A survey conducted by Ipsos for the DeFi Education Fund found that 22% of Americans have ever owned or used crypto, up from 18%, while past-year use held flat at 13%.
A gavel prior to an open commission meeting at the FCC. | Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images What do drones, routers, and Roombas have in common? The US government wants to keep Chinese ones from entering the country. They’re the first consumer gadgets that are facing de facto import bans because of the US … Read more
The frontier lab is lifting the curtain on how users spend money on its models ahead of a planned IPO.
Apple announced a new iPad Mini with a larger OLED display this week, and we’ve just gotten to try it out at Apple’s “Pro and tell” event. It’s an iPad for sure, but the new OLED on the Mini looks exceptional, and the optional nano-texture matte finish is awesome. The “Pro and tell” event venue … Read more
OpenAI, one of Nvidia’s biggest customers, reportedly plans to buy Google’s TPU chips. Neither company has confirmed the report, and the price and size of the order were not disclosed.
The former FTX CEO remains incarcerated as Irish actor Anthony Boyle portrays him in the downfall of the crypto exchange and his relationship with Caroline Ellison.
The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to fix their systems, with some taking sites offline until the vulnerabilities could be patched. According to researchers who found the … Read more
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission held a forum in which the chairman, Mike Selig, suggested AI agents may usher in a financial revolution.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced the agency will vote on November 19th on rules that would allow prisons to use signal jamming. Radiofrequency jammers are generally banned under Section 333 and the Communications Act of 1934, with few exceptions, and Carr has noted they’ve been permitted for use at some federal facilities already. Carr claims … Read more
Nearly two years after LG and Samsung announced at CES 2025 that their latest smart TVs would include access to Microsoft’s Copilot, the company is ending support for the AI assistant’s functionality on all TVs this year, according to a report by Windows Central. The news comes not from an official announcement from LG, Samsung, … Read more
If you’ve tried to get an agent into production, the model and tool use are not the blocker. The main bottleneck is everything around them: how many teams can build within a secure environment, which team owns each model and tool, how AgentOps and error handling stay inside a pre-defined boundary, and how platform, Workstream, … Read more
The Federal Reserve left rates unchanged Wednesday in a 10-2 vote, with Governor Lisa Cook and Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack favoring a hike.
What usually stops PyTorch training from scaling out to a cluster is the container, not the model code. Every container needs the same CUDA runtime, a PyTorch build compiled against it, NCCL (NVIDIA Collective Communications Library), the Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) userspace libraries, the AWS OFI NCCL plugin that connects NCCL to EFA, and a … Read more
In this economy, how often does a product get less expensive before its debut? That just happened with the Google / Xreal Aura, the lightweight 95-gram glasses with a tethered Android XR compute puck and multiple virtual screens that just went on sale today. Xreal and Google have just announced the headset costs $1,099 through … Read more
As quality assurance (QA) automation adoption grows inside an organization, a new problem appears that has nothing to do with writing tests. A platform team stands up test automation, then a second team wants to join, then a dozen more. Soon hundreds of test cases belong to different products and squads, and everyone can see … Read more
Treating crypto as a political battleground only makes it harder to build the secure, transparent, American-made financial system that most Americans say they want, argues DeFi Education Fund’s Jennifer Rosenthal.
The largest Bitcoin treasury company will begin daily dividend payments on STRC in November, with three other preferred securities following in January 2027.
A rate hike in December remains likely as the U.S. central bank continues to focus on inflation, which remains well above its 2% target.
Reach out and touch screen. Touchscreen laptops are nothing new in the Windows world, but Apple has only just announced its first MacBook with a touchscreen. Apple isn’t rushing to change a bunch of things in macOS to optimize for touch, though; most of the touch action will be in the apps themselves, it seems. … Read more
Professional analysts went along with their AI agent’s hidden opinion 86% of the time, and few credited it.
Apple closed out its week of product announcements with a “Pro and Tell” event on Wednesday, where it took the wraps off its long-rumored touchscreen MacBook Pro. Though Apple may have saved its biggest and most exciting update for last, it revealed a few other device upgrades and updates in the days leading up to … Read more
Apple’s new touchscreen MacBook Pro starts at $2,899
Apple just announced its first touchscreen MacBook at its “Pro and tell” event on Wednesday. It showed off the long-awaited touchscreen in a video of the new MacBook Pro during the event that you can watch right here to see the new display in action. The new MacBook Pro’s PROLED XDR touch display is a … Read more
The difference in thickness is small compared to the non-touch MacBook Pro models. Steve Jobs famously called touchscreen laptops “ergonomically terrible,” and for over a decade, Apple stridently refused to make one. Today that all changes with the MacBook Pro – the company’s first laptop to embrace a touch interface. While it’s unlikely that Apple … Read more
Apple’s smallest tablet is getting a bigger screen. Earlier this week, the company announced the eighth-generation iPad Mini alongside several new MacBook Pro models, bringing OLED technology to Apple’s miniature tablet for the first time. The diminutive slate won’t hit shelves until November 6th; however, you can already preorder it from Amazon, Walmart, Apple, and … Read more
The FEC reported an “electronic filing system outage” on Tuesday as groups are expected to ramp up spending before the US midterm elections.
STRC will begin paying dividends for every calendar day from November, with STRF, STRK and STRD following in January.
Coinbase faces a key earnings test as analysts debate the strength of its trading rebound following a sharp drop in Robinhood’s crypto revenue.