Month: August 2024
Rust in Linux Revisited
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Our slowly growing Unix monoculture
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Bitcoin price volatility expected at Fed September FOMC meeting — Here’s how to prepare
Bitcoin traders expect BTC to rally if the Fed rolls out a 0.50% rate cut, but hedging these bullish positions is also necessary. Here is how it’s done.
Top court orders ban on Elon Musk’s X in Brazil
A top court in Brazil ordered an immediate, country-wide suspension of the X platform on Friday after a months-long legal battle with Elon Musk’s social media company over content moderation, according to Bloomberg. The court added that anyone using VPN to access the X platform would be subject to daily fines of 50,000 reais … Read more
OpenAI to expand ‘capped for-profit’ status to woo whale investors — report
The change comes amid reports the firm plans to hold an investment round at a valuation of more than $100 billion.
Trump Leads Harris by 12 Points Among Crypto Owners: Poll
Crypto voters come from across the political spectrum, according to researchers at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Lady tasting tea
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Crypto Biz: Telegram and OpenSea on authorities’ radar
This week’s Crypto Biz explores Pavel Durov’s arrest and consequences for Telegram, Nvidia’s earnings results, OpenSea’s Wells notice, Rhodium’s bankruptcy, BlackRock’s new crypto ETF and SxT Labs’ fundraising.
Brazilian judge suspends X after Elon Musk refuses to name representative
Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes began investigating the spread of misinformation during the government of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
Investors are already valuing OpenAI at over $100B on the secondaries market
OpenAI is in talks to raise a new round of funding at an eye-popping $100 billion-plus valuation, sources told the Wall Street Journal this week. It turns out investors have already proven they are willing to value the company that high to get on OpenAI’s coveted cap table. Multiple companies that track or facilitate secondaries … Read more
Best practices for prompt engineering with Meta Llama 3 for Text-to-SQL use cases
With the rapid growth of generative artificial intelligence (AI), many AWS customers are looking to take advantage of publicly available foundation models (FMs) and technologies. This includes Meta Llama 3, Meta’s publicly available large language model (LLM). The partnership between Meta and Amazon signifies collective generative AI innovation, and Meta and Amazon are working together … Read more
Price analysis 8/30: BTC, ETH, BNB, SOL, XRP, DOGE, TON, ADA, AVAX, SHIB
Bitcoin’s failure to maintain above $60,000 is pulling altcoin prices toward their recent swing lows. What will it take to turn the market around?
Obsidian Guide: How to Create the Daily Note Every Day – Even If You Don’t Open It
Problem The Daily Note plugin is a fundamental feature in Obsidian, essential for many users who track their daily tasks, thoughts, and progress. In the Daily Notes settings, there’s an option to Open daily note on startup, which ensures that a new daily note is created whenever you open Obsidian in the morning. However, there’s … Read more
Judge orders X ban in Brazil
The Verge A judge in Brazil has ordered the suspension of X after owner Elon Musk failed to designate a new legal representative for the country, according to a report from Bloomberg. Earlier this month, Musk closed X’s offices in Brazil, saying Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes threatened to arrest the company’s legal … Read more
BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Marks First Loss Since May—Cause for Concern?
BlackRock’s IBIT lost $13.5 million on Thursday, marking its first net outflows in nearly four months amid negative outflows among U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs.
Implementing advanced prompt engineering with Amazon Bedrock
Despite the ability of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to mimic human behavior, it often requires detailed instructions to generate high-quality and relevant content. Prompt engineering is the process of crafting these inputs, called prompts, that guide foundation models (FMs) and large language models (LLMs) to produce desired outputs. Prompt templates can also be used as … Read more
Zero-day vulnerability in Chrome exploited by North Korean hackers
A hacker group is using its signature trojan malware to infect users of web browsers with Chromium engines.
To Nerves from Elixir
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Solana Meme Coin Project Plans to Build a Church in Texas After Pivoting to Religon
Church of the Smoking Chicken Fish is a meme coin project that’s attempting to spread life lessons—and build a physical place of worship.