Amazon’s upgraded digital assistant powered by generative AI, Alexa+, has rolled out to over 100,000 users, CEO Andy Jassy said on the company’s earnings call Thursday. While that’s a far cry from the 600 million Alexa devices out there, the company is making some progress on the rollout of Alexa+, which was first unveiled in … Read more
Trump Organization Executive VP Eric Trump said that his family being targeted by banks was what drove him to embrace cryptocurrency.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says there are two kinds of people who come to the social media platform: Scrollers and seekers. Scrollers are the ones who come to Reddit’s core product, which is community conversation and engaging about topics they’re passionate about, from r/sourdough to r/popculturechat. Then there are the Seekers; the people who might … Read more
“We’re very engaged on the tariff discussions, Apple CEO Tim Cook said. “On the pricing piece, we have nothing to announce today.”
Tether, the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin by market capitalization, has released its financials for the first quarter of 2025, disclosing nearly $120 billion in exposure to US Treasurys and over $1 billion in operating profit. According to Tether’s Q1 2025 financial report, the company’s assets include $98.5 billion in direct US Treasury bills, … Read more
After supporting passwordless Windows logins for years and even allowing users to delete passwords from their accounts, Microsoft is making its biggest move yet towards a future with no passwords. Now it will ask people signing up for new accounts to only use more secure methods like passkeys, push notifications, and security keys instead, by … Read more
Key takeaways: Despite weak US manufacturing data, Federal Reserve liquidity plans and strong corporate earnings keep equities and crypto afloat. The total crypto market capitalization rose 8.5% since March. Cryptocurrency traders have frequently zoomed in on the need for crypto to show a clear “decoupling” from the stock market, and over the past 10 days, … Read more
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivers remarks to the press during a meeting with UK Defense Secretary John Healey at the Pentagon on March 6th, 2025, in Arlington, Virginia. The Pentagon Inspector General is expanding an inquiry into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s questionable Signal group chats. According to the Wall Street Journal, the investigation … Read more
In modern database development, tools like DataGrip make transaction handling easier by providing graphical interfaces to commit, rollback, or set savepoints. In this article, we’ll define COMMIT, ROLLBACK, and SAVEPOINT in SQL and demonstrate how to implement these transaction controls when working with Oracle, MySQL, or PostgreSQL in Python. Key Transaction Concepts 1. COMMIT • … Read more
The U.S. Treasury Department proposed cutting off the Cambodia-based Huione Group from the U.S. financial system, citing the cyber-crime help the illicit marketplace gives to North Korean hackers and other criminal groups. The Telegram-based operation has been a “critical node for laundering proceeds of cyber heists” and aiding in so-called “pig butchering” scams that typically … Read more
Animoca Brands is looking at trends in real-world tokenized assets, AI projects, and the gaming sector to invest in and develop, according to Omar Elissar, the company’s managing director for the Middle East and the head of Global Strategic Partnerships. In an interview with Cointelegraph’s Sam Bourgi at Token2049, Elissar said that stablecoins, real-world asset … Read more
Despite reports in February suggesting that 2 million pro-crypto voters could decide the outcome of this week’s Australian Federal Election, crypto has barely rated a mention during the campaign. “I think it’s a missed opportunity,” Independent Reserve founder Adrian Przelozny told Cointelegraph. “Neither side has made crypto a headline issue because they’re wary of polarizing … Read more
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Spotify says it has submitted an update to its iOS app that would, among other things, let US customers use payment options that aren’t Apple’s, according to a blog post. The update submission follows Wednesday’s major Epic Games v. Apple ruling that forces Apple not to take a cut of payments on non-Apple payment systems … Read more
During Wednesday’s earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook went into the most detail yet on how the company is responding to the far-reaching US tariffs imposed by President Trump — and the potential impacts on its business. “Assuming the current global tariff rates, policies and applications do not change for the balance of the quarter … Read more
Last year, I started to dig a bit around LangChain4J. It’s a fast-growing project, and I wanted to get familiar with the updates. I also wanted to check how to integrate a Model Context Protocol server in LangChain4J. Version 1 Beta I wrote my last post in November 2024 and used the latest version available … Read more
Avraham Eisenberg was sentenced to more than four years in prison on child pornography charges, unrelated to his role in the 2022 exploit that drained the decentralized exchange Mango Markets of roughly $100 million. According to reporting from Inner City Press, a judge sentenced Eisenberg to 52 months in prison at a May 1 hearing … Read more
Apple CEO Tim Cook commented on the impact of President Trump’s tariffs during Thursday’s second-quarter earnings call with investors. While the iPhone maker saw only “limited impact” from tariffs in the March quarter, Cook said Apple couldn’t forecast what that would mean for the coming quarter. However, if things remained the same, the company estimates … Read more
Data is the foundation of all machine learning innovations. However, collecting vast amounts of data from websites can be tricky due to barriers like request limits, CAPTCHAs, and geo-restrictions. For example, when a data science team set out to scrape Amazon product reviews for an AI sentiment analysis project, they faced immediate limitations. By using … Read more
Some of crypto’s top influencers can score a potentially hefty Solana token airdrop—if they’re willing to launch their own token.
In Amazon’s Q1 2025 earnings call, CEO Andy Jassy touched on the potential impact of the Trump administration’s tariffs, and he seems to think that Amazon won’t be affected too harshly. People are “buying a lot of their everyday essentials at Amazon” and the company has “extremely large selections” and “hundreds of millions of SKUs,” … Read more
We’ve called DJI’s baby steadicam “almost everything I wanted my iPhone camera to be” and one of our favorite gadgets of 2023, but it’s just become a harder product to recommend. In April, DJI quietly hiked the US price of the camera from $519 to $619. Now, DJI has hiked the price again, officially listing … Read more
Michael Saylot’s tech firm Strategy has earned shareholders a Bitcoin yield of 13.7% in the year-to-date, the company said in its May 1 earnings report. That equates to a Bitcoin gain of more than 61,000 Bitcoin (BTC), worth approximately $5.8 billion, according to the company. Bitcoin yield and Bitcoin gain are unofficial accounting metrics that Strategy … Read more
The special Startups of The Year 2024 Winners Interview series is a celebration of all this year’s Tech Champions. You’ve earned it! The HackerNoon community can’t wait to learn more about your journey! :::tip https://hackernoon.com/startups/industry/access-control ::: Tell us about you. Cerbos is an authorization management solution for authoring, testing, and deploying access control policies. Implement … Read more
A Texas member of the US House of Representatives has proposed that government officials consider installing cryptocurrency ATMs in federal buildings across the country. In a May 1 letter to Stephen Ehikian, the acting administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) — the entity responsible for managing the US government’s properties — Rep. Lance Gooden … Read more