•Late Sewell Setzer 14-year-old Sewell Setzer has reportedly taken his own life in Florida, United States of America after he became obsessed with an AI chatbot character. His mother, Megan Garcia is now suing the AI company, Character Technologies, claiming their service played a role in her teenage son’s tragedy, reports The Independent UK. ...
Telecom consumers have decried the rate at which their mobile data gets quickly depleted as well as poor connectivity, accusing the telecommunication companies of secretly increasing the cost of data without prior public notice. Recall that the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MTN Nigeria, Karl Toriola had called on the federal government to i...
Nigerians have expressed their readiness to switch to other telecom providers if MTN Nigeria shuts down its operations due to the current economic challenges. MTN Nigeria, the country’s largest telecom operator, has warned of a potential shutdown if tariffs are not increased to offset rising operational costs, reports Nigerian Tribune. Recall ...
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, today announced new measures to fight sextortion, a form of online blackmail where criminals coerce victims, often teens, into sending sexually explicit images of themselves. The measures include stricter controls on who can follow or message teen accounts and safety notices in Instagram dire...
TikTok said it removed over 2.1 million videos in Nigeria in the second quarter of 2024 for violating its community guidelines. According to the Community Guidelines Enforcement Report shared yesterday, Tiktok said the action is part of the company’s ongoing efforts to enhance content moderation and create a safer platform for users. “Key find...
A US judge yesterday ordered Google to open its Android smartphone operating system to rival app stores, in a fresh legal setback for the tech giant. The order is the result of Google’s defeat in an antitrust case brought by Fortnite-maker Epic Games, where a California jury decided that Google wields illegal monopoly power through […]...
•X owner Elon Musk Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, is now worth almost 80% less than when he bought it two years ago, according to recent estimates from investment firm Fidelity. Musk acquired X for $44 billion in October 2022, but Fidelity’s latest evaluation suggests the platform is currently valued […]...
•Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman The phone line of the Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, has been hacked. According to a disclaimer issued on his official X account yesterday, Mamman warned the public to avoid communicating through the affected number. “My phone line has been compromised. Please refrain from calling the number...
•A sample of the national identity card. The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has disclosed that 110 million Nigerians have been enrolled into the National Identification Numbers (NIN). The Director General of the Commission, Mrs Abisoye Coker-Odusote, stated this at the 6th National Identity Day celebration in Abuja yesterday, r...
•NIN linkage Telecommunications operators are expected to start disconnecting mobile telephone lines that are not linked to National Identification Numbers, following the expiration of the September 14 deadline set by the Nigerian Communications Commission. The NCC said in a statement in August that it expected that no SIM card would remain ac...
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