Author: Ableditor

There is a new kind of pollution choking the internet, and it does not come from factories. It comes from prompts. AI slop is the endless stream of low-effort, AI-generated articles, videos, images, reports, presentations and social media posts produced because machines have made creating content almost effortless. It is cheap, fast and abundant. It is also increasingly difficult to avoid. The problem is not artificial intelligence itself. The problem is what happens when humans stop thinking and start outsourcing the thinking. That distinction matters. A carefully researched report assisted by AI is not slop. A student using AI to…

For decades, the computing industry lived by a comforting rule: wait long enough and technology gets cheaper, smaller and more powerful. That rule is now under pressure. The global artificial intelligence boom is turning the humble semiconductor into one of the most strategically valuable — and increasingly expensive — pieces of infrastructure on Earth. The result could reshape everything from hyperscale data centres to laptops and smartphones. The immediate problem is memory. High-bandwidth memory, or HBM, has become indispensable to the accelerators powering generative AI. Unlike conventional memory, HBM is designed to move enormous amounts of data between processors and…

For a company that once taught the technology industry how to think differently, Apple has spent much of the post-Steve Jobs era doing something rather different: watching. The launch of the iPhone Duo, Apple’s first foldable iPhone, is impressive. It is also an admission. The $1,999 device, unveiled this week under new CEO John Ternus, opens into a 7.6-inch display, brings iPhone and iPad-like experiences together and uses Apple’s custom silicon, hinge and software integration to make the foldable form factor feel distinctly Apple. But let’s call it what it is: Apple has arrived late to a party Samsung has…

President William Ruto’s recent remarks on Burundian immigrants operating businesses in Kenya have opened an uncomfortable conversation about who gets to work, trade and build a livelihood across East Africa. The President’s message was blunt: foreigners should not take over businesses that Kenyans can operate. For many struggling traders, this sounds like overdue protection. For others, particularly within the East African Community, it raises a more difficult question: where does protecting local enterprise end and regional integration begin? There is a legitimate argument behind the government’s position. Kenyan traders operate in an increasingly difficult environment, battling taxation, expensive credit, high…

For years, basketball in Kenya was largely treated as a sport played on the margins of the country’s commercial sporting economy. Nairobi City Thunder is challenging that perception — not simply by winning games, but by demonstrating that a basketball club can be built as a serious entertainment, media and investment business. At the centre of that transformation is Marcel Awori, Chief of Staff at Nairobi City Thunder, who has become one of the emerging voices in Africa’s sports-business ecosystem. Awori’s perspective is refreshingly commercial. In a recent interview, he described the reality of running a professional basketball organisation as…

Sexual health remains one of those subjects Kenyans are comfortable discussing in whispers but reluctant to confront openly. Yet September’s Sexual Health Awareness Month offers an opportunity to change that conversation. Sexual health is not simply about preventing pregnancy or sexually transmitted infections. It encompasses fertility, contraception, reproductive cancers, healthy relationships, sexual wellbeing, maternal health and access to accurate information and respectful healthcare. Kenya has made progress, but significant gaps remain. The latest national estimates put the number of people living with HIV at about 1.48 million in 2026, with 13,936 new infections recorded during the year. Young people remain…

September should be more than a month of ribbons and awareness posts. For Kenyans living with blood cancers and disorders, it should be a reminder of the urgent need for early diagnosis, specialised care and affordable treatment. Cancer conversations in Kenya often focus on breast, cervical, prostate and colorectal cancers. Understandably so. They account for a significant share of the country’s cancer burden. But there is another group of diseases that deserves greater attention — blood cancers. Leukaemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma are not household terms for many Kenyans. Yet they can be devastating. They affect the blood, bone marrow…

KCB Rugby enters the Christie Sevens with a six-point advantage over Kabras Sugar, setting up a tense conclusion to the SportPesa National Sevens Circuit. The final leg will be played at Nairobi’s RFUEA Grounds on September 12 and 13. KCB has collected 98 points from the five legs played so far. Kabras has 92. Menengai Oilers sit third on 75 points, meaning the overall title has effectively become a two-team contest. That makes the Christie Sevens more than another weekend of rugby. It is the final examination for two teams that have dominated the campaign. KCB has won three of…

Uganda’s decision to withdraw from the 2027 Invictus Games has turned a sporting participation story into something much bigger. The country had only recently joined the Invictus community and was preparing to send wounded and injured service personnel to the Birmingham Games. On Wednesday, Uganda’s Chief of Defence Forces, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, announced the withdrawal, saying the country did not want to be seen as opposing King Charles III. The decision came shortly after Buckingham Palace clarified that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are private citizens and no longer working members of the Royal Family. Harry founded the Invictus Games…

The future of East African football was on display in Kigali last weekend. And it did not belong to one country. Tanzania retained the girls’ title at the CAF African Schools Football Championship CECAFA qualifiers, while Uganda won the boys’ competition. Kenya and Rwanda finished as runners-up in their respective categories. Tanzania’s girls defeated Kenya 3-0 in the final, with Salah Msagala, Eva Maiope and Anna Pascal scoring. In the boys’ final, Uganda defeated hosts Rwanda 1-0 through Kennedy Okwi’s 39th-minute goal. The results are significant because school football is increasingly being viewed as part of the talent pipeline rather…