Billionaire Tim Draper Leads $3.2M Seed Round for Ryder to Replace Seed Phrases With TapSafe

Singapore, Singapore, October 18th, 2025, Chainwire Singapore, Singapore 17, October 2025 — Ryder, the company behind the easiest to use crypto hardware wallet, Ryder One, that gives users crypto security in 60 seconds or less, announces the close of a $3.2M seed funding round, led by Tim Draper, Founder of Draper Associates. n https://www.youtube.com/embed/_utODg4qi1o Other … Read more

The TechBeat: Who’s Used One Trillion Plus OpenAI Tokens? Salesforce, Shopify, Canva, Hubspot, & 26 More Companies (10/20/2025)

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. ## “We Are Very Early in Our Work With LLMs,” – Prem Ramaswami, Head of Data Commons at Google By @David [ … Read more

🧠 The Incel Singularity II: Why Your AI Waifu Might Be Cheating on You (& How to Reclaim the Code)

We mocked AI lovers. Now they’re out-competing humans – and rewriting intimacy like open-source romance. Remember when we roasted dudes for falling in love with chatbots? “Get a real girl, bro!” we said – while doom-scrolling Tinder like it was tech support for loneliness. Fast-forward to 2025: AI companions now outpace OnlyFans growth. And the … Read more

The Machiavellian Marketing Framework (MMF): How to Engineer Inevitability in the Algorithmic Age

The Death of Persuasion For decades, marketers worshiped persuasion; Kotler’s managerial models, Godin’s emotional tribes, Ries & Trout’s positioning. But persuasion assumes consent. And consent is a luxury in an economy where attention is the scarcest resource alive. Today, algorithms, feeds, and predictive models don’t wait for the consumer’s permission, they decide what the consumer … Read more

Argentina Will Show What Ethereum Looks Like in the Real World, Says Devconnect’s Candu Fazzano

Ethereum turned ten in August, which is also when its token, Ether (ETH), hit a new all-time high of $4,953. Earlier in the year, the Ethereum Foundation appointed Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz Stańczak as co-executive directors, signaling a generational shift toward a more proactive approach to ecosystem growth. Now, as momentum builds, the community is … Read more

Decoding the Matrix: How Blockchain and NFTs Went From Geek Fantasy to Mainstream Revolution

We’re standing at the cusp of a new digital era, an era defined by decentralization, verifiable ownership, and a re-imagining of trust itself. This isn’t just about Bitcoin anymore. Join us as we unravel the comprehensive history of blockchain technology and the Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) that have taken the world by storm — from their … Read more

Code Smell 311 – Never Store or Compare Plain-text Passwords

Your login isn’t secure if you store secrets in plain sight TL;DR: Never store or compare plain-text passwords Problems 😔 Data exposure Weak security User trust loss Compliance issues Easy exploitation Authentication bypass potential Solutions 😃 Hash user passwords Use strong algorithms Salt every hash Compare hashes safely Secure your database Perform regular penetration tests … Read more

Navigating MySQL Data Types: Strings

Related Articles Date, Time & Timestamp Integer, Float and Bit Enums and Sets Strings (this one) Introduction Strings are all over databases, from emails and usernames to messages, logs, and data. It appears easy to use strings in MySQL at first: simply choose VARCHAR or TEXT and go on. In practice, string handling conceals some … Read more