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Month: April 2024
Avail Confirms Token Airdrop Plans, a Week After Leaked Screenshots
Avail shared in a blog post that 354,605 wallet addresses are eligible to claim the 600 million tokens in their “unification drop.”
Senate advances vote on reauthorizing warrantless surveillance program
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images The Senate is moving forward on a vote to reauthorize a controversial program that allows warrantless surveillance of foreign “targets.” Before voting on the reauthorization bill, senators had to vote on a cloture motion to begin voting. The cloture motion passed 67–32, just one day … Read more
Your Happy Hacking Keyboard deserves some fresh caps
Ursa is a new keycap profile for Topre keyboards. I want it. | Render: FKCaps Listen, I don’t want to be the guy who always posts about weird keyboard stuff. I have other interests. But I need to tell the dozens of Verge readers with Topre keyboards about these keycaps. Ursa is a new spherical … Read more
Meta says Llama 3 beats most other models, including Gemini
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge The next generation of Meta’s large language model Llama, which releases today to cloud providers like AWS and to model libraries like Hugging Face soon, performs better than most current AI models, the company said in a blog post. Llama 3 currently features two model weights, with 8B … Read more
Insatiable: A life without eating
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How Will Traders Handle Volatility Ahead of Bitcoin Halving? Analysts Are Split
On-chain analysis back a bullish view, but major banks see more losses ahead.
El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour
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Bitcoin Is a ‘Fraud’ Says Jamie Dimon, Who Vowed to Not Talk About It Again
The JP Morgan CEO revisits some of his classic digs, calling BTC a “decentralized Ponzi scheme.”
Robots can make jobs less meaningful for human colleagues
Much has been (and will continue to be) written about automation’s impact on the jobs market. In the short term, many employers have complained of an inability to fill roles and retain workers, further accelerating robotic adoption. The long-term impact these sorts of sweeping changes will have on the job market going forward remains to … Read more
Sen. Lummis: It’ll Pay to ‘Choose Circle Over Tether’ Under U.S. Stablecoin Proposal
Circle Internet Financial would have a distinct advantage over global stablecoin leader Tether under U.S. regulations along the lines being suggested by new legislation, according to one of the latest bill’s authors, Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.).
Yuga Labs Burns Nearly $1 Million Worth of Ethereum Gaming NFTs—Here’s Why
Over 4,000 HV-MTL NFTs have been burned by Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs at the request of game studio Faraway.
The podcast industry keeps reinventing itself
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Today is my last day at The Verge, and this will be my final issue of Hot Pod. I’ll have one more story coming out in the next week or two. But until then, I … Read more
The Humane AI Pin is lost in translation
As funny as it was when the AI Pin utterly failed at translating Korean and Japanese, it also broke my heart. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Of all the things the Humane AI Pin promised, I was most intrigued by translation. In a demo, a man speaks to Humane co-founder Imran … Read more
Ibotta’s IPO opens sharply higher, hinting at warming public-market interest in tech shares
Ibotta began it’s path as a public company on Thursday by opening at $117 per share, a big increase from its IPO price of $88, itself an increase from its proposed range of $76 to $84 per share. And this pop is despite boosting the size of its offering earlier in the week, with existing shareholders … Read more
‘Is It Priced In?’—Unpacking Crypto’s Perennial Question on Bitcoin Halving Eve
The Bitcoin halving on Friday has been expected for years. Is the milestone priced in for BTC? Here’s a look back at historical examples.
Bitcoin Halving Is Not a Bullish Event, Says 10x Research Analyst
Bearish signals are looming over the crypto market these days and will almost certainly push prices down in the short term, well-known research analyst Markus Thielen said.
Cryptocurrency Exchange Kraken Acquires TradeStation Crypto
The takeover, which hasn’t been previously disclosed publicly, expands the cryptocurrency exchange’s regulatory licensing in the U.S.
Myths about the Anthropocene
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Bitcoin, Ethereum ETFs in Hong Kong Could Lead to ‘More Progressive’ Policies in China: OSL
Firms involved in upcoming Hong Kong ETFs believe that they may cause a ripple effect across Asia—possibly even in China.
Generate customized, compliant application IaC scripts for AWS Landing Zone using Amazon Bedrock
Migrating to the cloud is an essential step for modern organizations aiming to capitalize on the flexibility and scale of cloud resources. Tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation are pivotal for such transitions, offering infrastructure as code (IaC) capabilities that define and manage complex cloud environments with precision. However, despite its benefits, IaC’s learning curve, … Read more
Mango Markets Attacker Guilty of Fraud Over $110 Million Exploit
Avraham Eisenberg was found guilty of manipulating the Solana DeFi platform Mango Markets in 2022 and fleeing the U.S. with the funds.