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TAJBank’s PBT rises 74%, pays higher dividend

  • Punch Newspapers
  • Published date: 2026-08-16 23:39:24 UTC

TAJBank, Nigeria’s largest non-interest bank, reports a 74% surge in Profit Before Tax to N31.56bn in FY2025 and approves a higher dividend. Read More: https://punchng.com/tajbanks-pbt-rises-74-pays-higher-dividend/

DDoS Attacks Cause Major Threema Outages

  • Pierluigi Paganini
  • Published date: 2026-08-16 23:38:43 UTC

Large DDoS attacks disrupted Threema, causing severe communication outages. Threema On-Prem users were unaffected by the attacks. Threema suffered multiple large-scale DDoS attacks that disrupted its secure messaging service and caused severe communication is…

FRC tasks auditors, regulators on responsible AI use

  • Punch Newspapers
  • Published date: 2026-08-16 23:24:21 UTC

The FRC urges auditors and regulators to ensure AI strengthens audit integrity and public trust in financial reporting, warning against ethical compromises Read More: https://punchng.com/frc-tasks-auditors-regulators-on-responsible-ai-use/

New Chinese model adds to AI competition

  • semafor.com
  • Published date: 2026-08-16 22:41:02 UTC

Chinese AI startup Zhipu said its new GLM-5.3 model outperformed Anthropic’s Mythos 5 in a key cybersecurity benchmark and closed the gap on coding capabilities, marking the latest Chinese open-weight model to claim parity with the Western AI frontier. Follow…

Alibaba Overtakes Google and Meta With 3 Billion AI Model Downloads

  • PYMNTS
  • Published date: 2026-08-16 22:06:50 UTC

Open-weight models from China’s Alibaba have reportedly become the world’s top artificial intelligence offerings. The company’s models have seen more than 3 billion downloads worldwide over the last six months, surpassing those of Meta, Google and Alibaba’s C…

Singapore uses AI scam calls as live security training

  • IT News
  • Published date: 2026-08-16 18:49:44 UTC

Singapore is testing a more realistic form of security awareness training: AI-enabled robocalls that impersonate government officials. The six-month National Simulated Scams Exercise began on March 1, runs through August 31, and lets volunteers experience soc…

Lecornu to hold cybersecurity meeting on Aug. 17

  • breakingthenews.net
  • Published date: 2026-08-16 18:08:01 UTC

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu will chair an interministerial crisis meeting after a cybersecurity incident tomorrow, August 17, his office announced in a statement on Sunday.A few days earli...

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  • Published date: 2026-08-16 18:06:15 UTC

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