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Bearish crypto traders are nursing serious losses today after a short squeeze pushed bitcoin to its strongest level in two weeks, approaching sixty-two thousand dollars. Ether climbed nearly ten percent on the week, solana nearly nineteen, as over two hundred eighty-one million dollars in short positions were wiped out in just twenty-four hours.
Shifting from markets to surveillance, a disturbing report from Citizen Lab reveals that a European Parliament member who was actively investigating Pegasus spyware ended up with the software on their own phone. The irony is stark and the implications serious — it raises urgent questions about whether democratic institutions can meaningfully hold spyware makers accountable when investigators themselves become targets.
And on the question of what makes AI applications actually work, Fireworks AI co-founder Benny Chen sat down with the Stack Overflow blog to unpack the real craft behind AI evaluation. The conversation gets at something the industry often glosses over — that measuring AI quality means balancing hard metrics with qualitative judgment, and that open-source evaluation frameworks are quietly becoming the standard everyone builds against.
Those are the stories moving the needle today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
