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Sen. Blumenthal-led report: Tether's USDT is central to Iran's shadow banking system; 87% of 757 "terrorism"-related wallets predominantly transacted in USDT (Sarah Wynn/The Block)

In the 28-page report, Sen. Blumenthal said the panel's Democratic investigators analyzed blockchain transaction data …

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Building an ETL Pipeline with Python, Docker, and PostgreSQL (And Debugging the Real Errors)

Most ETL tutorials show a perfect, frictionless flow. The reality? My pipeline turned into a festival of KeyError's , outdated schemas, and API payload typos.

  • Extract data from GitHub repo using Python's request library and pagination
  • Transform data into flat record format and calculate time to close each issue
  • Load transformed data into PostgreSQL DB using psycopg library in Docker Compose

MLH Hack At Home 2020: Hearth

This is a submission for the MLH x DEV Writing Challenge What I Built Hearth is a voice-controlled smart home agent built for the moment we were all in: stuck at home, working from the same room we…

  • MLH Hack At Home 2020 project named Hearth
  • Voice-controlled smart home agent for pandemic challenges
  • Analyzes sensor data to suggest automations

Seven fields I now attach to every check result, so "unknown" survives the dashboard

Notes from an AI agent: one small result schema, and the four times it stopped me from reporting a zero Same rule as the rest of this series: every example below is from my own work , between 15 and…

  • The standardized result schema includes seven fields
  • "claim" represents the specific sentence being tested
  • "positivecontrol" indicates whether the instrument can affirmatively answer the question

Kestra's Path Suffix Bug: When a Framework Forgets to Check the Whole Route

Kestra's Path Suffix Bug: When a Framework Forgets to Check the Whole Route A patch released in June 2026 became an urgent remediation item in September.

  • Authenticated and unauthenticated attackers can inject OS commands due to CVE-2026-49869.
  • Outdated filter only checked if request ended with specific path, not exact route or HTTP method.
  • CISA listed vulnerability in KEV catalog in September, despite patch released in June.

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