YouTube on Wednesday announced an expansion of its pilot program designed to identify and manage AI-generated content that features the “likeness,” including the face, of creators, artists, and other famous or influential figures. The company is also publicly declaring its support for the legislation known as the NO FAKES ACT, which aims to tackle the … Read more
For years, software development has been about grinding XP in the land of syntax, debugging wild runtime errors, and evolving from junior developer to system architect. But now, we’re staring down a brand-new rival, one that doesn’t need coffee breaks, doesn’t forget semicolons, and can generate entire codebases faster than you can say, “Pikachu, I … Read more
United States securities laws are not flexible enough to account for digital assets, as evidenced by the parade of crypto-native companies that have tried and failed to get into the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) good graces, Rodrigo Seira, special counsel to Cooley LLP, told a House Committee hearing on April 9. The hearing, titled … Read more
Bootstrapping decentralized finance (DeFi) on any blockchain usually requires a mix of builders with big ideas and funders to back them. That much is as true for baselayers as it is for the financial protocols launching atop them. Arch Labs, whose eponymous network is one of the many projects trying to bring DeFi to Bitcoin, … Read more
As markets reel from geopolitical tensions and economic uncertainty, Bitcoin has shown relative resilience during events like Trump’s recent tariff bombshells, according to Blockstream CEO Adam Back. While in the short term, Bitcoin (BTC) may move in tandem with stocks and other risk-on assets, Back sees the long-term trend telling a different story. “Bitcoin is … Read more
The U.S. House Financial Services Committee checked the next box in moving toward what Representative Bryan Steil referred to as the “second half” of President Donald Trump’s crypto agenda: a bill to set U.S. crypto market rules for a fully regulated domestic industry. Steil, the Republican chairman of the panel’s crypto subcommittee, said that the … Read more
Sean Plankey’s nomination to head up CISA will be blocked, for now.
Poor cloud performance causes many problems. Is it from poorly performing apps to under-optimized workloads and insecure databases? They’re numerous. And if you run a platform where customers actively engage, that’s a potential doom at your doorstep. No person other than Laura Nolan and the other engineers at Slack would’ve explained this doom better after … Read more
Virgil Griffith, a former Ethereum developer jailed for attending a crypto conference in North Korea in 2019, was released from prison and is on his way to a halfway house, according to his lawyer, Alexander Urbelis. Urbelis, general counsel of the Ethereum Name Service who has also been serving as Griffith’s outside counsel, posted a … Read more
The Last of Us’ second season hasn’t even debuted yet, but Warner Bros. Discovery renewed the show for a third season. The company hasn’t shared details about when the third season may air or how many episodes it might be. The second season’s first episode debuts on Sunday on HBO and Max. Season 2 is … Read more
Crypto fraud has been harder to counter because “things that seem too good to be true have happened,” an attorney told Decrypt.
Samsung’s Ballie home robot will launch this summer, according to Samsung. Samsung’s home robot Ballie is finally poised to roll into our homes… and maybe our hearts? Following teasing a release sometime this year at CES 2025, the company has now announced that the cute rolling bot will arrive in the US this summer, with … Read more
Microsoft appears to be working on new 3D icons for its Office suite. Reddit users have discovered the new icons in an email survey from Microsoft, reports Windows Central. The survey includes a brief look at the new icons, with Microsoft asking for feedback on its changes to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other Office apps. … Read more
Employee productivity is a critical factor in maintaining a competitive advantage. Amazon Q Business offers a unique opportunity to enhance workforce efficiency by providing AI-powered assistance that can significantly reduce the time spent searching for information, generating content, and completing routine tasks. Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative AI-powered assistant that lets you … Read more
The original Immutable X network will be folded into the newer Immutable zkEVM later this year, with assets being automatically migrated.
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, April 9, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Facebook acquires Instagram in 2012, “Mercury Seven” announced in 1959, and we present you with these top quality stories. From The GTM Budget Struggle to The AI Truth … Read more
Organizations are increasingly using multiple large language models (LLMs) when building generative AI applications. Although an individual LLM can be highly capable, it might not optimally address a wide range of use cases or meet diverse performance requirements. The multi-LLM approach enables organizations to effectively choose the right model for each task, adapt to different … Read more
:::info Authors: (1) Rohit Saxena, Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburg; (2) RFrank Keller, Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburg. ::: Table of Links Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 A. Further Implementation Details All experiments were … Read more
:::info Authors: (1) Rohit Saxena, Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburg; (2) RFrank Keller, Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburg. ::: Table of Links Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 6. Automatic QA-based Evaluation Metrics like ROUGE … Read more
:::info Authors: (1) Rohit Saxena, Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburg; (2) RFrank Keller, Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburg. ::: Table of Links Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Abstract Abstractive summarization for long-form narrative texts … Read more
:::info Authors: (1) Rohit Saxena, Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburg; (2) RFrank Keller, Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburg. ::: Table of Links Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 3. MENSA: Movie Scene Saliency Dataset We … Read more
:::info Authors: (1) Rohit Saxena, Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburg; (2) RFrank Keller, Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburg. ::: Table of Links Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 4. Scene Saliency Classification Model Using the … Read more
:::info Authors: (1) Rohit Saxena, Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburg; (2) RFrank Keller, Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburg. ::: Table of Links Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 5. Summarization Using Salient Scenes We now … Read more
Earlier this month, we got a close look at Sony’s new Bravia 8 II OLED. Despite the name, this TV is actually the spiritual successor of the company’s acclaimed A95L. It’s going to be one of the very best TVs you can buy in 2025, and now Sony has revealed how much the Bravia 8 … Read more
Sony’s additions to its ULT Power Sound lineup include a new tower party speaker. | Image: Sony Sony is upgrading three of its wireless Bluetooth speakers with significant redesigns and new features as it integrates them into the ULT Power Sound series it introduced a year ago that includes speakers and headphones with improved bass-boosting … Read more
EMB: April 9, 16:00 UTC A blockchain-based startup in London said it closed a $50 million funding round to forward its goal of “reinventing social media.” Wunder.Social raised the funds in a round led by Rollman Management, according to an announcement shared with CoinDesk on Wednesday. The project uses blockchain technology to verify users, thereby … Read more
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Tokenization of funds is booming, but their rapid rise comes with serious risks that investors should not overlook, credit agency Moody’s Ratings said in a Wednesday report. Several major financial institutions, including BlackRock and Franklin Templeton, have made their mark in the world of tokenization and inspired others to follow the latest trend. For example, … Read more
EY-Parthenon and Coinbase conducted a survey of more than 350 institutional investors globally in January of 2025. While regulatory clarity will loom large over developments in the digital assets landscape in 2025 — investors in the survey called it the #1 catalyst for growth — the survey illustrated underlying enthusiasm and an appetite for innovation … Read more