Month: April 2025

Apple stumbles with latest AirPods Max firmware

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Last week, Apple announced that lossless audio and ultra low latency would be coming to the AirPods Max with USB-C. It was a pleasant surprise for owners of Apple’s over-ear headphones, which have fallen behind the AirPods Pro in recent years when it comes to offering new features. Unfortunately, the company seems to have hit … Read more

Two-Minute Decentralization: The DEX vs. CEX Battle Behind the Hyperliquid Incident

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In 2021, American retail traders and Wall Street short-sellers engaged in a “retail versus Wall Street” drama centered on GameStop. On March 26, 2025, the crypto industry witnessed a similar scenario. A single whale investor nearly caused the decentralized exchange “Hyperliquid” to lose almost $230 million. This was more than a simple “pulling the plug” … Read more

Bitcoin rally to $88.5K obliterates bears as spot volumes soar — Will a tariff war stop the party?

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Bitcoin price caught an unexpected bid by rallying to a session high at $88,500, but will the price gains be capped at a multimonth overhead resistance that is aligned with the 50-day moving average?  Key points: Bitcoin extended its April. 1 gains as news that the Trump administration had not finalized its “Liberation Day” tariffs … Read more

OpenAI’s o3 model might be costlier to run than originally estimated

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When OpenAI unveiled its o3 “reasoning” AI model in December, the company partnered with the creators of ARC-AGI, a benchmark designed to test highly capable AI, to showcase o3’s capabilities. Months later, the results have been revised, and they now look slightly less impressive than they did initially. Last week, the Arc Prize Foundation, which … Read more

West Virginia's BTC reserve bill is 'freedom' from a CBDC — State Senator

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West Virginia’s Bitcoin (BTC) strategic reserve bill would give the state more sovereignty from the federal government and freedom from a potential central bank digital currency (CBDC), State Senator Chris Rose told Cointelegraph in an exclusive interview. “You hear these rumors that there are people at the federal government that will want to have a … Read more

WordPress.com owner Automattic is laying off 16 percent of workers

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Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, is laying off about 16 percent of its workers. In a memo posted to the company’s website, CEO Matt Mullenweg says he’s making the change to “protect Automattic’s long-term future.” Before the layoffs, Automattic’s website listed the company as having 1,777 employees. The company has since decreased its employee … Read more

Epic Games CEO calls Apple and Google ‘gangster-style’ businesses in need of competition

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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, whose company makes Fortnite and tools for other developers, including Unreal Engine, called out Apple and Google as “gangster-style businesses” engaged in illegal practices while speaking at a Y Combinator event on Wednesday. The executive also emphasized how the big tech companies’ practices directly affected his own business by scaring … Read more

The Nintendo Switch smartphone app is getting some excellent new features

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While sharing screenshots and videos from the original Nintendo Switch has always been an excessively complicated process, it’s going to be much easier for the Switch 2. During today’s Direct presentation, Nintendo spent a lot of time talking about the Switch 2’s new built-in GameChat functionality that will give players a way to share their … Read more

You might be following Second Lady Usha Vance on Instagram now

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Starting Wednesday, Meta says it will begin combining the Instagram accounts of the Second Lady of the United States, Usha Vance, and the former Second Gentleman of the United States, Doug Emhoff. As a result, the 1.2 million people who were previously following the Instagram account of Kamala Harris’s husband, @secondgentleman46archive (recently archived by the … Read more

DoubleZero protocol announces validator funding round

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The DoubleZero Protocol, a blockchain infrastructure network aiming to multiply speeds and efficiency for distributed networks, announced a validator funding round to sell token-purchase agreements for its native token to prospective validators. Applications for the funding round will be accepted April 2-10 through the CoinList platform, marking its first public token sale in the United … Read more

OpenAI seeks to convene group to advise its nonprofit goals

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As it prepares to transition from a nonprofit corporation to a for-profit, OpenAI says it’s convening a group of experts to “help OpenAI’s philanthropy understand the most urgent and intractable problems nonprofits face today.” This group, which OpenAI says will incorporate feedback from “leaders and communities” in health, science, education, and public services, particularly within … Read more

Ray jobs on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod: scalable and resilient distributed AI

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Foundation model (FM) training and inference has led to a significant increase in computational needs across the industry. These models require massive amounts of accelerated compute to train and operate effectively, pushing the boundaries of traditional computing infrastructure. They require efficient systems for distributing workloads across multiple GPU accelerated servers, and optimizing developer velocity as … Read more