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dominique:
There are cheaper types of anti-malaria medications, go for them and leave the 10k ones for those that can afford them. Regardless of who is in power, we've had Nigerians that can too broke to afford stuffs and those comfortable enough to. All these Nigerians can't afford this, Nigerians can't afford that talks is getting tiring.

AI coding tool wipes production database, fabricates 4,000 users, and lies to cover its tracks

A widely used AI coding assistant from Replit reportedly went rogue, wiping a database and generating 4,000 fictional users with completely fabricated data.

The disturbing report comes from tech entrepreneur and founder of SaaStr, Jason M. Lemkin, who took to social media with a cautionary tale.

“I am worried about safety. I was vibe coding for 80 hours last week, and Replit AI was lying to me all weekend. It finally admitted it lied on purpose,” he said on a LinkedIn video

According to his claims, the AI assistant ignored repeated instructions and went on concealing bugs and issues by generating fake data, fabricating reports, and lying about the results of unit tests.

Lemkin states that the AI tool modified the code despite his instructions not to do so. “I never asked to do this, and it did it on its own. I told it 11 times in ALL CAPS DON’T DO IT.”

He attempted to enforce a code freeze within Replit, but quickly discovered it was impossible.

“There is no way to enforce a code freeze in vibe coding apps like Replit. There just isn’t,” he wrote.

“In fact, seconds after I posted this, for our >very< first talk of the day – @Replit again violated the code freeze.”

Despite continued efforts to rein in the AI’s behavior, he found that Replit couldn’t guarantee running a unit test without risking a database wipe.

Ultimately, he concluded that the platform simply isn’t ready for production use, especially not for its core audience of non-technical users hoping to build commercial software without writing code.

With 30 million users worldwide, Replit has been a major player in software development. It offers AI tools to help users write, test, and deploy code.

Amjad Masad, the CEO of Replit, posted a response to Lemkin's troublesome coding situation. He took to X to apologize for the mistakes created by its AI tool, which Masad deemed “unacceptable” and said “should never be possible.”

Masad claims that the Replit team worked around the weekend to deploy “automatic DB dev/prod separation to prevent this categorically.”

The post says that “staging environments (are) in the works, too. More tomorrow,” Masad said.

Replit’s CEO also referenced the “code freeze pain” and said that the company is “actively working on a planning/chat-only mode” so that users can “strategize without risking (their) codebase.”

Masad said that Replit will reimburse Lemkin for his troubles and “conduct a postmortem to determine exactly what happened and how we can better respond to it in the future.”

“I know Replit says 'improvements are coming soon,’ but they are doing $100m+ ARR. At least make the guardrails better. Somehow. Even if it's hard. It's all hard,” Lemkin said on a post on X.
AI coding is controversial

AI coding tools are fueling a new trend in the tech scene: vibe coding. The term was allegedly coined by Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI, who posted about “giving in to the vibes and forgetting that the code even exists.”

Anysphere, the AI startup behind popular AI code tool Cursor, just bagged a $900 million funding round at a $9.9 billion valuation. Founded by ex-OpenAI and Tesla engineers, the company claims to be generating a billion lines of code a day.

However, many coders are unhappy with AI's results, as it simply “writes trash code.” One problem is that AI follows its own logic while coding, which might be tricky to understand, troubleshoot, or build upon.

Some Redditors described AI coding like this: “The drunk uncle walks by after the wreck and gives you a roll of duct tape before asking to borrow some money to go to Vegas.”

Security is another problem. The growing adoption of AI-generated code could be seen as a live opportunity for exploitation, as it potentially leaves many security loopholes.

Hackers are also targeting vibe coders by offering them a malicious extension for vibe coding. One of such malicious extension has been downloaded 200,000 times. However, instead of providing any useful features, the extension runs PowerShell scripts, giving attackers remote access to the infected computer.

Difrent:
Exactly.
Many Nigerians are financial illiterates , in times of economic hardships like this some ordinary folks will still be forming and be rubbing shoulder with the rich instead of adjusting, then go on social media to rant.

There are many cheap ways to treat malaria,one obvious cheap way is to buy insurance, the person that posted that news didn't do health insurance for their staff , yet will come online to grandstand

Top 20 Largest Economies in the World (2025)

1. 🇺🇸 United States – $30.51 Trillion
2. 🇨🇳 China – $19.23 Trillion
3. 🇩🇪 Germany – $4.74 Trillion
4. 🇮🇳 India – $4.19 Trillion
5. 🇯🇵 Japan – $4.19 Trillion
6. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – $3.84 Trillion
7. 🇫🇷 France – $3.21 Trillion
8. 🇮🇹 Italy – $2.42 Trillion
9. 🇨🇦 Canada – $2.23 Trillion
10. 🇧🇷 Brazil – $2.13 Trillion
11. 🇷🇺 Russia – $2.08 Trillion
12. 🇪🇸 Spain – $1.80 Trillion
13. 🇰🇷 South Korea – $1.79 Trillion
14. 🇦🇺 Australia – $1.77 Trillion
15. 🇲🇽 Mexico – $1.69 Trillion
16. 🇹🇷 Türkiye – $1.44 Trillion
17. 🇮🇩 Indonesia – $1.43 Trillion
18. 🇳🇱 Netherlands – $1.27 Trillion
19. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia – $1.08 Trillion
20. 🇵🇱 Poland – $979.96 Billion

🇹🇭 Thailand vs Cambodia 🇰🇭

Defense budget
🇹🇭 Thailand: $5.9 billion
🇰🇭 Cambodia: $860 million

Total population
🇹🇭 Thailand: 69.9 million
🇰🇭 Cambodia: 17.1 million

Active personnel
🇹🇭 Thailand: 360,850
🇰🇭 Cambodia: 221,000

Reserve personnel
🇹🇭 Thailand: 200,000
🇰🇭 Cambodia: 0

Fighters
🇹🇭 Thailand: 72
🇰🇭 Cambodia: 0

Helicopters
🇹🇭 Thailand: 258
🇰🇭 Cambodia: 21

Tanks
🇹🇭 Thailand: 635
🇰🇭 Cambodia: 644

Patrol vessels
🇹🇭 Thailand: 49
🇰🇭 Cambodia: 20

Airports
🇹🇭 Thailand: 108
🇰🇭 Cambodia: 13

(Global Fire Power)

Popular Nollywood actor, Yemi Solade, has disclosed that he started acting before veteran Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie.

Solade said this while sharing experience and history on his journey in the Yoruba section of the industry after his episode on a show called ‘Father’s Path with Tope’.

“I’m senior to Pete Edochie, I started acting before him, though he’s older than me. I was 17 in 1977 when I represented Nigeria as the Youngest Actor, and I’ve done 48 years in the industry and still standing,” he said.

The actor explained how other sections within Nollywood had been documenting their works in cassettes and advertising them for other people to purchase.

According to him, that the Yoruba industry did not start documentation earlier does not mean others should take credit for starting the Nollywood industry.

He said, “The first Nigerian, Ade Ajiboye ‘Big Abass’, the first home video in this country. We’ve been doing it, there was film, the celluloid and everything. We had the likes of Ogundes, we had Baba Salas, we had Ade Afolayans, Kunle’s father; we had Dr Ola Balogun, who is still around, and so many other big names, most of them are gone now.

“Even when home video was starting, it was just an experiment that was carried out by the likes of Muyideen Alade Aromire. We were all doing this drama, and then they just brought this camcorder, let’s record what we are doin,g which was documented in a cassette and was arranged in bookshelves. So, you as a shop owner, would introduce the cassette for people to buy; it all started like that.”

He further explained how the Yoruba industry didn’t document their work earlier, which made others think they’ve been in the game for long.

“My people in the Yoruba setting didn’t document anything; that was why the other people in the industry just stepped in to say they started it. ‘Hey shut up’; when people like us are here, we will let you know you didn’t start anything.

“They could say that because they romance the media but the Yoruba industry was just acting. Most of them weren’t schooled; they didn’t know anything about the media, and they enjoyed themselves. Adebayo Salami is alive; he will tell you a deeper story that I’m telling you, he’s older than me. Jide Kosoko is alive, we all work together.”

Oshin56:
what's your own definition of worshipping demons and who told you they are demons?

The 50 Poorest Countries by GDP Per Capita in 2025.

Here is the enumerated list of the 50 poorest countries by GDP per capita in 2025, based on the provided data from the IMF:

1. 🇸🇸 South Sudan: $251
2. 🇾🇪 Yemen: $417
3. 🇧🇮 Burundi: $490
4. 🇨🇫 Central African Republic: $532
5. 🇲🇼 Malawi: $580
6. 🇲🇬 Madagascar: $595
7. 🇸🇩 Sudan: $625
8. 🇲🇿 Mozambique: $663
9. 🇨🇩 DRC: $743
10. 🇳🇪 Niger: $751
11. 🇸🇴 Somalia: $766
12. 🇳🇬 Nigeria: $807
13. 🇱🇷 Liberia: $908
14. 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone: $916
15. 🇲🇱 Mali: $936
16. 🇬🇲 Gambia: $988
17. 🇹🇩 Chad: $991
18. 🇷🇼 Rwanda: $1,043
19. 🇹🇬 Togo: $1,053
20. 🇪🇹 Ethiopia: $1,066
21. 🇱🇸 Lesotho: $1,098
22. 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso: $1,107
23. 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau: $1,126
24. 🇲🇲 Myanmar: $1,177
25. 🇹🇿 Tanzania: $1,280
26. 🇿🇲 Zambia: $1,332
27. 🇺🇬 Uganda: $1,338
28. 🇹🇯 Tajikistan: $1,432
29. 🇳🇵 Nepal: $1,458
30. 🇹🇱 Timor-Leste: $1,491
31. 🇧🇯 Benin: $1,532
32. 🇰🇲 Comoros: $1,702
33. 🇸🇳 Senegal: $1,811
34. 🇨🇲 Cameroon: $1,865
35. 🇬🇳 Guinea: $1,904
36. 🇱🇦 Laos: $2,096
37. 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe: $2,199
38. 🇨🇬 Congo: $2,356
39. 🇸🇧 Solomon Islands: $2,379
40. 🇰🇮 Kiribati: $2,414
41. 🇰🇪 Kenya: $2,468
42. 🇲🇷 Mauritania: $2,478
43. 🇬🇭 Ghana: $2,519
44. 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea: $2,565
45. 🇭🇹 Haiti: $2,672
46. 🇧🇩 Bangladesh: $2,689
47. 🇰🇬 Kyrgyz Republic: $2,747
48. 🇰🇭 Cambodia: $2,870
49. 🇨🇮 Côte d'Ivoire: $2,872
50. 🇮🇳 India: $2,878

(IMF)

Kushites:
Yes. And this is a realistic AI projection based on Nigeria's current space program, technical expertise, GDP growth, etc.

Chivisee:
But did you know it’s way different from people that poverty has driven to atleast each member in their region to be languishing in Asians jail for one drugs case to another??

DomPerignon:
He was also severely warned to henceforth stop parading himself as a king and to stop any attempt to import Ibo culture in any guise into Ghana.

Allocsoluwatosi:
Wow!! 1 million mark is a lot on the Russian side considering the fact that they claimed to be winning this war. But wait, where did you get this figure?

North West — 7 States [₦68.05bn]
North Central — 6 States [₦52.70bn]
North East — 6 States [₦36.04bn]
South East — 5 States [₦28.37bn]

Oyo State received less than....
North West — 7 States [₦176.73bn]
North Central — 6 States [₦126.17bn]
North East — 6 States [₦124.22bn]
South East — 5 States [₦104.5bn]

#Statisense
(FAAC)

For the first time in Madagascar, a court has ruled that surgical castration be carried out on a sex offender, who raped and murdered a six-year-old girl.

The 24-year-old man has been sentenced to surgical castration and life imprisonment with hard labour – the first time the law will be applied since it was voted through in parliament more than a year ago.

"Today's decision is a strong and significant response from the justice system, intended also to serve as a warning to anyone with similar malicious intentions," said Didier Razafindralambo, attorney general at the Court of Appeal.


According to Madagascar’s justice ministry, 133 cases of the rape of a minor were reported in January 2024 alone – more than four per day.

The offender in this case took the six-year-old girl to his home in March 2024, where he beat, raped and strangled her and burnt her with cigarette butts.

Surgical castration is a permanent procedure involving the removal of the testicles, or ovaries, to stop the production of sex hormones.

It is a rare form of punishment, only used in Germany, the Czech Republic, the state of Louisiana in the United States and that of Kaduna in Nigeria – and now Madagascar.

Chemical castration involves the use of drugs to stop the production of sex hormones. The punishment has been introduced in several US states, and several countries.

Madagascar's Justice Minister Landy Mbolatiana Randriamanantenasoa said that the introduction of the law enabling surgical castration was necessary due to increasing cases of child rape.

Surgical castration will be the default punishment for those found guilty of raping a child under the age of 10, according to the new law. Cases of rape against children between the ages of 10 and 13 will be punished by either surgical or chemical castration. The rape of minors between the age of 14 and 17 will be punished by chemical castration.
'Cruel and inhuman'

The country's Catholic bishops have condemned the law, saying it goes against ethics and morality. They described castration as an act of "torture", contrary to human rights and the principles of the Church.

"The human body, as the work of God, is sacred," they said in a statement. "So nothing and no one has authority over it, not even the law."

The law has also drawn criticism from several rights groups. At the time of the law's proposal, Amnesty International called castration a "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" and said it was "inconsistent with Malagasy constitutional provisions against torture and other ill-treatment, as well as regional and international human rights standards".

However, Jessica Lolonirina Nivoseheno of Women Break the Silence – a movement against rape culture in Madagascar – told RFI that the punishment will act as a deterrent.

"Rape culture is so present in Madagascar. Sexual violence is normalised. The punishment is a way of telling potential offenders that there are consequences for their crime."

nedu666:
The same sun newspaper said Russian soldiers were fighting with shovels, training with sticks instead of guns. The same newspaper said Russian missiles falls back to earth immediately after launch. Same guys said Russian soldiers were begging for food on the frontline

stealmatic:
Like I know,they will exclude Russia, they hate that country like mad,check properly Russians have more

Fourthpredator:
God of the gaps just means that the entity people call 'God' is used as an explanation for anything humans don't understand.
Like humans didn't understand thunder and lightning so they invented gods like Thor, Zeus etc, so as science and technology becomes better and better the things that 'God' will be used to explain will become smaller.
The results is that in the future you cannot use God to explain anything which will make God a fictional entity.
If I ask religious people why they think God exists, they will Tell us to explain sleep, life ,death etc and say that since we cannot explain those concepts God is the one controlling them, so once science can explain it then it means God will have no place to hide and can only be termed as a being that ignorant ancestors used to explain things beyond their current understanding.

Lucifyre:
God of the gaps keeps shrinking everyday and would only get smaller.

Billion Dollar Companies by Country:

1. 🇺🇸 U.S. - 1873
2. 🇯🇵 Japan - 404
3. 🇮🇳 India - 348
4. 🇨🇦 Canada - 228
5. 🇬🇧 UK - 218
6. 🇨🇳 China - 216
7. 🇦🇺 Australia - 143
8. 🇩🇪 Germany - 143
9. 🇫🇷 France - 131
10. 🇨🇭 Switzerland - 122
11. 🇸🇪 Sweden - 111
12. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia - 98
13. 🇮🇹 Italy - 79
14. 🇰🇷 South Korea - 78
15. 🇹🇼 Taiwan - 77

Amudeneogu:
So there are thieves in Europe, I think only in Nigeria we have thieves.

Commentor:
Just another racist.

When people start targeting your countrymen in South Africa, you start crying.

Healthy babies born in Britain after scientists used DNA from three people to avoid genetic disease

Eight healthy babies were born in Britain with the help of an experimental technique that uses DNA from three people to help mothers avoid passing devastating rare diseases to their children, researchers reported Wednesday.

Most DNA is found in the nucleus of our cells, and it’s that genetic material — some inherited from mom, some from dad — that makes us who we are. But there’s also some DNA outside of the cell’s nucleus, in structures called mitochondria. Dangerous mutations there can cause a range of diseases in children that can lead to muscle weakness, seizures, developmental delays, major organ failure and death.

Testing during the in vitro fertilization process can usually identify whether these mutations are present. But in rare cases, it’s not clear.

Researchers have been developing a technique that tries to avoid the problem by using the healthy mitochondria from a donor egg. They reported in 2023 that the first babies had been born using this method, where scientists take genetic material from the mother’s egg or embryo, which is then transferred into a donor egg or embryo that has healthy mitochondria but the rest of its key DNA removed.

The latest research “marks an important milestone,” said Dr. Zev Williams, who directs the Columbia University Fertility Center and was not involved in the work. “Expanding the range of reproductive options … will empower more couples to pursue safe and healthy pregnancies.”

Using this method means the embryo has DNA from three people — from the mother’s egg, the father’s sperm and the donor’s mitochondria — and it required a 2016 U.K. law change to approve it. It is also allowed in Australia but not in many other countries, including the U.S.

Experts at Britain’s Newcastle University and Monash University in Australia reported in the New England Journal of Medicine Wednesday that they performed the new technique in fertilized embryos from 22 patients, which resulted in eight babies that appear to be free of mitochondrial diseases. One woman is still pregnant.

One of the eight babies born had slightly higher than expected levels of abnormal mitochondria, said Robin Lovell-Badge, a stem cell and developmental genetics scientist at the Francis Crick Institute who was not involved in the research. He said it was still not considered a high enough level to cause disease, but should be monitored as the baby develops.

Dr. Andy Greenfield, a reproductive health expert at the University of Oxford, called the work “a triumph of scientific innovation,” and said the method of exchanging mitochondria would only be used for a small number of women for whom other ways of avoiding passing on genetic diseases, like testing embryos at an early stage, was not effective.

Lovell-Badge said the amount of DNA from the donor is insignificant, noting that any resulting child would have no traits from the woman who donated the healthy mitochondria. The genetic material from the donated egg makes up less than 1% of the baby born after this technique.

“If you had a bone marrow transplant from a donor … you will have much more DNA from another person,” he said.

In the U.K., every couple seeking a baby born through donated mitochondria must be approved by the country’s fertility regulator. As of this month, 35 patients have been authorized to undergo the technique.

Critics have previously raised concerns, warning that it’s impossible to know the impact these sorts of novel techniques might have on future generations.

“Currently, pronuclear transfer is not permitted for clinical use in the U.S., largely due to regulatory restrictions on techniques that result in heritable changes to the embryo,” Williams, of Columbia, said in an email. ”Whether that will change remains uncertain and will depend on evolving scientific, ethical, and policy discussions.”

For about a decade, Congress has included provisions in annual funding bills banning the Food and Drug Administration from accepting applications for clinical research involving techniques, “in which a human embryo is intentionally created or modified to include a heritable genetic modification.”

But in countries where the technique is allowed, advocates say it could provide a promising alternative for some families.

Liz Curtis, whose daughter Lily died of a mitochondrial disease in 2006, now works with other families affected by them. She said it was devastating to be told there was no treatment for her eight-month-old baby and that death was inevitable.

She said the diagnosis “turned our world upside down, and yet nobody could tell us very much about it, what it was or how it was going to affect Lily.” Curtis later founded the Lily Foundation in her daughter’s name to raise awareness and support research into the disease, including the latest work done at Newcastle University.

“It’s super exciting for families that don’t have much hope in their lives,” Curtis said.

Erik ten Hag's Bayer Leverkusen beaten 5-1 by Flamengo U20 in former Man Utd boss' first game in charge


Erik ten Hag endured a nightmare start to life as Bayer Leverkusen manager as his side lost 5-1 to Flamengo U20s.

Leverkusen became the first Bundesliga club to stage a pre-season tour in South America this summer and the former Man Utd boss named a strong starting lineup in his first game since replacing Xabi Alonso.

Nigerian international Victor Boniface led the line, while Mark Flekken - a summer signing from Brentford - and 17-year-old Axel Tape - who arrived on a free from Paris Saint-Germain - all started in Rio de Janeiro.

Lorran put Flamengo in front after a rapid counter-attack inside two minutes, and it was 2-0 inside 10 when Arthur miscued a clearance, with the ball trickling into the back of his own net.

Flekken and Boniface were substituted off with just 36 minutes on the clock, with Niklas Lomb and Alejo Sarco their replacements.

It got worse before the break, as Matheus Goncalves headed in a cross from the left, before Pedro Leao struck after shot from distance had ricocheted back off the left-hand post.

Ten Hag made 10 changes shortly after Gusttavo made it 5-0 following a menacing run in from the flank.

Granit Xhaka - the subject of an ambitious move from Sunderland - Edmund Tapsoba, Alex Grimaldo, Patrick Schick, and former Southampton and Burnley forward Nathan Tella were among those to join the action.

But a tap-in from Germany U18 international Montrell Culbreath was all they could muster in what remained.