Nasdaq-listed DeFi Development Corp. (DFDV) jumped 30% on Friday to fresh record highs after unveiling a partnership with Solana’s top memecoin BONK and purchasing another batch of Solana’s SOL SOL tokens. The company said it will co-manage a Solana validator with BONK, claiming to be the first time a memecoin community and a public company … Read more
As one of the fastest sports in the world, almost everything is a race in Formula 1® (F1), even the pit stops. F1 drivers need to stop to change tires or make repairs to damage sustained during a race. Each precious tenth of a second the car is in the pit is lost time in … Read more
xAI has published the system prompts for its AI chatbot Grok after an “unauthorized” change led to a slew of unprompted responses on X about white genocide. The company says it will publish its Grok system prompts on GitHub from now on, which provide some insight into the way xAI has instructed Grok to respond … Read more
This post is co-authored by Manuel Lopez Roldan, SiMa.ai, and Jason Westra, AWS Senior Solutions Architect. Are you looking to deploy machine learning (ML) models at the edge? With Amazon SageMaker AI and SiMa.ai’s Palette Edgematic platform, you can efficiently build, train, and deploy optimized ML models at the edge for a variety of use … Read more
The stalling of key stablecoin legislation in the United States Senate was a minor setback, and the bill will pass in the coming weeks, said Cody Carbone, CEO of Digital Chamber, a Washington, DC,-based blockchain trade association and advocacy group. Speaking to Cointelegraph at Consensus 2025, Carbone argued it is in the best interests of … Read more
Spotify announced earlier this month that podcast creators and listeners would get a new data point: how many plays an episode has gotten. The idea, according to Spotify, was that listeners could discover new shows they hadn’t heard of, enticed by this new public measure of fandom. Podcasters did not see it that way. Since … Read more
French Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau agreed on a series of measures to tighten the security of crypto professionals at a Friday meeting following a number of kidnappings that have targeted industry figures in the country. Measures including strengthening collaboration with internal security officers to protect professionals, a security briefing provided by police units … Read more
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, May 16, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple iMac in 1998, Google acquired Motorola Mobility for $12 Billion dollars in 2012, SpaceX’s Demo-2 Mission was planned and subsequently delayed in 2020, … Read more
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World Liberty Financial, the crypto business tied to President Donald Trump and his family, is pushing back against scrutiny from U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, the leading Democrat on a panel responsible for investigating corruption and mismanagement. “WLFI is not operating in the shadows,” according to a letter the company’s lawyers sent to the Connecticut senator. … Read more
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Spotify announced last week that it would roll out public play counts on all podcasts as a way of “helping attract new fans.” But podcasters swiftly responded with criticism of the new feature — mainly, that it would further promote podcasts that already have large audiences while making smaller shows less appealing to new listeners. … Read more
Bungie has issued a statement on social media saying it is investigating how unauthorized artwork appeared in the closed alpha test of its PvPvE shooter Marathon. Earlier this week, Scottish artist Fern Hook posted on social media that her work had appeared in the Marathon alpha without her knowledge or permission. “Its environments are covered … Read more
There’s no shortage of crypto projects that have been touted as the thing that will onboard the next billion users to Web3, but Moonwalk Fitness has a slightly different approach — wellness. The fitness accountability app, which launched for iOS and Android earlier this year, essentially offers users a way to bet on whether they’ll … Read more
The woman, identified only as “A,” was convicted on May 15 of embezzlement and fraud for stealing $488,000, 683 million won, in crypto.
Key points: Bitcoin refuses to budge from a narrow range as traders consider the likely breakout direction. Price discovery is keenly awaited, but downside predictions include levels further toward $90,000. BTC/USD has delivered highly patterned moves since its rebound began in April. Bitcoin (BTC) kept traders guessing at the May 16 Wall Street open as … Read more
OpenAI’s next “low-key research preview” has arrived. This time, it’s not ChatGPT, but a coding agent dubbed Codex that is being made available to ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, and Team subscribers starting Friday. By drumming up comparisons to how ChatGPT was first described, CEO Sam Altman and other company leaders are positioning Codex as the company’s … Read more
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OpenAI announced on Friday it’s launching a research preview of Codex, the company’s most capable AI coding agent yet. Codex is powered by codex-1, a version of the company’s o3 AI reasoning model optimized for software engineering tasks. OpenAI says codex-1 produces “cleaner” code than o3, adheres more precisely to instructions, and will iteratively run … Read more
Opinion by: Megan Knab, CEO, Franklin Payroll There are few historical examples of such a massive about-face for an industry, from banks debanking crypto businesses to now embracing stablecoins. If you talk to most crypto startup founders or companies with crypto on the balance sheet, they will all have war stories about finding, applying for … Read more
The US Army is done relying on contractors to repair its equipment. Earlier this month, Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll committed to including right-to-repair provisions in all existing and future contracts with manufacturers, a change Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) told The Verge will “put an end to our dependence on giant defense contractors who charge billions … Read more
8BitDo has slimmed down its arcade stick by replacing its joystick with buttons. | Image: 8BitDo Four years after the company released its first wireless arcade-style controller, 8BitDo is debuting a new version that’s almost one-third as thick as the original. Its new Arcade Controller managed to slim down by ditching the original’s joystick and … Read more
Creator platform Patreon has to modify its app to comply with Apple’s guidelines after a recent update allowed U.S. users to make purchases via the web. The company says that its own web-based checkout option is now the default for U.S. fans, but it has to update its app so that this checkout option opens in … Read more
The judge in Canoo’s bankruptcy case has blocked an attempt by a mysterious financier to disrupt the sale of the EV startup’s assets. In a hearing Tuesday, Judge Brendan Linehan Shannon ruled the financier, a UK-based man named Charles Garson, lacked standing to request the sale to Canoo’s own CEO be vacated. While Garson had … Read more