$12.1M fraud suspect with ‘new face’ arrested, crypto scam boiler rooms busted: Asia Express
A brand new facial reconstruction can’t hide crypto scammer, crypto scam boiler rooms in Malaysia and the Philippines busted: Asia Express
Month: August 2024
El Salvador President Admits Bitcoin Adoption Has Fallen Short
In an interview with TIME, Nayib Bukele said fewer Salvadorans than expected are using the cryptocurrency.
Accelerate Generative AI Inference with NVIDIA NIM Microservices on Amazon SageMaker
This post is co-written with Eliuth Triana, Abhishek Sawarkar, Jiahong Liu, Kshitiz Gupta, JR Morgan and Deepika Padmanabhan from NVIDIA. At the 2024 NVIDIA GTC conference, we announced support for NVIDIA NIM Inference Microservices in Amazon SageMaker Inference. This integration allows you to deploy industry-leading large language models (LLMs) on SageMaker and optimize their performance and … Read more
Sonos opens a Trello board so we can see how it’s fixing the busted app
Image: Sonos Sonos is still trying to clean up from the mess from the messy rollout of its new app, and to help give users a better idea of what fixes are in the pipeline, the company has shared a public Trello board detailing fixes that it’s working on. “All the cards here are sourced … Read more
Etherspot Launches ERC-7579 Modular SDK: What You Need to Know
Constant innovation drives the evolution of Web3, aiming to improve user experiences and developer workflows. Account Abstraction (AA) has been gathering a lot of buzz recently, and it is a concept designed to simplify interactions within the Web3 ecosystem. Today, we will dive into the realm of Modular Accounts which are the next step in … Read more
From DeFi Land to the OpenSea: SEC Threatens the Entire Crypto World
Led by Gary Gensler, the SEC’s approach to regulating crypto via enforcement actions is rapidly touching all corners of the industry.
New NCR Atleos/LibertyX feature converts BTC to cash at US ATMs
Users of the LibertyX ATMs can send BTC to a LibertyX address and receive fiat for their crypto at ATMs in 30 states.
ChatGPT’s weekly users have doubled in less than a year
Illustration: The Verge OpenAI says that more than 200 million people use ChatGPT each week, as first reported by Axios. OpenAI spokesperson Taya Christianson confirmed the number to The Verge, which is now double the 100 million weekly active users OpenAI reported last November. Additionally, Christianson says that 92 percent of Fortune 500 companies are … Read more
Ex-FTX exec scraps vacating guilty plea, refers matter to partner’s case
Former FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame pleaded guilty to two felony charges in September 2023 and was sentenced to 90 months in prison in May 2024.
U.S. House Committee Plans for Heap of Crypto Hearings in September
The U.S. House Financial Services Committee is poised to launch a series of crypto hearings digging into several aspects of the industry, including decentralized finance (DeFi), the Securities and Exchange Commission’s oversight of digital assets businesses and the implications of “pig butchering” scams.
Dev Diary #3: The Sneaky Issue That Was Silently Ruining Our Database
It’s one o’clock in the morning. My phone starts going crazy. I groan and look over. Sure enough, it’s another PagerDuty call. I am on-call this week, and it’s the third time in as many days that I have been woken up for the same reason. Hundreds of our customers have complained in unison, for … Read more
Jailed FTX Exec Withdraws His Request to Compel Government to Abide by Plea Deal
Ryan Salame, the former FTX executive sentenced to 7.5 years in prison in May, has withdrawn a legal request to a New York court asking that the conditions of his plea deal with prosecutors be enforced or that his plea be thrown out and his sentence vacated.
Remember Steam Machines? EmuDeck founder revisits Valve’s TV console idea
Looks like a Dreamcast. Needs more arrows. | Image: EmuDeck Valve once dreamt of building Linux-based game consoles called Steam Machines. They flopped — but the dream eventually became reality as the handheld Steam Deck instead. Now, a particularly noteworthy Steam Deck enthusiast is reviving the idea of a console-sized Steam Box, one with his … Read more
MiCA: Exploring Innovative Compliance Solutions For Web3 Startups
Whether the SEC is issuing a Wells Notice or the FCA is licensing a crypto exchange, the reality is that crypto regulation has finally come to stay. It’s evolving rapidly, catching up with emerging markets, and defining the modus operandi of the brave new world. This article explores the recently approved Markets In Crypto Assets … Read more
LLMs: Is NIST’s AI Safety Consortium Relevant Amid California’s SB 1047?
How big of a problem is digital piracy? It can be argued that regulation and litigation have ensured mitigation from the mainstream. However, when some AI companies needed training data, why were pirated copies of contents allegedly [accessible to be] crawled and scraped? Why are several other unlawful events possible online, in ways that are … Read more
Crypto Scams Are Rapidly Evolving Beyond Pig Butchering: Report
Crypto scams are taking less time but still bring in millions, according to the latest report from Chainalysis.
ChatGPT may already have more monthly users than Netflix
OpenAI says the chatbot has doubled its user count over the last year to more than 200 million per week.
Atlassian acquires Rewatch as it gets into AI meeting bots
Atlassian plans to integrate Rewatch into its recently launched Rovo AI platform so that transcripts become searchable within the overall business context. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Sub.club aims to fund the fediverse via premium feeds
Sub.club thinks premium feeds could also serve other use cases, like supporting helpful bots or generating funds to help maintain a community’s Mastodon server, for instance. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The iPhone’s volume buttons will no longer work with Spotify Connect
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Spotify users on iPhone will no longer be able to control the volume on connected devices using their physical volume buttons. In an update to its support page, Spotify said Apple “discontinued” this technology, forcing iPhone owners to use an annoying workaround. This change only affects Spotify Connect, a … Read more