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OVERNIGHT: Cape Town named Africa’s Best Airport 2024 in the Skytrax World Airport Awards. It was #54 globally, Doha #1.

The only other African airports in the top 100 were Durban #72 & Johannesburg #83

Do you think before you open your mouth to spout anything??????

Does anyone have a Airchat invite?

'When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent' - Isaac Asimov

This is great. Being able to count tokens before you make an API call is useful for both cost estimates and cramming the maximum allowed content in as context for a RAG query - Mixtral are the first provider I've seen to support parsing of tools and structured conversations too

Finally, the casket is opened: we (+Maxim Goryachy and Dmitry Sklyarov) have extracted Intel x86 microcode! One more Intel 'top secret' information gets revealed...
github.com/chip-red-pill/…

Intel p-unit (power control unit in CPU complex, don't confuse with platform's power management controller PMC) arbitrary code execution + reverse engineering. It's based on Intel Foxton micro-controller with completely private 16bit ISA

Watu si wajinga buana🧾

Frame 1: The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) Pension Towers is a 27-storey ultra-modern building that cost KSh 2.49 billion.

Frame 2: Bunge Towers is a 28 story building started in 2010 with an initial budget of Sh5.89 billion.
This was revised to Sh7.1 billion before being pushed…

Check out this new book 📚 by Dr. Emmanuel Mango

A great book 📖

🚀 Small but mighty! Our new Ryzen servers are set up and ready to rock. #AMD #RYZEN #AS64289

This is interesting. Is anyone in KE managing any large scale IP camera installation(s)? If you are I'd love to get in touch for research purposes.
Ty Bright Mawudor,PhD Labman Frank Hook

Problem with most of connected cameras these days - One of my home camera trying to connect every day 1 am to a Chinese IP on port 7999. It's being dropped but thing is ultimately open internet connected cameras are just crazy.

Anyone seen similar stuff?

Russian attack decimates Trypillia TPP in Kyiv Oblast, Centrenergo loses entire generation capacity.

The plant’s employees were not injured.
Where are our homegrown yankees Dr. Ho Yinsen
Sewe Saldanha Rìakanaū ?sg.news.yahoo.com/russian-attack…

“Wadawida eh!
Wadawida damroghua 'Mwasinda?',
Isi aha deko mana,
Ndedimanyagha inyo cha mzinyi...”

Shout out to all Wadawida on X!
Wayne Gakuo | #BuildwithAIPwani Mghosi Mwanyosh 🇰🇪
open.spotify.com/track/1gDVMNLM…

I never knew

It's not a hack, just a social engineering con. Let me try and explain.

The perpetrator is most likely the delivery guy. Glovo appoints a delivery person to your order, they are supposed to pick up everything and then make a payment - which you have already paid for via the app.…

Made a larger credit card purchase on a US website with my EU card. Usually this prompts a second factor auth: but it didn’t happen.

Net day I my bank blocks my card and does calls me for a fraud check. Asked them why I didn’t see the 2FA?

They told me something interesting: