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The Defiant / DL News / Protos / CryptoSlate
Developers behind Solana-based derivatives exchange Drift proposed on Tuesday a recovery plan that would funnel protocol revenue to users who lost money in a devastating April hack. The developers also proposed relaunching the protocol before July “a leaner, perps-native exchange with an emphasis…
Kubernetes / CNCF / Linux Foundation / Apache / OpenSSF / OSI / Eclipse
In Kubernetes v1.36, Declarative Validation for Kubernetes native types has reached General Availability (GA). For users, this means more reliable, predictable, and better-documented APIs. By moving to a declarative model, the project also unlocks the future ability to publish validation rules via…
The Defiant / DL News / Protos / CryptoSlate
A version of this story appeared in The Decentralised newsletter on May 5. Sign up here. GM, Tim here. Decentralised finance is notorious for being home to some pretty wacky ideas with dubious commercial viability. Yet over the past year, developers have stumbled on one that not only works, but…
Mozilla — Blog / Hacks
The open web is a critical platform for applications that handle highly sensitive data, from private communications to financial transactions and medical records. Traditionally, servers are trusted to deliver the appropriate code and resources for their web applications to browsers, who then…
Stripe / Shopify Eng / Netflix TechBlog / Dropbox Tech / Slack Eng / Spotify Eng
Excerpt By 2024, Slack’s data platform had accumulated 700+ SSH-based operators orchestrating critical data pipelines. We’re talking daily search indexing that processed terabytes of data, analytics jobs powering business intelligence, the whole shebang. Every single one of these jobs required…
The Defiant / DL News / Protos / CryptoSlate
Coinbase just cut 700 jobs. But Wall Street is liking what it sees. Coinbase shares popped as much as 4% early on Tuesday morning after the flagship US crypto exchange announced it was slashing about 14% of its global workforce in a sweeping restructuring that refocuses the company around…
Wiz Research
Streamline pen-testing by unifying findings from bug bounties, manual audits, and Wiz Red Agent into a single, context-rich view.
The Defiant / DL News / Protos / CryptoSlate
The digital cooperative governing Uniswap, the biggest decentralised exchange, is voting on a proposal to take back some $42 million worth of governance tokens from delegates. Between 2022 and 2023, Uniswap’s decentralised autonomous organisation, or DAO, loaned out 12.5 million UNI to the…
OpenAI News
OpenAI News
OpenAI introduces MRC (Multipath Reliable Connection), a new supercomputer networking protocol released via OCP to improve resilience and performance in large-scale AI training clusters.
OpenAI News
GPT-5.5 Instant updates ChatGPT’s default model with smarter, more accurate answers, reduced hallucinations, and improved personalization controls.
The Defiant / DL News / Protos / CryptoSlate
Hyperliquid is nibbling away at Kalshi and Polymarket. The decentralised finance exchange processing $6 billion in daily derivatives volume launched its first outcome contracts over the weekend — and the early numbers turned heads, according to Hyunsu Jung, CEO of Hyperion DeFi. Its first Bitcoin…
Last Week in AI
First week of Musk v. Altman, OpenAI ends Microsoft legal peril over its $50B Amazon deal, DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models, and more!
The Defiant / DL News / Protos / CryptoSlate
Strategy is on a tear. Shares of the world's largest corporate Bitcoin holder have surged more than 50% over the past month, riding the top crypto’s climb past $80,000 as short sellers scramble for the exits and institutional money pours back in. On Monday, MSTR jumped another 4% to nearly $184 per…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
You can now access Observability Plus metrics in the Vercel CLI. vercel metrics Query observability data for any Vercel team or project using the newcommand. Coding agents can also leverage this new command to better analyze the performance, reliability, or security of applications on Vercel, as…
Smashing Magazine / CSS-Tricks / web.dev / Chrome for Developers / LogRocket
Design always starts with function — function shapes form. But if that function can’t be made completely invisible and people still have to interact with it, it inevitably becomes part of their experience. In this article, Kyrylo Levashov shares four common software design assumptions.
Vercel (blog + changelog)
KIKO Milano on Vercel: Environments without the bottleneck Shipping faster without the operational tax No more performance variability during traffic spikes Eliminated 3 weeks of Black Friday infrastructure prep 75% decrease in app build times Went from minimal releases to deploying multiple times…
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Both Realtime and Pipelines read changes from your Postgres database using logical replication. But they solve very different problems. Here is how to pick the right one.
EFF Deeplinks / noyb / Access Now
Data Subject Rights LinkedIn tracks the visits to profile pages. However, if you want to see who has visited your own profile, you have to pay. The Microsoft subsidiary uses these and other ‘insights’ as an incentive for people to sign up for its paid Premium membership. It is unclear whether this…
Apple Developer News & Releases
All around the world, Apple developers do meaningful work that extends beyond great apps and games. They organize events, write tutorials, mentor others, and create spaces to learn and grow. By sharing their expertise and championing each other, they represent the best of the community. Meet some…
Home Assistant / Connectivity Standards Alliance
How do you more or less double the number of Works with Home Assistant-certified devices available to our community? Have BEGA join the program! This German firm has spent more than 75 years designing a wide range of architectural lighting that sets the industry standard: and now they’re bringing…
OpenAI News
OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with a beta self-serve Ads Manager, CPC bidding, and enhanced measurement tools—built to protect privacy and keep conversations separate from ads.
OpenAI News
Explore OpenAI’s European Youth Safety Blueprint and EMEA Youth & Wellbeing Grants, advancing safe, responsible AI for teens, families, and educators.
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
How ClickStack and Odigos eliminate observability gaps with zero-code eBPF instrumentation and full-fidelity distributed tracing at scale.