#61 Daily Tech: Fintech is Making Credit Cards Weirder

Fintech is Making Credit Cards Weirder

If you gave a bank executive a blank canvas and asked them to paint you something, they might come up with something like this. If you showed the first painting to an executive at a second bank and asked that executive to come up with something better, they’d likely come back with something this.

3 tricks to start working despite not feeling like it

Ever wish you felt like creating that presentation? Felt like doing that research? Felt like doing the dishes?

I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2 for $45

Blog posts with images get 2.3x more engagement. Here’s the problem - we make a query engine for streaming tables. How the heck are you supposed to pick images for technical topics like comparing the similarities between Deephaven and Materalize, viewing pandas DataFrames, gRPC tooling for getting data streams to the browser, using Kafka with Parquet for storage, or using Redpanda for streaming analytics?

Disassembly – Fujifilm X-E1 camera

This article shows Fujifilm X-E1 camera partial disassembly to access internal modules that may require replacement when broken.

Incident Report: Employee and Customer Account Compromise - August 4, 2022

On August 4, 2022, Twilio identified accounts of employees who were compromised by a social engineering attack. The attacker then gained access to data for a limited number of customers.

An incident impacting some accounts and private information on Twitter

We want to let you know about a vulnerability that allowed someone to enter a phone number or email address into the log-in flow in the attempt to learn if that information was tied to an existing Twitter account, and if so, which specific account. We take our responsibility to protect your privacy very seriously and it is unfortunate that this happened.

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