Bitcoin Price Hits $100,000 for First Time Since February
The milestone comes as President Trump teased a “major trade deal” and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent prepared for talks with China.
Month: May 2025
How Flashbots Bundles and Dark‑Fees Break Blockchain Transparency
Table of Links Abstract/Zusammenfassung Publications Acknowledgements CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION Introduction 1.1 Overview of thesis contributions 1.2 Thesis outline CHAPTER 2: BACKGROUND 2.1 Blockchains & smart contracts 2.2 Transaction prioritization norms 2.3 Transaction prioritization and contention transparency 2.4 Decentralized governance 2.5 Blockchain Scalability with Layer 2.0 Solutions CHAPTER 3. TRANSACTION PRIORITIZATION NORMS Transaction Prioritization Norms 3.1 … Read more
Doodles NFT sales surge 97% ahead of DOOD token airdrop
Doodles’ non-fungible token (NFTs) sales surged by 97% in the last 24 hours as digital collectible traders anticipate the project’s token generation event and airdrop. On May 8, data from CryptoSlam showed Doodles NFT sales topping $1.1 million, nearly doubling the previous day’s total. The spike placed Doodles in the third spot for daily NFT … Read more
Why Hims & Hers turned to the autonomous vehicle industry to find an AI-savvy CTO
Hims & Hers, the telehealth and wellness company, has hired a veteran of the autonomous vehicle industry as its next chief technology officer. The move, according to Hims & Hers co-founder and CEO, Andrew Dudum, was intentional. Hims & Hers on Thursday said its next CTO would be Mo Elshenawy, the former president and CTO … Read more
Pectra features already in use: Ethereum EIP-7702 wallets roll out
The Ethereum Pectra upgrade introduced a significant upgrade in account abstraction accessibility, with multiple wallets already implementing the change. Pectra introduced Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 7702, a change that Ivo Georgiev, founder and CEO of self-custodial smart wallet Ambire, described as “the single greatest UX upgrade to Ethereum so far.” Ambire is among the wallet … Read more
Tesla finally calls it quits on Cybertruck range extender
Tesla has officially scrapped the range extender accessory it was making for Cybertrucks. In emails seen by Electrek, Tesla confirmed to Cybertruck owners that it’s “no longer planning to sell” the $16,000 battery pack, and that it would be issuing full refunds for the $2,000 deposit put down by customers. The range extender would have … Read more
New bull cycle? Bitcoin's return to $100K hints at ‘significant price move’
Key points: Bitcoin’s realized cap is beating records and has almost reached the $900 billion mark. The market is laying the foundations for a “potentially significant price breakout,” new analysis says. Profit-taking is not hindering the overall bull market rebound. Bitcoin (BTC) is setting new all-time highs in network value as BTC price action eyes … Read more
Apple tries to delay ruling that bars it from taking a cut on external app payments
Apple is trying to delay a court ruling that forces the company to let iOS app developers accept payments via non-Apple systems and avoid paying a cut.
Ripple M&A Target Hidden Road to Open New Office in Abu Dhabi With a Potential Royal Family Addition
Hidden Road, a prime broker that focuses on crypto and traditional assets, which recently agreed to be acquired by Ripple, is opening an office in Abu Dhabi, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The office will be led by James Stickland, a partner at the firm, said the people, who spoke on … Read more
Lenovo’s flagship gaming laptop has a 2D / 3D screen and carbon fiber lid
Lenovo is announcing a new 10th-generation Legion 9i gaming laptop coming soon to China and scheduled for the fall in North America. The 18-inch behemoth is packed with top-end specs, including the option for a 4K-capable 2D / 3D screen, Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU, Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX CPU, up to 192GB of RAM, … Read more
Nintendo expects the Switch 2 to be just as successful as the original
Nintendo has forecast global sales of 15 million Switch 2 consoles by the end of March 2026, which would be roughly comparable to the original Switch’s first year on sale, despite retailing for a much higher price. The company suffered an expected slump in both hardware and software sales this year, according to its latest earnings … Read more
Dogecoin, Cardano’s ADA Lead Market Gains as Bitcoin Traders Eye Next Fed Meeting
Bitcoin (BTC) flirted with $100,000 Thursday as major cryptocurrencies including dogecoin (DOGE) and Cardano’s ADA led crypto market gains, boosted by dovish signals from the Federal Reserve and a pending trade deal teased by U.S. President Donald Trump. DOGE added 5% and ADA jumped 4%, while ether (ETH), BNB Chain’s BNB, xrp (XRP) and Solana’s … Read more
The Ethical Hacker’s Guide to Hacking WiFi with Termux
Did you know that some WiFi networks can be hacked quickly using simple tools? The important question is how safe is yours? WiFi safety is very important now, but many networks are still at risk. Good hackers and security experts use tools to find and fix problems before bad hackers can take advantage of them. … Read more
We Wrote a Code Review Guide—Here’s What Worked
TL;DR: We created a code review guide to align expectations, improve feedback quality, and make reviews feel collaborative instead of gatekeeping. Here’s what worked for us. The Problem We Saw We didn’t set out to write a code review guide to be formal or process-heavy. We wrote it because our reviews were inconsistent, unstructured, and … Read more
Remotely Control Youtube With This Command-line Approach on Linux
This pages describes how to remotely control youtube running within a browser from the command-line. In practice this sort of script may not be used directly from the command-line but rather attached to a keyboard shortcut or run from another script that forms a larger process. This approach only works for Linux due to the … Read more
Can you mine Bitcoin with a gaming PC? Here’s what you need to know
Is your gaming PC capable of mining crypto? As of May 2025, Bitcoin mining is looking attractive again. With Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $95,000 and transaction fees hitting new highs after the 2024 halving, mining rewards — though smaller — are worth chasing. From home setups to industrial-scale farms, the question of whether Bitcoin mining … Read more
The Search Stack That Nearly Broke Us — Until We Did This
Scaling search isn’t just about adding bigger servers — sometimes you need the right tools. When we first launched finlight.me, our real-time financial news API, Postgres full-text search was more than enough. It was fast, easy to set up, and fit perfectly into our simple early architecture. But as the number of articles grew and … Read more
Bosch Ventures is turning its attention to North America with new $270M fund
The venture arm of Bosch has a new $270 million fund that will continue its tradition of investing in deep-tech startups. This time, however, Bosch Ventures plans to put more of its money into North American startups. Launched in 2007, Bosch Ventures is now on its sixth fund. And while the corporate VC is technically … Read more
Binance Founder CZ Confirms He Has Applied for Trump Pardon After Prison Term
Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, founder and former CEO of Binance, confirmed on a podcast that he has formally applied for a presidential pardon from Donald Trump—less than a year after serving a four-month sentence in a U.S. federal prison. Zhao shared the update on an episode of the Farohk Radio podcast, stating that his legal team … Read more
Seamlessly Install Magnolia CMS With This Guide
This tutorial will guide you through installing Magnolia CMS, specifically using Magnolia version 6.2. Magnolia is an enterprise digital experience platform (DXP), that began as an open-source content management system (CMS) and is based on Content Repository for Java (JCR). The JCR specification was developed under the Java Community Process as JSR-170 and JSR-283. Magnolia … Read more
A Deadline Taught me Everything I Needed to Know About Productivity
I HAD NO IDEA WHAT I WAS DOING As a software developer and lifelong IT nerd, I can sum up most of my career with five honest words I’ve mumbled more times than I can count: “No idea what I’m doing.” And yet, somehow… I always manage to get the job done. Wait—what? How is … Read more
Is the Turing Test Still the Best Way to Tell Machines and Humans Apart?
In 1950, Alan Turing proposed his famous test as a measure of intelligence. A human judge would chat through text with both a person and a machine. If the judge couldn’t spot the difference, the machine earned the label of intelligent. For years, this imitation game shaped public benchmarks for AI. Today, however, we have … Read more
60K Bitcoin addresses leaked as LockBit ransomware gang gets hacked
Almost 60,000 Bitcoin addresses tied to LockBit’s ransomware infrastructure were leaked after hackers breached the group’s dark web affiliate panel. The leak included a MySQL database dump shared publicly online. It contained crypto-related information that could help blockchain analysts trace the group’s illicit financial flows. Ransomware is a type of malware used by malicious actors. … Read more