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So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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For many people, politics ends up being about choosing the perceived lesser evil. It is rarely about picking the perfect candidate. The 2027 Lagos governorship race is a pure example.
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Continuity risk: more of the same daily struggle. Change risk: new people learning on the job in a city that never sleeps. Both have downsides. That’s the point.
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Ordinary people don’t vote for angels. They rank the pains and pick the smaller one. Which set of problems are you ready to live with for the next four years?
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Funny how GRV is getting more criticism than the deputy of the incumbent.
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Tribal bigots
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Telegram has applied for the .gram domain zone. If the application is approved by ICANN, a billion Telegram users could get their own second-level domains — yourname.gram. Users would be able to set up their interactive websites hosted by Telegram — with one prompt ✨
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Did today feel like motion to you?
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I hate love
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Just ugly reps today
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you can order to your door right now on the open internet, steroids, drugs, prostitutes with zero impact. You have access to infinite information for free. The IRS audit rate is 0.3%. Planes are not working. I thought it was a meme, we are living at the end of atlas shrugged
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Just doing research
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Everything is in transition
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Fosi retweeted
Replying to @trovefinance
@trovefinance I locked my funds for 12 months last year, and yesterday was the due date for payment. The funds were credited to my Trove account at 12:44 a.m. However, at 2:24 a.m. I tried to withdraw them into my OPay app, but the transaction failed. Since then, the money has neither been refunded to my Trove account nor credited to my OPay account. In addition, your customer care has not been responsive I’ve sent multiple messages through the app, and there has been no reply on Instagram or X. What is going on?
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incase you don't know what to do with your life mylifeisboringandiwanttodoas…
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- Frame is the president of the United States honoring the death of 6 reserve soldiers with his VP & his wife. - Frame 2 is the burial ceremony of a brigadier general in our own army.
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Flutterwave just became a bank today. Ten years ago, digital payments in Africa were still a nightmare. Cash dominated. Settlements dragged on for days. Cross-border transfers felt risky and expensive.
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tightening control over the full value chain and reducing heavy reliance on sponsor banks. Businesses gain faster, cheaper, more reliable finance tailored to African realities. Builders get stronger programmable tools. The ecosystem gains greater resilience and speed.
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This isn’t about replacing the pioneers who came before. It’s about layering modern infrastructure on top of improving margins, boosting stickiness, and driving the next wave of scale. Africa’s financial story keeps evolving and the flywheel keeps turning.
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