Month: October 2025
Walmart-Backed OnePay to Add Bitcoin and Ether Trading to Finance App: CNBC
Walmart-backed fintech OnePay plans to roll out cryptocurrency trading and custody features in its app by the end of the year. The service will let users buy, hold, and convert bitcoin and ether within the app, with crypto infrastructure provided by Chicago-based Zerohash, CNBC reports , citing sources familiar with the matter. Though OnePay hasn’t … Read more
Automate Web Debugging: A Practical Guide to Chrome DevTools MCP
Hey everyone! I’m excited to share something that’s a real game-changer for anyone who writes code for the web. I’m talking about the new Chrome DevTools Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. If you want to know more details, read the article until the end. AI coding assistants are great at generating code. They can write … Read more
Ecovacs’ Deebot X8 and X9 Pro Omni robovacs have hit a new low price
The robovac comes with a dock that can refill itself using its built-in water tank. Robot vacuums that mop well rarely come cheap, but thankfully, some of our favorite models are receiving a significant discount ahead of Amazon’s next Prime Day event next week. Right now, the Ecovacs Deebot X8 Pro Omni and the newer Deebot X9 … Read more
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XRP slides below $3: How low can the price go next?
Over $500 million in short liquidation pools sit between $2.89 and $2.73, putting XRP at risk of a sharp sell-off if the $3 support is not reclaimed.
The History of TRUE Telepathy
In 1893, while serving in the German army, Hans Berger experienced a near-fatal accident that would forever change the course of neuroscience. His horse suddenly bolted, throwing him in front of a horse-drawn artillery carriage. The driver managed to stop just in time, sparing Berger’s life by mere seconds. At that very moment, his sister, … Read more
The Future of Web Styling: CSS Nesting, Container Queries & Scoped Styles
CSS — the language that controls the look and feel of websites — has always been powerful, but a little tricky. Programmers have struggled for years with all the duplication, all the desire to get designs adaptable, and all the evasion of style conflicts. Three new features are now revolutionizing CSS into a cleaner, slimmer, … Read more
SIPP vs Workplace Pension: What’s the Smarter Move This Tax Year?
Choosing the right pension scheme early could leave you thousands of pounds better off when you are ready to retire, ensuring you enjoy your golden years. If you’re employed, you’ll be automatically enrolled into a workplace pension scheme once you’re earning over a certain amount, where you and your employer contribute a percentage of your … Read more
Explainer: Inodes and Inode Numbers
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Top 5 Common Pitfalls in Oracle Cloud Financial Implementations and How to Avoid Them
The adoption of Oracle Cloud Financials can radically transform the financial activity in an organization to provide real-time status, new levels of compliance, and smooth procedures. However, as it happens when dealing with the platform of such magnitude, a significant proportion of the organizations finds it challenging to cope with the unforeseen obstacles that hinder … Read more
Tilly Norwood is a gen AI psyop
Last week at the Zurich Film Festival, Eline Van der Velden – founder and CEO of AI production house Particle6 and its subsidiary talent studio Xicoia – said that a number of talent agents had expressed interest in working with Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated “actress” created by the companies. Van der Velden has not gone … Read more
Instagram wants me to make content — I just want to post a photo
Why just post a photo when you can encourage all your friends and followers to engage with it? Have you tried simply uploading a photo to Instagram lately? It’s a minefield. Is that a Story, a Post, or a Reel? Do you want to add music? A caption? A prompt, which is… different than a … Read more
Brazil’s Mercado Bitcoin Bets on ‘Invisible Blockchain’ Approach to Build Financial Super App
Twelve years after launching as a cryptocurrency exchange, Mercado Bitcoin aims to be something entirely different. Less focused on price charts and trading pairs, the São Paulo-based company now talks more about Brazil’s central bank’s PIX payments, digital fixed income, and streamlined remittances. Mercado Bitcoin’s head of corporate development, Daniel Cunha, told CoinDesk in an … Read more
Empathy for Dummies
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Robinhood Lists Strategy’s Preferred Stocks Including STRC — and Why This Matters for Bitcoin
Robinhood’s decision to list Strategy’s four preferred stocks marks a rare break from its own investment policies — and could strengthen Michael Saylor’s bitcoin playbook without diluting holders of the firm’s common stock, MSTR. Robinhood’s rare policy shift The brokerage began offering trading in four Strategy (MSTR) preferred stocks on Oct. 2, with tickers STRC, … Read more
Confidential lending will unlock trillions for DeFi markets
Fully Homomorphic Encryption could unlock trillions in traditional finance for DeFi by enabling private lending, encrypted credit scores and confidential transactions.
Tesla’s insurance arm accused of ‘egregious delays’ and ‘systemic failures’ by CA regulator
California’s Department of Insurance has been warning Tesla to fix its claims process since 2022, but consumer complaints have skyrocketed anyways.
Digital Discrimination: Los Angeles Becomes First City in the U.S. to Ban It
Last week, the city council in Los Angeles, Calif. passed a motion banning “digital discrimination,” which is when internet service providers (ISPs) inequitably deploy high-speed internet connections or disproportionately withhold the best deals for their services from racially or socio-economically marginalized neighborhoods. The legislation, authored by Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson, expanded the types of discrimination the … Read more
Stablecoin market boom to $300B is ‘rocket fuel’ for crypto rally
The $300 billion record stablecoin supply may act as “rocket fuel” for the crypto market, while signaling a growing integration with global finance, industry watchers told Cointelegraph.
Floki Soars 23% as Valour Launches Europe’s 1st FLOKI ETP
Floki (FLOKI), a cryptocurrency project that started as a memecoin and has since evolved with its own ecosystem, has seen its price jump nearly 23% in the last 24 hours after the launch of its first exchnage-traded product (ETP) in Europe. The new offering, called Valour Floki SEK ETP, launched on Oct. 3 on Sweden’s … Read more
What Next for the UK’s $7 Billion in Seized Bitcoin?
Crypto industry groups are split over what the UK government should do with the 61,000 BTC seized in a recent criminal case.
Klink Finance Targets $200B Web2-to-Web3 Advertising Transition with October $KLINK Launch
Klink Advertising Technology Positioned to Capture Market Share as Global Affiliate Marketing Industry Shifts from Traditional to Blockchain-Based Infrastructure Klink Finance announced the October launch of its $KLINK utility token, positioning the company to capture significant value in the ongoing $200 billion transition from Web2 to Web3 advertising infrastructure. With proven technology already serving 900,000+ … Read more
Breaking up (Google) is hard to do
Breaking up Google’s ad tech monopoly is, apparently, like going to Mars or trying to replace Michael Jordan – dubiously possible and a huge amount of work. Those were some of the analogies witnesses testifying in Google’s defense told a federal judge this week as the company mounts its second attempt to stave off a … Read more
Consume Me is a raw and funny memoir in video game form
There’s a lot of math in diet culture. It’s all numbers – calories in, calories burned – and a constant tally running in one’s head. In some ways, disordered eating can be considered a disturbed sort of strategy game, which is precisely why Jenny Jiao Hsia and AP Thomson’s Consume Me works so well. The … Read more
Speculative Retail Trading is Good for Financial Markets, Actually
Traditional investment firms all have the same mantras: “time in the market beats timing,” “move slowly,” and “big money is in the waiting.” It’s an action plan that made sense 20 years ago, but today, it’s a sure strategy for getting steamrolled by forces most of these firms refuse to acknowledge. The uncomfortable truth is … Read more