The TechBeat: Tether May Become America's New Strategic Reserve Buyer (2/20/2025)

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Cybercrooks Are Using Fake Job Listings to Steal Crypto

By @moonlock [ 19 Min read ] Moonlock Lab dives deep into a campaign tricking blockchain developers with fake job interviews to deploy malware that installs a backdoor and targets MetaMask. Read More.

Choosing Wallets for Decentralized Applications

By @evedex [ 5 Min read ] Discover how EVEDEX blends social logins, embedded wallets, and Account Abstraction to make decentralized apps accessible without compromising security. Read More.

No Startup Has Ever Failed Because it Didn’t Have a Blog

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Tether May Become America's New Strategic Reserve Buyer

By @juancguerrero [ 3 Min read ] Tether is one of the largest holders of U.S. government debt. It's not just a stablecoin company – it's becoming America's new strategic reserve buyer. 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.

Vibe Coding: Creativity Without Code

By @silkdrive [ 4 Min read ] Discover the future of software development with vibe coding—where creativity comes first, and coding happens effortlessly with AI. Read More.

Here's How to Spot a Fake Crypto Trading Platform

By @obyte [ 3 Min read ] Crypto trading is a legitimate practice, but it involves financial risks. Also, there are fake crypto trading platforms, making empty promises to their victims. Read More.

Security's Moving Parts 01: Linux Access Control Mechanisms

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If Life Is a Simulation, Do We Have an Exit Strategy?

By @thebojda [ 4 Min read ] Are we living in a simulation, and if so, can we escape? This article explores Roman Yampolskiy's radical ideas on hacking reality. Read More.

Is the TikTok Ban a Cover-Up? The Internet Thinks So

By @diadkov [ 4 Min read ] Since March 2024, conspiracy theories about TikTok's ban have spread, citing espionage fears and geopolitical influences without solid evidence Read More.

EffConPy: Open Source Causality Discovery in Python

By @jacktian [ 5 Min read ] EffConPy is an open-source Python library designed to study time series beyond correlation and prediction. It provides many tools for causal discovery. Read More.

IEnumerable Isn’t What You Think It Is—And It’s Breaking Your Code

By @dmitriislabko [ 14 Min read ] Let's review in detail the most common mistake in relation to IEnumerable - repeated enumeration. Read More.

Mistral’s New AI Assistant Sends Shockwaves With 10x the Speed of Chatgpt

By @thisweekinaieng [ 5 Min read ] Mistral AI has introduced Le Chat, featuring Cerebras-powered Flash Answers for enhanced response speeds. Read More.

Naptha.AI Launches Its Decentralized, Multi-agent AI Platform

By @napthaai [ 3 Min read ] Naptha.AI is an open-source platform for developers, allowing them to build and deploy large systems of cooperating intelligent agents. Read More.

Trump's Back In The White House—So Why Isn't the Crypto Market Going Up as Planned?

By @andreydidovskiy [ 6 Min read ] After the highly anticipated arrival of America's new crypto-loving leader, we thought that prices would just go up. But things didn't go quite as planned…. Read More.

Want to Train ChatGPT on Your OWN Data? Here's How to Do It

By @sanjeevkumar [ 4 Min read ] Building your own AI assistant or chatbot is exciting and can be done using Azure AI Studio. Read More.

AI Coding Tools Are Still in the R&D Stage

By @@javar97 [ 7 Min read ] According to Stack Overflow's 2024 survey, 76% of developers are using or planning to use AI tools. Read More.

I Asked ChatGPT What The Future of Labor Market Holds—Here's What It Said

By @uxdilettante [ 10 Min read ] Do you ever feel that many job-related skills, knowledge, and expertise are becoming outdated at an almost cosmic speed nowadays? Read More.

30 World-Changing Prompts: OpenAI's AI Singularity, Deep Research Has Arrived

By @thomascherickal [ 25 Min read ] Deep Research Prompts: Explore 30 ambitous, impactful ideas using emerging tech to tackle global crises. Discover research with world-changing potential. Read More.

The Bitcoin Blockchain is Spice Melange—It Is a Meme

By @maken8 [ 5 Min read ] What is the Bitcoin Blockchain 10,000 years from now? Let's ask DUNE. Read More. 🧑‍💻 What happened in your world this week? It's been said that writing can help consolidate technical knowledge, establish credibility, and contribute to emerging community standards. Feeling stuck? We got you covered ⬇️⬇️⬇️ ANSWER THESE GREATEST INTERVIEW QUESTIONS OF ALL TIME We hope you enjoy this worth of free reading material. Feel free to forward this email to a nerdy friend who'll love you for it. See you on Planet Internet! With love, The HackerNoon Team ✌️