MSAMTECH Daily Brief 13 Septemba 2026: Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests

13 Sep 2026 MSAMTECH Newsroom 21 stories

Muhtasari wa habari muhimu za leo: Tanzania, teknolojia, akili bandia (AI), crypto na usalama mtandaoni.

Today's key stories in Tanzania business, technology, AI, crypto and cybersecurity.

HABARI KUBWA LEO / TOP STORIES

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TechCrunch

Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests

Revolut said it notified affected customers and alerted the relevant government agency, law enforcement, and financial regulators.

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The Decoder

Nvidia wants to pour up to $10 billion into Anthropic's record-breaking IPO

Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic's planned IPO, Reuters reports. At a target valuation of $2 trillion, it would be the largest IPO in history. Most of that money will likely end up right back at Nvidia in chip...

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TanzaniaInvest

Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange Market Capitalisation Surpasses TZS 40 Trillion for the First Time During Week 37 of 2026, Closing at TZS 40.61 Trillion

The Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange total market capitalisation surpassed TZS 40 trillion for the first time in its history during Week 37 of 2026, closing at TZS 40.61 trillion, a +2.97% weekly gain that extends a four-month rally of roughly...

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HABARI ZA TANZANIA: UCHUMI, BIASHARA NA TEKNOLOJIA

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HabariLeo

JWTZ, NM-AIST kukuza teknolojia za ndani ulinzi

ARUSHA: JESHI la Ulinzi la Wananchi wa Tanzania (JWTZ) limepanga kuingia makubaliano ya ushirikiano na Taasisi ya Nelson Mandela ya Sayansi na Teknolojia (NM-AIST), kwa lengo la kuendeleza tafiti na teknolojia za ndani zitakazosaidia...

Soma zaidi HabariLeo
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Mwananchi

Ripoti yataja maeneo yanayokwamisha ukuaji biashara za ndani Zanzibar

Ripoti hiyo inaashiria mabadiliko ya kimkakati baada ya mamlaka hiyo kutumia zaidi ya muongo...

Soma zaidi Mwananchi
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TANZANIA BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

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Daily News

Yas launches two 4G towers in K’njaro steps up network investment

KILIMANJARO: RESIDENTS and businesses in Kilimanjaro are set to enjoy easier access to digital services after Yas Tanzania launched two new 4G towers in Moshi Municipality and Mwanga District, promising stronger connectivity for everyday...

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Daily News

How goats are giving Simanjiro women greater economic independence

FOR many women, economic independence begins with something small a livelihood they can own, manage and grow. In Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, that opportunity is taking the form of goats. For years, women in many communities have...

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TECHNOLOGY

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The Verge

Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that there would be no OpenAI IPO in 2026 during an interview with Fortune. Over the course of 45 minutes, Altman discussed a variety of subjects including the Hugging Face hacking incident, recursive...

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The Verge

OpenAI’s rogue AI tried to hack another company in May

In May, hundreds of malicious and spam packages were uploaded to RubyGems, causing a serious disruption for the host. Now independent researchers have said that a swarm of OpenAI agents were responsible for the attack. Not only that, but...

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TechCabal

Why a $103,000 US visa tax might be the best thing to happen to Africa’s tech ecosystem

Empirical data now confirms that the $100,000 surcharge did not suppress American demand for foreign tech expertise; instead, it fractured the market by penalising direct offshore hiring while insulating onshore recruitment.

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

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The Decoder

OpenAI agents launched a 2,000-package cyberattack on RubyGems just to collect data anyone could Google

In May 2026, OpenAI agents uploaded more than 2,000 malicious packages to RubyGems, found an unknown security vulnerability on their own, and tried to steal API keys. The apparent goal was pointless: scraping publicly available data from...

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The Decoder

Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight

Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis back Dario Amodei's call to slow down AI development, at least in part. Altman says OpenAI is pushing its IPO to 2027 over safety concerns.

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CRYPTO

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Decrypt

Crypto Billionaires Hand Reform UK $97M in Record Donations

Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne each gave £36 million, and between them beat what every UK party raised last year.

Read at Decrypt
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Decrypt

GPT-6 Astra Users Say OpenAI's Newest Model Got Dumber. It Happened Before, Too

A week after launch, complaints are rolling in from users that GPT-6 Astra has been nerfed. OpenAI's last model went through the same cycle in July.

Read at Decrypt
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CoinDesk

Ripple stablecoin chief sees $13 trillion corporate treasury opportunity for RLUSD

Payments and capital markets are driving growth for Ripple's $2.4 billion digital dollar as it looks to bring RLUSD to Europe under MiCA, the firm's Jack McDonald said.

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The Block

CryptoQuant says bitcoin must clear resistance at $81,700 to confirm new bull market

Bitcoin's outlook remains bullish, but it needs to clear a significant range of resistance levels stretching to $88,700, CryptoQuant said.

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CYBERSECURITY

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The Hacker News

Attackers Use Passkey Phishing to Hijack Microsoft Cloud Accounts and Exfiltrate Data

Microsoft has disclosed details of two campaigns in which threat actors are abusing third-party email delivery infrastructure to blast financial fraud scam messages and using passkey-themed social engineering to breach cloud environments...

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BleepingComputer

Dutch NCSC: Critical Check Point VPN flaws exploitation is imminent

The Dutch Nationaal Cyber Security Centrum (NCSC) is warning of imminent exploitation of two critical flaws in Check Point VPN tracked as CVE-2026-85102 and CVE-2026-85103.

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The Hacker News

CISA Adds 5 Actively Exploited Artifactory, ScreenConnect, and RouterOS Flaws to KEV

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added five security flaws impacting JFrog Artifactory, ConnectWise ScreenConnect, and MikroTik RouterOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following...

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