Paramount goes to war with Netflix for Warner Bros. Discovery with hostile $108.4B bid

Paramount Skydance on Monday launched a hostile, $108.4 billion bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), days after Warner agreed to be acquired by Netflix for $82.7 billion. Paramount is going straight to WBD’s shareholders with an all-cash offer of $30 per share, and it noted that its offer provides shareholders $18 billion more cash […]

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Practical XAI For UX Practitioners — Smashing Magazine

Explainable AI isn’t just a challenge for data scientists. It’s also a design challenge and a core pillar of trustworthy, effective AI products. Victor Yocco offers practical guidance and design patterns for building explainability into real products. In my last piece, we established a foundational truth: for users to adopt and rely on AI, they […]

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Coinbase resumes user registrations in India, plans fiat on-ramp by 2026

Key Takeaways Coinbase has reopened its app for user registration in India with crypto-to-crypto trading and plans to enable fiat on-ramps by 2026. The company said earlier this year it had engaged with India’s Financial Intelligence Unit to facilitate its re-entry into the Indian market after withdrawing due to regulatory challenges. Share this article Coinbase […]

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Bitcoin wallets interacting with this specific protocol are now flagged for “high-risk” seizures by compliance algorithms

When European police staged another coordinated sweep against crypto mixers this autumn, most people saw a familiar headline and scrolled on. But every seizure, every frozen server rack, every compressed hard drive pushed into an evidence van has the potential to change how Bitcoin actually moves. Mixers (tools that allow users to break the traceable […]

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Extract a Number from a String with JavaScript

User input from HTML form fields is generally provided to JavaScript as a string. We’ve lived with that fact for decades but sometimes developers need to extract numbers from that string. There are multiple ways to get those numbers but let’s rely on regular expressions to extract those numbers! To employ a regular expression to […]

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