Month: January 2026
AI2: Open Coding Agents
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Mesh joins crypto unicorn ranks with $75M Dragonfly-led Series C
The crypto payments company plans to expand its network across Latin America, Asia and Europe following the latest funding round.
BNB rises 2.5%, nears $900 mark as prediction market growth signals utility expansion
A new physically backed BNB exchange-traded product launched on Nasdaq Stockholm, adding to existing investment options.
Your AI Model Isn’t Broken. Your Data Is
The Hidden Tax of Dirty Data on AI Performance — and a Developer’s Shortcut to Fixing It You’ve trained a customer segmentation model, but it’s clustering addresses from different states together. Your recommendation engine is suggesting products to customers in countries you don’t ship to. Your fraud detection system keeps flagging legitimate international transactions. Sound … Read more
TikTok US is mostly back up and running
As we moved into the third day of the TikTokalypse, the app appears to have finally stabilized in the US, as we verified that it’s possible to consistently publish new videos and even have other people watch them. That hasn’t been a simple task since the service started having problems early Sunday morning, but on … Read more
Mesh becomes unicorn, raises $75 million for crypto payments infrastructure
The investment round was led by Dragonfly Capital and included participation from Paradigm, Moderne Ventures, Coinbase Ventures and SBI Investment.
What Really Determines the Speed of Your PyTorch Code?
Anyone who works with PyTorch model code starts asking the same questions: Why is this taking so long? How do I make my training loop faster? Whether you’re an ML engineer, a researcher or just decided to play around with a random ML repository over the weekend, you will eventually try to understand how to … Read more
Android phones are getting more anti-theft features
Google says Android devices will get new security features, like stronger authentication safeguards and enhanced recovery tools.
Google now lets users jump from AI Overviews into AI Mode conversations
The tech giant also announced that it’s making Gemini 3 the new default model for AI Overviews globally.
UK dodges ‘US malaise’ as regulator finalizes crypto rules
The UK is bringing its multi-year rulemaking process for crypto to a close and, in doing so, may surpass the US, which is currently bogged down trying to resolve the CLARITY Act.
The promise and peril of a new online shooter
The routine is familiar by now. A new online shooter with bright, colorful graphics launches and rockets up the charts despite the fact that you maybe haven’t even heard of it. Or maybe it just has a really forgettable name. But everyone seems to be talking about it, and it’s free, so you figure you … Read more
Google Search now lets you ask AI Overviews follow-up questions
Google is making Search less about links and more about AI. The company is upgrading its AI-powered search features, adding Gemini 3 to AI Overviews and letting users ask follow-up questions “seamlessly” to make sure Search can answer “whatever’s on your mind,” a move that feels closer to using an AI chatbot than a search … Read more
Indian states weigh Australia-style ban on social media for children
Any move to restrict children’s access to social media in India would carry significant implications for global technology companies, for which the South Asian nation is a critical growth market.
The Third Culture: Blending Teams With Different Management Models
When talking about different management models, it’s common to divide them culturally — by nationality or mindset. The most well-known example you’ve probably heard many times is the difference between “Eastern” and “Western” teams, where the Eastern model is, on average, characterised by higher power distance and higher uncertainty avoidance, while Western Europe tends to … Read more
‘Forgotten Runiverse’ on Ethereum Network Ronin Is the Latest Crypto Gaming Casualty
Forgotten Runiverse, a free-to-play role-playing game on Ethereum scaling network Ronin, is shutting down its servers until further notice.
An Architectural Pattern for Running Java Components Inside .NET 8
Modern digital platforms are rarely built using a single technology stack. At the architectural level, enterprise systems are increasingly composed of heterogeneous ecosystems, where services written in different programming languages must interoperate reliably under performance, scalability, and operational constraints. Designing such systems requires more than implementation skills—it demands architectural judgment around integration boundaries, execution models, … Read more
The Price of Freedom: Stability as a Function of Algorithmic Governance
The dream of a “Techno-Collectivist” society is simple: remove the human element from leadership. No ego, no greed, no reelection campaigns, and no panic. Just a machine optimizing for the survival and growth of the collective. But is it viable? Can an LLM actually manage an economy, or will it hallucinate a utopia while its … Read more
Claude Book: A Multi-Agent Framework for Writing Novels with Claude Code
Claude Book is a framework that uses Claude Code as an orchestrated writing system. The framework follows an **orchestrator-worker pattern** with specialized agents and features a **perplexity gate** with rewriting techniques to reduce AI-slope effect.
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The day Alex Pretti was shot 10 times in the street by federal agents, I was delivering a eulogy for my grandfather, who died the way we’re supposed to: old, asleep, surrounded by family. Because it’s my job to coordinate visuals for this website, I locked myself in a bathroom stall, watched a video of … Read more
Pornhub will block new users in the UK next month
Pornhub will soon begin restricting UK users from accessing its website in response to the country’s “failed” online safety regulations, according to an announcement on Tuesday. The site’s owner, Aylo, says it will block users who haven’t already verified their age on the platform starting February 2nd, 2026, as reported earlier by 404 Media. As … Read more