The Compound and Friends: It’s Like Free Money

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Thoughts on Streaming Services: 2024 Edition

Streaming services have revolutionized content delivery, sending linear media companies into a panic as they watch traditional cable services decay. “Cutting the cord” is a common practice these days, but the streaming landscape isn’t perfect. We’re a decade into streaming so I wanted to share my thoughts on the state of new media: first impressions, […]

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Surviving system meltdowns and cyber attacks

New contributor and perma-worrywart The Engineer is back with a new concern: how to survive system meltdowns or other malicious goings-on at your financial services provider. These days, my biggest financial worry isn’t losing my money in the markets. It’s losing access to it altogether. Beyond investment risk, my concerns range from technology failures through […]

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Allora Integrates the TRON Network, Bringing Decentralized AI-Powered Forecasts to Developers

Disclosure: This is a paid article. Readers should conduct further research prior to taking any actions. Learn more › New York, December 8, 2025 — Allora, the intelligence network that combines many AI models into a smarter, adaptive system, today announced that Allora Predictive Intelligence is now live on the TRON network. With this integration, […]

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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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Corporate Bitcoin portfolios are hiding a massive liability crisis that triggered an average 27% crash last month

Corporate Bitcoin holdings have been treated as a straightforward signal for years: a company buys BTC, investors read it as conviction, and the stock trades with a built-in Bitcoin premium. While this might sound like a very clear and simple trade, the balance sheets behind it are anything but. A new CoinTab dataset shows that […]

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