Month: August 2025

Crypto Lobby Pushes Back Against Bank Effort to Rewrite U.S. Stablecoin Law

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The crypto industry is mounting a counteroffensive against Wall Street bankers’ bid to rewrite the U.S.’ new stablecoin law, arguing that attempts to roll back core provisions of the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act would tilt the field toward traditional banks. In a letter to Senate Banking Committee leaders dated … Read more

Ikea’s most Ikea product ever

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You can certainly use this for other things besides meatballs too, but it does present them beautifully. Ikea is teaming up with a Swedish designer for its latest collection, and the first product being teased is a dedicated plate for Ikea’s greatest product: meatballs. The 12-piece Gustaf Westman collection that’s launching on September 9th includes … Read more

Key Challenges in OCR Research and Future Directions

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Printing Press in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan 1.2 Challenges in Historical Documents 1.3 Kurdish Language Related work and 2.1 Arabic/Persian 2.2 Chinese/Japanese and 2.3 Coptic 2.4 Greek 2.5 Latin 2.6 Tamizhi Method and 3.1 Data Collection 3.2 Data Preparation and 3.3 Preprocessing 3.4 Environment Setup, 3.5 Dataset … Read more

Trump Family Expands Crypto Bets as Thumzup Pivots Into Dogecoin Mining

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Thumzup Media Corp. (TZUP), which counts Donald Trump Jr. as a large shareholder, said it will acquire Dogehash Technologies, Inc. in an all-stock deal, pivoting from digital marketing into industrial-scale crypto mining Under the agreement, Dogehash shareholders will receive 30.7 million Thumzup shares, according to a Tuesday release, valuing the transaction at $153.8 million, based … Read more

Hyperkin’s DualSense-inspired Xbox controller is finally launching this fall

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You don’t have to worry about battery life with the Hyperkin Competitor since it’s a wired-only Xbox controller. | Image: Hyperkin There’s good news if you’re an Xbox gamer who’s longingly stared at the sleeker design of Sony’s DualSense controller for the PlayStation 5. After revealing the final form of its Competitor gamepad at CES … Read more

How to Capture OAuth Callbacks in CLI and Desktop Apps with Localhost Servers

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When building CLI tools or desktop applications that integrate with OAuth providers, you face a unique challenge: how do you capture the authorization code when there’s no public-facing server to receive the callback? The answer lies in a clever technique that’s been right under our noses — spinning up a temporary localhost server to catch … Read more

Training Tesseract for Low-Resource Languages

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Printing Press in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan 1.2 Challenges in Historical Documents 1.3 Kurdish Language Related work and 2.1 Arabic/Persian 2.2 Chinese/Japanese and 2.3 Coptic 2.4 Greek 2.5 Latin 2.6 Tamizhi Method and 3.1 Data Collection 3.2 Data Preparation and 3.3 Preprocessing 3.4 Environment Setup, 3.5 Dataset … Read more

Value Today Means Moving Faster Than the Plan

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We live in a time when information moves faster than decisions. AI, automation, and integrations cut the development cycle from months to days, but at the same time push teams into shallow thinking. People stop going deep because there are too many goals, and priorities shift before you even finish the plan. Before, working frameworks … Read more

AI’s Silent Failures vs. Graph Thinking’s Loud Wins

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Enterprise AI often hits a wall. Pilots perform well and dashboards look great, but when it’s time to scale across functions, the system starts to fall apart. This happens because the architecture wasn’t built for decisions, it was built for data access. It delivers snapshots, but not context. Decisions don’t happen in isolation. They unfold … Read more

Go Concurrency Face-Off: Channels vs Mutexes

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Concurrency is Go’s crown jewel – goroutines and channels make concurrent programming feel almost magical. But not every problem belongs in a channel. Many developers fall into the trap of overusing channels or misusing mutexes, resulting in slow, buggy, or unmaintainable code. In this article, we’ll demystify when to use channels and when to use … Read more

No More ‘Ship and Pray’: Testing SaaS Billing Systems with Playwright & Stripe Test Clocks

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Picture this: You’ve just implemented a new subscription billing feature. Your users get a 7-day trial, then $250/month for your Pro plan. QA asks the dreaded question: “How do we test the entire billing lifecycle?” Your options seem limited: Wait 7+ days for real-time testing (and 30+ more for the next cycle) Manually manipulate database … Read more

Qubic’s 51% Attack Plans Trigger DOGE Crash, Futures Open Interest Drops 8%

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Dogecoin tumbled sharply on Tuesday after the Qubic blockchain community voted to target DOGE for a potential 51% attack, days after it claimed responsibility for compromising Monero’s network. Security fears collided with broad crypto weakness, pushing DOGE into heavy sell pressure despite continued whale accumulation. News Background • Qubic’s governance forum approved a proposal to … Read more