Alloy, Synctera and Unit discuss the future of embedded finance at TC Disrupt
Banking-as-a-service (BaaS), embedded finance and open banking are among the hottest topics in fintech today. The promise? Make opening a bank account, storing money, receiving a payment card and lending money as easy as opening a social network account. The reinvention of banking is well underway, and we’re excited to
Read moreThe Overflow #192: Ask your data better questions
Welcome to ISSUE #192 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: sign up to get access to the new Stack Overflow search, future-proof proof that you’re from the future, and fall in love with hard
Read moreAll hail the new EU law that lets social media users quiet quit the algorithm
Internet users in the European Union are logging on to a quiet revolution on mainstream social networks today: The ability to say ‘no thanks’ to being attention hacked by AI. Thanks to the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA), users of Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, ByteDance’s TikTok and Snap’s Snapchat can
Read moreZepto becomes India’s first 2023 unicorn with $200 million fresh funding
Instant grocery delivery startup Zepto has raised $200 million in a new funding round at a valuation of $1.4 billion, it said Friday, at a time when most other firms in the category have either died or are struggling. The funding makes Zepto the first Indian startup to attain the
Read moreAccelerating the Cloud: What to Expect When Going Cloud Native
In this fourth article in our Accelerating the Cloud series, we explore what to expect when going cloud native. Continue reading Accelerating the Cloud: What to Expect When Going Cloud Native on SitePoint.
Read moreThis venture-backed startup has quietly bought more than 80 mom-and-pop shops
Teamshares is a low-flying, Brooklyn-based startup with big ambitions to capitalize on an opportunity in plain sight: that of small businesses without a succession plan. It’s not a small market. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, small businesses represent 99.7% of U.S. employer firms and 64% of private-sector jobs.
Read moreFormer President Trump returns to Twitter, now X, with his mugshot
Former President Trump tweeted for the first time in more than two years on Thursday night, breaking a long silence on the platform, now known as X, that persisted into Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover. Trump’s first tweet since January 8, 2021 came after he was booked in an Atlanta jail
Read moreFighting comment spam at Facebook scale (Ep. 602)
Louis Brandy, VP of Engineering at Rockset, joins us for a deep dive into the architectural similarities across AI, vector search, and real-time analytics, and how they’re all at play in shaping the infrastructure to fight spam. Episode notes: Rockset is a real-time search and analytics database. Explore their docs
Read moreDon’t fool yourself: The team is the unit
Credit: MidjourneyI think it is fair to say that the vast majority of engineering managers have been through the following experience at least once in their careers:At some point in your life, you may have joined a well-functioning team. However, one day, without seeking your opinion, the top leadership decided that
Read moreDonald Trump returns to X / Twitter to post his mug shot
Donald Trump posted his first tweet after getting banned from the platform last year. | Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Donald Trump has made his return to X, the social network formerly known as Twitter. On Thursday, the former president turned himself in at the Fulton County jail on over
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