Month: January 2023
Crypto Markets Today: Bitcoin Holds Strength Above $21K, Congress’ FTX Problem
ALSO: Crypto bank Silvergate reports a fourth-quarter loss of $1 billion. Equities closed mixed after big banks’ 4Q earnings reports.
Hyundai Head Unit Hacking
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FTX’s Failure Highlights Need for Federally Mandated Insurance, Not More Regulation
There is extensive precedent for requiring companies providing critical infrastructure to get special insurance. Why not require crypto companies to back themselves with a market-based solution, say the founders of Evertas, a crypto insurance provider?
Tesla staged Autopilot demo video, says director of software
Image: Tesla Tesla’s much-hyped video of its Autopilot driver-assist system “driving by itself” from 2016 was not actually driving itself, according to Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s director of Autopilot software. In a recent deposition, Elluswamy said that the video titled “Full Self-Driving Hardware on All Teslas” was intended to “portray what was possible to build the … Read more
New podcast creation has fallen off a cliff
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Hope you all had a great weekend! We’ve got some big Hot Pod Summit updates for you all, as well as the latest in audio news. Today, Audible lands another star, Spotify experiences another outage, and creators stop bothering to make podcasts when it is so … Read more
FTX: it took ‘Herculean investigative effort’ to identify $5.5B in liquid assets
Debtors said they had identified $1.7 billion in cash, $3.5 billion in crypto assets and $0.3 billion in securities following FTX filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
We could stumble into AI catastrophe
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Discord acquires Gas, a compliments-based social media app for teens
The messaging platform Discord announced its acquisition of Gas, an app that’s popular among teens for its positive spin on social media. On Gas, users sign up with their school, add friends, and answer polls about their classmates. But the questions in the polls are intended to boost users’ confidence, rather than damage it. Teens … Read more
WEF publishes new in-depth guide to DAOs to air issues, encourage development
The World Economic Forum’s “Decentralized Autonomous Organization Toolkit” is the fruit of the labor of over 100 experts in a concise discussion format.
Tesla engineer testifies that 2016 video promoting self-driving was faked
Tesla faked a 2016 video promoting its self-driving technology, according to testimony by a senior engineer reviewed by Reuters. The video, which shows a Tesla Model X driving on urban, suburban and highway streets; stopping itself at a red light; and accelerating at a green light is still on Tesla’s website and carries the tagline: … Read more
Latin American Web3 Infrastructure Provider Parfin Raises $15M
The funding round was led by crypto investment firm Framework Venture and included L4 Venture Builder, a corporate venture capital fund backed by the Brazilian stock exchange B3.
WEF panel discusses the coming tokenized economy
The panel included the CEO of Circle, Finland’s minister of transport and communications, and other industry personalities.
Bitcoin price strength intensifies as risk-loving traders bring volume back to the crypto market
An increase in Bitcoin trading volume and positive on-chain data appear to be the primary forces behind BTC’s newfound strength.
2023 will be the year of the display
Razer’s Blade 16 is only one of the gaming laptops with decked-out screens coming in 2023. | Photo by Owen Grove / The Verge The laptops of 2023 will get new chips and new graphics. Many will get new touchpads, some will get new fans, and a few will get funky styluses. But some of … Read more
FTX Debtors Give Details on Digital Assets Identified So Far
The group has identified $1.6 billion of digital assets associated with FTX.com and $181 million connected to FTX US.
You might need a new PC to play Forspoken properly
Image: Square Enix From the beginning, Forspoken was pitched as a technological showcase for PS5 and PC, offering the latest in SSD game load times and AI upscaling technology. But until today, it hadn’t quite sunk in just how much power the “magical parkour” game will demand. Square Enix has now revealed the PC system … Read more
Set up Amazon SageMaker Studio with Jupyter Lab 3 using the AWS CDK
Amazon SageMaker Studio is a fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML) partly based on JupyterLab 3. Studio provides a web-based interface to interactively perform ML development tasks required to prepare data and build, train, and deploy ML models. In Studio, you can load data, adjust ML models, move in between steps to adjust experiments, … Read more
Putting numbers on the global venture slowdown
“Tell me something I don’t know,” was my first reaction when reports on venture capital in 2022 hit my inbox this month. It is pretty clear by now that there was a slowdown, so what’s the point of harping on about it as we enter a new year? The point, as often with data, is … Read more
SEC leaked crypto miners’ personal information during investigation: Report
The financial regulator reportedly unintentionally included 650 names and email addresses in communications with blockchain firm Green as part of an investigation.
How to activate Bluetooth on your Stadia Controller
Once the Stadia service goes down on January 18th, 2023, this controller is useless. That is, unless you turn on its Bluetooth mode before the end of the year. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google is turning off its Stadia cloud game streaming service on January 18th, 2023, but it’s giving … Read more