Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Personal Finance

Almost Burned Down My Parent’s Home Twice In One Week

I’m back in Honolulu for the winter holidays, visiting my parents, and I’ve been looking forward to this trip for months. Especially after spending...

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Is Your Spending a Leaky Furnace?

This post is an adaptation of YNAB's fan-favorite newsletter, Loose Change. Sign up for more where this came from.There’s a huge inefficiency at work...

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FinAi’s ‘The Buzz’: Bank and fintech CEOs talk AI Strategy, fraud defense and lending growth

FinAi leadership took to “The Buzz” podcast in 2025 to discuss approaches to AI.  Chief executives from banks and fintechs shared insights on AI strategy, how to combat fraud and opportunities for AI-driven...

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Technology

Pope Leo XIV warns against spread of gambling, saying it ruins many families

Pope Leo XIV has called attention to the ‘scourge of gambling,’ as he says it ‘ruins many families.’ The head of the Catholic Church and...

Why inventing new emotions feels so good

Don’t scoff: Researchers say more and more terms for these “neo-­emotions” are showing up online, describing new dimensions and aspects of feeling. Velvetmist...

The phone is dead. Long live . . . what exactly?

True Ventures co-founder Jon Callaghan doesn’t think we’ll be using smartphones the way we do now in five years — and maybe not at...

Hong Kong IPOs have raised ~$36B in 2025 (Sneha Kumar/Reuters)

Featured Podcasts The Social Radars: Jared Friedman, Partner, Y Combinator; Co-founder, Scribd Come be a fly on the wall as Y Combinator's Jessica Livingston and Carolynn Levy...

Samsung’s $200 Galaxy A17 Brings Google’s Circle to Search to Its Lower-Priced Phone

Samsung's $200 Galaxy A17 5G, announced Tuesday, appears to be a smaller hardware refresh for the company's lower-cost phone -- bearing many similarities to...

Cyber Security

Hackers drain $3.9M from Unleash Protocol after multisig hijack

The decentralized intellectual property platform Unleash Protocol has lost around $3.9 million worth of cryptocurrency after someone executed an unauthorized contract upgrade...

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