Hi, I’m Cary Huang — a tech enthusiast based in Canada. I’ve spent years working with complex production systems and open-source software. Through TechBuddies.io, my team and I share practical engineering insights, curate relevant tech news, and recommend useful tools and products to help developers learn and work more effectively.
Within days of acknowledging that crypto mixers can have lawful uses, Washington also moved to retry one of the most high-profile mixer-related criminal cases in the US. For investors and builders, the juxtaposition around Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm has… Read More »Tornado Cash Retrial Push Exposes Washington’s Confusing Stance on Crypto Mixers
AI agents can already talk to each other, call tools, and move money over the internet. What the stack still lacks is a shared way to decide when the money should actually move. That unresolved “judgment layer” is where crypto… Read More »Do AI Agents Need Crypto to Safely Pay Each Other Online?
Static application security testing (SAST) has been a backbone of enterprise AppSec programs for more than a decade. But two back-to-back launches from Anthropic and OpenAI are exposing a structural limitation in pattern-matching scanners that no tuning or rule pack… Read More »LLM Reasoning vs. SAST: How Anthropic and OpenAI Just Rewrote AppSec Detection
Over less than two weeks, OpenAI has simultaneously shipped one of its most compelling education features to date and found itself confronting legal, political, and financial pressures on multiple fronts. The company’s new interactive math and science tools for ChatGPT… Read More »OpenAI’s New ChatGPT Learning Tools Arrive Amid Lawsuits, Pentagon Backlash, and Soaring Cash Burn
Introduction: Why PL/SQL Performance Tuning Strategies Matter When I work with busy Oracle systems, the biggest performance wins almost always come from tuning PL/SQL that handles bulk processing. These are the nightly jobs, ETL routines, and mass updates that can… Read More »Top 7 PL/SQL Performance Tuning Strategies for Bulk Processing
The U.S. Treasury has, for the first time, explicitly acknowledged that lawful users of digital assets may turn to crypto mixers to protect their financial privacy on public blockchains. The language, contained in a March 2026 report to Congress, does… Read More »US Treasury Opens Door to Regulated Crypto Mixers for Financial Privacy
Bitcoin quietly crossed a symbolic threshold on March 9: the circulating supply surpassed 20 million BTC. That means roughly 95% of the 21 million coins that will ever exist are now in circulation, leaving fewer than 1 million still to… Read More »With 95% of Bitcoin Now Mined, Can the Network Stay Secure After Block Rewards End?
Andrej Karpathy’s latest project is not a new model, a benchmark-smashing paper, or a corporate platform. It’s a 630-line open source script called autoresearch, released under the MIT License on GitHub — and it is sparking serious conversation about what… Read More »Andrej Karpathy’s ‘autoresearch’ Turns AI Into an Autonomous Scientist — And Everyone Is Watching
Enterprise identity and access management (IAM) was built for a world of human users and relatively static services. Autonomous AI agents operating inside critical business systems fundamentally break those assumptions. They log in, pull data, invoke tools, and execute workflows… Read More »Why Enterprise Identity Must Evolve for Autonomous AI Agents
Introduction: Why Oracle Supplemental Logging Matters for CDC When I first started wiring Oracle into modern CDC pipelines like Debezium and Kafka Connect, the biggest surprise wasn’t performance or connector configuration—it was how critical Oracle supplemental logging for CDC really… Read More »How to Tune Oracle Supplemental Logging for Reliable CDC Pipelines
Sports tokenization has largely been defined by hype cycles, fan tokens, and speculative trading. Fantium CEO and co-founder Jonathan Ludwig is trying to push that narrative in a different direction. In a recent conversation with CryptoSlate’s Liam “Akiba” Wright and… Read More »Fantium’s Jonathan Ludwig on Building Real Utility in Sports Tokenization
Bitcoin’s sharp drop below $70,000 over the weekend has pushed macro risk firmly back to the center of the crypto conversation. A weaker-than-expected US labor report and a powerful surge in oil prices above $110–$115 per barrel have revived stagflation… Read More »Bitcoin, Oil, and Weak Jobs Data: Why Traders Are Watching the $61K Level