2025-04-02
Two-Minute Decentralization: The DEX vs. CEX Battle Behind the Hyperliquid Incident
Combining CEX efficiency with DEX transparency may well be the next development stage for crypto trading—not ideological opposition but a fusion of advantages.
M. Gessen: Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has...
M. Gessen: Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived. “The United States has become a secret-police state. Trust me, I’ve seen it before.”
Scientists Recover Underwater Camera Designed to Snap Photos of Loch Ness Monster
In 1970, a cryptid-obsessed placed several cameras inside plastic trap boxes and sent them down to the depths of Scotland's Loch Ness in hopes of catching its storied monster —...
Elon Musk Should Name A City On Mars After Val Kilmer
Val Kilmer’s “Red Planet” was all about Mars before Elon made it to be the thing. It’s not too much to ask for Musk to do something about it.
Tinder Deploys AI-Powered Singles That Automatically Shoot Down Your Rizzless Attempts at Flirtation
Tinder has teamed up with OpenAI to bring an AI voice-activated flirting game to the dating app — and it's somehow way more cringe than you could imagine. As the...
Nature poll of 1600 US scientists: 75% are considering leaving the country,...
Nature poll of 1600 US scientists: 75% are considering leaving the country, “many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada” or “anywhere that supports science”.
An AI Model Has Officially Passed the Turing Test
One of the industry's leading large language models has passed a Turing test, a barometer of assessing if AI models can exhibit human-like intelligence. In a new preprint study awaiting...
Clickens! Judge paintings of chickens based on characteristics like persistence, altruism, petulance,...
Clickens! Judge paintings of chickens based on characteristics like persistence, altruism, petulance, clairvoyance, and friendliness. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The Role of Compliance in Cybersecurity: Strengthening the Digital Fortress
Cybersecurity expert Vivek Madan reframes compliance as a strategic asset, not a burden. Through automation, cloud security, and vendor risk management, he helps businesses reduce breaches, avoid fines, and build...
GPTutor Lets Developers Fine-Tune AI Coding Help Inside VS Code
GPTutor is an open-source ChatGPT-powered coding assistant in VS Code that lets developers customize prompts for over 50 programming languages. Unlike Copilot, it offers transparent prompt editing, supports tools like...
Customize ChatGPT for Coding: GPTutor Gives Developers Full Control in VS Code
GPTutor is an open-source ChatGPT-powered coding assistant in VS Code that lets developers customize prompts for over 50 programming languages. Unlike Copilot, it offers transparent prompt editing, supports tools like...
5 Best Decentralized Zoom Alternatives for Secure Video Conferencing
Decentralized platforms eliminate single points of failure, encrypt calls end-to-end, and often operate on open-source frameworks. While they may not yet match Zoom’s polish, their focus on privacy and censorship...
How to Temporarily Grant Admin Privileges with PowerShell (Securely and Automatically)
This PowerShell script lets you grant admin rights to a user on a remote Windows machine for a set duration, then revokes them automatically. It handles privilege checks, WinRM status,...
What is Excel XLFN? -> Excel24x7
_xlfn. in excel is a prefix that appears, when a function is not recognized by your Excel version. This is usually happens when you enter a formula with a function...
Who Inhabits The Digital Grasslands?
The internet is home to more than just humans—AI agents, bots, and malware now dominate digital spaces. This article maps the digital “fauna,” from helpful crawlers to dangerous trojans, and...
Building Modular Code with Composition: Go vs TypeScript
This article explores how Go and TypeScript support composition to build modular, reusable code. TypeScript uses type intersections, while Go relies on interface embedding. Both avoid deep inheritance trees, making...
Lots of great comments from students, parents, and faculty in “The End...
Lots of great comments from students, parents, and faculty in “The End of College Life?” thread about how they’re thinking about the changes to higher education in the US under...
Government Seeking Wild Punishment for Man Accused of Vandalizing Tesla Dealership
Since Elon Musk took the mantle of power thanks to Donald Trump, the Tesla has become a universal site of protest symbol of oligarchy around the world. In the US,...
Improving How We Label Legal Documents Using AI
This section discusses the limitations of single-label sentence assignments in rhetorical role labeling and proposes multi-label classification as a solution. It also acknowledges the need for broader cross-domain testing, particularly...
T-Mobile Shows Users the Names, Pictures, and Exact Locations of Random Children
"I would log in and I couldn’t see my children but I could see a kid in California. I refreshed and would see a different child.”
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