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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s internal announcement on Friday about a “large” companywide AI hackathon next month quickly sparked frustration and disbelief among employees.In internal messages seen by WIRED, some workers wrote that added responsibilities in the wake of recent mass layoffs at the tech giant had left them with little time to join such ancillary activities. Others said they felt discouraged from participating because of what they viewed as low morale and declining trust in management across the company.“I’m literally preoccupied with keeping the lights on for my team,” one employee wrote on Friday. “I have no incentive to participate,…

Through this arrangement, the region will have a direct channel to federal digital policies while also gaining a framework for adapting and implementing those initiatives at the state level. The Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN)  Commission and the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA)  have signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at accelerating digital transformation across Southwest Nigeria and strengthening the region’s participation in the country’s digital economy agenda. The agreement, signed in Abuja, will run from 2025 to 2030 and covers the six Southwest states of Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, and Oyo. Under the partnership,…

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Honor launched the X7e 4G earlier this month, and if you’ve been wondering whether this phone would get a 5G option, the answer seems to be “yes, kind of”. The Honor X7e Plus 5G has now been certified for sale in the UAE by TDRA and it’s also been spotted in the SGS database. We’re not sure exactly what makes this a “Plus” aside from the 5G connectivity, so we can’t be sure how similar it is to the already launched X7e 4G. But based on the SGS certification, we can assume the X7e Plus 5G will be offered in…

The doors of the cell Liberles is mapping the vagus information highways. But highways need on-ramps for signals to enter. For years, one of neurobiology’s biggest mysteries was the molecular on-ramp for our sense of touch. Somewhere, something in our bodies was converting physical force into an electrical signal that the nervous system could understand. But no one knew how.  Solving that mystery required a scientist willing to trust a hunch when the data couldn’t show the way.  Ardem Patapoutian grew up in Lebanon and fled the country’s civil war at 18, landing in Los Angeles, where he delivered pizzas…

According to Vodacom Tanzania, the initiative is aimed at enhancing efficiency, improving access to information, strengthening oversight, and supporting better service delivery within cooperatives that serve farmers and local communities. Vodacom Tanzania Plc  has partnered with the Tanzania Cooperative Development Commission (TCDC)  to strengthen the digital capacity of cooperative societies across the country by donating laptops to support the commission’s operations. According to Vodacom Tanzania, the initiative is aimed at enhancing efficiency, improving access to information, strengthening oversight, and supporting better service delivery within cooperatives that serve farmers and local communities. The telecommunications company emphasized that digital transformation extends beyond…

NVIDIA Accelerates Google DeepMind’s DiffusionGemma for Local AI The new DiffusionGemma open model generates text in parallel — not one token at a time — and is optimized to run on the NVIDIA RTX PRO platform, NVIDIA DGX Spark systems and GeForce RTX GPUs. June 12, 2026 — This week, Google DeepMind released DiffusionGemma — an experimental open model built for exceptionally fast text generation. NVIDIA has optimized DiffusionGemma to run even faster across NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs, the NVIDIA RTX PRO platform and NVIDIA DGX Spark systems, from local PCs to the cloud. Rather than generating text one word…

The programme aims to ensure that skills development leads to meaningful employment opportunities and economic participation. MTN South Africa,  through the MTN SA Foundation, has reaffirmed its commitment to addressing youth unemployment and the country’s digital skills gap through its Digital Skills for Digital Jobs (DS4DJ) programme. The company recently hosted a Digital Skills Training Exposure Day in Diepsloot, bringing together ecosystem partners, training providers, and young participants at the Afrika Tikkun x MTN Skills Academy Hub. The event highlighted the role of collaboration in equipping young South Africans with the skills needed to participate in the digital economy. Under…

Strava has added some new features today that are “designed to meet athletes where they are”, the company says. There are map style improvements launching “later this summer” that will give you richer trail surface data and clearer points of interest like trailheads, picnic areas, and campgrounds. For subscribers only, there’s also Route Saves, which lets you save routes from the Activity Detail page, the Route Detail page, the Route Builder, and from Edit Route. Additionally, you get off-route alerts when you stray from your planned route, and Activity Replays auto-animate hikes in your feed, replaying your route to friends…

Sam Lyman, the head of research at the Bitcoin Policy Institute and the author of the report, said that he first started looking into the issue following a public AI safety conversation in April between Senator Bernie Sanders and four experts, including two from China, about the need for international cooperation.“It was such an obvious psyop,” he says of the event.However, experts on China and AI who spoke to WIRED were skeptical of the report’s claims that Beijing is directly and intentionally involved in the US data center discourse. Kyle Chan, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, points out that…