I’ve started a new contract where I’m tasked with consolidating the company’s infrastructure under AWS. They (the company) are starting to see some serious growth and have a team in place currently using PaaS and various other cloud providers. Infrastructure as code tools have been popular for a long time; I’ve mostly been a bit … Read more
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Recently, I had the opportunity to connect with Khori Whittaker, the Executive Director at ENS Labs, creators of the Ethereum Name Service (ENS). Our conversation came at a particularly exciting time for web3—possibly on the cusp of a bull market—and for ENS, which is seeing important milestones like its recent partnership with GoDaddy. Khori shared … Read more
Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Intel’s chip-making division accumulated $7 billion in operating losses in 2023, Reuters reported on Tuesday. That’s a big increase from $5.2 billion it lost in 2022, and while it made $18.9 billion in revenue in 2023, that number is down 31 percent from the $27.49 billion it made … Read more
A coalition of musicians is railing against the ”predatory use of AI” and demanding fair compensation.
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Linux, the most widely used open source operating system in the world, narrowly escaped a massive cyber attack over Easter weekend, all thanks to one volunteer. The backdoor had been inserted into a recent release of a Linux compression format called XZ Utils, a tool that is … Read more
Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge There’s a little-known hack in rural America: you can get the best fried food at the gas station (or in the case of a place I went to on my last road trip, shockingly good tikka masala). Now, one convenience store chain wants to change that with a robotic … Read more
Bitcoin Ordinals is a concept that plays a crucial role in the Bitcoin ecosystem, particularly in the context of blockchain technology and the operation of the Bitcoin network. They are not a feature of the Bitcoin protocol itself but rather a conceptual framework used to understand and describe the order and sequence of events within … Read more
For years, the solar energy sector has grappled with interseasonal energy storage. The ability to harness the surplus solar energy of summer months for use during the winter has remained an elusive goal, with existing solutions like batteries falling short due to prohibitive costs and limited lifespans. Hydrogen, meanwhile, despite its clean-burning properties, has been … Read more
Support for ERC721-C NFTs is a step towards the OpenSea 2.0 reboot as the marketplace charts a new path forward.
The Apple Watch Series 9 isn’t a massive step up from the prior model, but it does offer a few new features. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In September, Apple launched its latest batch of smartwatches, introducing the Apple Watch Ultra 2 ($799) alongside the new Apple Watch Series 9 ($399). … Read more
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Grayscale’s GBTC continues to bleed, dragging the average flows across Bitcoin ETFs into the negative.
In 2023, AWS announced an expanded collaboration with Hugging Face to accelerate our customers’ generative artificial intelligence (AI) journey. Hugging Face, founded in 2016, is the premier AI platform with over 500,000 open source models and more than 100,000 datasets. Over the past year, we have partnered to make it effortless to train, fine-tune, and … Read more
The president’s account can now be found on platforms like Mastodon. | Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge The official US president Threads account, currently helmed by President Joe Biden, has begun using Meta’s ActivityPub integration, making Biden the first sitting US president to post on the decentralized networking protocol. If you want to follow … Read more
In this article, we will be covering the Rootstock Layer 2 network that has the goal of creating and enabling both developers and the Bitcoin network as a whole to be able to create fully secure and functional Dapp applications on the Bitcoin blockchain and how it is exactly enabling them to do so. Rootstock … Read more
Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Apple never mentioned it, but the iPhone 12 received Qi2 wireless charging support when it got updated to iOS 17.4 last month. That means you can make full use of the Qi2-certified chargers that have entered the market, which have adopted the magnetic attachment and 15W … Read more
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Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images The United States and United Kingdom agreed to work together to monitor advanced AI models for safety risks. The two countries will collaborate on research and do at least one joint safety test. Both countries say safety is a top concern when it comes to … Read more
The fediverse — the name for the social network made of interconnected servers, like Mastodon and others — just got another boost of legitimacy Tuesday as the @Potus (President of the United States) account on Instagram Threads shared its first federated post. The account operated by Biden’s team published a message regarding the president’s support … Read more
