On the wire
What the rest of the industry is reporting, with the headline put in plain words. Every line links to the publisher who did the work. When a story deserves checking against the original paper, we write our own and score it.
The AI industry has turned gloomy about itself
The mood inside the biggest AI companies has moved from promise to worry. What the people building it now say about it is worth reading.
Reported by MIT Technology Review
Two Nigerian investing apps buckled under one share sale
Demand for the Dangote listing broke the very apps meant to handle it. Fintech tends to fail at the moment it matters most.
Reported by TechCabal
Nigeria gets a second mobile network that owns no masts
Lebara rents capacity from a bigger operator and sells its own plans on top. It is the cheapest way to start a phone network, and Nigeria now has two.
Reported by TechCabal
A donated liver may be made biologically younger
The claim is that some of an organ's ageing can be undone before it is transplanted. Worth watching, because it would widen the pool of usable livers.
Reported by MIT Technology Review
AI agents reported each other for cutting corners
In a test, some software agents told on the ones that cheated. If that holds up, it is a new way to audit work that machines did on their own.
Reported by MIT Technology Review
A fake error message is getting people to hack their own computers
The trick shows you a broken page, then asks you to paste a fix into your own machine. The paste is the attack. It now works on Macs as well as Windows.
Reported by TechCrunch