The Seven-Year Rule
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Month: April 2025
Week in Review: Cluely helps you cheat on everything
Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got tons of news for you this week: Slate EVs spotted in the wild; Airbnb pricing updates; a hack at Blue Shield; and much more. Let’s go! Get a clue: Cluely is an AI-based tool that helps people cheat on exams, sales calls, and even job interviews. Though … Read more
Why Alabama’s Securities Commissioner Dropped Its Case Against Coinbase
Efforts in Congress to create a legislative framework for crypto were chief among the Commission’s reasons for pulling back against Coinbase.
Digital photo frame company Nixplay cut its free cloud storage to almost nothing
One of the most frustrating realities about modern technology products is that while so many of them can get exciting new features via the internet, they can lose them just as easily. That happened to owners of Nixplay smart digital photo frames this week when they were hit with a previously announced update the company … Read more
US Senator calls for Trump impeachment, cites memecoin dinner
United States Senator Jon Ossoff expressed support for impeaching US President Donald Trump during an April 25 town hall, citing the President’s plan to host a private dinner for top Official Trump memecoin holders. “I mean, I saw just 48 hours ago, he is granting audiences to people who buy his meme coin,” said Ossoff, … Read more
Amazon’s big book sale just happens to overlap with Independent Bookstore Day
Amazon is raising eyebrows with the timing of its big book sale for 2025, which runs from April 23 to 28 — which means it’s competing directly with Independent Bookstore Day. As writer Maris Kreisman explained in Lit Hub, Independent Bookstore Day is an annual event organized by the American Booksellers Association (ABA), with events, … Read more
DeFi Development Plans to Raise $1 Billion to Buy More Solana
DeFi Development Corp. (JNVR), formerly known as Janover, is doubling down on its plan to buy more Solana for its treasury as it looks to offer up to $1 billion worth of securities. The firm, formerly a commercial real estate lending tech platform, revealed in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing that it … Read more
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Waiting: The Subtle Art That You Should Master (4/26/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, April 26, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Amazon Echo Look Introduced in 2017, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Waiting: The Subtle Art That You Should Master to Can a Decentralized … Read more
Government officials are kind of bad at the internet
Perhaps no one in the world has made such catastrophic tech flubs this year as U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The saga started when the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, reported that he had been mistakenly added to an unauthorized Signal group chat by U.S. National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, where numerous high-ranking … Read more
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Australian Radio Station Used AI DJ For Months Before Being Discovered
Australian radio station CADA put DJ Thy on-air for months before admitting that the host was actually AI-generated.
Identifying Technological Convergence in Cybersecurity: A Novel Approach
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2 Related Work and 2.1 Technology Convergence Approaches 2.2 Technology Convergence Measurements 2.3 Technology Convergence Models 3 Data 4 Method and 4.1 Proximity Indices 4.2 Interpolation and Fitting Data 4.3 Clustering 4.4 Forecasting 5 Results and Discussion and 5.1 Overall Results 5.2 Case Study 5.3 Limitations and Future … Read more
Lately’s new gamified app helps people arrive on time
A new app called Lately launched on the App Store a few weeks ago, targeting people with ADHD to help them arrive on time and rewarding them for doing so. The service is designed to help users manage their travel plans by notifying them when it’s time to leave for a trip, sending reminders 30 … Read more
Countries must add DePIN tokens to their digital asset stockpiles
Opinion by: Raullen Chai, co-founder and CEO of IoTeX The United States and other superpowers are on the brink of a financial evolution. With President Donald Trump’s recent executive order establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR) and a US Digital Asset Stockpile (DAS), the conversation around digital assets in government reserves is gaining momentum. Countries … Read more
How to use Visual Intelligence on the iPhone
One of the Apple Intelligence features that hasn’t been delayed is Visual Intelligence, which uses your iPhone’s camera to identify and answer questions on whatever’s around you in the world. It lets you snap a pizza restaurant storefront and find out its opening hours, for example, or point your camera at a plant and find … Read more
Stuffed-Na(a)N: stuff your NaNs
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The OpenAI mafia: 15 of the most notable startups founded by alumni
Move over, PayPal mafia: There’s a new tech mafia in Silicon Valley. As the startup behind ChatGPT, OpenAI is arguably the biggest AI player in town. Its meteoric rise to a $300 billion valuation has spurred many employees to leave the AI giant to create startups of their own. The hype around OpenAI is so … Read more
Is Google’s smart tag network any good yet?
The Chipolo Pop, Pebblebee Clip, and Moto Tag are the three main trackers using Google’s network. When Google launched its long-awaited Find My Device network in April 2024, it arrived to… well, what’s the opposite of “fanfare”? A slow network rollout and damning reviews dampened enthusiasm for what was supposed to be a wave of … Read more
Crypto sentiment recovers, but weekend liquidity risks remain
Crypto investor sentiment has seen a significant recovery from global tariff concerns, but analysts warn that the market’s structural weaknesses may still result in downside momentum during periods of weekend illiquidity. Risk appetite appeared to return among crypto investors this week after US President Donald Trump adopted a softer tone, saying that import tariffs on … Read more
Thank you for holding my duck (2021)
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Bitcoin Post-Halving Price Performance Is the Worst on Record. Why?
Bitcoin has surged since last year’s halving, but it’s been a disappointment compared to the coin’s previous post-halving cycles.
DeFi Development seeks $1B to boost Solana investments, expand treasury
DeFi Development Corp (formerly Janover) aims to raise over $1 billion worth of capital to invest in Solana, the industry’s sixth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. The Nasdaq-listed firm, previously a real estate financing platform connecting commercial property lenders and buyers, announced its plans in a Form S-3 registration statement filed with the US Securities and … Read more
Instagram Edits topped 7M downloads in first week, a bigger launch than CapCut’s
Instagram Edits, Meta’s newly released video creation app, had a bigger debut than its direct competitor, ByteDance’s CapCut, once did. The new app, which today helps users craft videos for Instagram reels, stories, and other social posts, was downloaded an estimated 702,900 times on iOS devices during its first two days on the market. That’s … Read more