A Startup Is Looking to Pay 30% Yield by Tokenizing AI Infrastructure

Compute Labs, a startup that turns the industrial-grade GPUs that power AI data centres into fractionalized yield-bearing tokens, and enterprise AI cloud firm NexGen Cloud, have joined forces to begin distributing ownership of a $1 million “public vault,” the companies said on Wednesday. The power and profitability of AI infrastructure are largely centralized and generally … Read more

NEAR Protocol Plunges 6% as Middle East Tensions Fuel Crypto Selloff

The cryptocurrency market faces renewed pressure as conflict between Iran and Israel intensify, with NEAR Protocol showing notable price sensitivity to these geopolitical developments. The digital asset has established key support around $2.09-2.10, where increased trading volume suggests potential accumulation despite the overall bearish trend. Technical analysis NEAR-USD exhibited a 6.1% trading range ($2.219 high … Read more

Compliant Stablecoins Will Become the ‘Money Layer of the Internet:’ Canaccord

The wider promise of stablecoins, cryptocurrencies whose value is tied to another asset, has remained elusive until now due to regulatory uncertainty, broker Canaccord said in a research report Wednesday. The passage of the GENIUS Act in the U.S. Senate changes everything, it said. The legislation, whose full name is Guiding and Establishing National Innovation … Read more

RFK Jr. is coming for your vaccines

Last November, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that, as secretary of health and human services, he would not “take away anybody’s vaccines.” If you believed him, you were duped. The longtime anti-vaccine crusader remains intent on vilifying lifesaving immunizations and promoting the lie that the shots cause autism and all manner of other conditions. Maybe … Read more

Frequentist Stats Are Failing Your UX Decisions—Here’s a Better Way

Dear readers & friends, Studies have shown over and over that even professional researchers (including statisticians!) can’t correctly interpret a confidence interval or a p-value most of the time. Then, how could you expect the average Joe to be better at that? Frequentist statistics (the kind that gives you those confidence intervals and p-values) just … Read more

Ethereum Defends $2.5K as Traders Eye Looming ‘Golden Cross’ Signal

Ethereum’s price action has formed a consolidation pattern between $2,500-$2,540 with decreasing volume suggesting accumulation rather than distribution. The cryptocurrency remains trapped below the critical $2,800 resistance level that has acted as a barrier several times in recent weeks, with traders closely watching for a breakout that could trigger renewed momentum toward $3,000. Meanwhile, staking … Read more

Even Klarna is launching a mobile phone service now

Klarna, the buy-now-pay-later service, is launching a mobile phone service. The $40 per month phone plan is launching in the US in the “coming weeks,” offering unlimited 5G data, calls, and texts on AT&T’s network — making it yet another MVNO in an increasingly crowded space. MVNOs, or mobile virtual network operators, are companies that … Read more

Small Code Habits Can Prevent Big Bugs

You don’t need a massive rewrite to stop bugs. You just need better habits. It’s not about writing perfect code. It’s about writing code that doesn’t turn on you months later. Big bugs rarely come out of nowhere. They come from small things that were ignored again and again. Let me show you what I … Read more

These Leadership Mistakes Are Pushing Your Team to Burnout

Leaders are constantly under pressure to drive business growth, deliver results and bring in new initiatives that will move the organization forward. They aren’t assigned a set of tasks that they need to finish each day. Ambiguity, uncertainty, navigating challenges, aligning stakeholders and making complex decisions make up a large part of their role. They … Read more

BlackRock’s $2.9B Tokenized Treasury Fund Now Accepted as Collateral on Crypto.com, Deribit

The largest tokenized U.S. Treasury fund, the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL), can now be used as collateral on two of the most active crypto trading platforms, Crypto.com and Deribit, issuer Securitize said in a Wednesday press release. The listings allow institutional traders to post BUIDL tokens as margin for leveraged trades on … Read more

Supercharge Your ETL Pipeline with SeaTunnel’s Lock-Free CDC

What Is CDC? Change Data Capture (CDC) is a mechanism that tracks row-level changes (inserts, updates, deletes) in a database and notifies downstream systems in the order they occur. In disaster recovery scenarios, CDC is often used for real-time synchronization from a primary database to a standby one. source ———-> CDC ———-> sink Apache SeaTunnel … Read more

VanMoof’s co-founders have a new e-bike coming from Raleigh

A leaked image of the new Raleigh e-bike developed with VanMoof’s co-founders. Ties and Taco Carlier, who founded VanMoof as an alternative to Big Bike, are working for Accell Group, the Dutch cycling giant responsible for over a dozen bicycle brands including Batavus, Sparta, Carqon, and Raleigh. According to multiple sources, the first e-bike, developed … Read more

OFTs: Omnichain Isn’t Feeling Omni Right Now

Crypto is already too technical. Read this if you detest technical bluff and are curious on how your user experience could be improved on the internet with OFTs and if it truly preaches decentralisation. Forget NFTs for a second. There’s a new shiny tech in town. It’s called OFTs. Like NFTs, we were promised some … Read more

Mvnd Cuts SeaTunnel Build Times by Over Half

In large-scale data integration projects, build performance is critical. This article benchmarks Apache SeaTunnel using traditional Maven versus the next-generation build tool, Maven Daemon (mvnd). The results show that mvnd delivers approximately 60% faster builds by leveraging background daemons and multi-threaded execution. Better yet, it’s fully compatible with existing projects—no changes to pom.xml needed. Installation … Read more

Leica is launching its own 35mm film

Leica has announced the first 35mm film produced under its own name, Monopan 50. It’s an ultra-fine grain black-and-white film, and will cost $10 per 36-exposure roll when it goes on sale on August 21st. Leica says that the new film is produced in Germany, though wouldn’t name a manufacturer when asked. The specs, right … Read more