TRUMP crashes 38% as MELANIA launches her own memecoin
Melania Trump’s memecoin launched after Donald Trump’s official TRUMP token reached a $15 billion market cap before falling nearly 40%.
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TikTok is back, but where are Marvel Snap, CapCut, and Lemon8?
Image: ByteDance TikTok has returned — at least partially — in the US following a nationwide ban, but other popular ByteDance-owned apps, such as the digital card game Marvel Snap, video editing app CapCut, and the social platform Lemon8, are still blocked. None of these apps, including TikTok, are currently available to download on the … Read more
'Buy crypto' and 'Solana' search volumes surge amid TRUMP meme frenzy
Many crypto influencers and financial analysts have characterized the TRUMP memecoin launch as a new era for capital formation.
Suicide Hotlines Promised Anonymity – So Why Was Sensitive Data Sent to Facebook?
This article was copublished with STAT, a national publication that delivers trusted and authoritative journalism about health, medicine, and the life sciences. Sign up for its health tech newsletter here. Websites for mental health crisis resources across the country—which promise anonymity for visitors, many of whom are at a desperate moment in their lives—have been quietly … Read more
Solana’s TVL Crosses $10B for First Time Since FTX Collapse After TRUMP Memecoin Launch
The “official” memecoin of incoming U.S. President Donald Trump has boosted interest in Solana (SOL), leading to a surge in both its price and trading volume, which in turn helped the total dollar value locked (TVL) on the network top $10 billion for the first time since the collapse of FTX. Donald Trump’s choice of … Read more
TikTok’s service providers still risk billions in penalties for bringing it back online
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images No matter what TikTok says in its laudatory pop-up messages, President-elect Donald Trump cannot simply declare an extension of the TikTok ban deadline and protect American companies that support it from billions of dollars in fines. Trump seems to want TikTok available for his inauguration on Monday, … Read more
Official Trump memecoin captures crypto market trading volume as Bitcoin prepares for new highs
The Official Trump memecoin aims for prices in the triple-digit range, while SOL, BTC, XRP, ALGO and XDC prepare for a breakout to new all-time highs.
AI benchmarking organization criticized for waiting to disclose funding from OpenAI
An organization developing math benchmarks for AI didn’t disclose that it had received funding from OpenAI until relatively recently, drawing allegations of impropriety from some in the AI community. Epoch AI, a nonprofit primarily funded by Open Philanthropy, a research and grantmaking foundation, revealed on December 20 that OpenAI had supported the creation of FrontierMath. … Read more
Instagram is introducing its take on CapCut
Instagram’s logo for Edits. | Image: Meta Instagram head Adam Mosseri just announced a video editing app called Edits. Mosseri said the app is meant to rival Capcut, a video editing app that went offline along with TikTok. The app is available for preorder on the iOS App Store. “There’s a lot going on right … Read more
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What Kind of Skills Are Required to Become a Data Analyst?
Nothing is impossible! Just plan what you will do with the right strategy. I am an interior architecture graduate and currently working as a Data Analyst Lead in one of Turkey’s largest e-commerce companies. I’ve been asked this question a lot lately: “How can I become a Data Analyst?” Many people want to start but … Read more
The Pentagon says AI is speeding up its ‘kill chain’
Leading AI developers, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, are threading a delicate needle to sell software to the United States military: make the Pentagon more efficient, without letting their AI kill people. Today, their tools are not being used as weapons, but AI is giving the Department of Defense a “significant advantage” in identifying, tracking, … Read more
Meta announces a new CapCut rival called Edits
Meta today announced a new video editing app called Edits, after ByteDance’s video editing app CapCut was removed from Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store as part of the TikTok ban. Instagram head Adam Mosseri (pictured above) said on Threads that the app will launch next month on iOS, with an Android version … Read more
TikTok isn’t back in the App Store yet
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images TikTok announced on Sunday that it’s “in the process of restoring service,” but the app is still unavailable in the App Store and Google Play. If you search for TikTok on the App Store, you’ll see a message saying, “TikTok and other ByteDance apps are not available … Read more
How I Solved the WebSocket Scaling Problem Without Breaking the Bank
A long time ago, I found myself in a situation where I had to create a scalable system that could be capable of handling hundreds of simultaneous connections at not very high cost, and with reasonable, but not instant time of response. My first thoughts? Let’s move all create/edit/delete actions to the queue and notify … Read more
Ross Ulbricht's odds of being pardoned by Trump rise to 79% on Kalshi
“Immense gratitude to everyone who voted for President Trump on my behalf,” the Silk Road founder wrote in a November 2024 X post.
How Gamekins Integrates Gamification into Continuous Integration for Better Testing
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2.1 Software Testing 2.2 Gamification of Software Testing 3 Gamifying Continuous Integration and 3.1 Challenges in Teaching Software Testing 3.2 Gamification Elements of Gamekins 3.3 Gamified Elements and the Testing Curriculum 4 Experiment Setup and 4.1 Software Testing Course 4.2 Integration of Gamekins and 4.3 Participants 4.4 Data … Read more
How to Gamify Continuous Integration
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2.1 Software Testing 2.2 Gamification of Software Testing 3 Gamifying Continuous Integration and 3.1 Challenges in Teaching Software Testing 3.2 Gamification Elements of Gamekins 3.3 Gamified Elements and the Testing Curriculum 4 Experiment Setup and 4.1 Software Testing Course 4.2 Integration of Gamekins and 4.3 Participants 4.4 Data … Read more
Boosting Developer Engagement in Software Testing with Gamification
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2.1 Software Testing 2.2 Gamification of Software Testing 3 Gamifying Continuous Integration and 3.1 Challenges in Teaching Software Testing 3.2 Gamification Elements of Gamekins 3.3 Gamified Elements and the Testing Curriculum 4 Experiment Setup and 4.1 Software Testing Course 4.2 Integration of Gamekins and 4.3 Participants 4.4 Data … Read more
Gamification Makes It Easier to Teach Software Testing – New Study Shows
:::info Authors: (1) Philipp Straubinger, University of Passau, Germany; (2) Gordon Fraser, University of Passau, Germany. ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2.1 Software Testing 2.2 Gamification of Software Testing 3 Gamifying Continuous Integration and 3.1 Challenges in Teaching Software Testing 3.2 Gamification Elements of Gamekins 3.3 Gamified Elements and the Testing Curriculum … Read more
Philosophy Eats AI
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