America’s Biggest Banks Consider Teaming Up to Challenge $245B Stablecoin Market: WSJ
Major U.S. banks are weighing a joint stablecoin venture as pending legislation opens the door to challenge Circle and Tether’s dominance.
Month: May 2025
Bitcoin open interest hits record high as BTC slips below $111K
Bitcoin futures open interest (OI) has hit record levels on crypto derivatives exchanges as traders anticipate the cryptocurrency will continue and reach new all-time highs. Bitcoin (BTC) futures open interest reached a peak of just over $80 billion on May 23, according to CoinGlass. It’s an increase of 30% since the start of May as … Read more
Trendspotting in crypto: How to discover winning projects before the crowd
TL;DR Spotting the next big crypto project before it explodes demands data, discipline and a sharp eye for real signals. This guide explores how to identify early winners by analyzing onchain metrics, tokenomics, dev activity and community traction while avoiding the common traps of hype-driven pumps and red-flag projects. Despite the crypto space being crowded, … Read more
Swedish health firm jumps 37% on first Bitcoin buy, China EV seller to buy 1K BTC
Shares in Swedish health tech company H100 Group AB rose 37% after it said it purchased Bitcoin for the first time as part of a new strategy, while China’s Jiuzi Holdings revealed its plan to stack 1,000 Bitcoin over the next year. H100 said on May 22 that it spent 5 million Norwegian krone ($490,830) … Read more
Crypto perp futures coming ‘very soon,’ says CFTC’s Mersinger
Crypto perpetual futures contracts could receive regulatory approval in the US “very soon,” says outgoing Commodities and Futures Trading Commission Commissioner Summer Mersinger. Perpetual crypto futures “can come to market now,” Mersinger told Bloomberg TV on May 22. “We’re seeing some applications, and I believe we’ll see some of those products trading live very soon,” … Read more
Automated Feedback Systems for Enhanced Tutor Training
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Background 2.1 Effective Tutoring Practice 2.2 Feedback for Tutor Training 2.3 Sequence Labeling for Feedback Generation 2.4 Large Language Models in Education 3. Method 3.1 Dataset and 3.2 Sequence Labeling 3.3 GPT Facilitated Sequence Labeling 3.4 Metrics 4. Results 4.1 Results on RQ1 4.2 Results on RQ2 … Read more
‘No questions asked’ Bitcoin launderer gets 6 years in prison
A US man operating what prosecutors called a “no questions asked” cash-to-Bitcoin conversion service has been sentenced to six years behind bars and was ordered to hand over millions of dollars. Boston federal court Judge Richard Stearns sentenced Trung Nguyen, from Danvers, Massachusetts, to six years in prison followed by three years of supervised release, … Read more
Effective Praise in Tutoring: Types and Training Challenges
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Background 2.1 Effective Tutoring Practice 2.2 Feedback for Tutor Training 2.3 Sequence Labeling for Feedback Generation 2.4 Large Language Models in Education 3. Method 3.1 Dataset and 3.2 Sequence Labeling 3.3 GPT Facilitated Sequence Labeling 3.4 Metrics 4. Results 4.1 Results on RQ1 4.2 Results on RQ2 … Read more
CRDTs #2: Turtles All the Way Down
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Automated Explanatory Feedback for Tutor Training with GPT Models
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Background 2.1 Effective Tutoring Practice 2.2 Feedback for Tutor Training 2.3 Sequence Labeling for Feedback Generation 2.4 Large Language Models in Education 3. Method 3.1 Dataset and 3.2 Sequence Labeling 3.3 GPT Facilitated Sequence Labeling 3.4 Metrics 4. Results 4.1 Results on RQ1 4.2 Results on RQ2 … Read more
The Coming of Bipolarity
Some jottings on China’s growing influence in the digital technology stack Recently, for an academic workshop, I had to submit a brief on China as a latecomer in global technology standardization. Notwithstanding the Napoleonic assessments of the waking of a sleeping giant, I argue that the Chinese “latecoming” in global technology standardization has been more … Read more
Building Twice: A clone of Once
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Michigan lawmakers file 4 crypto bills on retiree funds, CBDCs, mining
Michigan lawmakers have introduced four crypto-related bills covering crypto mining, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and crypto in state retirement funds. Republican state Representative Bill Schuette introduced House Bill 4510 on May 21, which would amend Michigan’s Public Employee Retirement System Investment Act to allow the state treasurer, currently Rachael Eubanks, to invest in cryptocurrencies … Read more
The Copilot Delusion
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Testing to See if You Can Run a MariaDB Cluster on a $150 Kubernetes Lab
If you’re like me, learning how to run databases inside Kubernetes sounds better when it’s hands-on, physical, and brutally honest. So, instead of spinning up cloud VMs or using Kind or minikube on a laptop, I went small and real: four Orange Pi 3 LTS boards (a Raspberry Pi alternative), each with just 2GB RAM. … Read more
YGG Launches New Publishing Arm, Debuts First Game ‘LOL Land’
Yield Guild Games has debuted its first “Casual Degen” title and has launched a Web3 game publishing arm on Pudgy Penguins’ Abstract Chain.
The Future of Flatpak
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Highlights of Godot 4.5: Chunk Tilemap Physics, “Mute Game” Toggle, and More
Our first development snapshot for 4.5 has arrived! As is often the case following a feature-freeze, several quality PRs were finally released from the collective backlog, as merging them at the time would’ve been too much of a risk. In truth, the quantity has been so great that we could’ve gotten away with releasing a … Read more
Marvel’s next two Avengers have been delayed
Marvel Studios has pushed back the release dates of Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Doomsday is being delayed from May 1st, 2026, to December 18th, 2026. Secret Wars’s release has been pushed from May 7th, 2027 to December 17th, 2027. The Russo brothers are returning to direct the two … Read more
Elden Ring is getting a film adaptation
Elden Ring will soon be more than just a hit video game. On Thursday, Bandai Namco and A24 announced a live-action Elden Ring film directed by Alex Garland. Japanese developer FromSoftware released Elden Ring across Xbox, PlayStation, and PC in 2022, while a version for the Nintendo Switch 2 is set to be released this … Read more
Management = Bullshit (LLM Edition)
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Sketchy Calendar
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