Bekar

Technology Enthusiast

[UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies @ODET_UN]

Tomorrow: Digital Cooperation Day 2026.

Governments, the UN system, industry, academia, civil society and the technical community come together in New York to move from global commitments to practical action.

https://t.co/ECHUIVhYVP

#DigitalCooperation #DigitalCooperationDay

[Anderson Cooper 360° @AC360]

"Godfather of AI" Professor Yoshua Bengio says recursive self-improvement — when AI will be able to create new models without human input — should be illegal. "We shouldn't even engage in this," he says.

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[NASA @NASA]

This starry view is one of the largest images released to date from @NASAWebb – and it contains a surprise. Researchers found brown dwarfs twice the mass of Jupiter, which is small for this strange class of cosmic object. https://t.co/6HRYpgegUe

[Bekar @iamBekar]

@ArtfulDoja7 @YusufSerunkuma https://t.co/Bu1PfZF7sz

[Bekar @iamBekar]

@serugo @TimKalyegira @mugangakatosi Adding to moses'....

Primary Title: Things Fall Apart (1971 Film)

Alternate Title: Bullfrog in the Sun

Director: Hansjürgen Pohland (or Jason Pohland)

Lead Actors: Princess Elizabeth of Toro (as Clara Okeke) and Johnny Sekka (as Obi Okonkwo)

https://t.co/pxXSJK3b36

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

Uber to exit Nigeria after 12 years, and Uganda after 10 years. It pulled out of Tanzania in Jan., 2026, and Ivory Coast in 2025. A friend visiting Uganda once called an Uber, and it arrived with the driver’s wife or girlfriend in the front passenger seat breastfeeding a baby. You can imagine the poor fellow’s shock!!!
What are some of the strangest Uber stories you have heard in Africa?

[Amos Wekesa @wekesa_amos]

KING OYO - IMPACT

Even in his death, King OYO is impactful, Fortportal and surrounding towns will fill to capacity during his burial. Tourism impact!

Am told the road to Fortportal is a beehive, construction efforts have gone up 10 times right now. Impact!

KING OYO did one of the most successful documentaries on the RWENZORI RANGES like you will read below! Impact !

The documentary associated with King Oyo (Omukama Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV of Tooro Kingdom) is the short film Rwenzori: The Source of Life (also referred to as King Oyo:

Royal Rwenzori Mountain Expedition). It follows his 10-day 2022 expedition to Margherita Peak (5,109 m), the highest point in the Rwenzori Mountains and in Uganda, and focuses on climate change, melting glaciers, conservation, and promoting sustainable mountain tourism. It was a joint project of UNDP Uganda, the Uganda Tourism Board, and Tooro Kingdom.

It received notable recognition in tourism and documentary film circles rather than becoming a mass-market hit. It won multiple international awards, including a Gold Trophy at the 2023 New York Festivals TV & Film Awards, placement in the US International Awards (tourism products), a top-5 / third-place finish in the Tourism Products category at the 2023 World Tourism Film Awards in Valencia, and recognition at ART & TUR. Sources describe it as a four- or five-time award winner.2
It premiered first in the United States (California), then in Fort Portal and at a Kampala premiere at the International University of East Africa in late 2023. Related events drew large local crowds.

It was later added to the inflight entertainment on Brussels Airlines long-haul flights as a Destination Uganda promotion. Tourism officials publicly credited it (along with other efforts) with helping post-COVID recovery in Uganda’s tourism sector and increased interest in it was well-regarded and effective as a promotional and advocacy film—especially in tourism, conservation, and official circles, Its main impact was awards prestige, targeted screenings, and use in destination marketing.

[Bekar @iamBekar]

@wekesa_amos Rwenzori: The Source of Life

https://t.co/VZ3VOD2MEf

[Starlink @Starlink]

Starlink's high-speed, low-latency internet is now available in Uganda! 🛰️🇺🇬❤️ → https://t.co/7ulIDoltxg

[NTV UGANDA @ntvuganda]

Uganda is going to adopt AI to solve real economic and public service problems - Ramathan Ggoobi, PSST

#TenfoldGrowth #KnowYourBudget26 #USD500BillionEconomy

@mofpedU
@The_IGC

[WIRED @WIRED]

In case you missed it in the spring, Meta (along with YouTube) lost a landmark social media case in California, in which a jury found the companies liable for harming a young user with certain design features in their apps. https://t.co/dKvcwxk5Bs

[Amos Wekesa @wekesa_amos]

RWENZORI MARATHON 2026

International media crew here in Uganda for live streaming by the WORLD ATHLETICS FEDERATION is in kasese.

The bigger part of the crew flies in today and heads to kasese for work

[Bekar @iamBekar]

@DailyMonitor https://t.co/pkjZIFxEZ6

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

A security researcher has designed an algorithm that can create computer-generated patterns capable of hiding people, faces, and vehicles from detection by surveillance cameras.
https://t.co/J0GHkGNOaz

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok https://t.co/7sklcROznQ

[theCooperator Media @CooperatorNews]

Opinions & Commentary

Last Saturday Ugandans and other nationals living in the country picked up brooms, hoes, sticks, slashers, spades, pangas, and gloves and went out to clean surroundings such as roads, road reserves, drainage channels and other public spaces, with the aim of promoting community hygiene.

More: https://t.co/8BXcqzeS1i

✍️ @iamBekar #CooperatorUpdates

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

One cool Tesla feature is “Bioweapon Defense Mode”

It forces outside air through a HEPA/carbon filter, then pressurizes the cabin.
The pressure inside the car is slightly higher than the air outside, so any leaks will blow air outward rather than pulling contaminants in.

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

The wildest allegations in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI https://t.co/lC2xB4x4Bw

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI https://t.co/nYHRWkosWP