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By Wendy Lynch, PhD Three out of four C-suite executives recently admitted, in a confidential survey, that they had projected more confidence in their AI strategy than they actually felt. Seventy-four percent. Read that again: by their own account, most of the people signing off on AI are acting on mission-critical issues they do not … Read more
Odds of a rate hike in September remain below 60% despite Warsh’s hawkish speech on Friday. Observers downplay fears of tightening.
Zakura says a new cryptography stack makes mobile proof generation more than 14 times faster, removing one of the biggest delays users face when sending private ZEC.
An attacker allegedly pushed Tectonic’s thinly traded TONIC token up 100-fold, used it as collateral to borrow real assets and left most funds stranded when Cronos validators paused the network.
BTC remains August’s best-performing asset after the latest escalation in geopolitical tensions.
Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek said the company’s app and exchange were unaffected by the Tectonic breach and continued operating normally.
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The U.S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots. China’s scale means the global competition may simply move elsewhere.
George Arison is done letting Wall Street’s “Grindr discount” go unchallenged — in a wide-ranging Q&A, the CEO walks us through how AI, a controversial $350-plus EDGE tier, and a bet on healthcare and long-distance matchmaking are turning Grindr into the “gayborhood in your pocket” he’s been promising since 2022.
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Bitcoin moves toward a post quantum future, Solana validators agree to curb rampant inflation and the bull case from Bernstein is for Bitcoin to peak at $500K this cycle.
Gabriel Perez used his access to Trump’s speeches before delivery to bet on “presidential mention market” contracts, profiting more than $107,500 before the CFTC caught up with him.
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The Austin and Kyoto hard forks, deployed quietly on the Bor and Heimdall clients before public disclosure, closed denial-of-service and consensus-hardening flaws that Polygon says were never exploited.
Activity percentages on time-tracking dashboards are basically a compressed view of mouse and keyboard input. Hardware jigglers, software “movers,” and keep-awake scripts exist because they game that view: they keep the green bar green without proving anyone is working. Richer Windows endpoint data—apps, session state, files, network—can make fake presence look thin. Correlation still isn’t … Read more
Cold outreach advice tends to begin with what the seller can edit. Shorten the subject line. Personalize the opener. Improve the CTA. Add another follow-up. Those levers matter because they are visible, measurable, and easy to change. But they leave the more consequential question untouched: What decision is the buyer being asked to make next? … Read more
I recently moved to the US. Long before I moved, I built my very first voice agent. It didn’t take long to realize a fundamental flaw in standard architectures: the underlying models were heavily biased towards standard American accents. The moment an input featured a non-standard accent, regional dialect, or code-switched phrasing, the pipeline broke … Read more
Spot Bitcoin ETFs shed $201.9 million on Aug. 28, ending a nine-day inflow run, even as Ethereum funds extended a 10-day streak with fresh cash.
I recently dug out my CDs and started reripping them all. I’ve found a few forgotten gems in there, but few hit harder for me than the beautifully concise Professor Murder Rides the Subway EP. There was a period of time in the mid-aughts in NYC where it seemed like every indie band wanted you … Read more
Kyung-seo Yoo is an industrial designer who works across categories most people spend a career specializing in. She trained in industrial design at RISD, with a concentration in Computation, Technology, and Culture and cross-registration in Design Engineering at Brown, and now designs professionally while also developing her own projects independently, end to end, from first … Read more
Three days at the mappiest event of the year surfaced the trends redefining geospatial engineering: serverless map stacks, AI-drafted data, and human-in-the-loop authorship at planet scale. From June 11 to 13, Madison, Wisconsin was the center of the mapping universe. Leading geospatial companies and independent mappers packed a hotel a block from the State Capitol … Read more
A Bitcoin rally to around $79,000 lifted the company’s 840,447 BTC roughly $2.8 billion above its cost basis, as Saylor’s “We’re Back” post fueled speculation that Strategy may resume buying.