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. It’s rare to report on an 11-figure startup acquisition, let alone multiple high-value deals in a single week. And there are more subtle signs that things are … Read more
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Today’s organizations face a critical challenge with the fragmentation of vital information across multiple environments. As businesses increasingly rely on diverse project management and IT service management (ITSM) tools such as ServiceNow, Atlassian Jira and Confluence, employees find themselves navigating a complex web of systems to access crucial data. This isolated approach leads to several … Read more
XRP (XRP) price rallied 16% less than 24 hours after news that Ripple’s legal dispute with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) could end made headlines on March 19. However, XRP has shed half of its gains over the past two days, losing position below an important level at $2.50. XRP rally continues to … Read more
Research papers and engineering documents often contain a wealth of information in the form of mathematical formulas, charts, and graphs. Navigating these unstructured documents to find relevant information can be a tedious and time-consuming task, especially when dealing with large volumes of data. However, by using Anthropic’s Claude on Amazon Bedrock, researchers and engineers can … Read more
Top Bitcoin mining firms aren’t showing stock gains Friday after the SEC said that proof-of-work mining doesn’t violate securities law.
South Korean financial authorities are planning sanctions against crypto exchanges who are operating illegally in the country, business newspaper Hankyung reported on Friday. The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) classified a number of exchanges who are not registered as Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) as targets for sanctions, according to the report. The exchanges targeted – … Read more
Anker’s 45W single-port USB-C charger now weighs just 52 grams. | Image: Anker Alongside beefy wall chargers that can power up several devices simultaneously, Anker continues to refine the design and engineering of its basic single-port USB-C AC adapters making them smaller and smaller. Its new Nano 45W charger is now just 1.45 inches long … Read more
IT operations teams face the challenge of providing smooth functioning of critical systems while managing a high volume of incidents filed by end-users. Manual intervention in incident management can be time-consuming and error prone because it relies on repetitive tasks, human judgment, and potential communication gaps. Using generative AI for IT operations offers a transformative … Read more
The ability to control electronics without touching them or paying with a swipe of the hand may seem like sci-fi, but it’s a growing reality. Microchip implants have existed in some form for decades, and technology is now advanced enough to make them practical. Still, this field carries significant security concerns. The Growing Field of … Read more
At a surprise all-hands-on meeting Thursday night in Texas, Tesla CEO Elon Musk rallied up his company’s employees as the brand’s public reputation continues to plummet, Business Insider reports. At the livestreamed meeting, Musk told employees to “hang on to your stock” – which declined in value by 50 percent since December – and promised … Read more
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Image credit: Pexels Waiting patiently for physical tickets to arrive in the mail or making a trip to the box office is long gone. Event tech has grown to offer more convenient and secure options. While digital tickets have become the norm, challenges around security and ticket authentication still remain. Vipass aims to push event … Read more
As someone who has worked primarily with Typescript over the last few years, learning Golang was challenging as much as it was stimulating. Recap: What are interfaces? Interfaces ensure consistent behavior without focusing on implementation details. Interfaces in TypeScript are structural TypeScript is a structurally typed type system, one way it achieves this is using … Read more
Right now, my X feed is full of people who are giving up on Web3 gaming. I get it. Over $12 billion of venture capital funding has gone into it since 2020 and they haven’t seen the sort of breakout success that many expected. Even the best games haven’t reached anything close to mainstream scale. … Read more
The Trump administration appears poised to grow its Strategic Bitcoin Reserve after the White House’s crypto council head suggested budget-neutral ways for acquiring the digital asset. “There’s been countless ideas” about how the government can acquire more Bitcoin (BTC), Bo Hines, executive director of the President’s Council of Advisers on Digital Assets, said in an … Read more
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, March 21, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The World’s First Tweet in 2006, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Swift init(), Once and for All to Your Next Content Breakthrough Isn’t … Read more
Strategy has announced the pricing of its latest round of perpetual preferred stock, which the company does before announcing more Bitcoin (BTC) acquisitions. According to Strategy, the latest round of preferred stock will be sold at $85 per share, with a 10% coupon, and will bring the company approximately $711 million in revenue. Market analyst … Read more
The German financial supervisory authority BaFin said it identified “serious deficiencies” in Ethena’s synthetic USDe stablecoin. Ethena is the yield-generating protocol. The stablecoin has a market cap of $5.4 billion. Ethena said on X that it will “continue to evaluate alternative frameworks,” after being notified that the “application under the MiCAR regulatory framework will not … Read more
Crypto drifts Lower, ‘Fear’ back again, PumpFun launches DEX FOMO HOUR EP318 BTC lower amid profit taking post FOMC rally. Fear & Greed index back in ‘Fear’ territory. Trump fails to live up to CGT relief rumours. US will dominate crypto and fintech: Trump. Crypto mining doesn’t violate crypto laws: SEC. SEC crypto task force … Read more
It’ll be a cold day in hell when Apple Watches work with Android, but third-party devices should be able to send quick replies. Look at every smartwatch buying guide on the internet. I guarantee they’re either divided into separate guides for iOS and Android, like The Verge’s, or include categories like “Best for iPhone owners” … Read more
US President Donald Trump wants to make his country a “Bitcoin superpower,” but the question remains as to who he is competing against. Speaking at Blockwork’s Digital Asset Summit on March 20 to a crowd of crypto industry executives and observers, he said, “Together we will make America the undisputed Bitcoin superpower and the crypto … Read more
Markets-wise, crypto was flat this week. Bitcoin was rangebound ($83,000 to $84,000). And the CoinDesk 20, which tracks about 80% of the market, stayed at about 2,600. Crypto prices suffered from being increasingly correlated with the wider financial markets, which are down on tariff worries and decreased corporate earnings. Some even said the bitcoin bull … Read more
The US Treasury Department has dropped cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash from its sanctions list, the agency said on March 21. The removal follows a January ruling by a US appeals court, which said the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) cannot sanction Tornado’s smart contracts because they are not the property of any foreign … Read more
BaFin, the German financial regulatory authority, has prohibited all public sales of Ethena GmbH’s USDe — a synthetic dollar — claiming that the token violates the European Union’s MiCAR regulations. According to the announcement from the regulator, BaFin has ordered the firm to freeze the reserve assets that back the token, close down the website … Read more