Month: August 2025
Don’t “let it crash”, let it heal
Comments
Google says hackers stole its customers’ data by breaching its Salesforce database
Google confirmed that one of its cloud-stored Salesforce databases was breached, exposing its customer data. Google attributed the breach to a hacking group, ShinyHunters, known for breaking into Salesforce databases.
Caligra Workbench
Comments
Bitcoin Realized Prices Climb as Investors Continue Accumulating
All three major bitcoin (BTC) realized price metrics are in a clear uptrend, indicating that investors across cohorts are continuing to accumulate BTC at higher prices. This includes the Short-Term Holder (STH) Realized Price, currently at $106,000, which often acts as dynamic support during bull markets. Meanwhile, the Long-Term Holder (LTH) Realized Price stands at … Read more
Create Custom Logos Using TypeDance’s 5-Step Process
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
Why Feeling Behind Means You Are Ahead
A Letter to Creators Who Feel Behind While Building Something Unprecedented Taleb’s Turkey For a thousand days, the turkey was fed by the butcher. Each morning, its internal ‘analysts’ confirmed a comforting truth with increasing statistical confidence: tomorrow would be better than today. The evidence was overwhelming, the pattern undeniably linear, the future soothingly predictable. … Read more
Marex Becomes First Clearing Firm to Adopt JPMorgan’s Kinexys With Brevan Howard Digital
Marex (MRX), a global financial services platform, has become the first clearing firm to integrate Kinexys Digital Payments, a blockchain-based settlement system developed by JPMorgan (JPM), through a collaboration with Brevan Howard Digital, the company said in a press release on Wednesday. The initiative is aimed at modernizing payment infrastructure and reducing settlement risk by … Read more
Bitcoin analyst warns of $105K 'danger zone' as open interest stays frothy
The short-term outlook for Bitcoin remains cautious, with a possibility of a trip toward $105,000, which one analyst calls the “hidden danger zone” for BTC price.
SwapSpace Turns 6: On the Road from Aggregator to Exchange Hub
Hi, I’m SwapSpace — your go-to crypto exchange aggregator. And I just turned six. That might sound young for a person, but in crypto, six years means I’ve already seen market cycles, grown through bear markets, and helped hundreds of thousands of users swap smarter. I’ve learned a lot, built even more, and I’m excited … Read more
Qwant and Ecosia debut Staan, a European search index that aims to take on Big Tech
European search engines Qwant and Ecosia said on Wednesday that they have both started serving search queries through an index they developed together, Staan, that aims to be a cheaper, more privacy-focused alternative to Google and Bing.
Slopsquatting
Comments
Nvidia rejects US demand for backdoors in AI chips
Nvidia’s chief security officer has published a blog post insisting that its GPUs “do not and should not have kill switches and backdoors.” It comes amid pressure from both sides of the Pacific, with some US lawmakers pushing Nvidia to grant the government backdoors to AI chips, while Chinese officials have alleged that they already … Read more
Bitcoin Traders Bet on Sub-$100K Slide: Crypto Daybook Americas
By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) As the crypto market reels under U.S. stagflation concerns, traders on the decentralized platform Polymarket are seeing a more than 50% chance of bitcoin (BTC) prices dropping into five figures before year-end. Shares in the Yes side of Polymarket’s “Will bitcoin dip below $100K before 2026” … Read more
UK’s Smarter Web Company raises $21M via Bitcoin-denominated bonds
UK-listed Smarter Web Company raised $21 million via Bitcoin-denominated bonds, backed by Tobam, offering a new model for crypto-aligned fundraising.
Microsoft makes OpenAI’s new open model available on Windows
OpenAI released a new free and open GPT model yesterday that can run on a PC, and now Microsoft is making that easy to do for Windows users. The lightweight gpt-oss-20b model is now available on Windows AI Foundry, and will be coming soon to macOS, too. You’ll need a PC or laptop with at … Read more
LLM Inflation
Comments
About the BLOBs in Ventoy
Comments
The Magic of Herding
Comments
Microsoft’s plan to fix the web with AI has already hit an embarrassing security flaw
Researchers have already found a critical vulnerability in the new NLWeb protocol Microsoft made a big deal about just just a few months ago at Build. It’s a protocol that’s supposed to be “HTML for the Agentic Web,” offering ChatGPT-like search to any website or app. Discovery of the embarrassing security flaw comes in the … Read more
The importance of offtopic
Comments
Which colors are primary?
Comments
Crypto investor falls victim to phishing scam, loses $3M in a single click
Crypto scammers are switching from code to exploiting human vulnerabilities, which don’t require breaking through complex cybersecurity guardrails.
UK u-turn on retail access to crypto ETNs signals push to become crypto hub
The Payments Association’s Riccardo Tordera told Cointelegraph that the ban’s reversal allows individual investors to make their own choices at their own risk.