⭐️ Hackathon Final Announcement — October 11!

We’re officially in the final 5 days of the hackathon! 🔥
Join us on October 11th at ALX Ledeta Hub for the final announcement and to celebrate the amazing projects built by our participants.

📍 Venue: ALX Ledeta Hub
📅 Date: October 11
🎟 Registration: Luma Event Registration

If you’re planning to attend, make sure to register through Luma so we know who’s coming.

The judges have also started reviewing, mentoring, and commenting on projects, so make sure to check their feedback and use these final days wisely. 💻

#Hackathon #Ethiopia #TechCommunity #ALX #AddisAbaba #Developers #STARKOfficialHackathon

⭐️ See You Tomorrow at ALX Ledeta Hub!

Tomorrow, we’re coming together to celebrate the amazing projects built by our hackathon participants.

Come meet developers, designers, and founders, see what people have been building, make new connections, and have fun together!

📅 October 11
🕘 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
📍 ALX Ledeta Hub
🎟 Register here: https://luma.com/gwbry6p8

Everyone is welcome! You don’t have to be a hackathon participant to join us. If you’re interested in tech, meeting new people, or just having a good time, come through!

Don’t miss it. See you all tomorrow!

#ALXEthiopia #STARKOfficialHackathon #TechCommunity #AddisAbaba #siltawi

⭐️ Tool of the Day: Livery

Built by the creator of Stark.et by Miheretab, Livery helps developers create better-looking websites with AI.

✨ What can you do with Livery?

▶️ Learn from great website designs.
▶️ Reuse design styles like colors, fonts, and layouts.
▶️ Help AI coding tools build more consistent UIs.
▶️ Spend less time guessing how your website should look.

💡 It won't make you a designer overnight, but it's a great starting point for building better-looking websites!

🔗 https://www.livery.site/

#community #developers #showcase #Livery

⭐️ Exciting News!

AI Programming is happy to give the 1st Place Prize at the Hackathon for the Gugut and the Goat Project! 🏆

🎁 The prize includes:

● 1 year of domain hosting
● 1 month of VPS hosting

Project Link

🔗 https://stark.et/project/gugut-and-the-goat-300

Big thanks to all the organizers and Stark for making this event possible! 🙌❤️

#AIProgramming #Hackathon #GugutAndTheGoat #TechCommunity #starket

⭐️ Ethio-Startup Challenge Round 2 is Officially Open

Applications are officially open for Round 2 of the Ethio-Startup Challenge, brought to you by the Ministry of Innovation and Technology (MInT) and the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC)!

If you have a startup with an innovative idea and high growth potential, this is your chance to take it to the next level.

What’s in it for winners?

▶️ Financial funding to scale your venture
▶️ Readiness support to secure official national startup designation
▶️ Global exposure to showcase your work on international stages
▶️ Direct networking and partnership opportunities with key ecosystem players

📅 Deadline: October 16 – October 31, 2026

🔗 Apply here: ethiostartup.ebc.org.et

#EthioStartup #EthiopianStartups #InnovationEthiopia #siltawi

⭐️AI can build it. But do you understand it?

AI is making it easier than ever to build things. But are we really learning how things work, or just asking AI to do everything for us?

Dagmawi Babi shares his thoughts on vibe-coding and the difference between generating code and being a real software engineer.

Read it

🔗 Thoughts on Vibe-coding

#VibeCoding #AI #Tech

🚨 PHP Security Alert!

Two critical PHP vulnerabilities could allow attackers to run malicious code on affected servers.

If you use PHP or Laravel in production, update your PHP version as soon as possible.

🔗 Read more: https://laravel-news.com/php-critical-rce-security-releases

#PHP #Laravel #CyberSecurity #WebDevelopment

⭐️ October is getting crazy for cybersecurity!

Just look at what’s happened this month:

● PHP the code behind 69% of all websites had 2 critical vulnerabilities.
● Linux had a major vulnerability linked to Ethiopian security researcher Paulos Yibelo
● OpenCode got hacked.
● Node.js - 10 CVEs.
● NGINX - 5 CVEs.
● Railway faced a security breach and hours of disruption.
● GitLab had a critical RCE vulnerability.
● LiteLLM had malicious PyPI packages and Docker images.

Have you noticed all the VPS and cloud companies spending their weekends patching and rebooting hypervisors because of CVE-2026-999999? 😅

Security bugs never miss October!

#CyberSecurity #Hacktober #Linux #CVE

⭐️ Quick Dev Tip: Fix Broken Link Previews on Telegram

If your shared links are showing the wrong thumbnail or outdated text:
▶️ Send the URL to @WebpageBot

It forces Telegram to re-crawl your site's Open Graph tags on the spot. No need to wait hours or rename URLs just to bust the cache.

#TelegramTips #WebDevelopment #TechTips

⭐️ A Cool Tool for AI Coding!

● Turns your codebase into a knowledge graph
● Helps AI understand how files, functions, and modules connect
● Makes it easier to explore large projects
● Works with AI coding assistants
● Free and open source for local use

💡 Useful for developers working on large projects with AI tools.

🔗 https://github.com/Graphify-Labs/graphify

#AI #OpenSource #Programming #DeveloperTools

⭐️ OpenAI just introduced GPT-6.1 Terra!

It’s faster, cheaper and better at understanding images and using computer apps to get work done.

A big step forward for AI automation!

🔗 https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-terra/

#AI #OpenAI #GPT

⭐️ Major crypto hack reported

Around $6.3 billion in crypto assets were reportedly affected, with approximately $3 billion frozen.

This month has seen so many security issues, vulnerabilities, and massive hacks across different technologies, from Linux to PHP and crypto platforms.

The incident is being linked to a suspected North Korean hacking group.

#Crypto #Binance #CyberSecurity