-up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA), which envisages transformation in the agricultural sector to address food insecurity and unemployment.
His story: How Bill Gates terrorised his parents, classmates, spent night in jail and joked it’s impossible to amass $15 million fortune
Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers says that it’s possible to explain why some people are special. They practice at their special skill for 10,000 hours and are alive at the perfect time for their expertise to matter. You certainly spent more than 10,000 hours programming, and the time was right.
Office of Personnel Management staff locked out of computer systems on Elon Musk orders
Don Moynihan, a professor at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, said the actions inside OPM raised concerns about congressional oversight at the agency and how Trump and Musk view the federal bureaucracy.
Pentagon probes training flight flown by ‘fairly experienced’ Black Hawk crew, halts flights
During an appearance later with Trump at the White House, Hegseth told reporters that there appears to have been an elevation issue with the Black Hawk and said Army investigators were on the ground looking into the matter.
Conflicted CIA director nominee: Why Democrats and world are worried about John Ratcliffe’s role in 2020 US election mess
As is customary for government officials, Ratcliffe has vowed to avoid “any actual or apparent conflict of interest” by selling stocks and recusing himself from any matter in which he had a personal stake. For Hauser, however, that does not erase the risk that his ties to the industry will affect his judgment on a technology that many critics say has yet to prove its usefulness.
As East Africa struggles to host to upgrade six stadia for African Nations Championship, UK backs Man United’s £2 billion new stadium
While the Red Devils would be expected to pay for an upgraded stadium – with Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s preference for a new 100,000-capacity build – a ‘development corporation’ could be set up to assist on the surrounding areas. The club believe a re-energised Trafford Park has the potential to deliver an additional £7.3 billion ($9.7 billion) to the local economy and 90,000 job opportunities.
