Microsoft taps India’s Varaha for durable carbon removal offtake
Microsoft is buying over 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide removal credits from India’s Varaha over the next three years.
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Lemon launches Bitcoin-backed credit card in cash-hoarding Argentina
Crypto exchange Lemon has launched a Bitcoin-backed Visa credit card in Argentina, letting users lock up BTC as collateral to access peso credit lines without selling their coins.
DevOps vs Traditional Ops vs Embedded SRE: What Actually Works in Practice?
Engineering teams often cycle through traditional ops and DevOps models before hitting burnout. Embedded SRE offers a middle path that preserves speed while protecting reliability and people.
Python: Tprof, a Targeting Profiler
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Bitcoin bull case grows as U.S. bond market volatility sinks to lowest since 2021
The bond market volatility gauge has slipped to its lowest since October 2021, supporting risk-taking in financial markets.
Miami’s crypto-settled real estate record broken by $14 million USDT transaction
The transaction was done with the help of tokenization specialist Propy and involving property firms Ciprés and Rilea Group.
Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are paying up for ‘enterprise’ access to Wikipedia
Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI have joined Google in paying the Wikimedia Foundation for access to its projects, including Wikipedia’s vast collection of articles. The Wikimedia Foundation announced the news as part of Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary on Thursday. The partnerships are part of Wikimedia Enterprise, an initiative launched in 2021 that gives large … Read more
Wikipedia turns 25 and shares a glimpse into the lives of its volunteer editors
It’s been 25 years since the launch of Wikipedia on January 15th, 2001, and it’s come a long way from housing just 100 pages to becoming a behemoth of online knowledge with more than 65 million articles that get almost 15 billion views each month. To celebrate, the Wikimedia Foundation – the nonprofit that backs … Read more
DeFi quietly breaks up with Discord as scams overwhelm public channels
Ticketed help desks and live support are replacing always-on Discord channels at major DeFi protocols.
Crypto slump hits ARK ETFs in Q4, Coinbase becomes top detractor
A fourth-quarter crypto downturn exposed how closely ARK’s flagship ETFs are now tied to digital assets, with Coinbase and Roblox emerging as the biggest performance drags.
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The Hidden Cost of Downtime: A FinOps and Insurance Perspective
The cost of downtime isn’t just lost revenue. For most companies, it’s a combination of cloud spend spikes, engineering time, customer trust, and contractual fallout—all hitting at once. That’s why CFOs increasingly look at outages through two complementary lenses: business risk preparedness and global employee continuity. Joe Cronin, President of International Citizens Insurance, notes that … Read more
Bitcoin ETFs take in $830 million amid positive inflows across ether, solana and XRP
Bitcoin, ether, solana and XRP spot ETFs all posted net inflows on Wednesday, led by the strongest day for bitcoin funds in months.
Crypto market turns greedy after three-month break
The sentiment gauge climbed to 61 after weeks in fear territory, tracking bitcoin’s rebound to its highest level since November.
The TechBeat: Patterns That Work and Pitfalls to Avoid in AI Agent Deployment (1/15/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly – The Four Phases of AI Agent Maturity By @denisp [ 5 Min read ] Don’t let … Read more
NCAA urges CFTC to pause college sports prediction markets
The group says contracts mirror sports betting but lack safeguards, warning transfer portal markets could pose “catastrophic” risks to student athletes.
Senate Banking Committee Delays Markup of Key Crypto Bill as Industry Support Frays
Senate efforts to rewrite U.S. crypto rules hit another snag after the Banking Committee delayed markup of the industry-shaping bill.
Long term bitcoin holders slow profit-taking as prices tap key sell zone
Bitcoin has returned to a price range where repeated profit-taking by long-term holders capped rallies last year, though those wallets are now selling more slowly than in 2025.
Dogecoin drops 4% as traders sell into strength
Heavy selling pressure emerged after a failed rally attempt, with late-session stabilization showing exhaustion rather than reversal.
XRP slips 3% despite Ripple license approvals as bitcoin weighs on market
Ripple received preliminary authorization for an e-money license in Luxembourg, potentially expanding its regulated payment services in the EU.
Bitcoin open interest falls 30%, setting up bullish recovery: Analyst
Bitcoin derivatives open interest fell 30% from October highs as deleveraging purged excess leverage, historically signaling market bottoms and recovery.
Former ‘bitcoin mayor’ Eric Adams denies profiting from NYC Token after 80% crash
The Solana-based token plunged more than 80% shortly after launch, with on-chain watchers flagging liquidity shifts that its backers and Adams’ team dispute.
A Sustainable Code Review Process for Busy Teams (PERFECT)
Here we go again: you see the notification, and you feel that familiar resistance. Code Review often feels cognitively heavy and non-deterministic: too many paths to follow, too much ambiguity, too many opinions. That uncertainty breeds procrastination and bikeshedding, or, at the other extreme, drive-by approvals. But how do you maximize the value of a … Read more
Bitcoin ‘groove’ to return despite gold, Nasdaq spotlight: Arthur Hayes
Bitcoin should be able to steal some “juice” back from gold and the Nasdaq in 2026, with several catalysts supporting the idea of US dollar liquidity expansion.