Month: August 2024
Texas firm says it lost $60M in a bank wire transfer scam
A Texas company says it lost $60 million to a criminal fraud scheme, which the FBI says makes fraudsters billions of dollars every year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Error Rate-Based Anomaly Detection in Log Files
Welcome to the second article of our three-part series on building a real-time log anomaly detection system. In our previous article, we laid the foundation for our system, exploring how to leverage Spring State Machine & Spring Reactor to create a flexible and efficient framework for processing log entries and detecting anomalies. Expanding on our … Read more
FaceStudio: Put Your Face Everywhere in Seconds: Implementation Details.
:::info Authors: (1) Yuxuan Yan,Tencent with Equal contributions and yuxuanyan@tencent.com; (2) Chi Zhang, Tencent with Equal contributions and Corresponding Author, johnczhang@tencent.com; (3) Rui Wang, Tencent and raywwang@tencent.com; (4) Yichao Zhou, Tencent and yichaozhou@tencent.com; (5) Gege Zhang, Tencent and gretazhang@tencent.com; (6) Pei Cheng, Tencent and peicheng@tencent.com; (7) Bin Fu, Tencent and brianfu@tencent.com; (8) Gang Yu, Tencentm … Read more
Announcing the final agenda for the SaaS Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
Software as a service (SaaS) is an ever-evolving industry. We’ll talk to some of the brightest minds and leaders in the industry — executives from early- and late-stage SaaS companies, leaders from the infrastructure companies that power the industry and the venture capitalists who fund them. Explore and enjoy by joining us at the SaaS … Read more
Replicache vs. The World: Solving Web App Sync Challenges with Cutting-Edge Technology
Look at the GIF below — it shows a real-time Todo-MVC demo, syncing across windows and smoothly transitioning in and out of offline mode. While it’s just a simple demo app, it showcases important, cutting-edge concepts that every web developer should know. This is a Replicache demo app that I ported from an Express backend … Read more
Coinbase Wrapped Bitcoin Has Potential to Dominate Market, Say Experts
Coinbase will be up against Wrapped Bitcoin, which already has “a strong moat against new entrants,” an analyst told Decrypt.
Discover What’s New in WordPress 6.6: A Guide to the Latest Features and Improvements
Have you been eagerly awaiting the latest version of WordPress? WordPress 6.6 is here, bringing a host of new features, improvements and updates to enhance your website management experience. In this guide, we’ll explore the most important changes and additions in WordPress 6.6, ensuring you’re up-to-date with the latest tools and capabilities. Brief Overview of … Read more
AMD’s new Zen 5 CPUs fail to impress during early reviews
Image: AMD AMD launched its first Zen 5 desktop processors earlier this month, and tomorrow it’s about to release what looks like a disappointing flagship Ryzen 9 9950X CPU. Early reviews of the initial Zen 5 CPUs — the Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X — revealed a lack of performance improvements and efficiencies, … Read more
4 Things You Need to Become a Great Product Manager in Every Company
The role of a product manager (PM) is often likened to being the “CEO of the product.” However, this analogy needs to be revised because product managers typically need more direct authority over many crucial aspects of product success, such as user and data research, design and development, marketing, sales, and support. Therefore, PMs are … Read more
Parker Conrad says founders have been building software wrong for the last 20 years
What is the right way to build a software business? Many startup advisers say that B2B software should solve one pain point, gain customers, then add features as their company grows. Serial founder Parker Conrad, currently the founder and CEO of Rippling, an HR software startup valued at $13.5 billion in April, thinks that’s the … Read more
BTC price suddenly drops 5% as Bitcoin rejects low CPI print
Bitcoin shrugs off notionally good news on US inflation with a BTC price plunge below $59,000.
Digital Assets Infrastructure Provider Parfin Raises $10M in Series A Funding
The company plans to reach $16 million by the end of a second closing.
Ethereum-Based Swell Imports Wrapped Bitcoin to Serve as Liquid Restaking Token
Users can deposit their wBTC to get swBTC in return, with yield expected to start flowing from mid-September – as part of a blockchain “restaking” scheme ultimately designed to secure protocols in the Ethereum blockchain ecosystem.
Hut 8 Upgraded to Buy, Risk Reward Is to the Upside: H.C. Wainwright
The broker upgraded the bitcoin miner’s shares to buy from sell and raised its price target on the stock to $13.50 from $7.50.
Where Banking APIs Fall Short
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Derive generative AI-powered insights from ServiceNow with Amazon Q Business
Effective customer support, project management, and knowledge management are critical aspects of providing efficient customer relationship management. ServiceNow is a platform for incident tracking, knowledge management, and project management functions for software projects and has become an indispensable part of many organizations’ workflows to ensure success of the customer and the product. However, extracting valuable … Read more
MetaMask and Mastercard Launch Debit Card That Lets You Spend From Your Ethereum Wallet
The cards, accepted wherever Mastercard is used, will convert crypto from MetaMask wallets to fiat at the moment of transaction.
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Virtuix’s VR treadmill is finally launching in September
Virtuix’s timeline has coincided with a rise of interest around mixed reality, led by Oculus/Meta, HTC and now Apple, among others. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
TON, Pyth team up for real-time DeFi data
TON and Pyth’s collaboration brings institutional-grade real-time price feeds to TON developers, enhancing DeFi innovation.
How to troubleshoot someone else’s computer remotely
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge If you read The Verge, then you probably know your tech, and so it’s likely that you’re sometimes asked to help troubleshoot computer issues by friends, family, and / or neighbors. It can be something as simple as just turning on the Wi-Fi or as complicated as having … Read more
Mastering Graceful Shutdowns in Go: A Comprehensive Guide for Kubernetes
Have you ever yanked the power cord out of your computer in frustration? While this might seem like a quick solution, it can lead to data loss and system instability. In the world of software, a similar concept exists: the hard shutdown. This abrupt termination can cause problems just like its physical counterpart. Thankfully, there’s … Read more
CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: RNDR and SOL Propel Index to a 1.3% Increase
Render climbs 3.3% while Solana adds 3.0%, helping drive the index upward.
Solana Meme Coin Gigachad Up 21% After Endorsement from Meme Model
Thanks to a sports brand that the meme coin created, the token has seen celebrity endorsement including from the Gigachad himself.