SEC takes first action against an NFT project as an unregistered security
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today, the SEC announced its first enforcement action against NFTs in a case that was settled by Impact Theory, the NFTs’ issuer. The SEC said the NFTs issued by Impact Theory were unlicensed securities. The company agreed to a cease-and-desist order, paid $6.1
Read moreChris’ Corner: Even More SVG Tricks
SVG has so many tricks up its sleeve. It’s really a full-featured drawing API literally designed for the web, but few of us really truly understand it nor reach for it enough. Heck, I even wrote a book about it, and I don’t. At the time, just getting people to
Read moreThe one key skill I look for to judge seniority
How the ability to navigate ambiguity sets outstanding people apartContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreFixing Hallucinations in LLMs
Why LLMs hallucinate, approaches for mitigation, challenges with evaluation datasets, and moreImage generated by Stable DiffusionGenerative Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate highly fluent responses to various user prompts. However, their tendency to hallucinate or make non-factual statements can compromise trust.I think we will get the hallucination problem to a much,
Read moreVision: the often missing leadership ingredient
Why having a vision is critical to team success and how to assess itContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreA Skype app vulnerability could expose your IP address to hackers — and Microsoft has yet to fix it
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Microsoft is reportedly dragging its feet on fixing yet another security vulnerability. This time, it’s a flaw in the Skype mobile app that could let hackers obtain your IP address by opening a message with a link — no clicking required, according
Read moreWhy we should stop using labels
The harm we cause by describing things poorly and how it traps us into repetitive and unhealthy thought patternsContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreAdvanced Swift Actors: Re-entrancy and Interleaving
Understand actor behaviour with a real-world use caseContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read more10 years at TechCrunch
It’s been 10 years since I stepped off a ledge and landed at TechCrunch. I don’t get self referential a lot here on the pages of TC, but I figured that a tin anniversary is a nice time to look at what we’ve done over the past decade as we
Read moreFounders: See what TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 has in store for you
Early-stage founders, TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 is so close to kickoff! Are you ready for an exciting mix of new ways to help your business grow bigger, better and faster? Here’s a brief rundown of some of the founder-focused activities waiting for you. Don’t have a pass yet? Buy your ticket
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