Month: May 2025
A Visual History of Chessmen
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Last 24 hours: TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 Early Bird Deals will fly away after today
Just 24 hours left to lock in Early Bird pricing for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco. Save up to $900 on your pass, or bring someone brilliant with you for 90% off their ticket. This deal ends tonight at 11:59 p.m. PT. Grab your Early Bird discount … Read more
48 hours left: What you won’t want to miss at the 20th TechCrunch Disrupt in October
There are just 48 hours left to save up to $900 on your ticket to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — and get 90% off the second. After May 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT, Early Bird pricing vanishes — along with your best chance to join 10,000 of tech’s most forward-thinking minds for less. But forget the … Read more
Why Intempus thinks robots should have a human physiological state
Teddy Warner, 19, has always been interested in robotics. His family was in the industry, and he says he “grew up” working in a machinist shop while in high school. Now Warner is building a robotics company of his own, Intempus, that looks to make robots a bit more human. Intempus is building tech to … Read more
Crypto leaders are wrong about tokenized property
Opinion by: Darren Carvalho, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of MetaWealth During Paris Blockchain Week, Securitize Chief Operating Officer Michael Sonnenshein made headlines by dismissing real estate as a sub-optimal asset class for tokenization. This isn’t the first time crypto leaders have underestimated the merits of bringing real estate onchain, and it is likely not the last. … Read more
Chart of the Week: Bitcoin Soars, But ‘Wen Lambo’ Crowd Is Missing From the Rally
What happens when retail logs off from crypto and Wall Street tunes in? Looking at bitcoin’s BTC recent all-time-high, one would say it feels bullish and the industry is maturing. That might as well be the case, but we might not be there yet. So before we floor our Lambos, let’s look under the hood. … Read more
Mutmut – Python Mutation Tester
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Programming Basics with Tiki
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7 Ways to Protect Yourself From Violent Crypto Attacks (Without a Shotgun)
If you own a lot of crypto, here’s what you need to know about decoy wallets, panic buttons, and “duress protocols.”
AI agents are poised to be crypto’s next major vulnerability
AI agents in crypto are increasingly embedded in wallets, trading bots and onchain assistants that automate tasks and make real-time decisions. Though it’s not a standard framework yet, Model Context Protocol (MCP) is emerging at the heart of many of these agents. If blockchains have smart contracts to define what should happen, AI agents have … Read more
Real-world map data is helping make better games about farms and transportation
City Bus Manager. I’m feeling a strange sense of pressure as I set up my first bus route in City Bus Manager. I want to get things right for the public transportation users of this city, probably because it’s the city I actually live in. City Bus Manager uses OpenStreetMap (OSM) data to populate its … Read more
Solana Plunges 5% as Midnight Sell-Off Signals Institutional Exit
The cryptocurrency market faces renewed pressure as Solana (SOL) dropped below its stable $177 trading range, reflecting broader concerns about global economic stability. The correction coincides with increasing geopolitical tensions that have rattled financial markets worldwide, forcing investors to reassess risk exposure across digital assets. Despite the pullback, Solana’s ecosystem continues to expand with R3’s … Read more
Mathematical Fiction
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Programming on 34 Keys (2022)
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Is World’s biometric ID model a threat to self-sovereignty?
The crypto industry is no stranger to controversy, yet few projects have drawn more scrutiny than Sam Altman’s World, formerly known as Worldcoin. Promising to verify human uniqueness through iris scans and distribute its WLD token globally, World positions itself as a tool for financial inclusion. However, critics argue the project’s biometric methods are invasive, … Read more