After two delays, Grand Theft Auto VI lands on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, taking players back to Vice City in the fictional state of Leonida.
Owning an electronic wallet is not enough to join the financial system. A white paper relayed by CIO Mag puts a number on the gap between accounts opened and accounts in use, and proposes four workstreams to make mobile money an everyday tool.
Dossier-TekLaunched in February 2025 with a 1.105 trillion CFA franc price tag, Senegal’s digital plan has delivered its first government platforms and its first laws. But its most tangible promise, to connect a million people by December, has lost its main tool, and the big industrial projects are still just signatures. A progress report, with the numbers.
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The Senegalese Association for Economic Intelligence, chaired by Amadou Cissé, set out its 2026 programme on October 18: training, conferences and a push to get organisations to protect their data. So far the plan comes with no timetable, no public partner and no figures.
Between January and August 2026, Nigerian networks carried 11.94 million terabytes of data, against 13.25 million for the whole of 2025, according to the regulator. Demand keeps climbing even though data bundles rose by more than 50% last year.
Analysis
Presented in Dakar on Friday, a report by the Cheikh Hamidou Kane Digital University, based on 5,037 students and 159 lecturers, is the first national snapshot of generative AI in Senegalese higher education. It finds the tools firmly embedded among those who know them, and a third of students left out.
In a blog post on October 15, Microsoft said Windows 11 now opens the Start menu, File Explorer and search faster, and uses memory more sparingly. The changes are starting to reach all users, though the company has not said how quickly.
Amazon is negotiating to buy the Israeli-founded startup for about $7 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal, nearly twice what it was valued at in May. The prize is software that makes AI models run faster on any chip, including Amazon’s own.
AnalysisIn a paper in Science, Google Quantum AI has shown on real hardware, for the first time, a technique called “magic state cultivation” that cheapens the most expensive ingredient in quantum computing. A separate preprint with DeepMind and MIT promises to slash the number of qubits needed. A useful quantum computer still does not exist.
Apple has invited the press to a day billed as “Pro and tell”, on Wednesday, October 28, in Los Angeles. The invitation names no product. According to Bloomberg, the company will show its first touchscreen Mac there, a MacBook Pro with an OLED display, alongside a refreshed iMac, entry-level MacBook Pro and iPad mini.
OpenAI’s chief executive has confirmed the company is developing a humanoid, without showing a single image of it. He is aiming for a demonstration next year but warns that such robots will not be walking the streets for several more years. It is an intention, not a product launch date.
America’s consumer protection watchdog on Wednesday sent the two AI labs civil investigative demands running to more than fifty pages each, covering incidents, safeguards, advertising and privacy. It is not accusing them of anything yet. It wants to know what their models did, and what the companies told the public about it.
Opening the 42nd General Assembly of the Council of Bureaux in Dakar on Tuesday, the scheme’s permanent secretary general said digital certificates would be rolled out across the region from January 2027. The aim: retire a paper document that is hard to check and speed up payouts to accident victims who are left waiting.
To mark fifty years of its signals corps, Senegal’s military on Friday co-hosted the first Africa Cyber Network conference with a private company. Vice Admiral Oumar Wade urged government agencies, businesses, universities and citizens to take a share in defending the country’s cyberspace.
An engine that shut down too early during the climb, and the fear of not being able to come back down: SpaceX has detailed why the ship stayed in orbit for just over two hours instead of ten. A cautious call that made a first possible: a controlled deorbit.
AnalysisThe 14th test flight of SpaceX’s giant rocket deployed real Starlink satellites and completed its first laps of the Earth, before an early return to the Pacific. A key step for the Moon, Mars and satellite internet, including in Africa.
AnalysisCarbonised in AD 79 and too fragile to unroll, scroll PHerc. 1667 reveals a treatise of Stoic philosophy. Synchrotron X-rays, virtual unrolling and machine learning: a method that could give a voice back to hundreds of ancient texts.
Approved by the cabinet in February 2025, the Digital Governance Committee was formally installed late last week by Prime Minister Ahmadou Al Aminou Mohamed Lô. It is meant to vet ministries’ projects, weed out duplication and keep the costs of the New Technological Deal in check.
Since 5 a.m. Pacific time on Friday (noon in Dakar, 2 p.m. in Paris), Apple has been taking orders for its first folding phone, which ships from October 23. At $1,999 in the US and €2,339 in France, it is the most expensive iPhone ever sold, and analysts expect few units before the end of the year.
AnalysisA $299 smart display, an Apple TV that costs $100 more, a $149 HomePod mini and a range of locks and cameras made by LG and Schneider Electric: on Tuesday in New York, Apple unveiled its most ambitious push into the connected home. All of it rests on a rebuilt Siri that Europe won’t get.
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