Adversarial attacks are a ticking time bomb, but no one cares What makes adversarial attacks different? Every type of software has its own unique security vulnerabilities, and with new trends in software, new threats emerge. For instance, as web applications with database backends started replacing static websites, SQL injection attacks became prevalent. The widespread adoption of browser-side scripting languages gave rise to cross-site scripting attacks. Buffer overflow attacks overwrite critical variables and execute malicious code on target computers by taking advantage of the way programming languages such as C handle memory allocation....

We’vealready coveredHuawei’s $100 Android IDEOS phone, which has quickly become a 2011 smartphone bestseller in Kenya. Huaweirecently partneredwith Nigerian CDMA operator, Starcomms to launch the smartphone in the Nigerian market. With over 90 million phone subscribers, Nigeria is a prime market in which to launch the IDEOS and help migrate current feature and low end phone users to smart phones. An Informa Telecoms Media report reveals that there will be up to 265 million data subscribers in Africa by 2015, up from about 12 million today andaccording toMicrosoft South Africa Executive, Fred Baumhardt, mobile devices such as smartphones are entering the African market four times faster than PCs or laptops....

Late last month, Google launched a pilot startup incubator in Cape Town, South Africa called Umbono.Umbono(which is the Zulu word for “vision” or “idea”) aims to help African entrepreneurs transform their startup ideas into businesses by providing them with up to $50,000 in seed funding, free collaborative work space and bandwidth, access to a mentor base of Google employees, VCs and Angels, business training as well as visibility via networking and pitch events....

Fixed broadband prices in Africa have fallen by over 55% in the past two years according to areportby theInternational Telecommunications Union(ITU). In the ITU report, out of the top ten countries showing the steepest decline in prices worldwide, nine of them were African countries including Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique, Tanzania, Mauritania, Benin and Zambia. Hamadoun Toure, secretary-general at ITU, said: “With ICTs as primary drivers of social and economic development, these results are encouraging....

The release of thedraft human genome sequencein 2001 was a seismic moment in our understanding of the human genome and paved the way for advances in our understanding of the genomic basis of human biology and disease. But sections were left unsequenced, and some sequence information was incorrect. Now, two decades later, we have a much more complete version,published as a preprint(which is yet to undergo peer review) by an international consortium of researchers....