Federated networks like Mastodon and a growing acceptance of paying for content may help move people away from big social platforms and improve online discourse
We're in a very strange moment for the internet. We all know it's broken. That's not news. Mastodon: @stefan@gardenstate.social , @jangles@mastodon.social , @Cassandra@artisan.chat , @timbray@cosoci...
Tether's reports show increasing loans denominated and payable in its own stablecoin, reaching $6.1B as of September 30, a potential risk in a crisis
Tether reports hadn't disclosed that loans it issues are denominated and payable in the token — The SEC's Strategy for Enforcing Regulation on Crypto, Explained Tweets: @patio11 , @anthony , @bitboy...
As FTX collapsed, mainstream news organizations often failed to give a straightforward assessment of exactly what happened and potential crimes involved
and the media cover-up. (via @EllisItems) “[W]hat happened at the FTX crypto exchange ...[was] a conscious and intentional fraud intended to steal money from both users and investors.” https://www.coi...
At Tesla AI Day, Musk shows an Optimus humanoid robot prototype that he claims shares AI software and sensors with Autopilot and will “probably” cost under $20K
and it walks on its own Andrew Tarantola / Engadget : Tesla debuts an actual, mechanical prototype of its Optimus robot Argam Artashyan / Gizchina : Elon Musk Showed Optimus Humanoid Robot Walking Wit...
Overview of how Facebook's open-source projects, including Cassandra, GraphQL, the Open Compute initiative, PyTorch, and React, have changed computing
Klint Finley / Wired : Tweets: @wired Tweets: @wired : From Netflix to Uber to Walmart's website, many of the apps and services we use every day are built with technologies that Facebook developed an...
Inside Uber's Michelangelo, its machine learning platform in use for about a year, built with HDFS, Spark, Samza, Cassandra, MLLib, XGBoost, and TensorFlow
Uber Engineering Blog :
Smart, Versatile Surface Pro 3 Can Do It All — Maybe Even Lift the Windows 8 Curse
Maybe Even Lift the Windows 8 Curse — a) Cassandra. Saddled with the gift of perfect prophecy, and the curse of never being believed. — b) Sisyphus. Condemned to rolling a huge boulder up a hill,...
Rainbird: The Way Twitter Counts Tweets In Realtime (Which Will Be Open Sourced)
Yesterday, Twitter analytics lead, Kevin Weil, gave a talk at O'Reilly's Strata 2011, a conference dedicated to big data. The main topic of the talk was Rainbird, Twitter's realtime counting system t...
Facebook: Why our ‘next-gen’ comms ditched MySQL
Cassandra founder plays Ace of HBase — About a year ago, when Facebook set out to build its email-meets-chat-meets-everything- else messaging system, the company knew its infrastructure couldn't run...
Why Digg Digs Cassandra
Digg, the San Francisco-based social media company, is dropping MySQL and instead betting its future on Cassandra, an open-source data store. It's just the latest sign of the growing popularity of th...