The TechBeat: Futures of Ethereum II - Censorship Resistance (2/11/2025)

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Intergalactic Aliens: No Little Green Men—Just Cosmic USB Drives on a Mission

By @thebojda [ 9 Min read ] Explore the possibilities of interstellar civilizations—self-replicating nanobots, solar sail spacecraft, and galaxy-spanning digital networks. Read More.

Win Up to $2000 in the #blockchain Writing Contest by Aleph Cloud and HackerNoon

By @hackernooncontests [ 3 Min read ] Join the #blockchain Writing Contest and share your insights on decentralized AI, cloud, or dePIN. Win up to $2,000! Contest open Feb 5–May 7, 2025. Read More.

Sentiment Analysis and AI: Everything You Need to Know in 2025

By @boxhero [ 13 Min read ] Discover how AI-powered sentiment analysis tools deliver accurate insights from customer reviews and feedback to help improve your business strategy. Read More.

Evaluating Top 5 Endpoint Protection Solutions

By @awsmarketplace [ 8 Min read ] Discover the best endpoint protection solutions, top platforms to consider, and key evaluation criteria to enhance your organization's cybersecurity defenses. Read More.

DIY Enthusiast Hacks His Way Into Building His Own Musical Instrument (And It Rocks!)

By @matteopisani91 [ 34 Min read ] A cybersecurity engineer built a sci-fi bass from scratch, packed with a synth, a wireless transmitter, a hacked built-in tuner and voltmeters. Read More.

A Canadian Scientist Is Trying to Inject Souls in AI, and It Looks Like It Could Work

By @thebojda [ 10 Min read ] Nirvanic is developing AI that aims to achieve consciousness, leveraging quantum mechanics to create intelligence closer to human cognition. Read More.

Thinking of Pursuing Trading Full Time? Then You NEED to Know What Market Microstructures Are

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Rust in Linux: A Powerful Tool—But How Do We Strike the Right Balance?

By @rainstorm [ 4 Min read ] This article explores how Rust can be integrated into the Linux kernel without compromising long-term adaptability. Read More.

Is AI Making Product Managers Obsolete?

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Futures of Ethereum II - Censorship Resistance

By @2077research [ 17 Min read ] The article explores Ethereum's efforts to ensure censorship resistance, focusing on solutions like PBS and encrypted mempools amid regulatory pressures. Read More.

DeepSeek vs ChatGPT vs Perplexity vs Qwen vs Claude vs DeepMind: More AI Agents and New AI Tools

By @thisweekinaieng [ 6 Min read ] Ever since the DeepSeek boom, all the leading AI companies have been updating their models and releasing their own AI agents left, right, and center. Read More.

Run DeepSeek R1 Locally to Learn How It 'Thinks'—Here's How

By @zbruceli [ 11 Min read ] Examples of how DeepSeek R1 reasoning LLM "thinks", and instructions on how to run it locally with ollama. Read More.

USAID’s Bureaucracy Stalled Digital Innovation Projects

By @edwinliavaa [ 3 Min read ] The potential shutdown of USAID represents an opportunity to rethink how we approach international development. Read More.

Is Ethereum in Trouble? No. So Why Does Everyone Say Otherwise?

By @menaskop [ 6 Min read ] Ethereum has many so-called "killers," though most of them look more like self-destructive projects. Read More.

New WEF Report Reveals Jobs on the Brink of Extinction

By @azizepalali [ 11 Min read ] Explore the future of work (2025-2030)! Learn which jobs are rising, which are fading, and how to stay ahead in the evolving job market. Read More.

Crypto Without Banks? CrossFi’s CEO on the Future of Decentralized Payments

By @ishanpandey [ 4 Min read ] Discover how CrossFi is revolutionizing crypto payments in this exclusive interview with CEO Alex Mamasidikov. Read More.

Yandex’s High-Performance Profiler Is Going Open Source

By @bigredeye [ 21 Min read ] Perforator is a continuous profiling system developed by Yandex, now open-sourced. Read More.

A Basic Knowledge of Python Can Help You Build Your Own Machine Learning Model

By @buzzpy [ 13 Min read ] Let's build our own Machine Learning Model with Tensorflow, a Python library. Read More.

The First Provable AI-Proof Game: Introducing Butterfly Wings 4

By @vitae [ 5 Min read ] We present a deterministic game incorporating two key mechanisms: Controlled Chaos Shifts (CCS) and Accepting Loss of Control (ALC). Read More.

The AI Arms Race in Cybersecurity: Trust Nothing, Verify Everything

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