Month: August 2025
Weaponized Trading Bots Drain $1M From Crypto Users via AI-Generated YouTube Scam
Over $1 million has been siphoned from unsuspecting crypto users through malicious smart contracts posing as MEV trading bots, according to a new report by SentinelLABS. The campaign leveraged AI-generated YouTube videos, aged accounts, and obfuscated Solidity code to bypass basic user scrutiny and gain access to crypto wallets. Scammers appeared to be using AI-generated … Read more
A Product Manager’s take on AI-driven Risk Management
As a product manager, I’ve seen major shifts driven by generative AI in the risk management space. It’s a shift that is transforming everything from financial services to e-commerce and autonomous vehicles. I believe a siloed, reactive approach with a compliance-first mentality to risk management doesn’t cut it anymore. There have been multiple failures that … Read more
Autonomy: Embrace It, Don’t Fear It
Where We Are Classic production and business processes are usually planned, implemented, and evaluated in that order. If something goes wrong, and it usually does, one must return to the drawing board. Even if everything proceeds according to plan, there are always limitations in terms of resources. But what are these natural constraints? You will … Read more
Tracking Data Lineage at Scale: How This Offline Platform Handles Petabytes Daily
This article introduces an offline data governance platform built on DolphinScheduler, addressing issues like task dependency black holes and scalability bottlenecks. By implementing YAML-based dynamic compilation and automatic lineage capture, the platform enables efficient task dependency management and data tracking. It leverages the Neo4j graph database for lineage storage, supporting second-level impact analysis and root … Read more
5 APIs to Strengthen Your Video Editing SaaS
Smart API integrations can expand your feature set dramatically, without hiring or adding technical debt. Here are 5 of them. The feature race in SaaS is real. Product managers and CTOs in fast-scaling video and audio platforms know the challenge: users expect pro-level tools like voice cloning, noise removal, subtitles and smart cuts, but the … Read more
These Phrases Are Killing Your Credibility
We have the habit of throwing around words recklessly often using phrases that make us sound less confident, unsure and weak. The words we choose to communicate impacts how others perceive us—do they find us manipulative or genuine, rude or kind, aggressive or assertive and credible or untrustworthy? How you come across to others makes … Read more
Lessons from Building Cisco’s Big Data Platform with Apache DolphinScheduler and AWS
Introduction I’m a software development engineer at Cisco. Our team has been using Apache DolphinScheduler to build our own big data scheduling platform for nearly three years. Starting from version 2.0.3, we’ve grown alongside the community; what I’m sharing today is based on secondary development on version 3.1.1, adding features not included in the community … Read more
The Tiny UX Tweak That Makes a Big Difference
When I build software, I try to make the app remember things. So the user doesn’t have to do the same stuff over and over. Most apps reset everything on refresh or when you come back later. That gets annoying fast. Here’s what I mean: You click the same tab again You re-select your filter … Read more
How I Created a Voice AI Tutor with GPT-4 to Accelerate My Learning
A few months ago, I noticed something frustrating. I’d spend hours trying to learn new concepts — watching videos, reading articles, or chatting with ChatGPT. But it still felt slow. Clunky. Passive. Typing questions felt like homework. Scrolling for the “right” explanation was exhausting. So I asked myself: What if learning felt more like a … Read more
TypeDance Outperforms DALL·E 3 and ControlNet in Logo Design Usability Study
Table of Links Introduction Related Work 2.1 Semantic Typographic Logo Design 2.2 Generative Model for Computational Design 2.3 Graphic Design Authoring Tool Formative Study 3.1 General Workflow and Challenges 3.2 Concerns in Generative Model Involvement 3.3 Design Space of Semantic Typography Work Design Consideration Typedance and 5.1 Ideation 5.2 Selection 5.3 Generation 5.4 Evaluation 5.5 … Read more
Prioritize Vulnerabilities Using Budibase — No Costly Tools Needed
Vulnerability prioritization is a crucial phase where the relative risks and remediation order of vulnerabilities are evaluated, ranked from highest to lowest priority. In my previous article, I discussed how to manage security vulnerabilities using Budibase. In this article, I’ll guide you through my custom approach to assessing remediation priority and demonstrate how I integrated … Read more
What to Expect When Bitcoin Mining Stops
One day, Bitcoin mining will stop. Then what? That’s a question I hear often, especially from people just getting into crypto. They wonder what will happen to miners, the network, and Bitcoin itself once all 21 million coins are mined. Let’s break it down simply. Why Bitcoin Can’t Be Mined Forever Bitcoin has a fixed … Read more
A Quick Guide to Listing All Measures in Power BI via DAX Studio
DAX Studio is an incredibly powerful tool that allows Power BI users to view and analyze their data model in great detail. One of the key features of DAX Studio is its ability to extract all measures from a Power BI file, providing users with a comprehensive list of calculations used in their reports. In … Read more
40 Years of the Amiga
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One Go Codebase, Five Platforms: My Cross-Platform Build Journey
All images in this article are AI-generated by the author with NightCafe Studio. Introduction Go, often referred to as Golang, has earned its distinguished reputation through a combination of elegant simplicity, raw performance, and powerful concurrency models. A truly transformative, yet often understated, feature of Go is its innate and robust support for multiplatform programming. … Read more
5 Open-Source Crypto Tools You Can Use for Free —and Support with Kivach
In case you didn’t know, there’s a whole world of useful and interesting crypto-related tools available for everyone; beyond crypto networks themselves and dedicated wallets. Some of them are paid, most of them are free, and some more are open-source and free. That means anyone can check and even copy their codes from a public … Read more
Web3 Influencers Are a Mess—Here’s How I’m Taking Back Control
If you’ve ever tried to find the “right” Web3 KOL, you probably know the pain: what looks like a glittering world of influencers, alpha drops, hype, and trend-setters quickly reveals itself as a swamp loaded with fake numbers, sketchy identities, and next-level rug-pull artistry. I dove into the deep end of searching for Web3 KOLs—thinking … Read more
Product Management Is Broken: This Is Where It Ends
Part 1 — Identifying The Dysfunction Sixteen Years, One Pattern I’ve been working in what would be called the Product field in the UK for more than 16 years. In that time, I’ve been uniquely exposed to the working practices of a huge variety of businesses. Enterprise, start-up, scale-up, small business, e-commerce, SaaS, B2B, B2C, … Read more
Crypto’s Moving Fast. Beluga’s Already There
Since its launch last October, Beluga has become one of the leading platforms for educating users on the best projects in crypto. Beluga’s investors include many of the top crypto and FinTech VCs as well as key execs from Coinbase, Ripple, Kraken, Blockchain, MoonPay, etc. Essentially, Beluga is trying to become “The NerdWallet for Crypto”, … Read more
Coinbase to levy 0.1% fee for USDC to US dollar swaps over $5M
Coinbase will soon lower the fee-free benefit of USDC to US dollar conversions to $5 million as the exchange has missed revenue expectations for two quarters running.
The Browser Company launches a $20 monthly subscription for its AI-powered browser
The Browser Company has its first paid plan in form of $20 per month Dia Pro.
Crypto trader bot scam on YouTube looted 256 ETH: SentinelLABS
Aged YouTube accounts with a history of posting crypto news and investing tips have been taken over by bad actors to advertise a scam trading bot that steals crypto.
With South Korea’s CBDC Plans Dead, KakaoBank Joins Stablecoin Gold Rush
KakaoBank is preparing to enter South Korea’s fast-growing stablecoin sector, according to local reports. In its first-half earnings call on Tuesday, KakaoBank CFO Kwon Tae-hoon said the firm is “actively considering” roles in both stablecoin issuance and custody, with participation aligned to the country’s shifting digital asset policies. “We plan to engage actively in line … Read more
Bitcoin, Ether, XRP price bump pushes market sentiment to ‘Greed’
Crypto analysts echoed the positive sentiment around Bitcoin, with some speculating it could jump to $125,000 in the near term.