Month: January 2025
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Backline automatically remediates security vulnerabilities
Backline, a new security startup that uses AI agents to automatically remediate security vulnerabilities, is coming out of stealth with a $9 million seed round led by StageOne Ventures. This is the third startup by Maor Goldberg, the company’s co-founder and CEO. He previously co-founded Whitebox Security, which he sold to SailPoint in 2015, as … Read more
CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: LTC Surges 16.7% as All Assets Trade Higher
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 3829.35, up 1.8% (+68.29) since 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday. Twenty of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: LTC (+16.7%) and DOT (+4.8%). Laggards: XRP (+0.1%) and XLM (+0.5%). … Read more
QED seeds $9.9M in Cedar Money, a stablecoin payment platform
The newest generation of startups aiming to solve cross-border payments are focusing on stablecoins — cryptocurrency coins often pegged to actual currencies or other commodities to help them keep stable prices — to build solutions that work faster and often cheaper than classic financial rails. This trend is also driving a surge in investor interest … Read more
Ai2 says its new AI model beats one of DeepSeek’s best
Move over, DeepSeek. Seattle-based nonprofit AI lab Ai2 has released a benchmark-beating model called Tulu3-405B. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Savant Labs is an automation platform for business analysts
Savant Labs launched its automation platform for data analysts in 2023. The company, which competes with the likes of Alteryx, on Thursday said it had raised $18.5 million in a Series A round led by Dell Technologies Capital. Unlike some other low-code/no-code tools, Savant’s focus is squarely on business analysts. Analysts, its CEO and founder … Read more
Crypto hacks drop 44% YoY in January, CeFi top target with $69M loss
Crypto hacks dropped 44% year-over-year in January, but CeFi remains the prime target, accounting for 93% of total losses, Immunefi said.
Nvidia’s latest GPU driver lets you activate DLSS 4 in games and apps
Nvidia is launching its next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs today, but it’s also releasing an exciting update for existing RTX GPU owners. A new GPU driver (572.16) allows you to force DLSS 4 inside games or apps that don’t currently support it, providing improved image quality and even less VRAM usage in some … Read more
Squid Game’s third and final season streams in June
It was a long three-year wait between the first seasons of Squid Game, but luckily, the finale is coming much faster. Netflix announced today that season 3 of Squid Game — which will also be the show’s last — will start streaming on June 27th. That’s around six months after the long-awaited season 2 premiered … Read more
Elastos Raises $20M to Build Native Bitcoin DeFi Protocol
Elastos, a project looking to turn Bitcoin into a more fruitful base for decentralized finance (DeFi), has raised $20 million towards that goal. Elastos, a decentralized infrastructure provider, aims to scale its Bitcoin DeFi protocol BeL2 as a utility layer for the world’s original blockchain. The firm has raised $20 million from private investment company … Read more
The Slow Death of OCSP
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Poshmark is introducing AI-generated product listings
Resale platform Poshmark is launching Smart List AI, an automated product listing tool for sellers, the company announced today. The tool has been in beta testing since last fall and uses sellers’ photos to generate details like the type of product, the size and brand, the style and color, and other details, as well as … Read more
Krita 5.2.9 Released
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Grayscale launches Bitcoin Miners ETF to offer BTC mining exposure
Grayscale’s new ETF, MNRS, tracks Bitcoin mining firms and infrastructure, offering investors exposure to the mining industry without direct BTC investment.
Apollo Unveils Tokenized Private Credit Fund as Blockchain Deepens TradFi Links
Apollo, an investment firm with over $730 billion in assets under management, is offering investors a new tokenized private credit fund with the help of security token specialist Securitize. Accessed via the Apollo Diversified Credit Securitize Fund (ACRED) feeder fund, the token is the first public on-chain offering for accredited investors of Apollo and also … Read more
The Verge’s favorite tech for babies and kids
We’ve got several parents on our staff, and as members of The Verge, they are also into gadgets. Put the two together, and you’ve got some really interesting stuff that can be used to keep your infant, toddler, or child safe, happy, educated, and / or out of trouble. Here are some of the devices … Read more
Designing the Future: A UI/UX Journey with Roman Shimin
Welcome to Designing the Future HackerNoon’s Interview series highlighting the works and careers of UI/UX designers the world over. 1. Describe your current role and tell us what you like most about it I’m a UX/UI Design Lead at appello.co—a company that provides software development services to many clients, from startups to large government enterprises. … Read more
Zuckerberg wants to Make Facebook Great Again
A little less AI and a lot more poking please. Mark Zuckerberg is planning some big changes for Facebook in a bid to make using the platform feel like it did “back in the day.” During the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, Zuck said that Facebook is an important part of its more than … Read more
A history of APL in the USSR (1991)
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DeepSeek exposed internal database containing chat histories and sensitive data
The internal DeepSeek database was exposed to the internet without a password. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
EigenLayer and Cartesi Launch Initiative to Build Mainstream Blockchain Use Cases for User Adoption
EigenLayer, a project built on Ethereum to allow restaking of tokens, has partnered with Cartesi, a modular blockchain protocol that offers a complete Linux environment and high-performance rollups. The goal is to ensure that the core developers are able to come up with dApps that can attract the end users. The collaboration is aimed at … Read more
Evaluating Multi-Cloud Event Distribution and Load Balancing in DeFaaS
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background and Motivation 2.1 Decentralized Computing Infrastructure and Cloud 2.2 Advantages of DeFaaS 2.3 System Requirements 3 Overview of DeFaaS 4 Detailed Design of DeFaaS and 4.1 Decentralized Scheduling and Load Balancing 4.2 Decentralized Event Distribution 4.3 API Registration and Access Control 4.4 OAuth2.0 Support 4.5 Logging … Read more
Data analytics startup Athenic AI wants to be an enterprise’s central nervous system
Jared Zhao originally got interested in data analytics during his time at UC Berkeley because he was drawn to how it could turn raw data into a story. Zhao founded his first data analytics startup Polyture in 2021. But advancements in generative AI just a year later made Zhao realize what Polyture was building was … Read more
US blood donation giant warns of disruption after ransomware attack
New York Blood Center said it does not have a “specific timetable for system restoration” following the attack, which has led to canceled appointments and delays © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Crypto Critic and Former Senator Bob Menendez Gets 11 Years in Prison for Bribery
Staunch crypto skeptic and disgraced former U.S. Senator Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Wednesday on charges of bribery and acting as an agent for Egypt, the Associated Press reported. Menendez was a Democrat from New Jersey and famous for taking shots at crypto. He once called bitcoin (BTC) an “ideal … Read more
World’s Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund Has Indirect Bitcoin Exposure of More Than $355M
The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, Norway’s Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), has amassed $356.7 million in indirect bitcoin (BTC) exposure, according to K33 Research. At the end of 2024, the fund indirectly held 3,821 BTC, reflecting a 153% year-over-year increase from 1,507 BTC, according to K33. The data highlight the fund’s evolving indirect bitcoin … Read more