Month: April 2025

OpenAI’s latest AI models have a new safeguard to prevent biorisks

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OpenAI says that it deployed a new system to monitor its latest AI reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, for prompts related to biological and chemical threats. The system aims to prevent the models from offering advice that could instruct someone on carrying out potentially harmful attacks, according to OpenAI’s safety report. O3 and o4-mini represent … Read more

SEC's next roundtable to discuss crypto custody with insiders

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced industry insiders from Kraken, Exodus, Anchorage Digital, and others would be participating in its crypto task force’s roundtable discussion on custody. In an April 16 notice, the SEC said commissioners Hester Peirce and Caroline Crenshaw, acting chair Mark Uyeda and crypto task force Chief of Staff Richard … Read more

How EnclaveX Is Bringing Wall Street-Grade Trading to Any Wallet

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Can Encrypted Trading Finally Become Accessible to Everyone? Trading platforms in crypto have long battled with a trade-off: choose between speed and security, or accessibility and professionalism. Most users settle for interfaces that feel like legacy finance or worse, rely on opaque, centralized models. EnclaveX, launched on April 16, 2025, attempts to challenge that norm … Read more

Bitcoin rally to $86K shows investor confidence, but it’s too early to confirm a trend reversal

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Bitcoin (BTC) remains under pressure as macroeconomic uncertainty continues to weigh on its price action. After making a strong bounce from the local bottom near $75,000 on April 7 and 9, analysts are beginning to question whether BTC could be gearing up for a reversal of the downward trend that’s persisted since the start of … Read more

Public mining firms sold over 40% of their BTC in March — Report

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Publicly listed Bitcoin miners sold over 40% of the collective coins mined in March, representing the largest monthly BTC liquidation for mining firms since October 2024 and reversing the post-halving trend of accumulating Bitcoin (BTC) for a corporate treasury strategy, according to TheMinerMag, which screened data from 15 publicly traded mining companies. The increased liquidations … Read more

Zuckerberg: Snapchat would have grown faster if it accepted $6B buyout offer

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During Meta’s antitrust trial this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Snapchat would have grown faster if it accepted his company’s offer to buy the social network back in 2013, Business Insider reports. Court documents revealed that Meta, then called Facebook, offered to buy Snapchat for $6 billion (reports at the time said that … Read more

This ICE-snitching app is actually promoting a meme coin

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Right-wing influencers are shilling an app that purportedly lets people earn crypto for reporting sightings of undocumented immigrants. ICERAID, a “GovFi protocol that delegates intelligence gathering tasks to citizens,” has recently been promoted by the likes of conspiracy theorist and Trump confidante Laura Loomer, Proud Boy-turned-media personality Jacob Engels, and disgraced former Rep. Matt Gaetz. … Read more

Automate Amazon EKS troubleshooting using an Amazon Bedrock agentic workflow

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As organizations scale their Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) deployments, platform administrators face increasing challenges in efficiently managing multi-tenant clusters. Tasks such as investigating pod failures, addressing resource constraints, and resolving misconfiguration can consume significant time and effort. Instead of spending valuable engineering hours manually parsing logs, tracking metrics, and implementing fixes, teams should … Read more

Integrating JavaScript into Crypto Trading Apps: Challenges & Solutions

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How to Build a Mobile Crypto App and Ensure Its Stability Modern crypto traders are increasingly choosing smartphones as their primary tool — according to industry data, over 60% of trades are made via mobile devices. This demands that developers create not just visually appealing apps, but fully functional, secure, and high-speed trading platforms, where … Read more

Host concurrent LLMs with LoRAX

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Businesses are increasingly seeking domain-adapted and specialized foundation models (FMs) to meet specific needs in areas such as document summarization, industry-specific adaptations, and technical code generation and advisory. The increased usage of generative AI models has offered tailored experiences with minimal technical expertise, and organizations are increasingly using these powerful models to drive innovation and … Read more

OpenAI is reportedly in talks to buy Codeium for $3B, with news expected later this week

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Codeium, the maker of a popular AI coding assistant tool Windsurf, is in talks to be acquired by OpenAI for about $3 billion, Bloomberg reported. If the deal happens, it would put OpenAI in direct competition with a number of other AI coding assistant providers, including Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, which OpenAI backed from … Read more

Apple’s carbon footprint is shrinking  

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Apple’s making steady progress toward its climate goals, the company’s latest environmental progress report shows. Its planet-heating pollution shrank by 800,000 metric tons last year compared to 2023, about a 5 percent drop. Looking back over the past decade, Apple says its global greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by more than 60 percent. That’s no … Read more

Build a computer vision-based asset inventory application with low or no training

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Keeping an up-to-date asset inventory with real devices deployed in the field can be a challenging and time-consuming task. Many electricity providers use manufacturer’s labels as key information to link their physical assets within asset inventory systems. Computer vision can be a viable solution to speed up operator inspections and reduce human errors by automatically … Read more

Zoom is down

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Zoom is suffering from a major outage, preventing people from connecting to video calls or even accessing its website. As shown by data on Downdetector, the outage appeared to have started around 3PM ET. Users across X are posting about the outage, with some getting an “Unable to Connect” error message when entering meetings, and … Read more

Rivian’s first non-Amazon van customer is HelloFresh

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Meal-kit company HelloFresh has added 70 all-electric Rivian vans to its fleet, the first major customer to buy the commercial EVs since the automaker ended its exclusive deal with Amazon. The 70 all-electric commercial vans represent nearly one quarter of HelloFresh’s fleet, which has already helped the company save an estimated 20,000 gallons of gasoline, … Read more