Marie Mbenoun

Psalm 23 | Software Developer | Tech articles at | 🇨🇲 Cameroonian | "It always seems impossible until it's done"

[Marie Mbenoun @MarieInnov]

I just published A handful list of resources for web developers https://t.co/54zJNgOp0s
#webdevelopment #CaParleDev #coding

[Donald @RealDonaldDoo]

Listen to him.

[Vanessa Jaye @vanessajaye]

This is the danger of only learning Eurocentric history

[Tennis Channel @TennisChannel]

This rally is simply a sight to see 🤩

#IBI26

[Cody @Obii_cubana_ZSN]

black woman in stem 🤭

[Dr. Benjamin Mateus, MD @BenjaminMateus7]

THREAD: French & US passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius are now testing positive—exactly as predictable epidemiology warned. This is a catastrophic failure of public health governance.

[End3of6Days9 (Helen) 🇺🇸 @end3of6days9]

This poor woman is living every “I bought some land and wanted to be a cute farm girl” fantasy we see on social media… except it’s the unfiltered version 😂

She started with just 2 chickens, then for her 40th birthday decided to treat herself to 2 peacocks… and somehow that turned into 10 peacocks.

Now she’s at 4 dogs, 4 cats, 50 chickens, and the peacocks are roaming multiple neighborhoods, getting on roofs, and one even stopped traffic on a busy highway with his tail feathers fully fanned out. She’s officially over it, openly offering to rehome the peacocks, and just found out they can live up to 50 years 😭

Farm life is adorable… until the animals start running the show and you’re getting calls from neighbors while you’re just trying to buy eyeshadow at Ulta.

Have you ever had one of those “what have I gotten myself into?!” moments with animals or homesteading?

[Uncle Ruckus @Emarged]

This is exactly how a multi-billion-dollar company is created. Fortune always favours those who solve day-to-day problems.

[Avi Patel @avipat_]

We have removed Kled from the Nigerian app store and IP banned the entire region.

The first thing I would like to say is I have nothing against Nigeria. I have a ton of friends from this region and these were some of our earliest app adopters. Genuinely, thank you all for the support.

Kled has been up and running and out of beta for 4 months now. We have paid out hundreds of thousands of people for their data, and our users have uploaded over 1 billion assets onto our platform.

After several months of uploads we found that Nigeria had a ≈95% fraud rate. Instead of real, usable data, users were uploading pictures of black screens, duplicate photos, internet generated images, AI generated images, etc. at an unimaginable scale.

In comparison, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines have a less than 10% fraud rate across 10x the userbase size.

Our fraud system is fast to catch these issues but the level of complexity of these schemes is getting out of hand.

This weekend we were flooded with thousands of fake Japanese passports and identity cards with Nigerians photoshopped onto them in our KYC system. That was the final straw.

As a startup we can't afford to eat the costs of that data overhead, so we temporarily removed the app from the region while we improved our fraud detection and banning system to quickly filter out bad actors when the time is right.

On top of all of this, every time we make a post there is someone asking us to bring the region back within seconds. We hear you, but it's gotten out of hand.

We've made this decision with great care. We love everyone who has genuinely supported Kled from Nigeria, and we hope to return when the time is right.

-Kled Team

[Taylor Otwell @taylorotwell]

In tomorrow's Laravel release, you can be notified if a job's underlying worker is being interrupted / shut down, giving you a chance to cleanly stop in-progress operations and release them back onto the queue if necessary.

Just use the new Interruptible interface + interrupted method. 🛟

[Yana Boyko @_yanaboyko]

Please help spread the word:

I’m honestly shocked to see my illustration being used on T-shirts sold at the Monte-Carlo Masters without my permission or a licence.

I never expected something like this from such a major tournament.

If someone from the organisers sees this, please contact me so we can resolve this properly.

@montecarlorolex @atptour

[Unlimited L's @unlimited_ls]

JUST IN: Authorities in Nepal accused Mount Everest guides of poisoning climbers to trigger helicopter rescues in an insurance scam

Investigators said guides allegedly put baking soda in food to cause symptoms that mimicked altitude sickness

Police said the groups then arranged costly helicopter evacuations and submitted fraudulent medical and flight documents

Authorities said the scheme generated about $19.69 million in insurance payouts

Police charged 32 people, including trekking company owners, helicopter operators, and hospital executives, with organized crime and fraud

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

I wanted to share a bunch of my favorite hidden and under-utilized features in Claude Code. I'll focus on the ones I use the most.

Here goes.

[orph @orphcorp]

this is excellent

>GitLab founder diagnosed with rare cancer (osteosarcoma)
>standard care works but cancer comes back later
>medical team says there's not much else to do
>"It became my own job to keep myself alive. Nobody else was going to do it for me at this point"
>starts researching, assembles his own medical team, uses AI for deep research
>“I’ll talk to anyone, I’ll go anywhere, and I can be there anytime" to collect information
>does as many diagnostic tests as he can find as often as he can (maximal diagnostics)
>develops his own therapeutic ladder with repurposed drugs, personalized medicine, etc
>Sid’s cancer currently in remission

[Kai 🇨🇦 @_kaivara_]

GIVE ME YOUR ATTENTION FOR LIKE 5 SECONDS

GITHUB IS GONNA START USING *YOUR* CODE AND DATA TO TRAIN AI USING COPILOT!!!!!!!!!!!

DISABLE IT AT https://t.co/A6SrPwTHiz

[Brut Afrique @BrutAfrique]

🇨🇩 Une vidéo devenue virale en #RDC montre un médecin en train de frapper sa patiente à plusieurs reprises, juste après qu’elle a accouché. Identifié par une ONG, le Dr Bala Nangayi David a été arrêté. Le ministre de la Santé a instruit sa radiation de l’Ordre des médecins. On te raconte.

[Ryan Leachman @RG_Leachman]

I asked Claude to build my daughter an app that plugs into our piano, can read live key strokes, can show her sheet notes and key view and ends with a Guitar Hero style game. All while giving progressively harder songs. Today she’s using It and crushing It.

[Mark Gadala-Maria @markgadala]

This is wild.

143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history.

Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion real-world images. The company is now using that data to power visual navigation AI for delivery robots.

Players didn't just walk around with their phones. They scanned landmarks, storefronts, parks, and sidewalks from every angle, at every time of day, in lighting and weather conditions that staged photography would never capture. They documented the physical world at a scale no mapping company with a fleet of vehicles could have replicated on the same timeline or budget.

Niantic collected this systematically, data point by data point, across eight years, while users thought the only thing at stake was catching a rare Charizard.

The most valuable AI training datasets in the world aren't being assembled in data centers. They're being built by people who have no idea they're building them.

[Alexey Grigorev @Al_Grigor]

Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command.

It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards.

Automated snapshots were gone too.

In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again.

If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read.

https://t.co/Mbi3oM4HMn

[Webologie @Webologie_me]

🔥🚨 Une enveloppe dans ta boîte aux lettres. Logo de ta banque. Papier officiel. Une carte bancaire à l'intérieur. « Activez votre carte en scannant ce QR code. »
Tu scannes. Ton compte est vidé en quelques minutes.
C'est le quishing — et ça explose en France en 2026.
Comment ça marche :
Les escrocs envoient un faux courrier bancaire ultra réaliste. Puce électronique. Bande magnétique. Logo parfait. Seul détail : pas de nom, pas de numéro sur la carte.
Tu scannes le QR code → faux site bancaire parfait → tu entres tes identifiants → compte vidé.

Le QR code est le piège parfait : contrairement à un lien, il ne montre pas l'URL avant que tu scannes. Tu ne peux pas vérifier où il t'envoie.
Même arnaque avec les faux PV : Un papier sur ton pare-brise. Logo officiel. 35€ à payer sous 48h. QR code pour "régler en ligne" → coordonnées bancaires volées.
5 réflexes à adopter maintenant :
→ Ne scanne jamais un QR code reçu sans l'avoir demandé → Vérifie toujours l'URL après scan avant de toucher quoi que ce soit → Ta banque n'active JAMAIS une carte par QR code → Pas de nom sur la carte reçue ? C'est une arnaque → En cas de doute : appelle ta banque via ton appli officielle
Guide complet + tous les scénarios détaillés 👇 🔗 https://t.co/yBuzmIZOqs

[StockMarket.News @_Investinq]

The Pentagon just blacklisted one of America’s most valuable AI companies.

For refusing to build surveillance tools aimed at American citizens.

Hours later, its biggest rival OpenAI quietly signed the deal of the decade.

Here’s what just happened and why it changes everything.

This week, the US Department of War gave Anthropic an ultimatum.

Drop your safety restrictions and let us use your AI for anything we want.

The deadline was 5:01 PM today and Anthropic said no.

Their CEO, Dario Amodei, drew two red lines.

No mass surveillance of Americans.

No fully autonomous weapons without a human pulling the trigger.

The Pentagon called this “woke AI.”

Anthropic called it a conscience.

The Pentagon’s response was swift and brutal.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth branded Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, a designation normally reserved for Chinese and Russian companies.

President Trump ordered every federal agency to stop using Anthropic immediately.

But here’s where the story turns.

That same night, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, Anthropic’s biggest competitor posted a message.

“Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.”

The twist? OpenAI’s deal includes the exact same red lines Anthropic was just destroyed for demanding.

No mass surveillance and no autonomous weapons.

Human control over the use of force.

The Pentagon punished one company for demanding protections it then gave to another company the same day.

Altman even defended Anthropic on live television hours earlier.

“For all the differences I have with Anthropic, I mostly trust them as a company and I think they really do care about safety.”

Then he signed the deal Anthropic couldn’t get.

Anthropic was the first and only, AI model deployed on the Pentagon’s classified networks.

Replacing it will take months.

OpenAI just positioned itself to fill the most powerful AI vacancy in the U.S. military.

The stakes are staggering.

Anthropic just raised $30 billion and it was preparing for an IPO.

Now over 300,000 enterprise clients may be forced to cut ties.

Not because the technology failed.

Because the company refused to remove a guardrail that said “don’t spy on Americans.”

But here’s the real question no one’s asking:

If the Pentagon never intended to use AI for mass surveillance as they claim, why was this the hill they chose to die on?

Why blacklist a $380 billion American company over a clause the government says doesn’t even matter?

Sam Altman called for de-escalation.

He asked the Pentagon to offer these same terms to every AI company.
Including Anthropic.

The world just watched a company get punished for saying “no” to surveillance and a competitor rewarded for saying “yes, but with the same conditions.”

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