BlackRock-backed tokenization firm Securitize clears key hurdle to go public on NYSE
The tokenization specialist behind BlackRock’s BUIDL fund could begin trading on the NYSE as SEC approves merger registration.
This is your laptop… on AI
We’re now deep into developer conference season, and one of the themes so far is the relentless conviction from Big Tech companies that AI is going to change everything about how we do everything. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang made that clearer than anyone this week, when he described a completely new way of using our laptops … Read more
Supabase doubles valuation to $10B in 8 months
Supabase, an example of an open source project becoming a fast-growing company, has greatly benefited from AI tools like Claude, Codex, and other vibe-coding platforms.
Bitcoin Dives Below $60K Following Strong Jobs Data, Zcash Crash Shaking Crypto Confidence
Bitcoin has now fallen more than 50% from its October peak, dipping below $60,000 as the crypto industry reckons with the Zcash vulnerability.
What happens when your phone is confiscated at the airport
Even if you’ve done nothing wrong, it’s never a good idea to hand your phone to the cops. But international travelers at American airports often have no choice – even if they’re US citizens. When Minnesota labor organizer Janette Zahia Corcelius returned home from a three-week trip to Europe in late April, she was detained … Read more
Google and FBI warn of ransomware group that sends fake IT workers to hack victims in person
Cybercriminals, part of a gang known as Silent Ransom Group, have sent people pretending to be IT support employees to law firms’ offices, where the criminals have stolen data using USB drives or remote access tools.
Memecoins dogecoin, shiba inu dive 9% as bitcoin nears $60,000
Dogecoin and Shiba Inu led losses among major tokens as heavy volume and liquidations overwhelmed support levels, extending a broader risk-off move across crypto markets.
The New Youth “Disease”: How AI Is Destroying Musical Identity – and Creating a Generation of AI Hat
Many specialists won’t like how freely I use the word “disease” here. But by the end, you’ll understand why I chose it. I’ve personally encountered this phenomenon in a severe enough form to shout about it – the way you’d shout about a serious illness that society doesn’t yet recognize or know how to treat.
Government Stablecoin Payments Would Fuel ‘Tax Evasion Economy,’ Lawmaker Warns
Rep. Brad Sherman warned that allowing government payments in stablecoins would “sanctify an alternative to the U.S. dollar.”
U.S. House tax committee weighs crypto bills, including relief for small transactions
Seven draft bills are being circulated by the House Ways and Means Committee ahead of a hearing next week, including proposals to ease small-gain, mining and staking burdens.
Winklevoss-Backed Zcash Treasury Plunges Nearly 40% on ZEC Privacy Bug Concerns
Cypherpunk Technologies shares tumbled to their lowest point since March as jitters tied to a Zcash bug knocked the Winklevoss-backed firm.
Bitcoin teases ‘seller exhaustion’ as BTC price downside reaches $60.3K
Bitcoin sellers were losing steam, market analysis said as ongoing BTC price downside brought the market closer to $60,000.
Font Converters Earns a 49.57 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Lossless, Privacy-First Font Pipeline
Font Converters is a free, privacy-first web tool that turns one font into all the formats you actually need, converting losslessly between the 8 major font formats and generating the matching @font-face CSS. It also re-sets whole documents (PDF, DOCX, and more) in any font, including OpenDyslexic for accessibility, and bundles utilities like a font … Read more
New York lawmakers pass one-year ban on new data centers
The New York State legislature passed a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, the first statewide ban of its kind if Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul signs it into law. Lawmakers behind the bill say it’s meant to give policymakers time to understand the impact of large data centers on the environment and energy prices. … Read more
A Practical Security Architecture for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
A safe RAG architecture keeps untrusted content out of the prompt where it can do damage, enforces who can read what at the retriever, and limits what the model can do after retrieval. Most RAG systems I have seen in real projects do the first half and skip the rest. They retrieve, they answer, they … Read more
Fraud Detection Isn’t a Machine Learning Problem
Subtitle: A fraud model is only useful if it improves the way a risk team acts on real transactions. Fraud detection is often described as a machine learning problem. In practice, it is a decision systems problem. That difference matters. You can build a model with a strong offline score and still end up with … Read more
Alsobrooks says Clarity Act needs ethics deal before Senate vote
The Maryland Democrat says bipartisan crypto legislation is close, but ethics and illicit finance concerns remain unresolved.
A Framework-Agnostic Approach to SSR for Microfrontends
On one of our projects, we were building microfrontends, and at some point we wanted to add SSR. The reasons were the usual ones: better first paint, fewer layout shifts, real content for crawlers, less JS to load before something appears on screen. Setting it up turned out to be harder than I expected. There … Read more
Bitcoin loses $60,000, falls to weakest price since October 2024
Several headwinds converged over bitcoin recently as its largest buyer turned seller, ETF investors headed for the exits, and rate-hike fears rose.
XRP falls toward $1.10 as liquidation-driven selloff pushes token to multi-month lows
XRP lost another 5% after a high-volume breakdown overwhelmed support near $1.20, leaving traders focused on whether the latest washout marks capitulation or the start of a deeper slide.
The token bill comes due: Inside the industry scramble to manage AI’s runaway costs
“The whole conversation shifted from tokenmaxxing and ‘go fast’ to ‘we need guardrails, how do we control this?’”
Visa tests private stablecoin settlement with Brale, Canton
Visa is testing private stablecoin settlement on Canton with Brale, exploring whether institutions can use blockchain without exposing sensitive transaction data.
NASA tells astronauts to shelter in SpaceX Dragon due to new ISS leaks
The space agency says Roscosmos has discovered new leaks in the Russian service module that it is trying to repair.
NSA said to be readying Anthropic’s Mythos for use in cyber operations
The U.S. eavesdropping agency is reportedly preparing Anthropic’s Mythos for use in cyberattacks, despite a federal ban on using the AI model maker.
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MAHA wants to make cotton the new beef tallow
In between beef tallow fries, raw milk, and vaccine denialism, Make America Healthy Again figureheads have set their sights on another slice of life: our clothing. “The MAHA movement doesn’t stop with what we EAT – It’s also about what we WEAR,” Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said in a post on X in late … Read more
What do you mean my new smart scale is ‘built for GLP-1 users’?
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. A few days ago, I walked into the basement of a midtown gym. Smoothies and healthy snacks were passed out. … Read more