Moving money for the agentic internet at @radiustech_xyz, prev @medialab, @bostonfed, @circle, @usocc
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“AI is going to take the old business models of ads and subscriptions and just annihilate them. Something will replace it, and I think there’s a good likelihood it’s going to be built on stablecoins.” - @eastdakota
Was incredibly prescient of Matthew Prince (@cloudflare) with @benmilne (@bralexyz) at @averystableconf in March of this year. Can't wait to tell you what @ay_o @kerrykellogg and I are working on for next year!
We should be studying bell labs, Xerox park , Yorktown heights, and BBN more
Brian Kernighan is a former Bell Labs member of technical staff, co-author of the original C book, and the one who popularized “Hello World.” We talked about what Bell Labs was like and the stories behind all the famous tools that were built there.
In this episode:
• Bell Labs culture and how he got hired
• Day in the life at Bell Labs and the best engineer
• Unix, C, and how awk got created
• His favorite languages and advice for students
Where to watch:
• YouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=sMllOlxV…
• Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/2yb…
• Apple Podcasts - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
• Transcript - developing.dev/p/e072-brian-…
Thank you to the sponsor of this episode for supporting my work:
• WorkOS: makes your app Enterprise Ready with easy to use APIs to add SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and more in just a few lines of code, check them out at workos.com/
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:42 What Bell Labs was and how he got hired
06:34 Why so many inventions came from Bell Labs
14:15 A day in the life at Bell Labs
27:55 The most impressive people he worked with
33:50 The AT&T film explaining Unix
39:46 Why C was so influential
43:25 How awk was created
48:40 What he misses most about Bell Labs
54:10 Are LLMs bad for computer science education
01:01:46 His 1972 commit in the Go repo
01:03:43 Grace Emlen, the fake Bell Labs employee
01:07:39 Why he writes so many books
01:19:58 His favorite and least favorite languages
01:24:28 Advice for students and young people
01:27:42 Outro
Bench ® retweeted
Brian Kernighan is a former Bell Labs member of technical staff, co-author of the original C book, and the one who popularized “Hello World.” We talked about what Bell Labs was like and the stories behind all the famous tools that were built there.
In this episode:
• Bell Labs culture and how he got hired
• Day in the life at Bell Labs and the best engineer
• Unix, C, and how awk got created
• His favorite languages and advice for students
Where to watch:
• YouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=sMllOlxV…
• Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/2yb…
• Apple Podcasts - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
• Transcript - developing.dev/p/e072-brian-…
Thank you to the sponsor of this episode for supporting my work:
• WorkOS: makes your app Enterprise Ready with easy to use APIs to add SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and more in just a few lines of code, check them out at workos.com/
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:42 What Bell Labs was and how he got hired
06:34 Why so many inventions came from Bell Labs
14:15 A day in the life at Bell Labs
27:55 The most impressive people he worked with
33:50 The AT&T film explaining Unix
39:46 Why C was so influential
43:25 How awk was created
48:40 What he misses most about Bell Labs
54:10 Are LLMs bad for computer science education
01:01:46 His 1972 commit in the Go repo
01:03:43 Grace Emlen, the fake Bell Labs employee
01:07:39 Why he writes so many books
01:19:58 His favorite and least favorite languages
01:24:28 Advice for students and young people
01:27:42 Outro
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This one maybe as bad or worse than the PHP ones. Get used to lots of patching.
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when someone asks me to sell "stablecoin data" they are actually just asking me to tell them how to package it to buy it ignoring what data is already out there.
the brale.network stuff is held together by duct tape as a test to understand the possible - and it turns out a lot is possible.
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i get asked to sell stablecoin data every day. the irony is anyone can get a starting point at brale.network/ - which is a bit of a skunkworks project to learn/test blockchain data.
also - it uses cloudflare primitives i shared in a previous post.
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What happens to payments when AI agents become the ones making them?
“Agents are looking for low friction ways to accomplish tasks.”
@TurnkeyHQ Co-Founder and CEO @sadbryce sees crypto rails becoming a natural fit for agents that need to transact as they complete tasks.
Speaking with @bamazizimesh on Stable Pulse: CEO Beat, he shares his vision for money moving more freely across consumer payments, B2B transactions, and digital services.
🎧 Building in agentic commerce? Hear his perspective on the wallet infrastructure behind it: youtu.be/hT4vYmneyTE
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“Starting a company teaches you what you need to know when you need to know it.”
@TurnkeyHQ Co-Founder and CEO @sadbryce had never sold before starting a business. Then came the sales conversations, a growing team, and the uncomfortable situations that forced him to learn.
On a new episode of Stable Pulse: CEO Beat, he joins @bamazizimesh to discuss building Turnkey, lessons from Coinbase Custody, and the future of crypto custody, stablecoin payments, and wallets for AI agents.
🎧 A must-listen for founders navigating the leap from an idea to building a business: youtu.be/hT4vYmneyTE
This exists in Cambridge Ma. Kids leave for school with their baseball gloves on their backpack riding bikes to school. No car drop off lines just endless bike racks.
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Effective Immediately, all organizations using PHP for their systems are advised to be prepared for an update addressing two critical vulnerabilities. PHP is widely used for web applications. These vulnerabilities often provide a direct path to the server's file system or database. If an immediate update is not feasible, it is recommend that organizations take the system offline until it can be fully mitigated. NSA will follow up shortly with more specific guidance.
Bench ® retweeted
The Cloudflare's writeup on our php2shell response is up.
Rules went live at 03:02 UTC, about 9 hours before disclosure. Unfortunately the vulnerability leaked early, so we were already watching attackers mutate payloads against the rules and updating as variants appeared.
New rules keep landing in the WAF changelog.
Expect updates through out the day. We will have a more thorough post of what we had to build to better protect people coming shortly.
PHP runs almost 70% of websites. The flaw is in the runtime, so updating plugins won't fix it. Patch PHP.
blog.cloudflare.com/php-vuln…
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PHP changes are live. Start patching. php.net/archive/2026.php#202…
Huge thanks to coordinated work by @ThePHPF!
PHP sites behind Cloudflare already have an initial set of WAF rules deployed for the known exploit vectors in these vulnerabilities. The rules are available to all customers, including free.
We are seeing early attacks emerging and are updating mitigations as new vectors show up.
This is a STOPGAP only. Patch as soon as @ThePHPF releases the update at 14:00 UTC today.
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Read the OCC's final rule: occ.gov/news-issuances/news-…
Machines are the now the main user of the internet. Make sure they can pay you for your apis and content on @radiustech_xyz. Thanks @stabledash for the time.
youtu.be/mkK2KPJGxLU?is=qbeF…
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I've been doing a lot with @Cloudflare that last few months. custom blockchain, signers, wallets, etc. Over that time I've learned a lot about using DO, workers, D1, etc as primitives using the @brale_xyz API & thought some of those learnings might help others out - github.com/superduperdot/bra…
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Banks blocking AI agents is great for crypto.
JPMorgan and Citi have restricted what agent access to consumer accounts. Although this allows them to protect their business in the short term, eventually agents will look for less friction: programmable stablecoin rails.
It's the typical innovator's dilemma. Banks trying to protect their existing business could end up accelerating the adoption of the very technology threatening to disrupt them.
With our network in the millions of TPS, it’s time to build the market. If your API or site is getting overwhelmed by agents, let’s help you monetize. DMs open.
Nothing scales on its own, says Netflix’s co-founder @marcrandolph
“A two sided marketplace gets nowhere unless you get one side of that market going.”
“You build that first side of the market finding that user that has pain.”
@RkBench, Founder & CEO of @radiustech_xyz