The Rust compiler has recently upgraded to using LLVM 19 and this change accompanies some updates to the default set of target features enabled for WebAssembly targets of the Rust compiler. Beta Rust today, which will become Rust 1.82 on 2024-10-17, reflects all of these changes and can be used for testing.

The first field deployment of Ripple’s US-dollar stablecoin, RLUSD, as a drought-insurance rail has wrapped up in Laikipia North, Kenya. According to an update from Ripple Impact, the four-month “anticipatory aid” experiment insured 517 pastoralists—roughly 70 percent of them women—against feed shortages that typically emerge after the long-rains season.

The slices.Clone function is pretty simple: it makes a copy of a slice of any type.

\ This works because appending to a slice with zero capacity will allocate a new backing array. The function body winds up being shorter than the function signature, which is in part because the body is short, but also because the signature is long. In this blog post we’ll explain why the signature is written the way that it is.

You’ve probably used a weather app. Maybe you’ve even built one. But do you actually know what a radar map is really telling you – or hiding from you?

As a developer and founder of Rain Viewer, I’ve spent the last decade parsing radar feeds, filtering out noise, and making chaotic atmospheric data digestible for humans – and APIs. If you’re building anything that touches geolocation, logistics, drones, or weather-dependent automation, understanding radar is more than curiosity – it’s the base.

Here’s your crash course in reading radar like a dev, not a tourist.

Bitcoin’s summer rally accelerated in the early hours of 11 July, when the benchmark cryptocurrency sliced through $118,000 and printed exchange highs that peaked above $118,800, depending on venue data. The spike wiped out an estimated $1.25 billion in short positions within a single trading day, according to CoinGlass figures.

According to a Wednesday statement by SEC commissioner Hester ‘Crypto Mom’ Peirce, any firm eyeing tokenized securities must talk to regulators before moving forward.

The Ethereum price is once again gaining momentum and looks set to reach new highs. Crypto analyst Doctor Profit commented on how the altcoin has broken through a crucial moving average (MA). Meanwhile, ETH’s dominance is again on the rise. 

Bitcoin’s parabolic rally could last until Christmas with a cycle top near $300,000, according to one analyst.

Ranking crypto “investment” by country is difficult. Since on-chain value flows are better than survey guesswork, I use Chainalysis’s regional and national tallies, supported by additional internet research. Admittedly, the time period for the Chainalysis figures ends in June 2024, but it gives us a rough idea of who uses the most crypto. These are rough estimates: