Month: April 2025
AWS Regions and Availability Zones: A Useful Guide for Beginners
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has completely changed the game for how we build and manage infrastructure. Gone are the days when spinning up a new service meant begging your sys team for hardware, waiting weeks, and spending hours in a cold data center plugging in cables. Now? A few clicks (or API calls), and yes … Read more
Trump’s first 100 days ‘worst in history’ despite crypto promises
The first 100 days of the administration of US President Donald Trump have deeply impacted the crypto industry, starting with his own memecoin and culminating in a Bitcoin reserve and a spate of blockchain policymaking. Trump’s trade war with the entire world has had the largest short-term impact on crypto markets, as crypto prices have … Read more
Gaussian Splatting Meets ROS2
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$2B Bitcoin-Staking Protocol Solv Unveils First Shariah-Compliant BTC Yield Offering in the Middle East
Bitcoin staking protocol Solv, which has over $2 billion worth of BTC locked on its platform, announced Tuesday the launch of a Shariah-compliant yield product called SolvBTC.core. The new offering, a liquid staking token for BTC, has been developed in collaboration with the Core ecosystem, which offers a range of DeFi applications, including lending, restaking, … Read more
Circle gets Abu Dhabi regulatory nod to expand in Middle East
USDC stablecoin issuer Circle has received in-principle approval (IPA) from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the company announced on April 29. The approval moves Circle closer to obtaining a full Financial Services Permission (FSP) license, allowing it to operate as a regulated money services provider in the … Read more
How NiceHash’s New Scrypt Firmware Could Change Litecoin and Dogecoin Mining Forever
What does it take to stay profitable in crypto mining today? With volatile markets, rising energy costs, and ever-tightening margins, the mining landscape has shifted. Amid this, NiceHash has introduced what it claims to be the world’s first mainstream Scrypt mining firmware, aiming to provide a fresh edge to miners focusing on altcoins like Litecoin … Read more
Bitcoin miner Phoenix Group adds 52 MW of mining capacity in Ethiopia
Bitcoin mining firm Phoenix Group announced the addition of 52 megawatts (MW) worth of mining capacity to its capabilities in Ethiopia. According to an April 29 announcement, with this latest addition, Phoenix’s Bitcoin mining capacity in Ethiopia reaches 132 MW. The firm’s global capacity now reportedly exceeds 500 MW. Phoenix’s co-founder and CEO, Munaf Ali, … Read more
Your digital identity got stolen — Now what?
What is digital identity? Your digital identity is the fingerprint you leave across the internet, a living map of who you are. Your digital identity is more than just your name or email; it stretches from your social media profiles and crypto wallet addresses to your device fingerprints and even the rhythms of your daily … Read more
Duolingo Is Adopting an ‘AI-first’ Approach, Says CEO Luis von Ahn
This means the language learning app is going to “gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle,” according to CEO Luis von Ahn.
The Art of Smart Contract Security Auditing: Navigating a Digital Minefield
Hartej Sawhney On the High-Stakes World of Security Audits In the Wild West of blockchain, where fortunes are made and lost in an instant, smart contract security auditing isn’t just a buzzword — it’s the cornerstone of trust. As self-executing contracts increasingly become the backbone of decentralized finance and a growing range of applications, ensuring … Read more
Here’s how to watch LlamaCon, Meta’s first AI developer event
On Tuesday, Meta is hosting LlamaCon, its first-ever AI developer event. It’ll center around the company’s Llama family of open AI models, and we’re expecting some big updates for developers. Also on the agenda: keynotes from Meta executives and fireside chats with Big Tech CEOs and Meta’s chief, Mark Zuckerberg. Meta is hosting a small … Read more
Crypto Daybook Americas: Bitcoin Bulls Underpin Price After Pro-BTC Candidate Loses in Canada
By James Van Straten (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Bitcoin (BTC) remains stuck near the $95,000 mark, apparently unfazed by the Canadian election result, which saw the crypto-friendly candidate for prime minister lose his seat. Key macroeconomic data due later this week could serve as a catalyst for bitcoin’s next move, with the standout … Read more
Yelp debuts AI voice agents for restaurants and service providers
Yelp said on Tuesday that it’s working on deploying AI-powered “voice agents” to help service providers and restaurants handle calls, answer basic questions, and accomplish tasks like adding a customer to a restaurant waitlist. Yelp says its agents don’t require a complicated setup or API integrations, and can draw from existing metadata along with data … Read more
Court Bars OFAC From Reinstating Tornado Cash Sanctions
The Treasury can’t just quietly delist Tornado Cash and sanction it later on when the smoke clears, a Texas judge ruled.
Will Trump’s 100-day speech end Bitcoin’s 'compressing' range?
Key takeaways: Bitcoin’s price consolidates as the market awaits President Trump’s 100-day speech. Over $4.7 billion in BTC has been withdrawn from exchanges since April 22, reducing supply and boosting price sensitivity to demand. Trump’s crypto policy clarity could spark a BTC surge, but tariffs may cap gains. Traders say Bitcoin price must clear key … Read more
Amazon launches its first satellites to rival Starlink
The 27 Project Kuiper satellites were carried into LEO by a United Launch Alliance rocket on Monday. Amazon’s Kuiper broadband internet constellation is starting to take shape, with its first batch of satellites shipped and deployed into space on Monday. The launch is just the first of 80 that Amazon has lined up to take … Read more
SIGN Rises 60% on Upbit Listing Despite Slow Start on Binance
SIGN, the token linked to its namesake’s multi-chain identity protocol, rose by 60% on Tuesday after being listed on Korean exchange Upbit. The listing follows the token’s release on Binance, where it became the first project to be selected by the Binance Alpha campaign. Trading was initially muted on Binance as it traded between $0.06 … Read more
Nvidia issues yet another GPU hotfix driver to address crashes and bugs
Nvidia has released another hotfix driver that primarily addresses bugs and crashes with its RTX 50-series GPUs. The 576.26 hotfix driver is based on the 576.02 driver release earlier this month, which itself included a large amount of fixes for bugs and crashes. This latest hotfix driver includes all the fixes in the 576.15 hotfix … Read more
Government hackers are leading the use of attributed zero-days, Google says
Governments like China and North Korea, along with spyware makers, used the most recorded zero-days in 2024.
‘Use It or Lose It’: Australian Watchdog Cracks Down on Dormant Crypto Exchanges
AUSTRAC has urged inactive crypto businesses to deregister or risk cancellation as it seeks to protect consumers and block criminal misuse.
BlackRock’s IBIT Sees Second-Largest Bitcoin Inflow Since Launch, Nearing $1 Billion
The BlackRock iShares Bitcoin (BTC) Trust ETF (IBIT) saw $970.9 million in inflows, marking its second-largest net inflow since launching in January 2024, according to Farside data. Monday accounted for $591.2 million in new capital, which saw heavy outflows from competitors: Fidelity’s FBTC lost $86.9 million, Bitwise’s BITB dropped $21.1 million, and ARK’s ARKB saw … Read more