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01GENERAL

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02BIG TECH & STARTUPS

COINBASE SAYS IT'S LAUNCHING TOKENIZED STOCKS, PREDICTIONS MARKETS FOR U.S. USERS IN COMING MONTHS

Coinbase plans to expand its core trading app to include tokenized real-world assets, stocks, derivatives, prediction markets, and early-stage token sales. These new offers will roll out first to US users in the next few months, followed by a gradual international rollout based on jurisdictional approvals. The expansion puts the exchange in even closer competition with Robinhood, Gemini, and Kraken. The Securities and Exchange Commission recently introduced an initiative to modernize securities rules and regulations to allow for crypto-based trading activity.

cnbc.com2 min read

FIGMA MORE THAN TRIPLES IN NYSE DEBUT AFTER SELLING SHARES AT $33

Figma's shares more than tripled in its New York Stock Exchange debut yesterday. The company sold shares at $33 in its initial public offering - FIG closed at $115.50. Figma ended the day with a market cap of almost $68 billion. Adobe had agreed to acquire Figma for $20 billion in 2022, but the deal fell apart after UK regulators said it would likely harm competition.

cnbc.com4 min read

03SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

MOON'S FIRST-EVER RADIO TELESCOPE READY FOR THE DARK SIDE

The Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment (LuSEE-Night) is a radio telescope that will be deployed on the far side of the Moon. The moon will act as a shield against the radio interference coming from Earth. LuSEE-Night is scheduled to launch as part of Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost 2 lunar lander mission late this year or early next. It is designed to detect the signals that are key to unlocking the secrets of the Cosmic Dark Ages, the period after the cosmic microwave background formed 380,000 years after the Big Bang and before the formation of the first stars and galaxies.

newatlas.com4 min read

GOOGLE'S GEOTHERMAL EXPERIMENTS ARE ENGINEERING TEMPLATES FOR THE ENERGY TRANSITION

Data centers are under pressure to run denser, hotter, and longer, and traditional air cooling is approaching its limit. Meeting demand now requires rethinking the entire power-thermal integration stack. Google is integrating geothermal systems directly into its next-generation data centers. If successful, the systems could help Google meet its power needs with near-constant carbon-free energy.

interestingengineering.com11 min read

04PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

ENGINEERING BUY-IN

The best way to convince those around you to take on a project idea is to individually talk about it with many relevant people before finally pitching it to a decision-making group. Your odds of success dramatically increase if you've talked to the decision-makers in advance and have addressed their issues or incorporated their additions. Leaders need to create buy-in from their teams to maintain team morale. Getting everyone to buy in encourages autonomous collaboration and helps iteration happen quickly, but it could also lead to groupthink, exclude oppositional peers, and cause teams to misrepresent reality.

venki.dev6 min read

OUR FIRST OUTAGE FROM LLM-WRITTEN CODE

Sketch experienced a series of mini-outages on July 15. An LLM had made a small but critical change during a refactor that was missed by a human reviewer. When humans refactor code, they select the original text, cut it, move it to the new file, paste it, and then make intentional changes. LLMs write two patches, a deletion and an insertion, leaving room for transcription errors. Sketch added clipboard support to its agent environment to try to prevent further issues in transcription.

sketch.dev5 min read

05MISCELLANEOUS

FIGMA: A RANDOM WALK IN PALO ALTO (2025)

Figma just went public in one of the largest IPOs in Silicon Valley history. This article tells the story of Figma and its founder, Dylan Field. Field's journey was a true Silicon Valley story. It seems likely that in the near future, more and more applications will be built by designers using Figma.

adamnash.blog9 min read

RAMBLINGS

Remote teams of two to 10 people could benefit from adding a personal 'ramblings' channel for each teammate. These channels let everyone share what's on their mind without cluttering group channels. They can be a great source for ideas, prototypes, or creative solutions to long-standing problems. They're also a great way to keep the human connection going within the company.

stephango.com1 min read