Month: March 2023
TikTok on banned on UK work phone
The United States barred TikTok from official devices in December, and the European Commission followed suit last month. Canada, Belgium and India have taken similar action. TikTok has strongly denied allegations that it hands users’ data to the Chinese government. British government ministers have been banned from using Chinese-owned social media app TikTok on their
ChatGPT successor GPT-4
ChatGPT answers questions using natural human-like language, and it can also mimic other writing styles such as songwriters and authors, using the internet as it was in 2021 as its knowledge database. OpenAI has released GPT-4, the latest version of its hugely popular artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT. OpenAI said it had spent six months on
paid verification for Facebook
In November Twitter announced a verification process, which it quickly jettisoned after the blue tick system was used to impersonate politicians and celebrities. The company relaunched Twitter Blue several weeks later with different coloured ticks for individuals, companies, and governments. Meta Verified is launching in the US after two months of testing Meta Verified in
Poland to acquire 800 Hellfire missiles worth 140 million euros from US
The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency on Thursday delivered the required certification notifying Congress of the potential sale, after the Polish government requested the purchase of 800 AGM-114R2 Hellfire missiles and four M36 Hellfire airborne training missiles. This proposed sale will support U.S. foreign policy goals and national security objectives by enhancing the security of
ZIFA suspension by FIFA
ZIFA was suspended last year on allegations of “third party interference”. This was after the Sports and Recreation Commission had suspended the association’s leadership on accusations of corruption, mismanagement of public funds and sexual harassment of female referees. The FIFA Congress being held in Rwanda has voted to uphold the suspension of the Zimbabwe Football
ChipMixer the crypto mixer shutdown
ChipMixer’ was a service that had been in existence since mid-2017, which in particular accepted bitcoins of criminal origin in order to pay them out again after concealment processes (so-called ‘mixing’). Deposited crypto values were divided into small uniform amounts known as ‘chips’ for the purpose of thwarting investigations. Cybercrime seeks to exploit boundaries, but
strange disease kills five in Tanzania
Tanzania’s ministry of health has issued a public notice about an unknown disease that has so far killed 5 people in Bukoba, Kagera Region. It is believed that the disease is infectious and samples from the dead bodies have been taken to determine what type of disease it is,7 people were reported to have fallen
Kyiv eviction of Monks
Ukraine last week announced the termination of the lease that allowed the church to occupy part of the 11th-century Pechersk monastery free of charge, but the monks said they would not move.The ancient golden-domed religious complex overlooking the Dnipro River is the country’s most significant Orthodox monastery, with a population of monks who were until
World multipolarity
The weaponization of the dollar and the theft of reserve assets by the U.S. has been the coming disaster for the U.S., where trust in the U.S. has all but evaporated. No country had ever been so lucky as the U.S. to pull this shift off until quite recently. Not only could the U.S. buy
Nuclear power generation in Uganda
In 2005, Uganda experienced drought that affected hydro electricity generation from Owen Falls Dam, President Yoweri Museveni has defended nuclear power generation in Uganda, pointing to diversification of the energy mix. “The issue of nuclear power in Africa is a must, it is reliable. The option of nuclear power is a very wise one. We