Tag: tech

Building stronger engineering teams with aligned autonomy

admin — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

Striking the balance between speed and strategy is a major challenge for business and tech leaders. That’s where aligned autonomy comes in.

How to Design a Fraud-Resistant Hiring Process for Remote Teams

admin — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:59:21 +0000

Remote work has created many wonderful avenues for employers to expand their talent search and find more candidates with the right skills and experience. It has made the hiring process more flexible and accessible.

However, remote work has also opened the floodgates to fraudulent applicants. These individuals waste significant time and resources, while real job candidates miss out on career opportunities. To avoid these threats, companies must design hiring processes that combat fraud and build trustworthy teams.

Saylor Signals BTC Buy as MetaPlanet Adds 797 $BTC — Perfect Timing for Bitcoin Hyper?

admin — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:19:37 +0000

After a week-long break, Strategy co-founder Michael Saylor signaled the company’s return to aggressive Bitcoin buying. This move comes just as Japanese firm Metaplant makes another big purchase as well.

Saylor, who’d previously overseen 12 consecutive weeks of $BTC buys, hinted at starting again in a social media post.

Sometimes Breaking Docker Best Practices Actually Works in Your Favor

admin — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:13:42 +0000

We can manage, update, restart, and scale each Docker container separately. That’s the beauty of containerization. Each container should have a single responsibility. PHP, Java, NodeJS — each of those does one obvious thing. Creating containers that include multiple services is considered an anti-pattern. The Single Responsibility Principle doesn’t apply only to our codebase.

But does that mean we must never create such anti-pattern containers just because they violate SRP? I believe there’s one good reason to break that rule, and I’ll show you in this article.

SpaceX drops $2B into Musk’s xAI

admin — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:32:40 +0000

SpaceX, a company led by Elon Musk, has reportedly agreed to invest $2 billio

Hoskinson Says Cardano Bitcoin DeFi Vision Is No Longer Just Theory

admin — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:30:40 +0000

In an interview, Input Output CEO Charles Hoskinson declared that Cardano’s long-running efforts to bring DeFi functionality to Bitcoin are no longer theoretical. Speaking with Crypto Megan, Hoskinson laid out the architecture, live integrations, and strategic rationale for what he described as a “multi-trillion dollar opportunity” to merge Bitcoin’s liquidity with Cardano’s programmability.

Bitcoin Breaks $120K, Fear & Greed at 74: How Bitcoin Hyper Could Fuel BTC’s Rally

admin — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:29:57 +0000

Hello greed, my old friend.

Bitcoin unexpectedly surged over the weekend. Reasons for the rush include:

Record Bitcoin ETF inflows
Economic optimism
Fiat currency uncertainty

And of course – pure greed. The Crypto Fear and Greed Index spent the last two days firmly in ‘greed’ territory, with investors eager to capitalize on the green posted across the board by leading cryptos.

Google just blocked OpenAI’s $3B AI deal

admin — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:25:21 +0000

Google recently thwarted OpenAI’s pot

Amir Taaki: The Cypherpunk Who Writes Dark Code —and Went to War

admin — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 06:01:48 +0000

A photo of Amir Taaki lying on a couch with a laptop on top of him is around the Internet. Perhaps a typical programmer image. Another photo of him in military uniform, holding a Kalashnikov assault rifle, is also around. This is the cypherpunk who went to Syria to fight the Islamic State. He’s also one of the earliest developers of Bitcoin, anarchist, and hacktivist.

Deepfake Detection: Neural Networks Are Fighting Themselves

admin — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 05:37:56 +0000

\ Human imagination is a tricky thing. Hey, “If you can dream it, you can do it,” right? Well, sci-fi writers and visionaries have been imagining this for decades, and here we are. Somewhat confused children, not really sure if the Santa in front of us is real. His beard looks white, the belly’s there, the presents, and he looks kind enough… But can we trust our eyes, or ears, for that matter?

The Cryptographic Fix for US Elections Is Still Sitting on the Shelf

admin — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 18:01:03 +0000

A former voting tech auditor claims that voting machines still lack key security fixes flagged in 2006, leaving U.S. elections vulnerable.

Kasada Anti-Bot Bypass Techniques: Save Money with These Open-Source Solutions

admin — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 15:25:43 +0000

Bypassing anti-bots is one of the major pain points a professional web scraper faces during their career. Luckily enough, the market offers several solutions for bypassing them, but delegating the heavy-duty work always comes with a price tag attached, which is not for every pocket.

\ As the saying goes, 'If you want something done right, do it yourself.' So, let’s continue the series of articles about bypassing well-known anti-bot protections with Open-Source tools.

You Are Literally Hired, If You Have This One Skill

admin — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 12:00:03 +0000

When the CEO of a billion-dollar company offers to hire you into literally any position based on one skill set, you know something big is happening in the job market that you are aware of.

\ That is exactly what Wade Foster, CEO of Zapier, did recently. He publicly announced he would hire professionals with this specific expertise into any role at his company. Not just engineering roles. Any role.

In This LA Neighborhood, Residents Are Turning to Doorbell Cameras Instead of Calling the Cops

admin — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 11:00:10 +0000

This article was copublished with AfroLA, a nonprofit solutions journalism for Los Angeles told through the lens of the Black community.

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Proof Of Power: Bitcoin Dwarfs S&P 500 With Nearly 100% Edge Since 2012—Data

admin — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 19:30:09 +0000

Bitcoin is flexing its muscle. The S&P 500 Index closed at 6,280 on July 10, 2025, marking a 6% year‑to‑date gain in dollar terms. The benchmark even set fresh records this week. Yet priced in Bitcoin, that same index sits about 15% lower so far this year. That gap shows just how strong crypto’s rally has been.
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