Prediction Markets Are Entering Their Infrastructure Era
Prediction markets closed out June with the biggest month in the sector's history. Combined trading volume across Kalshi, Polymarket, and Polymarket US reached $44.8 billion, up 75% from May's $25.66 billion, according to The Block, with the FIFA World Cup doing most...
How Float Runs an AI Energy Company on a 3-Person Team with Tiger Data
:::info Danish startup achieves 99.3% compression on 1Hz smart meter data, powering real-time appliance-level energy analytics for hundreds of homes. ::: Float is a Danish AI and energy startup that collects 1Hz smart meter data from hundreds of homes and...
RAG Was Read-Only. Meet the File Agent.
Every team I talk to has the same drawer of half-finished AI experiments. A bot that answers questions about the employee handbook. A "chat with your PDFs" tab nobody opens anymore. A Slack assistant that summarizes threads. They were all genuinely useful for about a...
Bittensor Cleans House: Inactive Subnets To No Longer Get Weekly Emissions Says Const
Bittensor co-founder Const announced that the network now pauses weekly emissions to subnets that have no miner distribution through active mechanisms or lack functional code. The review runs every Monday on an ongoing basis. Subnets can be reinstated on a...
Fleet Safety Camera System Engineering Knowledge Series
Foreword: Why This Knowledge System is Needed In the field of image engineering, every engineer faces a common challenge: how to translate perfect designs from the laboratory into consistent quality on the mass production line, ultimately delivering a reliable product...
Why Your NAS Is Wasting Power on Cold Files
Most home labbers and more than a few enterprise IT teams build storage systems under a quiet delusion: that every byte they own needs to be one millisecond away, forever. It's why people drop $3,000 on an 8-bay NAS, fill it with matched enterprise drives, and run...
The Smartphone Is the New Office, But Workplace Software Has Not Caught Up
Once upon a time, “Sent from my iPhone” used to be a sort of an apology, an explanation why there were some typos or a slightly terse reply. Today, it has turned into a comment on modern-day work. Our workplaces have moved into our palms; however, most of the...
From Open Port to Compromised Host: The Complete Nmap Offensive Workflow
SMB enumeration, CVE mapping, Metasploit integration, evasion, and pivot scanning — one chain. Most Nmap articles teach you to scan. This one teaches you what to do with the results. There's a gap that doesn't get talked about enough — the space between "port 445 is...
88% of Airdrops Fail and Nobody in Web3 Wants to Admit It
There’s a ritual in Web3 and it repeats every single cycle. A project launches a testnet and the wallet counts explode, then the team posts a “500K users!” tweet with rocket emojis. After that Venture capitalists nod approvingly, and the founders tell reporters of...
The Dirty Secret About AI Automation Tools Nobody Tells Startup Founders
The dirty secret is not that AI automation tools are bad. It is that most of them assume cleaner data, simpler workflows, and more internal ownership than startups actually have. Use Zapier, Make, or n8n for low-risk, rules-based workflows. Move to custom AI when the...
Toss Bank Partners With Solana to Explore Blockchain Payments
Toss Bank and the Solana Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding on June 19, 2026 at Toss Bank’s Sinnonhyeon office to develop blockchain solutions for fast, low-cost global finance services for the bank’s approximately 15 million customers. This is the first...
Quasar and Gradients Join Forces to Train Long-Context AI Models
Quasar Models announced that its Subnet 56, which is part of the Gradients project, has joined Subnets 24 and 3 to train its long-context AI models on the Bittensor network. Quasar Models And so we have three subnets working together in a common training effort to...
How I Got Into Cyber Security Without a Degree or Fancy Certificates
This article will sum up the past 4 years of my life. I remember someone telling me “It’s not what you know but who you know”. This stayed with me for as long as i can remember. This is not absolute but does make up a huge part of this story. TL;DR Basically, getting...
Your AI Hero Turns Into a Stranger Every Shot. The Fix Is a Document, Not a Better Prompt.
A working tutorial for building a character bible that survives a stateless pipeline, from someone who lost a whole afternoon to a heroine who would not stay the same person. The first time I tried to cut a real scene of Lost Garden, my dark-fantasy anime series, my...
The Web3 Key Management Mistake That Creates Massive Blast Radius
Encrypting the private key still leaves one decryptable key behind one server — the honeypot that MPC later removes. Your backend can decrypt every user's private key. So can your ENCRYPTION_KEY. So can whoever gets far enough into your servers: a leaked cloud token,...
Michael Saylor Better Hope Bitcoin Doesn’t Rise Too Much
Strategy ($MSTR) is down roughly 80% and Wall Street seems to be burying Michael Saylor's company. But, like with everything, it's worth checking whether the numbers tell a different story. And that includes one of the strangest risks out there: the one that can go...
How Blockchain Whitepapers Became Worldbuilding Documents
Author's note: This essay is adapted from Dreaming Systems, my ongoing memoir about blockchain, technological optimism, and the futures we imagined before they existed. -- In 2017, my inbox changed. I had started freelancing not long before, looking for a way to...
The Practical Case for Context Engineering in Software Teams
Someone asked me for a practical example of context engineering. Here is one pattern I use: keep a separate context layer for product memory, and give agents clear rules for maintaining it. This is different from putting another AGENTS.md into the product codebase. In...
INTELLECT-3.1 Brings Open-Source RL Reasoning to 106B MoE Scale
INTELLECT-3.1 is a 106B open-source MoE reasoning model from PrimeIntellect built for math, coding, software engineering, and agents.
Myopic Loss Aversion: The Trader’s Silent Killer
Count how many times you checked your P&L yesterday. If you’re like most crypto traders I talk to, the honest answer is somewhere between ten and fifty. Each check felt free. None of them were. Here’s the math nobody runs. In equities, the market closes green on...
Why leaving extension cords plugged in permanently is riskier than you realize
Sure, home extension cords and power strips are handy, but they also result in thousands of preventable fires each year. Here's how to use them more safely.
The world is designed for men, which makes it dangerous for women. It doesn’t have to be that way
By trade, I am an industrial designer. I have been a designer for the majority of my life. I have navigated the world as a woman for the entirety of my life. Every day, I inhabit and interact with spaces and things—the tangible, built world assembled to achieve modern...
This startup is turning roofs of New York rent-stabilized buildings into an enormous, distributed power plant
At an aging seven-story apartment building in the South Bronx, the landlord recently faced an expensive problem: a leaking roof. The repairs were pricey enough, and installing solar panels wasn’t on the agenda. But a couple of months earlier, the building partnered...
China-Linked UAT-7810 Expands ORB Network With New LONGLEASH Malware
A Chinese threat actor tracked as UAT-7810 is actively refining its bespoke malware to expand its Operational Relay Box (ORB) network by breaking into internet-facing networking devices. According to findings from Cisco Talos, UAT-7810 is an advanced persistent threat...
Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
Article URL: https://tris.sherliker.net/blog/obfuscated-self-evaluating-bash-script-by-cdn-akamai-being-supplied-to-consumers-via-retail-stores/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48829312 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Home Office’s glitchy eVisa rollout lands UK privacy regulator in campaigners’ crosshairs
Home Office's glitchy eVisa rollout lands UK privacy regulator in campaigners' crosshairs Go to Source The UK's privacy watchdog is facing calls for parliamentary scrutiny after campaigners accused it of failing to get a grip on the...
OpenAI gets permission to roll out GPT-5.6 to the public on July 9
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna will be widely available on Thursday.
ESP32 Keeps Tabs on Your Local Airspace
We know, we know. Despite being called ESP32-Plane-Radar, this project from [Mateusz Juszczyk] isn’t actually using radar. But thanks to the round LCD this desktop gadget does a fantastic job of recreating a classic radar display, and by pulling in Automatic Dependent...
This latest frightening ransomware attack was orchestrated entirely by an LLM
This latest frightening ransomware attack was orchestrated entirely by an LLM Go to Source Typically, when hackers attempt to break into a system, they have to retrace steps and make incremental changes time and again. A new campaign...
The business behind Chili’s viral comeback
TikTok trends, affordable meals, and Gen Z hype transformed an old-school chain into one of casual dining’s biggest comeback stories. Follow Fast Company‘s Gen Z reporter, Isa Luzarraga, as she dives into the business behind Chili’s viral comeback.