A militia group in Burma that allegedly runs a large-scale haven for cyber scammers, the Karen National Army, has been blocked from the U.S. financial system by the Department of the Treasury. The U.S. authorities said Monday that the organization has provided a haven for transnational criminal organizations who use the border region controlled by … Read more
Congratulations to Dealita, Startup of the Year 2024 in Riga, Latvia! Dealita manages investment deals The Latvian startup Dealita.ai uses artificial intelligence to automate one of the most time-consuming stages of the investment process – data collection and processing. This AI solution automates the handling of incoming deals, performs initial filtering and evaluation based on specific criteria, … Read more
Literary journals might have a stuffy reputation. But since its conception in 1998 by author Dave Eggers, McSweeney’s Quarterly has been anything but, opting instead to be an endlessly mutating delivery system for writing and art. It has been a hardcover book, a paperback, a newspaper. Once it was a bundle of mail; another time, … Read more
A Waymo robotaxi being assembled at the company’s factory in Mesa, Arizona. | Image: Waymo Waymo said it recently received its last delivery of Jaguar I-Pace SUVs, which will be retrofitted with sensors and autonomous driving technology at its factory in Arizona, before joining its robotaxi fleet. In a blog post published today, the Alphabet … Read more
Eric Migicovsky demonstrates one of the first Core 2 Duo smartwatches from the factory where they’re being manufactured. | Screenshot: YouTube After announcing a new company called Core Devices and a pair of new smartwatches running the now open-source PebbleOS, the Pebble’s creator, Eric Migicovsky, has launched a podcast. In the first episode of Tick … Read more
The past two years were dominated by “ChatGPT-for-X” pitches and billion-dollar application rounds. Yet, somewhere between rising GPU spot prices and shrinking retention curves, investors began to realise that the defensible margins in AI sit far below the prompt window. Evidence of the rotation is now unmistakable. Crunchbase reports that while global venture dollars to … Read more
The company upped its Bitcoin acquisition target to $84 billion last week.
Opinion by: Tracy Jin, Chief Operating Officer, MEXC Market manipulation is everywhere and yet nowhere to be seen. It is an invisible threat affecting crypto and traditional markets, leaving ordinary traders counting the costs. Sometimes, manipulation is obvious — illiquid tokens being pumped high before being dumped just as fast — but often, it’s subtler … Read more
We’re honored to be named Startup of the Year in Kuwait City! Big thanks to HackerNoon for celebrating our journey at Kuwait Mart. Tell us about your startup Kuwait Mart is a homegrown e-commerce platform built to serve customers across Kuwait with speed, trust, and simplicity. We officially launched on April 22, 2025, after months … Read more
Ripple, the US-based crypto services firm behind the XRP Ledger, has committed $25 million in Ripple USD (RLUSD) to education nonprofits DonorsChoose and Teach For America. According to a May 5 announcement, the grant will be processed through the crypto charity intermediary service The Giving Block. DonorsChoose CEO Alix Guerrier said “teachers are going the … Read more
If you took Pinterest, mashed it together with everything annoying about Threads, and sprinkled generative AI prompts on top – that’d pretty much sum up the newly launched Meta AI site’s social feed. So far, prompting AI chatbots – those are the questions or requests you make – has primarily been a private affair. You … Read more
Bitcoin-holding public companies may be sitting on a powerful market catalyst: untapped issuance capacity that could meaningfully raise bitcoin’s (BTC) price, according to new research from NYDIG. In a report published this week, Greg Cipolaro, the firm’s global head of research, points to the “dry powder” in the form of share issuance potential among bitcoin … Read more
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After a stinging rebuke in the lower courts over its legal battle with Epic, Apple filed a notice of appeal to the Ninth Circuit on Monday. The appeal will challenge last week’s ruling that prevents the company from charging developers fees on purchases made outside the App Store. In 2021, the Epic v. Apple lawsuit … Read more
Ethereum developers are preparing for Wednesday’s much anticipated Pectra upgrade, set to bring the biggest code change to the blockchain since the Merge in 2022. Pectra – a blend of the names Prague + Electra – consists of two upgrades happening on Ethereum’s consensus and execution layers at the same time. The upgrade is focused … Read more
$243M Bitcoin scam that led to kidnapping and chaos In one of the most bizarre crossovers between digital crime and real-world violence, a group of young cybercriminals stole almost $243 million in Bitcoin (BTC). Within weeks, the fallout spilled from the blockchain into a quiet Connecticut suburb, ending in a harrowing kidnapping plot. If this … Read more
Pinterest is upgrading its visual search feature with a handful of new capabilities. On Monday, the company announced it’s rolling out new functionality to improve its feature that allows users to search using an image instead of text. This includes new tools to more precisely narrow and refine searches, as well as those that make … Read more
Apple’s rumored super-slim iPhone “Air” isn’t expected until this fall, but supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says development has already begun on a redesigned version with a bigger screen. According to Kuo, Apple’s second iPhone Air / iPhone “Slim” model is planned for launch in the fall of 2026 as part of the usual annual … Read more
Chainlink is rolling out a new community rewards program to incentivize participation in its ecosystem, starting with a token distribution from decentralized data platform Space and Time (SXT). The program, called Chainlink Rewards, allows those projects based on the network to reward eligible Chainlink node operators and community members who help secure the network. Founded … Read more
“When I knew it was over was when I downloaded Skype.” All the way back in 2003, Michael Powell, then the chairman of the FCC and the United States’ chief regulator of the telecom industry, told a roomful of academics and executives at the University of California at San Diego that he had seen the … Read more
Thunderbolts and countless other Hollywood films were shot at least partially abroad. President Donald Trump says his administration will institute high tariffs on movies that fit the nebulous category of “produced in foreign lands,” a definition that could include anything from anime to the latest Marvel films. In a Sunday evening Truth Social post, Trump … Read more
Tesla’s new car sales in Spain fell 36% in April to just 571 vehicles year-over-year, Reuters reports. That slump comes as sales of electric cars made by other brands rose in the Iberian country. Tesla sales in Spain mirror those in Europe generally, which plunged in the first four months of the year by 37.2%, … Read more
This is a daily technical analysis by CoinDesk analyst and Chartered Market Technician Omkar Godbole. Bitcoin’s (BTC) weekend price movement has brought attention to the $88,800 support level, while XRP, the payments-focused cryptocurrency, seems close to confirming a bearish chart pattern known as the “death cross.” BTC fell 1.5% on Sunday (UTC), diving out of … Read more