A social media spat between billionaire tech investors is raising questions about the journalistic independence of three-year-old news outfit SF Standard, after a reporter representing the outlet reached out to sources for a story about VC Ben Horowitz and his wife Felicia. The Standard’s sole backer is another longtime VC, Michael Moritz, and on Thursday … Read more
“I love New Zealand. I’m not leaving,” said Bitcache and Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom on X after the New Zealand Justice Minister signed off on a United States extradition order.
Chainalysis found some attackers, including those linked to North Korea, have even gone as far as applying for IT jobs at targeted companies.
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now empowers enterprises to harness the full potential of their data by enabling support of petabyte-scale datasets. Starting today, you can interactively prepare large datasets, create end-to-end data flows, and invoke automated machine learning (AutoML) experiments on petabytes of data—a substantial leap from the previous 5 GB limit. With over 50 connectors, … Read more
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After revealing Fortnite’s Marvel-themed “Absolute Doom” season last weekend, Epic Games is officially kicking off Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 4 by sharing a bunch of details about what you can expect when you drop onto the island in battle royale. Spoiler: there’s a lot of Doctor Doom. As already shown, the Absolute Doom battle pass … Read more
The crossing of this indicator on two different timeframes has signaled to traders that short-term performance may be weakening, sparking fear in the market.
The IMF said a hike to electricity taxes for crypto miners could curb global emissions while netting governments billions in revenue.
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While the SEC case against Ripple was decided solidly in Ripple’s favor, the takeaways for the rest of the industry are limited.
Robin Linus has unveiled a new whitepaper for BitVM2 and BitVM Bridge, two new developments that offer significant improvements to the original version of BitVM.
Onchain sleuth ZachXBT claims to have found a network of North Korean developers who have been working on dozens of crypto projects.
The San Francisco City Attorney is going after 18 websites and apps for facilitating “sexual abuse.”
A tax on the energy used by crypto miners could cut emissions by 100 million tons a year, equal to Belgium’s emissions, say two IMF executives.
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The 2025 Lincoln Navigator Black Label in crystal white. | Image: Lincoln Lincoln is making a big change to the largest vehicle in its lineup by adding a panoramic display across the dashboard. The 2025 Navigator SUV is the automaker’s second vehicle to get the Android-based digital dashboard developed by Ford, with its first implementation … Read more
In our latest chatbot challenge, we put the latest Grok release from AI to the test against leading LLMs from OpenAI and Anthropic.
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With AI being the flavor of the times, one hears of the technology being deployed for everything except for basic human functions. So, it is no surprise that one recently came across the term AI PC. Now what is that beast, I wondered? Obviously, it means a personal computer that uses artificial intelligence technology, but … Read more
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Oftentimes, the onboarding of a new team member lacks structure, proceeding chaotically and hastily. Resources are lost, and it is unclear who to contact for various questions. As a result, a new designer will have knowledge gaps that, in turn, will affect the quality of work and hinder their confidence in the product. During my … Read more
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge The popular benchmarking utility Geekbench has launched a new cross-platform tool to evaluate the performance of devices under AI-heavy workloads. Geekbench AI measures a device’s CPU, GPU, and NPU (neural processing unit) to determine how well it can handle machine learning applications. Geekbench developer Primate Labs has been … Read more
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The cypherpunk movement started with a mailing list in 1992, but there were pioneers of online privacy even before that. David Chaum, an American computer engineer and talented cryptographer, is likely the pioneer of all this. He wasn’t on the mailing list back then (to our knowledge), but he was definitely creating new software with … Read more