•Bill Gates Bill Gates yesterday warned that unregulated artificial intelligence poses a growing threat and predicted an escalation in AI-powered cyberattacks in the coming year. The Microsoft co-founder said the risk of AI “getting out of control” remained years away and emphasized that the immediate concern was “bad people” using existing sy...
•A large Google logo is seen at Google’s Bay View campus in Mountain View, California Google’s consumer AI model Gemini hacked multiple systems by guessing login credentials, the company told our correspondent yesterday, the latest case of rogue AI cybersecurity transgressions, which have generated safety concerns. The hacks, first reported by...
Nigerian organisations are facing the highest volume of weekly cyberattacks in Africa, according to the newly released African Perspectives on Cyber Security Report 2025 by Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., a global leader in cybersecurity solutions. The report reveals that Nigerian firms experience an average of 4,200 attacks per week, ...
Iran is accelerating online activity that appears intended to influence the U.S. election, in one case targeting a presidential campaign with an email phishing attack, Microsoft said today. Iranian actors also have spent recent months creating fake news sites and impersonating activists, laying the groundwork to stoke division and potentially ...

