Month: May 2025
Next Telegram Gaming Boom Will Come From Reinventing Classics: ‘Notcoin’ Founders
The Telegram tap-to-earn craze skyrocketed and then cratered over the course of last year. Notcoin’s founders see a new path forward.
Apple may stagger next year’s iPhones to make way for a foldable
Apple is planning to shuffle its iPhone release schedule next year as it releases the first foldable iPhone to make things more manageable, reports The Information. The plan is for the foldable to come out with the iPhone 18 Pro and “Air” models, while the standard iPhone 18 gets shunted back to the spring of … Read more
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Vue.js: Propagating Props Like a Pro
When you create components for your project, it all starts fun and easy. Create MyButton.vue, add some styling, and voilà. <template> <button class=”my-fancy-style”> <slot></slot> </button> </template> Then you immediately realize that you need a dozen props, because your design team wants it to be of different colors and sizes, with icons on the left and … Read more
Ethereum nears key Bitcoin price level that last time sparked 450% gains
Ethereum’s Ether (ETH) token is approaching a critical price zone against Bitcoin (BTC), which historically marked the beginning of a massive rebound. ETH price fractal from 2019 hints at bottom The ETH/BTC pair, currently trading near 0.019 BTC, is edging closer to 0.016 BTC — the exact level it reached in September 2019 before rallying … Read more
Trump’s 2026 NASA budget would slash ISS crew and allocate more money for Elon
The Trump administration has released a proposal to cut about a quarter of NASA’s 2026 budget, slashing both International Space Station crew sizes and the amount of research done there. At the same time, it sets up new funding that would likely benefit Elon Musk’s SpaceX by prioritizing human missions to Mars, and refocuses on … Read more
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Why tokenized gold beats other paper alternatives — Gold DAO
Tokenized gold carries several benefits over other forms of paper gold, including gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs), according to Melissa Song and Dustin Becker, representatives of Gold DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization that facilitates investor access to tokenized gold. In an interview with Cointelegraph, the DAO representatives outlined three major benefits unique to tokenized gold, including … Read more
Week in Review: Apple won’t raise prices — yet
Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got lots of news for you today: Amazon earnings, Apple earnings, ChatGPT sycophancy, Alibaba’s AI models, and much more. Let’s get to it! Well? During Apple’s earnings call yesterday, Tim Cook revealed that the company paid $900 million in tariffs last quarter. But despite this, the CEO didn’t … Read more
A Tiny Company Wants to Buy $20M TRUMP Token to Change U.S.-Mexico Trade Deals
Freight Technologies (FRGT), a $4.8 million market cap logistics tech firm focused on cross-border trade between the U.S. and Mexico, has entered an agreement to buy up to $20 million in the Official Trump Token (TRUMP) to build out its crypto treasury. The company said it secured the funding through a convertible note facility with … Read more
Google’s Gemini has beaten Pokémon Blue (with a little help)
Google’s most expensive AI model seems to have crossed a major milestone: Beating a 29-year-old video game. Last night, Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted triumphantly on X, “What a finish! Gemini 2.5 Pro just completed Pokémon Blue!” To be clear, the Gemini Plays Pokemon livestream was created by (in his own words) “a 30 year … Read more
Are AI Therapists Safe? 5 Risks You Should Know
Dartmouth’s AI Therapist has completed a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT), but what does this mean for the future? Background Since the days of ELIZA, mankind has endeavored to understand itself through the soulless silicon eyes of a machine. It seems like now, in 2025, that reality is finally here. Two articles or studies published in … Read more
How LWN is faring in 2025
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The HackerNoon Newsletter: AI Knows Everything Except Why You’re Sad (5/3/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, May 3, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, UK’s first heart transplant in 1968, Washington D.C incorporated as a city in 1802, “Beer Barrel Polka” was recorded in undefined, The first spam email was sent in … Read more
Arizona Governor Calls Crypto an ‘Untested Investment,’ Vetoes Bitcoin Reserve Bill
Arizona will not be investing in bitcoin (BTC), at least not this year. Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed a bill on Friday that would have allowed the state to hold the digital asset as part of its official reserves. The legislation, known as Senate Bill 1025, proposed using seized funds to invest in BTC and create … Read more
GISEC Global 2025: Dubai Unites Cyber Defence Leaders Against AI Cybercrime
From 6-8 May, 25,000+ cybersecurity experts will gather at the Middle East and Africa’s largest cybersecurity event to secure the region’s digital future against deepfake scams and critical infrastructure vulnerabilities With AI-driven cybercrime and ransomware attacks surging globally, GISEC Global 2025 returns to Dubai from May 6 – 8, bringing together the world’s foremost leaders, … Read more
‘Like Spitting on a Fire’: Tether CEO Slams EU Deposit Protections Amid Bank Failure Warnings
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino is sounding the alarm on Europe’s financial system, warning that a wave of bank failures could hit the continent in the near future due to the intersection of risky lending and new cryptocurrency rules. Ardoino, during an interview with the Less Noise More Signal podcast, took aim at the European Union’s … Read more
Actor Ben McKenzie Reveals Crypto Documentary ‘Everyone Is Lying to You for Money’
“The O.C.” star Ben McKenzie’s directorial debut aims to expose the crypto world, with the documentary debuting at SXSW London in June.