Month: April 2024
NYC’s AI gun detectors hardly work
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images When New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced the city would be testing out AI gun detectors on at subway stations last week, he touted the technology as “clearly impressive.” But critics, including the Legal Aid Society, were immediately skeptical of the pilot — and … Read more
Will Bitcoin ETF Demand Spark a Supercycle? Analysts Weigh In
Bitcoin investor behavior today may be familiar to longtime observers, but not everyone agrees on how demand levels stack up historically.
Risk Appetite Floods Back Into Wall Street as Rate Cut Confidence Soars for Investors
It may not have been the cuts that some speculators had hoped for back in Q4, but the news that the US Federal Reserve were set to cut rates three times throughout 2024 helped to push all three major stock indexes towards new record highs following its March meeting. The prospect of rate cuts will … Read more
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’s biggest twist is concealed in a tiny detail
Image: Square Enix I’m in awe of how smart the developers of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth are. After seeing a post comparing Cloud during the Nibelheim flashback and his arrival at the city much later in the game, my mind is reeling from the subtle brilliance in how Square used the tiniest of animation details … Read more
Anthropic researchers wear down AI ethics with repeated questions
How do you get an AI to answer a question it’s not supposed to? There are many such “jailbreak” techniques, and Anthropic researchers just found a new one, in which a large language model can be convinced to tell you how to build a bomb if you prime it with a few dozen less-harmful questions … Read more
Ethena Just Launched to a $1.2 Billion Market Cap—Here’s What You Need to Know
The ENA governance token from Ethena Labs, along with USDe, have a controversial history, but that hasn’t held back billions in backing from investors and traders.
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Rubrik’s IPO filing hints at thawing public markets for tech companies
Rubrik initially presents as a moderately growing software business with net losses that stretched to $354 million in its most recent fiscal year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
How to Send Email Verification in Next.js 14 With NextAuth.js, Resend, and React Email
Having explored how to implement an authentication system in Next.js 14 with NextAuth.js(Auth.js) in the first part of this blog, it is crucial to take the next step to ensure the validity of user information: email validation. This process is not only an additional step in the security of our application, but an essential component … Read more
Amazon gives up on no-checkout shopping in its grocery stores
An Amazon Dash Cart in Whole Foods. | Photo by Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu via Getty Images Amazon has decided to give up on its Just Walk Out program that lets customers leave its brick-and-mortar grocery stores without a formal checkout process. Instead, it’s switching fully to “Dash Carts,” where customers scan products as they … Read more
What’s the Most Popular Random Number Between 1 and 100? A New Study Says 37
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Decentralized AI Discussion: Emad Mostaque Interview Days After Stepping Down as Stability CEO
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Decentralizing the Future: Insights From Wilson Duarte of Hercules
I recently spoke with Wilson Duarte, the Founder of Hercules, a DEX on the Metis network. Wilson has a background in computational applied mathematics and a master’s in numerical simulation in applied Geophysics. During our discussion, we touched on the Metis blockchain, the increasing traction of decentralized exchanges, and the essential security steps these exchanges … Read more
Letting go of the idea of keeping up
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Google’s final warning: Dropcam, Dropcam Pro, and Nest Secure support ends on April 8th
Illustration: The Verge Google just sent out its final reminder that Dropcam and Dropcam Pro cameras and Nest Secure home security systems will stop working next Monday, April 8th. Google first made the announcement a year ago, a month before it rolled out its redesigned Home app. The Dropcam and Dropcam Pro, which came out … Read more
It’s time for a hard reset on notifications
Phones need to go to notification jail. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Feel that? Your phone buzzing in the pocket of your yoga pants? Better check it. Maybe it’s a request to approve a substitution in your grocery order. Maybe it’s a fraudulent charge on your credit card. Maybe it’s your mom … Read more
Thrive Market’s Nick Green talks building a billion-dollar grocery company
Nick Green, one of the company’s co-founders, stopped by Found to chat about his company and the market’s evolution since he first launched it. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Microsoft Is Testing an Xbox AI Chatbot—Here’s What It Will Do
Microsoft says Xbox support will be able to offer help more quickly through natural language interaction.
Meta (again) denies that Netflix read users’ private Facebook messages
The document alleges that Facebook even cut spending on original programming for its Facebook Watch video service so as not to compete with Netflix, a large Facebook advertiser. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Bitcoin Halving to Boost BTC Price? History May Not Repeat, Says Coinbase Exec
Despite bullish trends, unpredictability around the halving calls for a careful approach.
Open source foundations unite on common standards for EU’s Cybersecurity Resilience Act
Seven open source foundations are coming together to create common specifications and standards for Europe’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), regulation adopted by the European Parliament last month. The Apache Software Foundation, Blender Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, OpenSSL Software Foundation, PHP Foundation, Python Software Foundation, and Rust Foundation revealed their intentions to pool their collective resources and join … Read more
Crypto Venture Capital Fundraising Jumped Over 50% in March Amid Rally
Most capital went into infrastructure and decentralized finance (DeFi) projects, data by RootData shows.