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Infrastructure & Cloud
Kenya’s “Bridge” to Faster Internet: Inside the Daraja Subsea Cable Meta and Safaricom Are Building
Meta and Safaricom are building the 4,108km Daraja cable linking Kenya to Oman, Safaricom's first international cable under its direct control.
AI & Automation
The Agentic AI Foundation Bet: Why A2A and MCP Now Share One Neutral Home
Google's A2A protocol joined the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation on Aug 17, 2026, alongside MCP under neutral governance.
Cybersecurity & Risk
RingCentral’s 1.6M-Account Breach: When a Phone Call Beats Your MFA
ShinyHunters vished a RingCentral employee, exfiltrated 623GB, and dumped data on 1.6M accounts after the company refused to pay.
Policy & Regulation
The Reversal Beijing Ignored: Washington Cleared the H200 for China, and China Slowed It to a Trickle
The US shifted to case-by-case H200 licensing with a 25% tariff, but Beijing's informal customs block turned the bottleneck upside down.
Startups
Visa and Bridge Are Taking Stablecoin Cards to 100+ Countries — But the Hard Part Is Adoption
Visa and Stripe-owned Bridge are expanding stablecoin cards from 18 markets to 100+ countries by 2026, spendable at 175M merchants worldwide.
Infrastructure & Cloud
Algeria’s Mobile Build-Out: 345 New 4G Base Stations Strengthen Nationwide Coverage in 2026
⚡ Key Takeaways Algerie Telecom is deploying 345 new 4G base stations across 44 wilayas in a two-phase program, with...
Startups
StartAlgeria: Flat6Labs and IFC Bet on Algeria’s Incubators
⚡ Key Takeaways Flat6Labs and the IFC launched StartAlgeria on June 23, 2026 — a capacity-building program that trains Algeria’s...
Skills & Careers
Earn a European-Accredited Tech Master’s from Algiers: GOMYCODE’s Online MSc Path
⚡ Key Takeaways GOMYCODE’s School of Technology now lets Algerians earn a Woolf-accredited Master of Science in Computer Science —...
Cybersecurity & Risk
Ivanti Sentry Zero-Day: A Max-Severity Flaw Turns Mobile Gateways Into Root Shells
⚡ Key Takeaways A maximum-severity (CVSS 10.0) OS command-injection zero-day, CVE-2026-10520, was disclosed in Ivanti Sentry on June 10, 2026,...
AI & Automation
Kimi K2.7 Code: A 1-Trillion-Parameter Open Model Undercuts Rivals on Price and Tool Use
⚡ Key Takeaways Released June 13, 2026, Kimi K2.7 Code is a 1-trillion-parameter open-weight MoE model from Moonshot AI, priced...
Policy & Regulation
New York Bans AI Companion Chatbots for Minors: Inside the S9051B Safety Law
⚡ Key Takeaways New York’s S9051B imposes $25,000-per-violation civil penalties on AI companion chatbot operators that expose minors to sycophancy,...
