Troublesome 16-pin connector sidelines $30,000 H200 Hopper GPU — repair technician saves the data center day by fixing power port

There have been numerous 16-pin power connector blow-ups recorded by customers over the past few years on both consumer gaming cards and prosumer cards — and now this badly-designed connector saga has also (sort of) hit datacenter GPUs. Resident repair technician northwestrepair recently published a YouTube video of themself fixing a dead $30,000 H200 Hopper […]

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8 lessons from tech leadership on scaling teams and AI

It’s been nearly a year since we launched Leaders of Code, a segment on the Stack Overflow Podcast where we curate candid, illuminating, and (dare we say) inspiring conversations between senior engineering leaders. An impressive roster of guests from organizations like Google, Cloudflare, GitLab, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and more joined members of our senior […]

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64% of 3rd-Party Applications Access Sensitive Data Without Justification

Research analyzing 4,700 leading websites reveals that 64% of third-party applications now access sensitive data without business justification, up from 51% in 2024. Government sector malicious activity spiked from 2% to 12.9%, while 1 in 7 Education sites show active compromise. Specific offenders: Google Tag Manager (8% of violations), Shopify (5%), Facebook Pixel (4%). Download […]

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Meta-backed Hupo finds growth after pivot to AI sales coaching from mental wellness

When Justin Kim, co-founder and CEO of Hupo, first launched his company about four years ago, it wasn’t selling AI-powered sales coaching to banks, finance services, or insurance companies. The company originally began as Ami, a mental wellness platform focused on how people manage pressure, form habits, and change behavior over time. “I’ve always been […]

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Ethereum price collapse could jeopardize $800 billion in assets

An Ethereum price collapse could break the blockchain’s ability to settle transactions and freeze over $800 billion in assets, a Bank of Italy research paper warns. The paper, authored by Claudia Biancotti of the central bank’s Directorate General for Information Technology, outlined a contagion scenario where ETH’s price collapse degrades the blockchain’s security infrastructure to […]

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This Bitfinex whale “buy signal” is everywhere, but the real Bitcoin data suggests a much messier six weeks

The first thing you learn when you spend too long around Bitcoin is that everyone has a chart that “always works”, and everyone has a scar from the last time it didn’t. This week’s chart is making the rounds again, it’s the one that tracks Bitfinex margin longs, and it’s flashing a familiar change in […]

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The 10 eternally true steps to financial freedom

The principles of achieving financial freedom are timeless. Economies change, governments come and go, and your cable TV, The National Geographic, and Loaded magazine subscriptions give way for broadband, Netflix, and that meditation app that you’re always too busy to use. Yet while hairstyles wax and wane (I’m personally bringing back the bouffant for 2026) […]

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Solana is becoming settlement rail for Visa and JPMorgan but one metric still scares insiders

Wyoming launched a state-backed stablecoin on Solana, and Morgan Stanley filed for a Solana trust product this week. Last month, Visa expanded USDC settlement to run on Solana rails, and JPMorgan tokenized commercial paper using Solana for part of the settlement stack. These are not rumors or roadmap promises. They happened over 60 days, and […]

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