With the 4.4 release a little over a month ago, one might’ve expected content updates to trickle out slowly for our initial 4.5 development snapshots. …Well, maybe not after seeing the 4.5 dev 1 snapshot, but surely they couldn’t follow that up with another flood of anticipated changes, right? You fools. You underestimate the passion … Read more
The Mistral Medium 3 delivers flagship performance, is cheap enough to make inroads in enterprise software, and rivals major competitors.
Josh Raffaelli, who has deep roots as a Silicon Valley investor and has backed a number of Elon Musk companies, is suing his former employer, the massive trillion-dollar AUM Brookfield Asset Management, reports The New York Times. Much of Raffaelli’s complaint concerns how Brookfield covered pandemic-related real estate losses and alleges the company fired him … Read more
A judge this week dismissed most of the claims made in a lawsuit against celebrities like Tom Brady and Larry David for promoting FTX.
The EU plans to “record data on the senders and recipients of funds” to and from crypto-asset service providers, Paschal Donohoe said.
The extern “C” ABI for the wasm32-unknown-unknown target has been using a non-standard definition since the inception of the target in that it does not implement the official C ABI of WebAssembly and it additionally leaks internal compiler implementation details of both the Rust compiler and LLVM. This will change in a future version of … Read more
Reddit plans to tighten verification processes after researchers used AI to manipulate users’ opinions without consent.
The standard library of Go 1.23 now includes the new unique package. The purpose behind this package is to enable the canonicalization of comparable values. In other words, this package lets you deduplicate values so that they point to a single, canonical, unique copy, while efficiently managing the canonical copies under the hood. You might … Read more
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This article was copublished with the Los Angeles Times and AfroLA. This series was made possible through support from the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network. Ed Dorini’s house sits at the end of a cul-de-sac that snakes its way up a hill in the Sun Valley area, one of Los Angeles’s northernmost corners. It’s a … Read more
The SEC and Ripple agreed that the fintech company will pay just $50 million to settle a long-running lawsuit over XRP sales.
When Adam Mosseri took over Meta-owned Instagram as CEO in 2018, the app was experiencing what he’d later call “concerning” drops and plateaus in user engagement, thanks partly to fierce competition from a new app: TikTok. Instagram estimated in 2019 that 23 percent of the decline in time spent on Instagram in the US was … Read more
Tech company Meta is reportedly exploring integrating stablecoin payments into its platforms after a three-year hiatus from cryptocurrencies, Fortune reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. The Facebook parent held talks with several crypto infrastructure firms in consultation but has not chosen a decisive course of action, according to the report. One source said the … Read more
Bitcoin is back above $100K and pulling meme coins with it, with Dogecoin, Fartcoin, and President Trump’s Solana coin showing massive gains.
Microsoft employees aren’t allowed to use DeepSeek due to data security and propaganda concerns, Microsoft vice chairman and president Brad Smith said in a Senate hearing today. “At Microsoft we don’t allow our employees to use the DeepSeek app,” Smith said, referring to DeepSeek’s application service (which is available on both desktop and mobile.) Smith … Read more
After a four-month prison stay last year, Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao admitted that he’s seeking a pardon from President Trump.
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In April, South Korea’s telco giant SK Telecom (SKT) was hit by a cyberattack that led to the theft of personal data on approximately 23 million customers, equivalent to almost half of the country’s 52 million residents. At a National Assembly hearing in Seoul on Thursday, SKT chief executive Young-sang Ryu said about 250,000 users … Read more
Ripple Labs and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have officially reached a deal that, if approved by a judge, will bring their years-long legal battle to a close. According to a settlement agreement filed in New York on Thursday, both parties have agreed to a $50 million penalty — a portion of the … Read more
Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former CEO of the collapsed cryptocurrency lending firm Celsius, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud that led to “billions in losses,” the Department of Justice announced on Thursday. Celsius, which held $25 billion in assets at its peak, abruptly halted withdrawals and transfers during a broader … Read more
In 2025, Aurora plans to operate fully driverless trucks at night, in poor weather, and beyond Houston and Dallas and into El Paso and Phoenix.
Wellgistics Health, a healthcare infrastructure company, will integrate XRP (XRP) and related technologies into its payment network to streamline transactions between pharmacies, medical suppliers and prescription medication manufacturers, the company said in an announcement on May 8. Wellgistics cited the finality time of XRP transactions and reduced transaction costs, which are fractions of a penny, … Read more
You’re swimming in data. You’re creating new data every day. If your health app counts your steps? That’s new data. The Oura ring that’s tracking your bio-metrics? Valuable data. Your social media posts, even the stupid jokes that got zero likes? More data. This is all data that AI companies would love to harvest. You … Read more