Month: June 2025

AI coding assistants aren’t just helping us code faster—they’re changing who gets to code. If software is eating the world as Marc Andreessen famously said in 2011. In 2025, it seems vibe coding is gasoline poured on that fire. It’s massively increasing the rate at which software is eating the world. As Co-Founder and Co-CEO … Read more

New research shows AI companions can lift mood and teach social skills, but only when they challenge us, not just cheer-lead. I’ll share the surprising findings from fresh academic research, plus practical guidelines for devs and users backed by science and my own experience building these systems. Missed Part 1? Find it here. As someone … Read more

Attackers aren’t just phishing for credentials; they’re automating session hijacking in ways that trusted security practices such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) cannot always protect us from. In the same way that our advanced cybersecurity teams are creatively applying automation and AI to secure business environments, hackers look for methods to exploit data using these tools. … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Approach 2.1 Architecture 2.2 Multimodal Instruction Finetuning 2.3 Curriculum Learning with Parameter Efficient Finetuning 3 Experiments 4 Results 4.1 Evaluation of SpeechVerse models 4.2 Generalization Across Instructions 4.3 Strategies for Improving Performance 5 Related Work 6 Conclusion, Limitations, Ethics Statement, and References A Appendix A.1 Audio Encoder … Read more

For some reason, most online resources either completely omit the topic of intercepting and modifying WebSocket traffic, or cover it exclusively within the context of information security and vulnerability hunting. However, a WebSocket is a transport protocol just like HTTP. Therefore, when testing applications, it is essential to be able to work with WebSockets in … Read more

Walk into any HR roundtable, and you’ll hear the same refrain: “We don’t have a technical skills gap. We have a soft skills gap.” Communication. Adaptability. Critical thinking. Emotional intelligence. These are the traits employers say they need most. They’re also the traits that don’t show up on resumes, don’t fit neatly into application forms, … Read more

The Hammurabi Codex, composed during the reign of Hammurabi, the sixth king of the Amorite First Dynasty of Babylon in the 18th Century BC, contains the earliest known examples of consumer protection laws. One example stands out: If a person’s house collapses on top of them and they die, the codex states, the builder should … Read more

Ethereum smart contracts do not run on a schedule by themselves – there is no native “cron job” within the EVM. Smart contracts are not self-executing, i.e., they require an external stimulus (a transaction from an externally owned account, oracle, or other contract) to call their functions. This presents a challenge for time-dependent actions like … Read more

When you lose money in a casino — you know it. When you lose money in crypto — you call it investing. Why even compare them? Because both worlds are addictive, and both are designed to extract money from the same crowd. When casinos start sponsoring crypto influencers, and crypto looks more like a slot … Read more

It is highly important to know that Without nodes, decentralized networks would not exist. Blockchain uses a network of nodes to keep functioning. This means no nodes no blockchain networks. Nodes are foundational to maintaining the decentralized nature of blockchain, because without nodes nothing will operate on the blockchain. These nodes are mostly operated by … Read more

Introduction A Kotlin sealed class/interface restricts its subclasses: every subtype is known at compile time and declared in the same module. This brings: | Capability | Benefit | |—-|—-| | Compiler knows every subtype | when without else → adding a new variant highlights every spot to update | | Polymorphic serialization | kotlinx.serialization or … Read more

Automation and AI technology are rapidly changing the health care environment. Now, robot nurses are becoming a reality and a need in many health facilities. They boost infection control efforts and support human nurses in various tasks. Explore what robot nurses are, their benefits, and the possible ethical and social implications of implementing them. What … Read more

Introduction: Waking Up on Mars Have you ever woken up in your room but thought you were somewhere else? Maybe on Planet Mars? If you could log in to a game and play the game like real life but still know that your virtual actions had some effect on physical reality, is that still a … Read more

After 15 years of managing Oracle databases across various enterprise environments, I can confidently say that Oracle Autonomous Database’s auto-scaling feature represents one of the most significant advances in database resource management I’ve witnessed. Introduced with Oracle Autonomous Database in 2018 and continuously refined through subsequent releases, auto-scaling addresses the age-old challenge that has kept … Read more

We’ve all been there. Day one at a new job, settling in, excited… and then the onboarding video starts. Suddenly you’re watching a monotone slideshow with stock music from 2007, narrated by a voice that sounds like it’s half-asleep. Not exactly the inspiring kickoff you hoped for. Companies talk a big game about culture and … Read more

Security Token Offerings Could Unlock Billions in Capital for Resource Companies Despite Regulatory Complexity The tokenization revolution is already reshaping global finance. Real estate investors are buying fractional ownership stakes in billions of dollars worth of property through blockchain-based security tokens. The music industry has embraced revenue sharing tokens, letting fans purchase portions of streaming … Read more

Sean K. Reynolds is a veteran of the tabletop RPG industry with a storied career that spans multiple iconic franchises and groundbreaking designs. He began his professional journey at TSR and Wizards of the Coast, contributing to Dungeons & Dragons during the transition into 3rd Edition. He later worked with Interplay on the original Baldur’s … Read more