It might be World War III, but at least I won $20. | Image: Polymarket / The Verge Polymarket has been allowing people to bet on when the US would strike Iran next. Obviously, now that it’s actually happened and people have died, the prediction betting market is feeling some pressure. The site has been … Read more
A rare Bitcoin bottom signal from 2023 has flashed again, but the 2026 macroeconomic backdrop calls its validity into question. Can BTC price defy the odds?
That’s coming on a little strong, maybe. | Image: Vera C. Rubin Observatory The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s automated alert system is online and already bombarding astronomers with things to look at in the night sky. The system went live publicly on Tuesday, February 24th, and on the first night dropped some 800,000 alerts about … Read more
JPMorgan said the long-awaited Clarity Act would bring regulatory clarity, boost institutional participation and accelerate tokenization across U.S. crypto markets.
Declining crypto prices mean that many digital asset treasuries are either underwater or trading at a discount to their net asset value.
The government relies on this crypto infrastructure for international trade, while ordinary Iranians use it as a financial lifeline during protests and economic crises.
The real competitive advantage in stablecoins, the moat that holds competitors at bay, now lies in the distribution held by incumbents, according to the person behind Meta’s abandoned Diem token.
The price of Bitcoin plummeted to nearly $63,000 overnight amid U.S. and Israel strikes on Iran, but has mostly recovered in the hours since.
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The proposed rules would limit the ability of third parties to pass stablecoin rewards on to users, but experts are split on what the language could mean for America’s top crypto firms.
OpenAI’s CEO claims its new defense contract includes protections addressing the same issues that became a flashpoint for Anthropic.
:::info Authors: Enes Altuncu, ea483@kent.ac.uk (University of Kent, UK) Virginia N. L. Franqueira, V.Franqueira@kent.ac.uk (University of Kent, UK) Shujun Li, S.J.Li@kent.ac.uk (University of Kent, UK) ::: Abstract Recent advancements in AI, especially deep learning, have contributed to a significant increase in the creation of new realistic-looking synthetic media (video, image, and audio) and manipulation of … Read more
Welcome to the weekend, friends! While the rest of our team was checking out Samsung’s forthcoming Galaxy S26 lineup and prepping for Apple’s “special experience” next week, we’ve been sifting through Woot’s “Video Games for All” sale and a truly weird slate of deals that, frankly, don’t have a throughline. (Some of us have also … Read more
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, February 28, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you with these top quality stories. From Why “Small Changes” Don’t Exist in Production Game Systems to How to Navigate Identity, Direction, Story, and Sovereignty in … Read more
Go 1.21 includes a preview of a change to for loop scoping that we plan to ship in Go 1.22, removing one of the most common Go mistakes. The Problem If you’ve written any amount of Go code, you’ve probably made the mistake of keeping a reference to a loop variable past the end of … Read more
It’s just a small change! How often do we hear that we need to fix something? We need to add a small feature. We need to tweak something. Code-wise or publishing, just realized they need this for retention, or maybe an analyst brought the newest data, so now we have to add just a few … Read more
A full closure of the strait is unlikely or impractical, some experts argue.
:::info Authors: Junyang Lin, junyang.ljy@alibaba-inc.com (Alibaba Group, China) Rui Men, menrui.mr@alibaba-inc.com (Alibaba Group, China) An Yang, ya235025@alibaba-inc.com (Alibaba Group, China) Chang Zhou, ericzhou.zc@alibaba-inc.com (Alibaba Group, China) Ming Ding, dm18@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn (Tsinghua University, China) Yichang Zhang, yichang.zyc@alibaba-inc.com (Alibaba Group, China) Peng Wang, zheluo.wp@alibaba-inc.com (Alibaba Group, China) Ang Wang, wangang.wa@alibaba-inc.com (Alibaba Group, China) Le Jiang, jiangle.jl@alibaba-inc.com (Alibaba Group, … Read more
We round up everything Xiaomi announced at its Mobile World Congress event.
:::info Authors: Jinze Bai Shuai Bai Yunfei Chu Zeyu Cui Kai Dang Xiaodong Deng Yang Fan Wenbin Ge Yu Han Fei Huang Binyuan Hui Luo Ji Mei Li Junyang Lin Runji Lin Dayiheng Liu Gao Liu Chengqiang Lu Keming Lu Jianxin Ma Rui Men Xingzhang Ren Xuancheng Ren Chuanqi Tan Sinan Tan Jianhong Tu Peng … Read more
The Mirror that would pose as an Oracle Or: How we might be getting a little too intimate with our AI chatbots I never consciously set out to use AI as a coach, therapist, strategist, or mirror. It just… happened. At first, it was practical. Notes. Lists. Rewrites, drafts, edits. Research. Planning. Then it became … Read more
This article was co-published with STAT, a national publication that delivers trusted and authoritative journalism about health, medicine, and the life sciences. Sign up for its health tech newsletter here. Telehealth company Cerebral will limit the consumer health data it uses for advertising purposes under a new order announced by the Federal Trade Commission last week. Cerebral, … Read more
China’s push into humanoid robots is accelerating, with domestic firms shipping more units and iterating faster than U.S. competitors in a still-nascent market.
Mark Karpelès submitted a pull request to Bitcoin Core that would redirect coins that have remained untouched since 2011 to a recovery address controlled by the MtGox trustee, reigniting the oldest debate in Bitcoin.