Month: April 2025

Mark Zuckerberg once considered deleting all your Facebook friends

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg once considered deleting everyone’s Facebook friends in an effort to boost the social network’s cultural relevance. This “potentially crazy idea,” as the exec called it at the time, was revealed on Monday as a part of the evidence introduced during the first day of the U.S. government’s antitrust trial against Meta. … Read more

Binance’s Potential Zcash Delisting Met With Dismay From Industry Heavyweights

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Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has been criticized this week for including privacy token Zcash (ZEC) among those cryptos up for a vote to be delisted from the exchange. Zcash, which has a $500 million market cap, appeared on the ballot alongside FTX’s FTT token and data security platform JASMY. Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox tagged Binance CEO … Read more

Applied Digital Tumbles 30% on Revenue Miss; Plans Selling Cloud Computing Unit

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Shares of Applied Digital (APLD), a Texas bitcoin mining and data center firm, dropped sharply on Tuesday after the digital infrastructure provider reported quarterly results that fell short of Wall Street expectations. The company, which has pivoted from its crypto mining roots to focus on high-performance computing (HPC) and AI-focused data centers, reported revenue of … Read more

Leaked images suggest Oblivion remaster coming soon

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An Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered announcement seems imminent. Images from the game were found in the website files of the developer Virtuous before being removed. The images, which can still be seen on the hosting site imgur, included several side-by-side comparisons between the game’s 2006 release and the remaster. Several photos show off the … Read more

Reach 1,000+ AI leaders: Host a Side Event during TechCrunch Sessions: AI

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Looking to position your brand in front of the brightest minds in artificial intelligence? Hosting a Side Event during TechCrunch Sessions: AI Week is your opportunity to do just that. Reach 1,200+ attendees and the surrounding Berkeley tech scene. From June 1 to June 7, TechCrunch invites startups, investors, and builders to bring unique and … Read more

Notion releases an AI-powered email client for Gmail

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Notion released Notion Mail, an AI-powered email client for Gmail that integrates with the rest of Notion’s workflow management platform, on Tuesday. Notion Mail connects to Notion users’ Gmail accounts and uses AI to help users organize their emails, draft responses, schedule meetings, and search across messages. Any Notion user can sign up, and Notion … Read more

Crypto podcasters should always assume their audience knows nothing

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Opinion by: Blake Cassidy, CEO of Bamboo Crypto podcasts have been newcomers’ go-to source of information, helping bring crypto into the mainstream. Podcasters must remember, however, that fresh faces are constantly tuning in as they grow. While you may say, “FOMO, buy the dip, ignore the FUD because WAGMI,” your poor listener — tuning in … Read more

Bitcoin trader doubts breakout 'significance' as BTC price nears $87K

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Bitcoin (BTC) eyed new April highs at the April 15 Wall Street open amid skepticism over BTC price strength. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView Bitcoin price faces multiple resistance hurdles Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD seeking to break through $86,000. Continued strength through the weekend had set up the pair for … Read more

MSTR vs. MSTY: Growth or Income? A 12-Month Showdown

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Disclaimer: The analyst who wrote this piece owns shares of Strategy (MSTR). From April 2024 to April 2025, investors in Strategy (MSTR) and the YieldMax MSTR Option Income Strategy ETF (MSTY) followed two distinctly different investment paths — one seeking capital appreciation through bitcoin (BTC) exposure, the other pursuing monthly income via options-based strategies. Both … Read more

Stablecoin Market Could Grow to $2T by End-2028: Standard Chartered

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The Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (Genius) Act is expected to be passed in the U.S. in the coming months, and that could trigger an almost 10-fold jump in stablecoin supply, investment bank Standard Chartered said in a research report Tuesday. U.S. legislation “would further legitimise the stablecoin industry,” analysts led by … Read more

Why Doctor Who’s latest robot threat is a dangerous AI: ‘this is what’s happening’

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The newest season of Doctor Who opens as the series often does — with an unsuspecting human stumbling into some alien strangeness that doesn’t make any sense until an odd yet charming Time Lord shows up in a police box ready to save the day. The premiere episode, “The Robot Revolution,” feels like classic Doctor … Read more

Ethereum market share nears historic lows as ETH price risks falling to $1,100

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Ether’s (ETH) market is very close to hitting all-time lows as a classic bearish chart pattern hints at a deeper correction toward $1,100. Ethereum’s market dominance keeps falling On April 9, Ethereum’s market dominance, or the measure of Ether’s share of crypto’s overall market capitalization, hit a new multiyear low of 7.18%, according to Cointelegraph … Read more

ZKSync Admin Wallet Compromised, $5M Stolen

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An admin wallet for layer-2 blockchain ZKsync was compromised on Tuesday with the hacker taking off with $5 million worth of ZK tokens. The stolen funds were the “remaining unclaimed tokens from the ZKsync airdrop,” ZKsync wrote on Twitter, before saying that “necessary security measures are being taken.” The protocol’s ZK token has dropped almost … Read more

Criminals Are Watching the DOJ’s Crypto Shift. So Should We

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The Department of Justice recently issued new guidance directing prosecutors to scale back their efforts to investigate and litigate cryptocurrency crimes. This subsequently disbands the government’s National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET) in an effort to prioritize immigration and procurement issues over cryptocurrency enforcement. While the DOJ frames this as a move to streamline resources, threat … Read more

Mantra and Terra Luna: Nothing in common but a token crash

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The recent collapse of the Mantra (OM) token triggered comparisons to the infamous Terra ecosystem crash in May 2022, with some commentators referring to Mantra as the “next Terra.” Still, many in the community argue that the two projects share nothing in common besides visual similarities in price charts. “While it’s tempting to draw parallels … Read more