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A Bitcoin wallet that had sat completely untouched for more than eight years moved its entire balance this week — nearly five thousand nine hundred Bitcoin, worth roughly three hundred eighty three million dollars. Nobody knows who holds the keys or why they waited so long, but in crypto, dormant whales moving always raises the question: is someone cashing out, or just reorganizing?
On a lighter note, DoorDash is now officially courting the command line crowd. The company launched a limited beta of a tool called dd-cli, letting developers and AI agents search restaurants, build carts, and place orders straight from the terminal. It sounds like a novelty, but it signals something real — software is increasingly being designed not for human eyes, but for machines to operate autonomously.
And Linus Torvalds, the famously blunt creator of Linux, weighed in on the AI-in-programming debate this week with characteristic patience — meaning very little of it. Torvalds told developers who oppose AI-assisted coding to simply fork the project and go their own way. It is a reminder that even open source communities are not immune to the tensions AI is introducing everywhere else.
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