Where Money, Investing, and Technology Meet
Ackman’s best ideas still look attractive at today’s prices. Bill Ackman likes to keep his hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital, invested in just a few high-conviction companies. Indeed, it’s hard to generate market-beating returns if your investments are spread so thin your portfolio looks pretty similar to the overall stock market. But Ackman and his […]
from the that-was-that dept Five Years Ago This week in 2020… remember Parler? The uncensored free speech social media platform? Well, it was changing its tune and starting to ban users as it embarked on a speedrun of the content moderation learning curve (and we also noted some striking clauses in its terms of service). […]
Conor Grogan, Head of Product at Coinbase, believes that there is a “small possibility” that the transfer of $8.6 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC) on July 4 was a hack. Calling his claim “extreme speculation” in an X post on Friday, Grogan said he found the transaction movements to be “extremely odd.” He added: “If […]
Amazon Prime Day has returned for the summer, making it a good time to check to see if any big-ticket gadgets on your wishlist are on sale. A lot of our favorite tech is on sale at the moment, and that includes a number of Prime Day vacuum deals. One of the best is on […]
Jul 05, 2025Ravie LakshmananNational Security / Privacy Taiwan’s National Security Bureau (NSB) has warned that China-developed applications like RedNote (aka Xiaohongshu), Weibo, TikTok, WeChat, and Baidu Cloud pose security risks due to excessive data collection and data transfer to China. The alert comes following an inspection of these apps carried out in coordination with the […]
Project Information🚀 Hyperlane Framework: GitHub Repository📧 Author Contact: root@ltpp.vip📖 Documentation: Official Docs Introduction As a third-year computer science student, I’ve been searching for a web framework that could both meet my learning needs and prove useful in practical projects. After several months of exploration and hands-on experience, I want to share my deep dive into […]
Building up a retirement nest egg is not an easy thing to do. After all, it’s tough to find money for your IRA or 401(k) when you have a gazillion other expenses to worry about. You’d think that spending your nest egg would be a lot easier than accumulating that money. But surprisingly, a lot […]
We demonstrate that there exist adversarial examples which are just “bugs”: aberrations in the classifier that are not intrinsic properties of the data distribution. In particular, we give a new method for constructing adversarial examples which: Do not transfer between models, and Do not leak “non-robust features” which allow for learning, in the sense of […]
An on-chain investigation has revealed that North Korea IT workers posing as foreign developers have earned nearly $17 million from crypto startups and blockchain companies this year. The findings, revealed by prominent blockchain investigator ZachXBT, show that these individuals have successfully integrated into dozens of crypto projects by concealing their identities and locations. According to […]
from the not-such-a-priority-apparently dept One of Elon Musk’s first “promises” upon taking over Twitter was that fighting child exploitation was “priority #1.” He falsely implied that the former management didn’t take the issue seriously (they did) and insisted that he would make sure it was a solved problem on the platform he now owned. Of […]
