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From Zuck to Musk: Big Tech's Scandals and Scammers Are Coming to the Big Screen - CNET

Hollywood is unleashing a handful of movies this fall, pulling the curtain back to shine a light on some of the big names in tech: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg; Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk; Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes; and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

Plenty of movies have tackled themes of techno-pessimism and dug into the deep well of science fiction. Remember 2001: A Space Odyssey? Blade Runner? M3GAN? But apocalyptic threats and human-versus-machine scenarios feel much more prescient in 2026.

What’s changed is that there seems to be an appetite for Big Tech to get its comeuppance. The movies being released are real stories about the scandals and scammers affecting our daily lives.

The Hidden Risks Behind High Staking and DeFi Yields

I used to treat staking and DeFi dashboards like a bank rate board. A card said 8% or 40%, I compared the numbers, and I moved on. That habit broke the first time a high APY farm paid mostly in a thin reward token while the fee line under it

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The Hidden Costs of Apache Spark: Why Architecture Matters More Than Compute

Why adding executors rarely fixes the most expensive Spark problems A slow Spark job is often treated as a sizing problem: add executors, increase memory, raise shuffle partitions, and try again. That can hide the real issue. The expensive failures I see in Spark architectures usually come from unnecessary shuffles,

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How Tokenized Stocks Could Reshape Wall Street's Global Power

For decades, Wall Street operated on a simple premise: the U.S. financial system not only produced the world’s most sought-after public companies, but also controlled the infrastructure through which investors around the globe gained access to them. A company would list on Nasdaq or the NYSE, work with

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Changing Your IPAM Should Not Rewrite Every Deployment

Suppose a network team moves authoritative IPAM data from NetBox to Nautobot. The deployment still needs the same thing it needed yesterday: trusted prefix and inventory data before it creates infrastructure. Yet operation definitions across the environment now need editing because they all say requires_authority: netbox. That migration should

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The Hidden Risks Behind High Staking and DeFi Yields

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Changing Your IPAM Should Not Rewrite Every Deployment