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Fastagger’s Auni app is proof that AI doesn’t need the latest phone or a fat cloud bill to matter — it can live in the palm of a street‑level merchant and turn mobile‑money noise into actionable business intelligence overnight. Background Small and micro businesses — from barbershops to neighborhood kiosks — account for the bulk of commerce across Kenya and much of sub‑Saharan Africa. They transact primarily through mobile money rails, keep records on scraps of paper or in SMS receipts, and...

Big tech’s climate narrative has shifted from heroic problem‑solver to a contested public relations front: AI can help cut emissions, the companies say—yet independent analysis now accuses the industry of conflating old, energy-efficient machine‑learning use cases with the new, energy‑hungry era of generative models. The result is a set of headlines and corporate claims that, critics warn, are often poorly evidenced and risk functioning as greenwashing while hyperscale data‑centre energy and...

Nex Computer’s new NexPhone is less a revival of Windows Phone than a deliberately compromised attempt to put a pocketable, dockable Windows PC into a smartphone form factor — a bold experiment that trades peak mobile performance and carrier integration for the convenience of carrying a Windows 11 desktop in your pocket. s://nexphone.com/tech-specs) Background NexPhone arrives as a purpose-built three‑OS device: Android 16 for everyday telephony and apps, a Debian Linux environment that runs...

The past 48 hours have delivered a compact but consequential set of tech developments: the Pentagon and Anthropic are in open tension over how far AI safeguards should extend into military use; OpenClaw’s creator has taken a high‑profile jump to OpenAI; Apple has quietly scheduled a special event for March 4 in New York and other cities; Nvidia’s Vera Rubin roadmap and margin guidance remain central to investor calculus; and a new NGO‑commissioned analysis accuses tech firms of overstating...

Tech companies’ public case that artificial intelligence can fix the climate now faces a sustained and systematic credibility test: a new analysis led by energy analyst Ketan Joshi finds that many of the green claims being used to defend rapidly expanding AI infrastructure are vague, poorly evidenced, and—critically—often conflate fundamentally different types of AI. The report, commissioned by advocacy groups including Beyond Fossil Fuels and Climate Action Against Disinformation and...

The Department of Corrections in New Zealand has publicly reprimanded a small number of staff for using Microsoft Copilot Chat to assist with formal casework — including Extended Supervision Order reports — calling the behaviour “unacceptable,” launching a privacy risk assessment, and tightening controls to keep AI use strictly within a narrow, enterprise-managed footprint...

AI assistants are already reshaping how people find, evaluate and act on products and services — and brands that do not make their mobile apps and websites machine-readable risk being sidelined by the next generation of discovery. Background / Overview The consumer path-to-purchase is fragmenting away from traditional search and direct visits toward conversational assistants and agentic systems that synthesize information and, increasingly, take actions on users’ behalf. Analysts and...

Software licensing has quietly become one of the most strategic battlegrounds for enterprise IT in 2026, and Microsoft partners have been recast from occasional resellers into continuous advisors, compliance guardians, and FinOps collaborators guiding organizations through subscription complexity, AI add‑ons, and volatile cloud consumption. licensing landscape has shifted rapidly over the last half‑decade. What used to be a one‑time procurement checkbox is now an ongoing lifecycle that...

Amazon Web Services has quietly flipped the switch on nested virtualization for a subset of its newest Intel-powered EC2 families, putting the long-awaited ability to run a hypervisor inside an EC2 virtual machine into general configuration for 8th‑generation Intel instance types — specifically C8i, M8i and R8i (and their flex variants). This change turns a previously bare‑metal‑only capability into a first‑class, controllable CPU option for many workloads and exposes new design choices —...

An inventor represented by InventHelp has filed a new patent-pending concept aimed at making student-driver cars more visible: the Beginning Driver Sign (BKC-730), an overhead display the inventor says is designed to be seen from greater distances and more angles than conventional rear-window stickers. The idea, promoted through a PR distribution earlier this week, is simple on its face — increase situational awareness among surrounding drivers — but it raises a surprisingly broad set of...

Visionet has been Certified™ by Great Place to Work® for the second consecutive year across five global regions — USA, Canada, India, UKI, and Germany — a recognition the company says reflects sustained employee trust, stronger client confidence, and a people-first approach to scaling its global IT services operations. Background Visionet is a global IT services and solutions provider focused on digital experiences, enterprise modernization, Data & AI applications, and managed services. The...

Schlage’s Pin & Tumbler Studio has quietly shifted the conversation about interior door hardware from invisible utility to visible design statement with the launch of the Aspect Collection — a limited-edition series that pairs bold, geometric forms with practical, user-friendly functionality aimed squarely at homeowners, designers, and DIY renovators who want hardware that reads like furniture rather than an afterthought. Background / Overview Pin & Tumbler Studio is Schlage’s curated design...

Surge Energy’s board has confirmed a monthly cash dividend of $0.043333 per share payable March 16, 2026 — continuing the company’s steady monthly payout program and underscoring management’s commitment to returning free cash flow to shareholders even as the company invests in core development. The dividend is payable to shareholders of record on February 28, 2026 and is declared as an eligible dividend for Canadian tax purposes. This routine announcement may look pedestrian on its face, but...

Microsoft hat im Januar 2026 eine umfangreiche Windows‑Aktualisierung ausgeliefert, die einerseits kritische Sicherheits‑Patches und Servicing‑Stack‑Änderungen enthält, andererseits jedoch mehrere spürbare Regressionspfade auslöste — von nicht startenden Systemen über eingefrorene Anwendungen beim Zugriff auf Cloud‑Speicher bis hin zu entfernten Legacy‑Modemtreibern. Diese Entwicklung hat Microsoft zu einer gestuften Reaktionsstrategie mit mehreren Out‑of‑Band‑Fixes und einem...

Gentoo has quietly started the operational phase of a migration away from GitHub by placing its primary ebuild repository on Codeberg and inviting contributions there — a deliberate, community-driven move shaped as much by technical caution as by a principled resistance to platform-driven AI features such as GitHub Copilot. Background Gentoo has long been a distribution defined by deliberate choices: source-based package management, hands-on developer governance, and a culture that prizes...

SKS’s booth at KBIS 2026 framed the company’s next act: a deliberate pivot from a kitchen‑first luxury appliance marque into a whole‑home lifestyle brand built around what it calls “Technicurean” living — a design philosophy that marries culinary-grade performance with seamless, design‑led integration across the home. At the Orange County Convention Center this February, SKS (the rebranded Signature Kitchen Suite backed by LG Electronics) debuted a widened portfolio—including its first...

Click n’ Close will deploy Dara by Sagent across its core, consumer, and default servicing operations beginning in 2026, marking a major expansion of Sagent’s cloud-native servicing footprint into a servicer that specializes in complex loan programs and Native American housing loans. Overview Click n’ Close, a multi-state mortgage lender and servicer known for managing specialty loan programs including HUD Section 184 loans for Native American borrowers, has committed to integrate Dara by...

South Africa’s cloud storage market has moved from a prediction to a concrete battleground: global hyperscalers now operate local regions, homegrown distributors and managed-service vendors have scaled to meet SME needs, and regulators and IT buyers alike are reshaping procurement decisions around data residency, cost predictability, and AI-ready performance. Analytics Insight’s recent roundup puts the South African cloud storage market at roughly USD 573.28 million and growing at more than...

NatWest says its AI rollout is delivering big wins — faster product cycles, hours reclaimed from frontline teams, and hundreds of millions in cost savings — but the claim needs close reading, independent verification, and sober risk management before the rhetoric becomes accepted fact. Background NatWest Group has spent the last two years repositioning itself as a technology-forward bank, publicly describing a program of simplification, cloud migrations, and large-scale AI deployments that...

South Africa’s cloud storage market is no longer a niche play — it’s a fast-moving battleground where global hyperscalers and domestic specialists compete to solve the same core problems: data sovereignty, resilience in an energy-constrained environment, cost predictability for rand-based businesses, and the sudden demand surge from AI and analytics workloads. Analytics Insight’s recent roundup captures that dynamic and places a specific value on the sector: roughly USD 573.28 million and an...