Where Money, Investing, and Technology Meet
from the new-year(s) dept Five Years Ago This week in 2020-2021, we published a series of posts on Trump’s Presidential Commission On Law Enforcement, starting with a look at its tone that everyone but cops are to blame for the terrible state of policing, followed by its repeated calls for anti-encryption legislation, and its conclusion […]
Whenever a new pull request is submitted to our agent’s GitHub repository, we run a bunch of CI/CD operations on it. We run an opinionated linter, we run typechecking, and we run a bunch of unittests. All of these work well, but none of them test entire workflows end-to-end. For that end-to-end testing, we introduced […]
Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Buying a projector instead of a TV may seem like a stretch, but buying one alongside a TV makes much more sense. These days, projectors are brighter, sharper, and far more forgiving than they used to be. The models I’ve been testing deliver a genuinely enjoyable viewing experience even in […]
We could be witnessing the start of the renaissance for real buttons in cars, courtesy of Volkswagen’s ID. Polo. The German automaker unveiled the interior of its upcoming compact EV, which features real buttons, switches and even a knob for audio controls. “We have created an interior that feels like a friend from the very […]
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a phishing campaign that involves the attackers impersonating legitimate Google-generated messages by abusing Google Cloud’s Application Integration service to distribute emails. The activity, Check Point said, takes advantage of the trust associated with Google Cloud infrastructure to send the messages from a legitimate email address (“noreply-application-integration@google[.]com”) so that they […]
State management is one of those topics every frontend developer eventually bumps into. At first, everything is simple: local state props maybe a few shared variables Then the app grows…and suddenly state is everywhere, duplicated, out of sync, and hard to reason about. Big libraries solve this but often with boilerplate, mental overhead, or framework […]
This episode was recorded at AWS re:Invent 2025! Check out Ryan’s recap of events from the floor on our blog. Connect with Prashanth on LinkedIn. Connect with Michael on LinkedIn. TRANSCRIPT Ryan Donovan: Tired of database limitations and architectures that break when you scale? Think outside rows and columns. MongoDB is built for developers by […]
Donald Trump says that Venezuela’s governance will remain in the hands of senior US officials until a “proper and judicious transition” can take place. The rest of the region is on notice. Source link
Shortly before the US military launched an attack on Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro, an account on Polymarket made some very suspiciously timed investments. The prediction market had been running bets on when or if Maduro would be removed from power, with prices for “out by January 31, 2026” as low as $0.07 late […]
Ilya Lichtenstein, who pled guilty to money laundering charges tied to his role in the massive hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex, has apparently been released early from prison. In a Thursday evening post on X, Lichtenstein said he was out early “thanks to President Trump’s First Step Act” (a prison reform bill passed during Trump’s […]
