Month: June 2025

The Protocol: Ethereum Proposal That Could Make the Network Faster

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Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, CoinDesk’s Tech & Protocols reporter. In this issue: Ethereum Developer Proposes 6-Second Block Times to Boost Speed ZKsync’s Airbender zkVM Proves Ethereum Blocks in 35 Seconds Norway Plans Ban on New Crypto Mining Data Centers XRP … Read more

Barclays to Ban Credit-Card Crypto Purchases Starting Friday

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Barclays (BARC), one of the U.K.’s largest banks, said it will stop customers using their credit cards to purchase cryptocurrency by the end of the week. The London-based company will block cryptocurrency transactions on its Barclaycard-branded payment cards starting June 27, it said on a website page published Wednesday. The page cited “certain risks” when … Read more

No Clear Gender Bias Found in Pair Programming Study—What’s Next?

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 1.1 The twincode platform 1.2 Pilot Studies 1.3 Other Gender Identities and 1.4 Structure of the Paper 2 Related Work 3 Original Study (Seville Dec, 2021) and 3.1 Participants 3.2 Experiment Execution 3.3 Factors (Independent Variables) 3.4 Response Variables (Dependent Variables) 3.5 Confounding Variables 3.6 Data Analysis 4 … Read more

Zama Raises $57M, Becomes First Unicorn Involved With Fully Homomorphic Encryption

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Zama, a cryptography company pioneering fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) for blockchains, said it raised $57 million in a series B round co-led by Blockchange Ventures and Pantera Capital. The team said the fundraise pushes Zama’s total capital raised to over $150 million and values it at over $1 billion, making the firm the first unicorn … Read more

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Building for the World That Doesn’t Blink (6/25/2025)

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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 25, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Microsoft Was Incorporated in 1981, The Barbed Wire Was Patented in 1867, Microsoft Released Windows 98 in 1998, and we present you with these top quality stories. From … Read more

The Struggle to Measure Gender Bias in Remote Programming Environments

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 1.1 The twincode platform 1.2 Pilot Studies 1.3 Other Gender Identities and 1.4 Structure of the Paper 2 Related Work 3 Original Study (Seville Dec, 2021) and 3.1 Participants 3.2 Experiment Execution 3.3 Factors (Independent Variables) 3.4 Response Variables (Dependent Variables) 3.5 Confounding Variables 3.6 Data Analysis 4 … Read more

Contextualizing SUTRA: Advancements in Multilingual & Efficient LLMs

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 3 SUTRA Approach 3.1 What is SUTRA? 3.2 Architecture 3.3 Training Data 4 Training Multilingual Tokenizers 5 Multilingual MMLU 5.1 Massive Multitask Language Understanding 5.2 Extending MMLU to Multiple Languages and 5.3 Consistent Performance across Languages 5.4 Comparing with leading models for Multilingual Performance 6 … Read more

Remedy is in control

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Control. In the quiet city of Espoo, a short drive west from Helsinki in Finland, is an unassuming building that’s home to one of the most confounding studios in games. Remedy Entertainment is known for getting weird. It started with the meta horror of Alan Wake, and has since expanded with Control, a game that … Read more

SUTRA: Decoupling Concept & Language for Multilingual LLM Excellence

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 3 SUTRA Approach 3.1 What is SUTRA? 3.2 Architecture 3.3 Training Data 4 Training Multilingual Tokenizers 5 Multilingual MMLU 5.1 Massive Multitask Language Understanding 5.2 Extending MMLU to Multiple Languages and 5.3 Consistent Performance across Languages 5.4 Comparing with leading models for Multilingual Performance 6 … Read more

Animoca Brands’ Flagship Project Moca Network to Debut L1 for Digital Identity

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Moca Network, the identity ecosystem of Web3 investment giant Animoca Brands, is planning to introduce a layer-1 blockchain that will allow Web3 projects to identify and verify users without needing to rely on centralized platforms. Moca Chain will enable user data to be verified by applications across any blockchain, similar to the way single sign-in … Read more

Using OpenTelemetry to Diagnose a Critical Memory Leak

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I. The Silent Killer in Production In the complex tapestry of modern distributed systems, a subtle yet insidious threat often lurks beneath the surface: the memory leak. Unlike immediate errors that crash an application or trigger glaring alerts, memory leaks are often silent killers. They manifest gradually, insidiously consuming more and more system memory, leading … Read more