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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 […]
Bitcoin pushed toward $95,000 in the hours before the Federal Reserve’s Dec. 18 meeting, then retreated to the $92,000 zone amid Jerome Powell’s confirmation of a mixed-to-bearish stance for 2026 and delicate on-chain structure. The Fed delivered an expected quarter-point cut, bringing the target range to 4.25%-4.50%, but Chair Jerome Powell spent the press conference […]
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, […]
Most people walk into the donation center with a certain look on their face. Not fear exactly, but a mix of nerves and hopefulness. I see it right away when they step through the sliding doors and pause for a half second like they are making sure they still want to go through with it. […]
For the past four years, the conversation about AI and software development has moved faster than most people can track. Every week, there is a new tool, a new benchmark, a new paper, or a new claim about what AI will or won’t replace. There is certainly noise, but even if sometimes data seems inconclusive […]
Howard Street in San Francisco was all abuzz in November, but not with the usual cars and Muni buses flying across downtown. Last week was Microsoft Ignite, one of the mainstay conferences of the tech industry that brings together countless enterprises and their people. Of course, Stack Overflow was not going to miss it. So […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Yves here. We warned back in the day that Brexit would impose a meaningful growth cost on the UK. The imposition of a hard border created trade frictions and increased costs of doing business with the EU for importers and exporters, as well as adding to consumer charges. Financial firms moved some big ticket jobs […]
