Month: February 2025
Why The SEC Needs to Allow Staking in Exchange-Traded Products
For far too long, the U.S. has been falling behind the rest of the world on staking policy. Now, in just the first 30 days of the Trump Administration, staking has been mentioned in Congressional hearings, listed as a top priority by the SEC’s newly created crypto task force and is today the focus of … Read more
U.S. Senators Push for SEC to Rethink Crypto Staking in Exchange Funds
Staking should potentially be added to the menu for crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs), a bipartisan group of U.S. senators argued in a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday. Issuers of crypto ETFs had originally planned to include the staking feature in their fund offerings, but the SEC, under its past leadership, … Read more
Telegram Game ‘Farm Frens’ Plots Migration to Line After Botched Base Token Airdrop
The developers of Telegram game Farm Frens admitted to a number of issues with the token launch and airdrop on Ethereum layer-2 Base.
The Vision Pro is getting Apple Intelligence in April
Apple Intelligence is heading to the Vision Pro as part of an upcoming operating system update. Apple confirmed on Friday that its generative AI platform will arrive on the extended reality headset as part of visionOS 2.4. A beta version of the software is currently available for developers. The public version is set for an … Read more
Augury and Hightouch joined the unicorn club
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Startup life is a story of births and deaths. This week confirmed this, and it confirmed that unicorn rounds are not dead. Most interesting startup stories from … Read more
Apple Intelligence is coming to the Vision Pro
It’s getting an exclusive Apple Intelligence feature called Create Memory Movie. Soon, you’ll be able to use Apple Intelligence with the Vision Pro. That includes a mix of features we’ve seen before, as well as a new feature called Create Memory Movie that’s exclusive to the headset. Apple has been keen to position the Vision … Read more
Crypto exchange Bybit says it was hacked and lost around $1.4B
Crypto exchange Bitby disclosed a breach that that amounts to a loss of $1.4 billion, the largest crypto theft of all time. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Fast-Coresets: A Nearly-Linear Time Algorithm for Efficient Clustering
:::info Authors: (1) Andrew Draganov, Aarhus University and All authors contributed equally to this research; (2) David Saulpic, Université Paris Cité & CNRS; (3) Chris Schwiegelshohn, Aarhus University. ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Preliminaries and Related Work 2.1 On Sampling Strategies 2.2 Other Coreset Strategies 2.3 Coresets for Database Applications 2.4 … Read more
Bybit confirms withdrawals are active, warns of delays
In a livestream, Bybit’s CEO stated that 70% of transactions have successfully gone through, though some users may experience delays due to network congestion.
Why Ruby on Rails still matters
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Bybit Seeing ‘Massive Withdrawals’ After $1.4 Billion Ethereum Theft: CEO
Bybit co-founder and CEO Ben Zhou said Friday that the platform is struggling to keep up with withdrawal requests after a $1.4 billion hack.
The real reason why oil and gas companies are bullish on carbon capture
Occidental CEO Vicki Hollub compared using CO2 in enhanced oil recovery to fracking, the technology that sent U.S. oil and gas production skyrocketing. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The Profitable Startup
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Make Big Data More Manageable with Smart Sampling
:::info Authors: (1) Andrew Draganov, Aarhus University and All authors contributed equally to this research; (2) David Saulpic, Université Paris Cité & CNRS; (3) Chris Schwiegelshohn, Aarhus University. ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Preliminaries and Related Work 2.1 On Sampling Strategies 2.2 Other Coreset Strategies 2.3 Coresets for Database Applications 2.4 … Read more
Stripe, PayPal are ‘primary catalysts’ for stablecoin growth — Polygon Labs
Stablecoins have ballooned into a $230-billion industry, which is equivalent to more than 1% of the US money supply.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1997)
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AWS and DXC collaborate to deliver customizable, near real-time voice-to-voice translation capabilities for Amazon Connect
Providing effective multilingual customer support in global businesses presents significant operational challenges. Through collaboration between AWS and DXC Technology, we’ve developed a scalable voice-to-voice (V2V) translation prototype that transforms how contact centers handle multi-lingual customer interactions. In this post, we discuss how AWS and DXC used Amazon Connect and other AWS AI services to deliver … Read more
Anker’s 58-liter solar fridge is a noisy power-monster
Human, for scale. Anker is pushing portability limits with the launch of its giant 58-liter Solix EverFrost 2 dual-zone refrigerator / freezer. Itâs portable because it has wheels, a handle, and slots for two batteries. But this thing weighs 64 pounds (29kg) empty and quickly reached 120 pounds when I filled my review unit with … Read more
Strategy Founder Michael Saylor Wants US to Buy 20% of the Bitcoin Supply
He warned that not pursuing such a policy be risky, claiming that “there’s only room for one nation-state to buy up 20% of the network.”
Posh (YC W22) Is Hiring
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