The future of farming: How AI is revolutionizing agriculture
A new Cointelegraph documentary explores how AI technology is tackling future global food shortages by enhancing the productivity of smallholder farmers.
Month: February 2025
Raydium is Solana’s AMM King. Can it Corner the Perps Market Next?
Decentralized crypto trading engine Raydium is making a bid for Solana’s multibillion dollar perpetuals market – and gaining traction fast. Raydium’s weeks-old foray into offering these hyper-popular derivatives contracts – they allow crypto traders to speculate on price swings without holding the actual token – is already racking up $100 million in daily trading volume. … Read more
OfferUp improved local results by 54% and relevance recall by 27% with multimodal search on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon OpenSearch Service
This post is co-written with Andrés Vélez Echeveri and Sean Azlin from OfferUp. OfferUp is an online, mobile-first marketplace designed to facilitate local transactions and discovery. Known for its user-friendly app and trust-building features, including user ratings and in-app chat, OfferUp enables users to buy and sell items and explore a broad range of jobs … Read more
Ethereum futures optimism at monthly low — Is $2.8K a buy zone?
Ether could be trading at a discount, but reclaiming $3,400 could be a huge challenge.
New AI Model Can ‘Think About Thinking’ Without Extra Training
LLMs — “Just a Next Token Predictor”? Here’s a wild thought: imagine if you got temporary amnesia between every word you spoke, but all you had was a notebook with your previous words written in it. Every time you wanted to say something new, you’d have to completely rebuild your understanding of the conversation just … Read more
Ransomware losses down 35% year-over-year: Chainalysis
Ransomware attackers still extorted more than $800 million from victims in 2024, data shows.
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Ransomware payments dropped in 2024 as victims refused to pay hackers
Ransomware payments fell by more than one-third in 2024 as an increasing number of victims refused to negotiate with hackers. In a report published Wednesday, crypto forensics firm Chainalysis said that while ransomware gang leak sites posted more victims than in previous years during 2024, fewer victims gave in to the hackers’ demands. Chainalysis reported … Read more
QuickNode Partners With Fuse To Launch The First Layer For Businesses Powered By Polygon CDK
MIAMI, Florida, February 5th, 2025/Chainwire/–QuickNode, the leading Web3 infrastructure provider, today announced a groundbreaking partnership with Fuse Network to implement the industry’s first Layer 2 (L2) for businesses, powered by QuickNode Rollups and Polygon Chain Development Kit (CDK) technology. This strategic collaboration marks a significant milestone in the rollups ecosystem, bringing together three powerhouse players … Read more
Stripe makes $1.1 billion crypto bet as it closes on Bridge acquisition
Stripe has closed on its $1.1 billion purchase of stablecoin platform Bridge – marking the payment giant’s largest acquisition to date and tangible push into crypto. Co-founded in 2022 by Coinbase and Square alumni Zach Abrams and Sean Yu, San Antonio, Texas-based Bridge built an API that helps companies accept stablecoins. The pair raised $58 … Read more
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Rust in Linux: A Powerful Tool—But How Do We Strike the Right Balance?
The heated debate about including Rust in the Linux kernel has been ongoing for quite some time in the hacker community. Most of us recognize both the hype and the hesitations about it. So far, most of the discussions have focused on immediate issues, such as Rust’s security benefits and the challenges of integrating it … Read more
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Crypto giving exceeded $1B in 2024 — Report
Crypto donations exceeded $1 billion in 2024 alone as digital assets boomed in value and regulatory clarity began to take shape around the world.
MicroStrategy Rebrands to Strategy
MicroStrategy (MSTR) has changed its name to Strategy in a move to simplify its brand and reflect the focus of the company, it announced Wednesday. Strategy’s new logo includes the famous Bitcoin “B”, signaling the company’s Bitcoin Treasury Strategy, and the name’s new primary color is orange. “This brand simplification is a natural evolution of … Read more
Nintendo says it’s ‘taking risks’ to meet Switch 2 demand
Nintendo is gearing up for the Switch 2’s launch sometime in 2025, and president Shuntaro Furukawa says that the company is “taking risks and proceeding with production so that we can meet as much demand as possible,” according to a machine translation of an earnings Q&A. The company had some trouble keeping the original Switch … Read more
Senator Warren doesn’t take the crypto bait in debanking hearing
Now under a Republican-controlled US Congress, the Senate Banking Committee focused its efforts on addressing claims the government “bullied” banks into halting services to crypto firms.
Longer-lasting laptops: the modular hardware you can upgrade and repair yourself
When it comes to improving the sustainability of consumer electronics, there’s a growing movement to design devices with a focus on upgradability and repairability that can extend their longevity, instead of just making them easier to recycle after a few years of use. At one time, nearly every laptop maker was caught up in a … Read more
Blackrock Plans to Launch a Bitcoin ETP in Europe: Bloomberg
The world’s largest asset management firm with more than $10 trillion in AUM, Blackrock (BLK) plans on listing a bitcoin exchange traded product (ETP) in Europe, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The fund would be based in Switzerland and BlackRock could start marketing it as soon as this month, according to the report. This would be … Read more
The Elon Musk Act aims to ban ‘special government employees’ from having federal contracts
U.S. Democratic Representative Mark Pocan plans to introduce a bill designed to ban “special government employees” like Elon Musk from having federal contracts so they can’t steer spending towards their own self-interest. The proposed bill is called the ELON MUSK Act, which stands for Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy. “No … Read more
iOS App Store apps with screenshot-reading malware found for the first time
Apps distributed through both Apple and Google’s app stores are hiding malicious screenshot-reading code that’s being used to steal cryptocurrency, the cybersecurity software firm Kaspersky reported today. It’s the “first known case” of apps infected with malware that uses OCR tech to extract text from images making it into Apple’s App Store, according to a … Read more
New target of Paragon spyware comes forward
The latest target of Paragon spyware openly questions if he was targeted by the Italian government. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Herman Miller made a convertible standing desk that actually looks great
The smallest version of Herman Miller’s new Spout sit-to-stand tables starts at $2,300. | Image: Herman Miller Herman Miller has announced a new height-adjustable desk that doesn’t look like one. Instead of relying on just two columns to raise and lower its work surface, the Spout Sit-to-Stand Table uses four cylindrical legs, each containing their … Read more