Month: September 2024
How Google made the ad tech industry revolve around itself
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images ‘All roads lead back to Google,’ the government argued in the first two weeks of its ad tech antitrust trial. Continue reading…
MicroStrategy should lend Bitcoin to boost yield — analyst
The proliferation of institutional Bitcoin custodians creates opportunities for MicroStrategy, according to a Benchmark analyst.
Mental-1, a Brainfuck CPU
Comments
Tor-Lighttpd-Onion with Docker
Comments
Bitcoin Pushes Past $64K as Monetary Ease Expectations Grow
Traders Tuesday pushed expectations of a second consecutive 50 basis point rate Fed rate to 60%.
Deploy generative AI agents in your contact center for voice and chat using Amazon Connect, Amazon Lex, and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
This post is co-written with Vraj Shah and Chaitanya Hari from DoorDash. DoorDash connects consumers with their favorite local businesses in more than 30 countries across the globe. Recently, they faced a significant challenge in handling the high volume of calls from its contractor delivery workers, known as Dashers. With a user base of over … Read more
SAG-AFTRA calls for a strike against League of Legends
Image: Riot Games As the video game voice actor strike continues, SAG-AFTRA has added League of Legends to its list of struck video games. The union organization, consisting of over 160,000 members, also filed an unfair labor complaint against Formosa Interactive, one of the support studios that worked on the game. SAG-AFTRA members are now … Read more
Breaking: Caroline Ellison sentenced to 2 years in prison
The former head of Alameda Research will serve her sentence in a minimum-security prison.
IBM PC 5150 Model Numbers
Comments
Brazil Begins Hunt for ‘Extreme’ Cases of Twitter VPN Ban Abuse
Even after capitulating in his fight with Brazil, Elon Musk’s X is still banned as users face stiff fines for “extreme” cases of posting content.
Rotation-Based Compression
Comments
Ex-Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Her Role in FTX Fraud
Caroline Ellison was sentenced Tuesday afternoon.
Caroline Ellison Gets 2 Years in Prison for FTX, Alameda Crimes
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison received a relatively light sentence in exchange for her testimony against Sam Bankman-Fried.
Bitcoin bulls are laying the path to $66K, but will they make it?
Bullish Bitcoin traders are making progress by attempting to retake the 200-day moving average, but a close above $66,000 could kickstart a rally to BTC’s all-time high.
Caroline Ellison sentenced to two years in jail for role in FTX fraud
The end of the line. | Photo Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Bloomberg, Getty Images Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, was sentenced to 24 months in prison for her role in the FTX collapse. She must also forfeit $11 billion. Ellison pleaded guilty to two counts of … Read more
Wear OS 5 and the Recorder app are rolling out to older Pixel Watches
The Recorder app is one of the newer features coming to older Pixel Watches. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you have an original Pixel Watch or Pixel Watch 2, good news: Wear OS 5 will begin rolling out today and, with it, a handful of new features. The most interesting … Read more
James Cameron is joining Stability AI’s board of directors
Image: Getty Though director James Cameron recently expressed concern about the potential of artificial intelligence to leave people without a sense of purpose, the longtime early adopter has now joined Stability AI’s board of directors. Today, Stability AI — the company behind Stable Diffusion — announced that Cameron has signed a deal to become the … Read more
Nintendo Japan plans to stop repairing its Classic Edition consoles
It’s hard to believe Nintendo’s Classic Edition consoles are already this old. | Image: Nintendo Japan Somehow, Nintendo’s NES Classic Edition console is already almost eight years old, while the Super Nintendo Classic Edition is about to turn seven. That’s apparently old enough for Nintendo to announce that the Japanese versions of the consoles — … Read more
Dogwifhat makes a comeback after WIF rallies 25% in a week — What is next?
WIF staged a double-digit rally over the past week as memecoin traders piled into fresh positions.
Death of the Department Store
Comments
SEC settles charges against TrueCoin, TrustToken over TrueUSD
The securities regulator claims the token is undercollateralized and its backing funds are in a risky overseas investment.
The New York Times will now charge for past episodes of its popular podcasts
Image: The New York Times The Daily, The Ezra Klein Show, Hard Fork, and Modern Love are some of The New York Times’ most popular podcasts — and next month, only the most recent two or three episodes of each show will be free of charge. The Times announced today that it’ll now offer a … Read more
‘Crypto Will Have Ass’: Iggy Azalea Makes No Apologies for ‘Cringe’ Party
Iggy Azalea’s Motherland Rodeo Party caused controversy, but the rapper and meme coin creator says that crypto needs to change its attitude.
TrustToken, TrueCoin Settle With SEC Over Fraud Accusations in Stablecoin Investing
TrustToken and TrueCoin – now rebranded and under the umbrella of Archbock Inc. – settled accusations that they knowingly misrepresented the backing of the TrueUSD {{TUSD}} stablecoin and offered securities tied to it without properly registering, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said in a Tuesday statement.