Following the premiere of “Money Electric,” a film pointing fingers at Peter Todd as the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto, former Bitcoin developer Amir Taaki decided to weigh in. Taaki shared some insights on Satoshi’s coding style, suggesting that it reveals clues about their background. According to the outspoken privacy advocate, the code itself hints at an […]
AI Coding Tool Cursor Raises $60 Million at a $400 Million Valuation
Cursor, an artificial intelligence (AI) company that seeks to “create a magical tool with the aim of writing all of the world’s software,” has announced it has raised $ 60 million in its Series A funding round. The round had the participation of Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, Openai, and many others, and gave the …
WordPress Coding Standards Maintainer Warns Maintenance Will Be Halted Without Funding: “This Is an Unsustainable Situation.”
WordPressCS 3.0.0 was released this week with what its maintainer, Juliette Reinders Folmer, says are significant changes to improve the accuracy, performance, stability, and maintainability of all sniffs, and its handling of modern PHP. The project is a collection of PHP_CodeSniffer rules (sniffs) that are used to validate code developed for WordPress, helping …