Month: July 2025

WLFI Invests $10M in Falcon Finance to Boost On-Chain Dollar Liquidity

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Stablecoin project Falcon Finance said it secured a $10 million strategic investment from World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform with links to U.S. President Donald Trump’s family. The funding will support technical integrations that enable liquidity between USDf, Falcon’s synthetic dollar, and WLFI’s USD1 stablecoin, according to an emailed announcement. The investment … Read more

Optimizing TensorFlow Input Pipelines for Peak Performance

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Content Overview Best practice summary Reproducing the figures The dataset The iteration loop The plotting method Use wrappers for mapped function Pipeline comparisons Optimized Best practice summary Here is a summary of the best practices for designing performant TensorFlow input pipelines: Use the prefetch transformation to overlap the work of a producer and consumer Parallelize the data reading … Read more

XRP Futures Volume on Kraken Eclipses Sol for 1st Time as Price Soars to Record

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XRP (XRP) perpetual futures listed on the U.S.-based Kraken exchange have become more popular than their sol (SOL) counterparts for the first time. Trading volumes on Kraken-listed XRP perpetuals have topped $3.48 billion this month, outpacing the Solana token’s tally of $3.23 billion, Kraken told CoinDesk. The exchange listed the XRP perpetual futures in 2022. … Read more

You’re Wasting GPU Power—Fix Your TensorFlow Input Pipeline Today

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Content Overview Overview Resources Setup The dataset The training loop Optimize approach The naive approach Prefetching Parallelizing data extraction Parallelizing data transformation Caching Vectorizing mapping Reducing memory footprint Overview GPUs and TPUs can radically reduce the time required to execute a single training step. Achieving peak performance requires an efficient input pipeline that delivers data … Read more

ARK Invest Buys Another $15.3M Worth of Ether Strategy Firm BitMine Immersion

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ARK Invest increased its investment in ether treasury company BitMine Immersion Technologies for a second straight day, buying $15.3 million worth of the shares on Tuesday. Cathie Wood’s investment management firm added 477,498 BMNR shares across its Innovation (ARKK), Next Generations Internet (ARKW) and Fintech Innovation (ARKF) exchange-traded funds (ETFs), according to an emailed update. … Read more

How to Save, Load, and Deploy Models Using TensorFlow SavedModel

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Content Overview Creating a SavedModel from Keras Running a SavedModel in TensorFlow Serving The SavedModel format on disk Saving a custom model Loading and using a custom model Basic fine-tuning General fine-tuning Specifying signatures during export Proto-splitting Load a SavedModel in C++ Details of the SavedModel command line interface Install the SavedModel CLI Overview of … Read more

Why “Experts” Still Get AI Wrong

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I recently read an article in a major Austrian news outlet titled “Why AI May Not Be as Revolutionary as People Think”.
 Two Austrian researchers (a sociologist and a business informatics researcher) warn against overestimating AI in the workplace: While many people use tools like ChatGPT daily, they argue that AI cannot replace humans or … Read more

The Illusion of Ideas

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Why Untested Ideas Remain Illusions When you’re starting something new, it’s tempting to believe in the clarity of your own ideas. You’ve thought about them deeply. You’ve sketched them out in notebooks. You’ve imagined how they’ll change the lives of your future customers. It feels like reality is already taking shape. But here’s the truth: … Read more

Strengthen Kubernetes Security with Vault Agent Injector

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How Vault Works with Kubernetes? Vault integrates with Kubernetes using the Kubernetes authentication method and the Vault Agent Injector.This enables secure, automated delivery of secrets into pods without hardcoding them or storing them in Kubernetes Secrets. Benefits: No need to expose secrets in Kubernetes Secrets or environment variables. Supports dynamic secrets with auto-expiry and rotation. … Read more

The Dating App Breach That Turned Into a Biometric Black Mirror Episode

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“DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS!” The 4chan thread announcing the Tea app breach captures the chaos when biometric data meets internet vigilantism. Within hours, anonymous users had created maps showing victims’ locations and built rating sites where men could score the stolen selfies of 13,000 women. But the real catastrophe emerged yesterday: over 1.1 million … Read more