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CFTC charges commodity, crypto pool operator with $14M fraud
The CFTC has launched a rare crypto-related enforcement action against a commodity pool operator that allegedly defrauded investors of more than $14 million.
Strike launches ‘volatility-proof’ Bitcoin loans amid bear market, but at a cost
The cost of eliminating margin calls and forced liquidations is an interest rate as high as 14.2% and an obligation to pay on time, Strike CEO Jack Mallers said.
Is The Economist Always Wrong?
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Meta’s glasses will turn off the camera if you tamper with the privacy light
Even so, the privacy LED light is still hard to see. It’s on in this photo. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amid public backlash over its smart glasses, Meta announced that it will be updating its glasses with a new feature that will disable the camera when it detects that someone … Read more
Anthropic Removes Hidden Claude Code Tracker After Researchers Raise Privacy Concerns
The company says the tool was designed to stop abuse and AI model extraction, but critics questioned the use of undisclosed monitoring.
Final extension: Startup Battlefield Australia applications now close July 20
If you’re building something ambitious, this is a fast track to the people who can move your startup forward.
Meta rolls out Muse, a new AI image generator
The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising, decorating and creator-based opportunities.
SEC’s Long-Promised Crypto Safe Harbor to Be Introduced as Soon as This Month
The SEC updated its agenda to indicate that a key crypto rulemaking is slated to be released for public comment in July.
Of course viewers are giving up on Netflix shows
Even though Netflix is the world’s most popular paid streaming service, the company has been struggling to keep viewers watching its series after their first seasons. Beef – the streamer’s anthology about people locked in feuds – lost 70 percent of its viewership when it returned earlier this year. There seems to be some confusion … Read more
My Journey From a Warehouse Floor to the Microsoft Store and Everywhere in Between
By Marcin “HCK” Firmuga – 22, Radom, Poland There’s a temperature a cheap laptop reaches right before it gives up. Mine hits it at 94°C, fan screaming, the keyboard too hot to rest my wrists on. For most of last year, that scream was the soundtrack to my nights. ==I coded through it anyway.== ==Because … Read more
SEC crypto rule changes are high on its 2026 agenda
The financial regulator’s agenda included proposed rule changes related to crypto broker-dealers, digital assets on national securities exchanges and potential safe harbors.
Netflix is about to host videos from BuzzFeed, Condé Nast, and other publishers
Starting on August 3rd, Netflix’s streaming library will include video content from dozens of digital media brands including BuzzFeed, Condé Nast, Hearst Magazines, People Inc, and Tastemade. As reported earlier by TechCrunch, the deal includes a mix of licensed past videos and new ongoing series that would have typically been published on YouTube or other … Read more
Tether Invests $20 Million in Mercado Bitcoin to Fuel Expansion Across Latin America
Brazilian crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin has raised $20 million in fresh investment from USDT stablecoin issuer Tether.
The Real Divide in the AI Economy Isn’t Human vs. Machine
Every other day, headlines come your way saying AI scalped yet another thousand heads in big tech. For an average IT person, the anxiety is understandable because of how opinions around you have been circulating recently. Unemployment, mass rejections, and low demand for high supply are what’s making everyone freak out. My DMs are filled … Read more
Six Data Grid Implementations Later, I Finally Learned to Build Components Right
Drawing on six implementations of the same data grid, the article argues that the most durable UI pattern is separating behavior from presentation through headless architecture. It shows how explicit contracts, rather than framework-specific abstractions, improve reusability, accessibility, and maintainability while benefiting from modern signals-based reactivity.
The Thin-Consumer Pattern: Moving .NET Jobs from Hangfire to RabbitMQ Without Rewriting Them
Replacing a background-job system sounds scary because the jobs do real work — sending email, dispatching webhooks, re-fetching content. Get the migration wrong and you drop a customer’s email or fire a webhook twice. It doesn’t have to be scary. When I moved every polling Hangfire job in my .NET app to RabbitMQ, the whole thing stayed … Read more
An agent in 100 lines of Lisp
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Here’s Why Code Review Is Having Trouble Scaling to the AI Era
Code review was built for a world where the supply of code was bounded by how fast a person could write it. That world is over, and the tools built to keep pace with the new one are real, working, and still measuring the wrong thing.
Ether climbs toward $2K as Bitmine buys ETH, Robinhood L2 boost
ETH charts a path toward $2,000 as TradFi adoption, DAT buying and a long-awaited network upgrade boost investor interest.
Vanguard seeks digital assets chief after years of crypto skepticism
The asset manager is hiring a head of digital assets to lead its strategy for tokenization, stablecoins, blockchain infrastructure and client-facing products.
AI Is Changing the Workplace and Universities Aren’t Keeping Up, Study Warns
A University of Manchester researcher says schools should move beyond AI cheating concerns and prepare graduates for workplaces increasingly shaped by automation.
New Hampshire lawmakers to hold hearing on $100M Bitcoin bonds
The proposed bonds to be backed by cryptocurrency still need approval from New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte and the state’s five-member executive council.