Kenyan Smallholder Farmers Use AI Apps to Detect Crop Disease and Cut Costs as AgriTech Spreads Across Africa

Kenyan Smallholder Farmers Use AI Apps to Detect Crop Disease and Cut Costs as AgriTech Spreads Across Africa

In Matungulu ward in Kenya’s Machakos County, farmer John Wambua photographs his maize leaves with a smartphone and receives a diagnosis within 20 seconds — a fall armyworm infestation, with recommended solutions to address it. “This app has greatly helped me and many farmers around this area,” Wambua said, adding that the tool diagnoses problems,…

Google AI Studio Lets Anyone Build Android Apps With AI

Google AI Studio Lets Anyone Build Android Apps With AI

Most people still use AI for chatting, generating images, or summarizing emails. But Google now wants AI to help people build software too. During Google I/O 2026, Google introduced major new app-building capabilities inside Google AI Studio that allow users to generate Android apps simply by chatting with AI. The update could become one of…

AI developers hackathon: Build real-world apps

AI developers hackathon: Build real-world apps

What happens when AI technology is no longer just a tool, but an assistant capable of independently solving problems, adapting to unexpected situations and powering entire operations? That is the challenge Sea and OpenAI are putting before developers, students, startups and technology builders through the Regional Sea x OpenAI Codex Hackathon, which will kick off…

Google AI Studio Now Lets You Build Native Android Apps in Minutes

Google AI Studio Now Lets You Build Native Android Apps in Minutes

If you are into Android app development and like the idea of vibe coding, Google delivered some big news at I/O 2026 related to Google AI Studio. The company has announced that you can now build native Android apps directly from Google AI Studio, while also adding Google Workspace integrations, mobile app support, cloud deployment,…

When configuration becomes a vulnerability: Exploitable misconfigurations in AI apps

When configuration becomes a vulnerability: Exploitable misconfigurations in AI apps

In this article AI and agentic application deployments on cloud-native platforms are increasing, and they often prioritize speed over secure configuration. Our observations from aggregated and anonymized Microsoft Defender for Cloud signals showed cases where AI services were publicly exposed with weak or missing authentication, creating exploitable misconfigurations that attackers actively abused. These issues enabled…

15 Best Mobile AI Trading Bots & Automated Apps (2026)

15 Best Mobile AI Trading Bots & Automated Apps (2026)

Mobile trading changed dramatically over the last two years. What used to be a simple way to check prices has evolved into a complete trading environment where users can automate strategies, monitor volatility, manage portfolios, and react to global market events directly from a smartphone. That transition accelerated throughout 2025 and early 2026 as crypto,…

5,000 vibe-coded apps just proved shadow AI is the new S3 bucket crisis

5,000 vibe-coded apps just proved shadow AI is the new S3 bucket crisis

Most enterprise security programs were built to protect servers, endpoints, and cloud accounts. None of them was built to find a customer intake form that a product manager vibe coded on Lovable over a weekend, connected to a live Supabase database, and deployed on a public URL indexed by Google. That gap now has a…