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Talking to Robert N. Charette can be pretty depressing. Charette, who has been writing about software failures for this magazine for the past 20 years, is a renowned risk analyst and systems expert who over the course of a 50-year career has seen more than his share of delusional thinking among IT professionals, government officials, and corporate executives, before, during, and after massive software failures.In 2005’s “Why Software Fails,” in IEEE Spectrum, a seminal article documenting the causes behind large-scale software failures, Charette noted, “The biggest tragedy is that software failure is for the most part predictable and avoidable. Unfortunately,…

When Liquid AI, a startup founded by MIT computer scientists back in 2023, introduced its Liquid Foundation Models series 2 (LFM2) in July 2025, the pitch was straightforward: deliver the fastest on-device foundation models on the market using the new "liquid" architecture, with training and inference efficiency that made small models a serious alternative to cloud-only large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's GPT series and Google's Gemini. The initial release shipped dense checkpoints at 350M, 700M, and 1.2B parameters, a hybrid architecture heavily weighted toward gated short convolutions, and benchmark numbers that placed LFM2 ahead of similarly sized competitors…

Crypto analysts Nik and Doctor Profit have provided insights into why the Bitcoin price is crashing today. The flagship crypto has again dropped below the psychological $90,000 level, sparking bearish sentiments among market participants.  Why The Bitcoin Price Is Crashing Today In an X post, Nik remarked that the Bitcoin price didn’t dump because of bad news but because the “clock flipped.” He noted that a large number of algos sold off at the same time with the daily close, and also considering that it is a new week and a new month. The analyst added that it is not…

The Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty is projected to increase during the next difficulty adjustment scheduled for Dec. 11, as hash price, a critical metric that measures expected miner profitability per unit of computing power, sits at record lows. Bitcoin’s next mining difficulty adjustment is expected to occur at block 927,360 at about 12:09:34 AM UTC, marginally increasing the difficulty from 149.30 trillion to 149.80 trillion, according to CoinWarz.The most recent adjustment, which occurred on Thursday, decreased the difficulty from 152.2 trillion to 149.3 trillion, resulting in an average blocktime of about 9.97 minutes at the time of this writing, slightly below the…

Ripple Labs has received approval from Singapore’s central bank to expand its payment activities in the region, amid a broader push to grow its business and institutional-focused offerings through acquisitions.Ripple’s Singapore subsidiary, Ripple Markets APAC, has been approved by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to expand the scope of its regulated payment activities under its Major Payment Institution (MPI) license, the company said on Monday.Monica Long, Ripple’s President, said in a statement that the company values “Singapore’s forward-thinking approach,” and the “expanded license strengthens our ability to continue investing in Singapore and to build the infrastructure financial institutions need…

The Eli Lilly logo appears on the company’s office in San Diego, California, U.S., Nov. 21, 2025.Mike Blake | ReutersEli Lilly on Monday said it is lowering the cash prices of single-dose vials of its blockbuster weight loss drug Zepbound on its direct-to-consumer platform, LillyDirect, building on efforts by the company and the Trump administration to make the medicine more accessible.The announcement also comes weeks after chief rival Novo Nordisk unveiled additional discounts on the cash prices of its obesity and diabetes drugs. Starting Monday, cash-paying patients with a valid prescription can get the starting dose of Zepbound vials for as…

 Dispatch Labs ICO Review: A comprehensive review and analysis on Dispatch Labs ICO, which aims to create enterprise-grade blockchain solutions. This represents the writer’s personal opinions and does not – in any way- constitute a recommendation of an investment or financial advice. Please assume caution when investing in cryptocurrencies and do so at your own risk, as it is extremely volatile and you can lose your money. Overview Dispatch Labs is creating a decentralized blockchain that supports smart contract functionality and utilizes an off-chain distributed storage network. This is similar to a traditional ‘Software-as-a-Service’ (SaaS) architecture; but instead of being…

A brutal leverage wipeout pushed Bitcoin into a “value zone,” with capitulating traders and mid-sized whales quietly buying the dip. Bitcoin (BTC) is showing tentative signs of stabilization after a turbulent month, with a massive $8 billion evaporation from futures markets signaling a painful but necessary cleansing of excessive speculation. This dramatic leverage reset, combined with steady accumulation by larger investors, suggests the foundation for a potential recovery is being laid, even as prices tread well below recent peaks. Bitcoin Price Mounts Necessary Market Reset Over the past month, the cryptocurrency derivatives landscape underwent a significant transformation. Data from…

Enterprises are investing billions of dollars in AI agents and infrastructure to transform business processes. However, we are seeing limited success in real-world applications, often due to the inability of agents to truly understand business data, policies and processes. While we manage the integrations well with technologies like API management, model context protocol (MCP) and others, having agents truly understand the “meaning” of data in the context of a given businesis a different story. Enterprise data is mostly siloed into disparate systems in structured and unstructured forms and needs to be analyzed with a domain-specific business lens.sAs an example, the…

Spot liquidity remains 30-40% below October levels, as markets remain fragile and volatility amplified across majors and altcoins. The crypto market is undergoing a broad recalibration, shaped by softer demand from ETFs and DATs, a reset in leverage across futures and DeFi, and still-shallow spot liquidity. These factors have weighed on prices, but they also leave the system healthier, less levered, more neutral in positioning, and increasingly anchored by fundamentals. ETF Demand Fades Amidst Shallow Liquidity Recent data compiled by CoinMetrics shows that major absorption channels have weakened. Spot Bitcoin ETFs have experienced multi-week net outflows of $4.9 billion…