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How live sports betting has exploded in popularity in the US, accounting for more than half of the money wagered on FanDuel and DraftKings in recent quarters (Jenny Vrentas/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/busin…

In-Game Sports Betting Is Growing. So Are the Concerns.
In-game betting is predicted to grow to more than $14 billion by the end of the decade. It’s a huge part of the sports gambling industry. Public health officials worry that it could be increasing the risks for gamblers.

People Are Farming and Selling Sora 2 Invite Codes on eBay https://www.404media.co/people-are-farming-and-selling-sora-2-invite-codes-on-ebay/

But there's money to be made in supporting the #NetanyahuAdmininstrations crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and land theft. You want to let somebody else make that profit?

But there's money to be made in supporting the #NetanyahuAdmininstrations crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and land theft. You want to let somebody else make that profit?

The Dark Art of Financial Disguise in Web3: Money Laundering Schemes and Countermeasures
Hesam Sarkhosh, Uzma Maroof, Diogo Barradas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21831 https://

The Dark Art of Financial Disguise in Web3: Money Laundering Schemes and Countermeasures
The rise of Web3 and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has enabled borderless access to financial services empowered by smart contracts and blockchain technology. However, the ecosystem's trustless, permissionless, and borderless nature presents substantial regulatory challenges. The absence of centralized oversight and the technical complexity create fertile ground for financial crimes. Among these, money laundering is particularly concerning, as in the event of successful scams, code exploits, and…

So much of what's wrong with tech started from one simple phenomenon: focusing on the money-movers instead of people who actually *make* shit. Real technology matters. Inventors over investors, every time. Founders over funders. Writing code > writing checks. https://www.anildash.com/2025/10/24/foun…

Founders Over Funders. Inventors Over Investors.
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Friday Links 25-21
Some "AI" related stuff today, with the idea of prompt engineering being requirements engineering and how these new tools can enable non-programmers to get closer to the code.
I also liked how much Wil Wheaton likes a new metro line.
https://christof.damian.net/2025/0…

Friday Links 25-21
Don't Need Money   by Poorly Drawn Lines Some "AI" related stuff today, with the idea of prompt engineering being requirements engineering a...

First up: public money - public code ...
Sign the @… petition here:
https://publiccode.eu/en/

Good NYT piece (gift link). Tl;dr: Financial whiz kids want to get their hands on mainstream retirement & insurance money so it can be plowed into unregulated private-debt markets and crypto. What could go wrong? https://www.

The Rules of Investing Are Being Loosened. Could It Lead to the Next 1929?
A group of financiers is trying to convince the public to invest heavily in private equity and crypto — a risky gambit with some real 1920s vibes.

Doors close, doors open. Companies are needing to hire folks to fix their vibed code. If you thought debugging your own code was a drag, just wait. https://boingboing.net/2025/09/11/humans-fixing-bad-vibe-code-for-good-money.html

VerilogMonkey: Exploring Parallel Scaling for Automated Verilog Code Generation with LLMs
Juxin Niu, Yuxin Du, Dan Niu, Xi Wang, Zhe Jiang, Nan Guan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16246

VerilogMonkey: Exploring Parallel Scaling for Automated Verilog Code Generation with LLMs
We present VerilogMonkey, an empirical study of parallel scaling for the under-explored task of automated Verilog generation. Parallel scaling improves LLM performance by sampling many outputs in parallel. Across multiple benchmarks and mainstream LLMs, we find that scaling to hundreds of samples is cost-effective in both time and money and, even without any additional enhancements such as post-training or agentic methods, surpasses prior results on LLM-based Verilog generation. We further diss…

As climate change causes stronger storms and melts the permafrost, the Trump regime took away the funding to protect this low-income Alaska Native community against the effects.
https://www.

E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant to Alaska, Parts of Which Just Flooded
The remote village of Kipnuk planned to use the money to protect against flooding. On Sunday, it was inundated.

Amazon Prime has a documentary "Code Is Law" - which was released in February, but has an updated end from June 2025.
It deals with the question about "smart contracts" - are actions that are permitted by the code/words of a contract acceptable, even if they were not intended to be. (Most of the opinions given on this are from people who lost large amounts of money due to bugs.)

Note that this isn’t a criticism about anyone working on the Mastodon code or the many selfless people who host servers and spend time on moderation and money on hosting.
I’m not saying all this to be an asshole.
I care about people, software and the web and it’s really annoying that there isn’t a well working alternative to commercial platforms that I can recommend to “normal” people.
I’ve been using Mastodon for close to nine years now I think and I just don’t see it getting where it needs to be.

Beim Einkaufen sollten die Behörden Freie Software Produkte und Entwicklungen bevorzugen. Also "Public Money Public Code" #PMPC. Der jetzige Gesetzes-Entwurf zur Vergabe hat da noch viel Luft nach oben, stellt in

A look at Changpeng Zhao's efforts to get a pardon from Trump for his money-laundering charges, including via lobbying and a business deal with the Trump family (New York Times)
https://www.

Flattery, Lobbyists and a Business Deal: Crypto’s Richest Man Campaigns for a Pardon
A sophisticated operation is pushing President Trump to forgive Changpeng Zhao, which would boost the chances for his company, Binance, to break into the U.S. market.