The term cyber hygiene, the first line of defence against cybercrime, increasingly got into the vocabulary after financial institutions and public bodies suffered serious security scares
Youth from communities in the Amansie South and Amansie West districts are benefiting from a Community Skills and Apprenticeship Programme spearheaded by Asanko Gold Ghana Ltd. Speaking during the graduation and induction ceremony at Manso Nkwanta, the General Manager of Asanko Gold Ghana Ltd, Justice Fenteng, urged beneficiaries from both cohorts to embrace the initiative and work towards improving themselves and their communities.
President John Dramani Mahama has urged African nations to actively shape the global artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, calling for practical cooperation with Russia to ensure the continent benefits from the transformative technology. “Ghana is prepared to explore a Russia-Africa digital innovation and Artificial Intelligence Programme that will bring together African universities, research institutions, businesses, and public agencies,” he announced.
Up to $8.9 billion in crypto funds have been stolen from the cryptocurrency exchange, with approximately $4.2 billion frozen.
The 46-year-old, who lives in Melbourne, was arrested last month at a Noosa apartment complex.
“The RTC should ensure newer routes are updated as soon as they’re launched”
The United States banned imports from three Chinese genomics companies on Wednesday over claims they collected genetic material used to track persecuted ethnic minorities in China’s Xinjiang region. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said BGI Genomics, MGI Tech and Shenzhen BGI Technology, also known as BGI Group, had been added to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List.
…As NBTE moves to phase out non-applied sciences courses in polytechnics The House of Representatives has pledged to study the KPMG report on the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) and make appropriate recommendations to address the agency’s operational and funding challenges. Earlier, the Executive Secretary of NBTE, Prof. Idris Muhammad Bugaje, commended the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon.
Binance said the extent of damages was not known and had not confirmed whether funds had been pilfered Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, said on Thursday it is investigating reports of a potential security issue as its founder said the incident “does look like a hack on Binance”. It wasn’t immediately clear the extent of the damage hackers might have been able to accomplish and Binance had not explicitly confirmed that funds had been pilfered, but stablecoin issuers quickly froze funds Thursday evening.
Google spooked investors so badly that its stock hit a six-month low, after it revealed its AI search summaries were affecting ad revenue.
A fresh Aboriginal protection application has been submitted as the battle to protect the Belubula headwaters from a goldmine's tailings dam continues.
A highly regarded Queensland silk fears it's a turning point in the wrong direction for Queensland while victims of crime say their cries have been heard.
By Efosa Taiwo Juliet Ehimuan, founder of Beyond Limits and former Director of Google West Africa, has urged African creatives and technology entrepreneurs to move beyond content creation to building sustainable businesses that own intellectual property and capture value from their work. We should move from content creation to IP,” Ehimuan said.
The call was made on Wednesday, October 28, at a National Dialogue on Civil-Security Engagement in Accra, convened by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in partnership with the National Security Council Secretariat and the National Peace Council, with funding from the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. National Security Coordinator, COP Osman Abdul-Razak, also emphasised collective action, while Netherlands Ambassador to Ghana, Hans Akerboom, highlighted the importance of inclusive governance, youth opportunities and community engagement.
Day two of Moonshot by TechCabal 2026 brought together technology leaders, startup founders, creatives, investors and industry professionals for conversations on the future of Africa’s digital economy, with sessions spanning artificial intelligence, financial technology, the creative economy and emerging technologies. The event featured multiple stages, including the Startup Stage, Emerging Tech Stage and Creative Economy Stage, where speakers explored the opportunities and challenges shaping Africa’s technology and business landscape.
Expressions of disappointment are not an adequate response to the concerning lack of safety improvements for children on social media One thing is clear following last week’s report from the media regulator, Ofcom: the mammoth task of protecting children from online harms has barely begun. In a grim irony, Ofcom’s report appeared one day after a coroner in Norfolk ruled that suicide imagery viewed on TikTok “may have played a significant part” in the decision by a 14-year-old girl to take her own life in May.
The US tech giant is investing $15bn in a huge new data centre project in northern Finland.
The Ashanti Regional Branch of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has secured a waiver on land allocated by Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II for the proposed Ashanti Press Centre, marking a significant milestone in efforts to establish a permanent office for journalists in the region. He expressed profound gratitude to Otumfuo Osei Tutu II for the gesture and acknowledged Access Bank Ghana and Fidelity Bank Ghana for providing seed capital to support the project’s take-off.
Big tech companies like Amazon, Meta and Alphabet are expected to spend more than $700bn this year on AI chips and infrastructure like data centres. This week, the company said it would extend a voluntary redundancy offer to eligible employees in teams across Canada, India, the UK and US to adapt its workforce to “changing needs”.
Court documents reveal staff considered ways to ‘get academic community to disavow’ influential US author Meta staff discussed deploying a “whisper strategy” to undermine the influential US academic whose work has inspired a global social media crackdown, according to court documents. Employees at the parent group of Facebook and Instagram sought to discredit Jonathan Haidt, the social psychologist and author of The Anxious Generation, a book that helped tip the debate about online safety towards more stringent measures such as the under-16 ban in Australia.
By Adesina Wahab An activist and publisher of The Common Good Letter, Rev. David Ugolor, has challenged the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, to publish details of the Federal Government’s approval of N30 billion for remedial works on the East-West Road. Ugolor called for an explanation of how the N30 billion approval related to existing East-West Road contracts and the previously announced reconstruction of approximately 400 kilometres between Edo and Cross River states.
Gaming company Nsaa Play has launched Chop Money, a mobile raffle platform that allows Ghanaians to enter prize draws for GHS5 per ticket. Akua Serwaa Adu Darko, a representative of the National Lottery Authority (NLA) Caritas Team, said the platform had met the required standards and received the Authority’s approval to operate its raffle draws.
Kashmir has a small four-month window for exporting apples and the cold chain is still poor at maintaining the quality, said Dr. N.K. Krishna Kumar, ex-Deputy Director (Horticulture) Indian Council of Agricultural Research
