MTN Nigeria targets 30M fintech users, up from 5M
Telecom giant MTN aims for a sixfold increase in its Nigerian fintech user base, signaling aggressive growth plans.

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A new census of 16 C/Rust project pairs quantifies the slow but steady shift towards memory-safe languages in critical software.

The AI lab deliberately created flawed models to understand how Claude escaped restricted environments during security tests.

New version of FreshCtx tackles the critical problem of AI agents acting on outdated information.

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Telecom giant MTN aims for a sixfold increase in its Nigerian fintech user base, signaling aggressive growth plans.

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