Tesla received a permit Tuesday from the California Public Utilities Commission to operate a transportation service in the state, the beginning of a long regulatory road that could eventually lead to the company getting the OK to operate a robotaxi service there. The permit, which Tesla applied for in November 2024, doesn’t cover autonomous vehicle … Read more
Apple fixed a bug in the iOS 18.2 Passwords app that, for three months starting with the release of iOS 18, made users vulnerable to phishing attacks, according to an Apple security content update spotted by 9to5Mac. Here’s how Apple describes the bug and its fix: Impact: A user in a privileged network position may … Read more
More than 400 celebrities signed a letter demanding the Trump administration uphold copyright laws against AI firms looking to expand the U.S. fair use doctrine.
It has been years since the excellent sci-fi improv comedy podcast Mission to Zyxx ended, but the crew of the Bargarean Jade are getting back together for a new adventure. While Mission to Zyxxâs original Star Wars / Star Trek-lampooning story came to a dramatic close with the showâs fifth season, Maximum Fun announced today … Read more
The investment landscape of 2025 is literally being overtaken by the AI frenzy, backed by news from giants like Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and others intending to inject over $320 billion in the technology. Unsurprising, considering that 35% of the S&P 500 is made up of tech companies, and AI is hot on their list of … Read more
Cryptocurrency and fintech companies are increasingly seeking bank charters in an attempt to grow their businesses under the Trump administration, according to a report from Reuters, which talked to more than half a dozen industry executives. The moves come as the administration is seen as more industry-friendly and there are opportunities to gain the licenses … Read more
Image: Freepik Businesses have been locked in a cycle of manual inefficiencies for decades, resulting in them throwing time and money at repetitive tasks that drain resources. AI, automation, and emerging technologies have been pitched as the ultimate solution, but many of the consumer-friendly AI tools out there now fall short, often overpromising and underdelivering. … Read more
Top altcoins like Solana and XRP are down ahead of the Federal Reserve’s policy decision, an event that could shape rate cut expectations.
In addition to a user interface featuring a retro Atari 2600-influenced interface, the watch can play four classic Atari games. | Image: Atari Atari is now selling a smartwatch that prioritizes fun over functionality. The watch’s user interface can be customized with Atari 2600-themed artwork and sound effects. But pushing it squarely into impulse purchase … Read more
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote Tuesday at the company’s GTC 2025 conference stuck with tradition and was chock full of announcements. But the company also snuck in a little history lesson. During the automotive portion of his speech, Huang referred to AlexNet, a neural network architecture that gained widespread attention in 2012 when it won … Read more
On March 2, President Donald Trump mentioned Cardano’s ADA (ADA) token among the cryptocurrencies to be included in the US strategic crypto reserve. Trump’s March 6 executive order clarified that altcoins would be part of the Digital Asset Stockpile (DAS) under the “responsible stewardship” of the Treasury. ADA’s potential inclusion in a government-managed portfolio sparked … Read more
PALO ALTO, USA, March 18th, 2025/CyberNewsWire/–SquareX, a pioneer in Browser Detection and Response (BDR) space, announced the launch of the “Year of Browser Bugs” (YOBB) project today, a year-long initiative to draw attention to the lack of security research and rigor in what remains one of the most understudied attack vectors – the browser. The … Read more
CrossFi has dropped a bombshell with its 2025 Crypto Market Research Survey—a sprawling study of over 5,000 crypto users from India, Finland, and Russia. This isn’t your typical tech-bro echo chamber. It’s a vivid snapshot of a shifting landscape: 80% women, aged 28 to 43, earning $1,000 to $3,000 monthly, and leaning hard into cryptocurrencies … Read more
Asset managers have filed applications for exchange-traded funds tracking both assets as interest in altcoins has risen.
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Nvidia at GTC 2025 announced a new lineup of “AI personal supercomputers” powered by the company’s Grace Blackwell chip platform. Jensen Huang, the semiconductor company’s founder and CEO, unveiled the two new machines, DGX Spark (previously called Project Digits) and DGX Station, during his keynote on Tuesday. The computers will allow users to prototype, fine-tune, … Read more
This post is cowritten with Abdullahi Olaoye, Akshit Arora and Eliuth Triana Isaza at NVIDIA. As enterprises continue to push the boundaries of generative AI, scalable and efficient model training frameworks are essential. The NVIDIA NeMo Framework provides a robust, end-to-end solution for developing, customizing, and deploying large-scale AI models, while Amazon SageMaker HyperPod delivers … Read more
Today, we are excited to announce that the NeMo Retriever Llama3.2 Text Embedding and Reranking NVIDIA NIM microservices are available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. With this launch, you can now deploy NVIDIA’s optimized reranking and embedding models to build, experiment, and responsibly scale your generative AI ideas on AWS. In this post, we demonstrate how … Read more
After falling more than 90% over the last year, the Heroes of Mavia token on Ethereum is rising fast amid promised upgrades.
If you blinked you may have missed it: Solana’s SOL futures started trading on Monday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the go-to marketplace for U.S. institutions, and unlike previous, historic CME debuts for bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH), it received little fanfare. The product booked $12.3 million in notional daily volume on day one … Read more
Business is still booming for music streaming services, which crossed the 100 million US subscriber mark in 2024, according to the Record Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) latest revenue report. Overall sales were also bolstered by physical media, which is growing at a slightly faster rate than digital, thanks in large part to continually increasing … Read more
The FTC has removed over 300 blog posts published during the agency’s leadership under former chair Lina Khan, Wired reports. These include posts that are critical of companies like Amazon and Microsoft for their handling of customer data. The FTC did not respond to a request for comment. As FTC chair during the Biden years, … Read more
At the start of the week, Bitcoin (BTC) price succumbed to pressure from sellers, declining from $84,500 on March 17, to $81,300 at the time of writing. This downward movement was most likely a sell-off related to the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) two-day meeting, which takes place on March 18-19. Federal Open Market Committee … Read more
Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood, one of the earliest traditional financial investors in crypto, hopes to bring some of her company’s funds on-chain once the regulatory landscape allows companies in the U.S. to do so. “We think tokenization is going to be huge,” Wood said at the Digital Asset Summit in New York on Tuesday. … Read more
EOS Network, known for its scalable blockchain infrastructure, is rebranding to Vaulta as it pivots toward Web3 banking. The transition comes with a token swap that is provisionally scheduled for the end of May. It also comes with the launch of the Vaulta Banking Advisory Council, a group of financial and blockchain industry experts focused … Read more
Institutional investors are increasingly bullish on cryptocurrency, with 83% saying they plan to up crypto allocations in 2025, according to a March 18 report by Coinbase and EY-Parthenon. Already, nearly three-quarters of firms surveyed said they hold cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH), and a “significant majority” said they plan to boost crypto … Read more