Month: February 2025
Coinbase Users Are Losing $300M a Year to Social Scams, ZachXBT Says
Coinbase (COIN) users lost over $65 million to social engineering attacks in the past two months with an estimated $300 million lost to such attacks annually, crypto sleuth ZachXBT said in an X post Monday. The actual figure lost might be higher, because the amount doesn’t include unreported cases, ZachXBT said. Coinbase has not publicly … Read more
Spotify reports its first full year of profitability, adds 35M monthly active users
On Tuesday morning, Spotify announced its fourth-quarter earnings, marking its first full year of profitability since its inception 17 years ago. The operating income for the quarter reached a record €477 million ($509.48 million) and amounted to €1.4 billion ($1.495 billion) for the 2024 fiscal year. Spotify also reported an addition of 35 million monthly … Read more
How HyperCycle and TGC Are Reinventing Gaming: New Rollout Set to Accelerate Cloud Gaming
HyperCycle and TGC announced a two-stage collaboration aimed at expanding gaming infrastructure. The partnership comes on the heels of TGC’s recent seed funding of $7.5 million from investors including Telecoin, SingularityDAO, Bullperks, HyperCycle, NodeMarket, Foundership, and the former CEO of Telenor. In the first stage, up to 2,000 Network Node Factories will be deployed to … Read more
Starting 2025 with New Features: Settings Dashboard, HackerNoon Decoded, Updated Search UI, and More
HackerNoon’s monthly product update is here! 🚀 Say hello to HackerNoon Decoded, your ultimate recap of 2024. Explore the revamped settings dashboard for easier customization, a powerful AI detector tool to protect your content, a seamless ticketing app, and much more! This product update reflects changes to the platform from November 25, 2024, until February … Read more
Team behind Twitterrific launches a multi-feed app called Tapestry
After Elon Musk took over Twitter, the company blocked third-party clients in 2023, including ones like Twitterrific, Tweetbot, and Fenix. Iconfactory, the company behind Twitterrifc, on Tuesday is finally launching its multi-feed app called Tapestry on Tuesday, which allows you to add sources like RSS, YouTube, Bluesky, Podcasts, Mastodon, Reddit, Tumblr, Micro.blog, GO Comics, and … Read more
Sotira lands $2M to help brands offload and monetize their surplus inventory
An estimated 20% to 30% of all inventory in the U.S. is surplus, with much of it ending up in landfills. A startup called Sotira wants to help address this problem: It leverages AI to help companies offload and monetize their surplus inventory. Sotira partners with brands to offload millions of pounds of surplus grocery, … Read more
OpenAI’s Operator agent helped me move, but I had to help it, too
OpenAI gave me one week to test its new AI agent, Operator, a system that can independently do tasks for you on the internet. Operator is the closest thing I’ve seen to the tech industry’s vision of AI agents — systems that can automate the boring parts of life, freeing us up to do the … Read more
The first wave of tokenization was a missed opportunity – the next one needn’t be
Tokenization offers a blueprint for commodity markets, as it solves genuine problems.
The timeline apps are here, and they’re awesome
Tapestry is a particularly colorful way to look at all your feeds. The folks at Iconfactory, which once made a wonderful Twitter client called Twitterrific, launched a new app on Tuesday. Itâs called Tapestry, and itâs a cross between a social app and a news reader. The app can ingest feeds of all kinds: someoneâs … Read more
Ether must hold $2.7K to avoid deeper correction, analysts say
Leveraged long liquidations would surpass $1 billion if Ether’s price falls below $2,650.
Alan Turing’s “Delilah” project
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South Korea City Will Track and Seize Crypto from Tax Evaders
“This measure is a decision to establish tax justice so that citizens who faithfully pay their taxes are not disadvantaged,” a local official said.
Programmers are modern-day computers
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Snap unveils AI text-to-image model for mobile devices
Snap has unveiled an AI text-to-image model for mobile devices that will power some of Snapchat’s features in the coming months. The company said on Tuesday that the model can produce high-resolution images in around 1.4 seconds on an iPhone 16 Pro Max. The new diffusion model runs entirely on the device, which reduces computational … Read more
California bill would make AI companies remind kids that chatbots aren’t people
A new bill proposed in California (SB 243) would require AI companies to periodically remind kids that a chatbot is an AI and not human. The bill, proposed by California Senator Steve Padilla, is meant to protect children from the “addictive, isolating, and influential aspects” of AI. In addition to limiting companies from using “addictive … Read more
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LinkedIn amps up vertical video tools as uploads jump 36%
Video reigns supreme on social media like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. And now, video is becoming a bigger business for LinkedIn. The Microsoft-owned social network for the working world has yet to go full TikTok. But with a big boost of usage — today it said that video uploads jumped by 36% compared to last … Read more
CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: UNI Falls 4.2% as Index Trades Lower From Monday
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 3366.83, down 0.8% (-28.06) since 4 p.m. ET on Monday. Three of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: ETH (+3.5%) and SUI (+0.9%). Laggards: UNI (-4.2%) and DOT (-4.1%). … Read more
Adobe Acrobat’s AI chatbot can now decipher contract jargon
The feature can help users to spot key information in agreements before they sign them. Adobe is adding features to Acrobat’s AI Assistant that should help users to better understand contracts. The new “contract intelligence capabilities” allow the PDF management software’s chatbot to automatically recognize when files and scanned documents are contracts and summarize complicated … Read more
WazirX urges creditors to approve restructuring plan or face delays
WazirX warns creditors that repayments could be delayed until 2030 if they reject its restructuring plan, which was recently approved by the High Court of Singapore.
Walkstar is a new iOS app that pauses songs when you stop moving
There are plenty of pedometer and step counter apps in the world, but this new app has a fun twist. Walkstar, which launched Tuesday in the App Store, enhances your workout by syncing your tunes with your movement. The moment you pause, the music fades away, making it a perfect motivator for those looking to … Read more
U.S. Bitcoin Reserve May Be Coming, But States Are Winning the Race
Almost half of the state governments in the U.S. are either on a path toward putting some of their money into crypto or already have, and much of a suddenly booming interest in tying their financial futures to the digital-assets markets has come after U.S. President Donald Trump showed support for a national stockpile of … Read more