BusinessSep 15
Dangote's IPO Broke Three Nigerian Investing Apps at Login
Bamboo, Cowrywise and Afrinvest degraded on day one of the Dangote Refinery offer. Users reported failed logins. The offer stays open until 13 October.
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AISep 15
GitHub's Copilot Cost Dial Spans 14 Models Priced 25x Apart
Efficiency, Balance and Intelligence tiers arrived on September 14. GitHub says all three use one model pool, and never says how a tier changes the bill.
AISep 13
Most AI Coding Tools Fix Security Bugs Without Advisories
Twelve days after the GitSpawn disclosure, we checked what each fix left behind: one published advisory, a CVE from a third party, a GHSA that 404s.
HardwareSep 3
Acer's 1,000Hz Predator Lists No Grey-to-Grey Spec
Flicker fusion saturates near 100Hz, so the eye was never the constraint on a 1,000Hz monitor. Pixel response is: one measured panel averaged 6.85ms.
HardwareSep 3
Copper's One-Metre Limit Is Pushing Optics Into the Package
IEEE's 200G objectives give copper a metre and fibre two kilometres, and co-packaged optics lives in the gap. Broadcom's 70% and a paper's 18% both hold.
StartupsSep 3
Tanel Raised $2.45M, Then Sold to Its Own Seed Investor
Alan led Tanel's 2024 seed round, then bought the company outright. How a licensed, profitable Senegalese insurer became a rare Francophone exit.
AISep 3
A Malicious Git Config Can Hijack Your AI Coding Agent
A booby-trapped repo can run code the moment your AI agent opens it. Who has patched, who has not, and why the popular mitigation does not work.
StartupsSep 3
Africa's Record $52M Seed Went to a Defence Startup in Abuja
Terra Industries raised $52M in three tranches from Anduril's backers. The revenue is real; most of the ArtemisOS pitch is still vendor-asserted.
AISep 3
ChainDrop npm Worm Hid in Claude Code and VS Code Configs
The August npm attack hit 400+ packages and used AI coding tools' auto-run hooks for persistence, with its C2 list read from an Ethereum contract.
AISep 2
Claude Fable 5.1 Cuts Cache Reads 75%, Token Prices Frozen
Token prices stay frozen at $10/$50; prompt-cache reads drop from $1.00 to $0.25 per million tokens. For agents, that line item is most of the bill.
BusinessSep 2
Uber quits Nigeria and Uganda as the naira breaks its math
Two exits in one day, the third and fourth in Africa in a year, and a 10% global staff cut. The public numbers point at the naira and fuel prices.