Month: May 2025

Code Smell 299 – How to Fix Overloaded Test Setups

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When your test setup is bigger than the actual test TL;DR: Bloated setup that’s only partially used makes your tests more coupled and harder to understand. Problems 😔 Coupling Readability Wasted execution time Misleading setup context Hidden test dependencies Harder maintenance Brittle test suite Confusing dependencies Slower execution Misleading context Solutions 😃 Create focused setup … Read more

Investigating Ring’s Crime Alert System for Police Departments: How We Did It

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Introduction Across the country, more than 2,600 police and close to 600 fire departments have partnerships with Ring, the popular doorbell camera company that was acquired by Amazon in 2018. In 2018 and 2019, Motherboard, the Intercept, and other news organizations first documented the existence of Ring courting law enforcement agencies across the country, but … Read more

FTC delays enforcement of click-to-cancel rule

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The Federal Trade Commission voted Friday to delay enforcement of the Negative Option Rule — known widely as the “click-to-cancel” rule requiring companies to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it was to sign up. The rule, which was first proposed in 2023, took aim at businesses selling physical and digital subscriptions … Read more

Lido Proposes a Bold Governance Model to Give stETH Holders a Say in Protocol Decisions

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Lido Finance, Ethereum’s largest liquid staking platform by locked value, has introduced a proposal that grants staked ether (stETH) holders direct voting power alongside existing DAO tokenholders. The upgrade, dubbed Lido Improvement Proposal (LIP) 28, outlines a dual governance system allowing stETH holders — those who stake ETH via Lido and receive a liquid token … Read more