Heating homes with crypto. “I’ve seen bitcoin rigs running quietly in attics, with the heat they generate rerouted through the home’s ventilation system to offset heating costs.” ~ learn more
Crypto scandal in Argentina. “Javier Milei involved the presidential investiture to allow the alleged $LIBRA scam to effectively take place: without his tweet, $LIBRA would not have had the volume of purchases it did.” The congressional report paints a picture […]
South Korea’s population disaster . Holy cow! “If current fertility rates persist, every hundred South Koreans today will have only six great-grandchildren between them.” This dire projection highlights the country’s profound demographic crisis, driven by extreme career-motherhood conflicts and an […]
Meet targeted protein degraders. “Targeted Protein Degraders (TPDs) are a revolutionary class of drugs that hijack the cell’s natural waste disposal system to eliminate disease-causing proteins, rather than just inhibiting them.” By leveraging the cell’s own machinery, TPDs promise potent […]
Cannabis reclassified to Schedule III. Weed will now be much less illegal nationally, but with plenty of gray area and contradictory laws. “Trump ordered agencies to begin the formal process of reclassifying cannabis as a drug with medical value and […]
To get more effective drugs, we need more human trials. “Even if approval requirements were relaxed, the underlying need would remain: we still have to learn, through testing in humans, which treatments are effective and which are not.” Clinical development […]
Most problems are people problems. “Most technical problems are really people problems.” In tackling technical debt, it’s often the human issues—such as outdated habits, unclear requirements, and unrealistic deadlines—that are the root causes. ~ learn more
The trap of pure incentive thinking. “When you start seeing every human interaction as a game-theoretic puzzle, you lose access to information that matters.” By reducing relationships to mere transactions, you risk losing out on genuine partnerships and trust. ~ […]
Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%? “AI Agents … massively reduce the labour cost of developing software.” This transformative shift is due to agentic coding, which is streamlining processes that previously required entire teams, reducing project timelines […]
Hack reveals the phone farm flooding TikTok with Al influencers. “The hacker also shared a list with me of more than 400 TikTok accounts Doublespeed operates. Around 200 of those were actively promoting products on TikTok, mostly without disclosing the […]