Month: May 2025

Best practices for Meta Llama 3.2 multimodal fine-tuning on Amazon Bedrock

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Multimodal fine-tuning represents a powerful approach for customizing foundation models (FMs) to excel at specific tasks that involve both visual and textual information. Although base multimodal models offer impressive general capabilities, they often fall short when faced with specialized visual tasks, domain-specific content, or particular output formatting requirements. Fine-tuning addresses these limitations by adapting models … Read more

Do You Really Need a “Second Brain”?

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Do You Really Need a “Second Brain”? In a world overflowing with information, tools, and apps, the concept of a “second brain” keeps coming up—a system to store our thoughts, ideas, and tasks. Apps like Notion, Evernote, or Obsidian promise to organize our lives and boost productivity. But which one is the best for you? … Read more

Apple doesn’t seem too worried about Trump’s tariffs

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Apple reported its latest quarterly earnings on Wednesday under the backdrop of a court ruling that’s poised to upend the company’s App Store business and tariff uncertainty that could spur price increases for devices including the iPhone. At least on this occasion, Apple’s revenue numbers weren’t top of mind for tech industry onlookers like they … Read more

Peacock trained TikTokers to make content, and now four creators are getting original series

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Three years ago, a group of TikTokers joined NBCUniversal’s new initiative aimed at transforming social media influencers into the next generation of TV show creators.  Now, four of these creators are set to launch their original series on Peacock.  According to The Hollywood Reporter, the shows set to premiere are “The Warehouse Phase,” developed by … Read more

Mango Markets Exploiter Avi Eisenberg Sentenced to 4+ Years in Prison for Child Porn

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NEW YORK, NY — Mango Markets exploiter Avraham “Avi” Eisenberg, who stole $110 million from the now-defunct decentralized finance protocol in 2022, was sentenced to 52 months in prison on Thursday — on his guilty plea to possession of child sexual exploitation material, not for his conviction on the crypto theft. The sentencing comes a year … Read more

Rising star defense tech startup Mach Industries is raising $100 million, sources say

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Mach Industries, the defense tech founded by 21-year-old Ethan Thornton, is about to close a fresh $100 million in financing co-led by new investor Khosla and existing investor Bedrock Capital, a source familiar with the deal tells TechCrunch. The new round will value the company at around $470 million, according to the source. However, the … Read more

Institutional Bitcoin buying may soon price out retail — LONGITUDE panel

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Retail investors are running out of time to accumulate Bitcoin as institutional adoption accelerates, according to Sergej Kunz, co-founder of exchange aggregator 1inch. Bitcoin (BTC) is evolving into an alternative reserve currency, propelling institutional demand and potentially pricing out retail investors, Kunz said during Cointelegraph’s LONGITUDE event in Dubai.  “Every retail user should be thinking … Read more

Stripe shows iOS developers how to avoid Apple’s App Store commission

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Payments processing software provider Stripe is ready to help iOS app developers bypass Apple’s cut of App Store transactions. Following yesterday’s ruling in the Apple-Epic antitrust trial, where Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers outright shamed Apple for not permitting external payment links in apps as she had previously ruled, Stripe shared documentation that shows iOS developers … Read more

5 Open-Source, Free Software You Didn’t Know You Needed to Protect Your Data

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In today’s digital age, protecting and encrypting personal data has become essential to safeguarding privacy and security. With the increasing prevalence of cyber threats, such as hacking, identity theft, and unauthorized surveillance, sensitive information like financial details, passwords, and private communications can easily fall into the wrong hands. Encryption acts as a powerful shield, transforming … Read more

Strategy Raising Another $21B to Buy Bitcoin, Posts Large Q1 Loss on BTC Price Decline

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Disclaimer: The analyst who co-wrote this piece owns shares of Strategy (MSTR). Strategy (MSTR) reported a first-quarter 2025 loss of $16.49 after posting a $5.9 billion writedown on its bitcoin stack thanks to a sizable decline in the price of BTC during the year’s first three months. Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, the company, … Read more

Buzzy investing app Dub lands $30M Series A

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Dub, the copy-trading platform that says it’s transforming how Gen Z invests, has secured a $30 million Series A funding round, bringing its total raised to $47 million. The deal, which founder Steven Wang had previously hinted to TechCrunch was in the works, comes a year after its official launch. The 23-year-old’s Harvard dropout’s platform … Read more

Aurora’s driverless trucks are making deliveries in Texas

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After years of testing and validation, Aurora says its first fully autonomous tractor-trailers are operating on public highways in Texas. The company’s Class 8 trucks are now making customer deliveries between Dallas and Houston, having already completed 1,200 miles “without a driver,” Aurora said. The clients for these initial trips are Uber Freight, the ridehailing … Read more

How Enso Is Migrating $3.5B in DeFi Liquidity to Unichain with a Single Click

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Can a single-click really migrate billions in DeFi liquidity? That is the question being answered by a major new partnership in the blockchain space. Enso, Stargate, and LayerZero have collaborated to create a new infrastructure that allows Uniswap liquidity providers (LPs) to migrate their positions to Unichain with just one click. The announcement suggests that … Read more

CPU Contention and Noisy Neighbors

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Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. – Garrett Hardin Some time in the past, I worked at a company that self-hosted almost everything from whether it was a good decision or not, deserves a separate … Read more

Bitcoin trader says BTC’s cycle top in $125K to $150K range if certain conditions are met

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Key takeaways: Bitcoin could reach $150,000 by August or September of this year if BTC breaks above the parabolic slope pattern. Bitcoin (BTC) price jumped to new quarterly highs at $96,700 on May 1, a day after the US GDP contracted -0.3% for the first time since Q2 2022. Amid heightened economic concerns, the probability … Read more

How Circular Economy Principles Are Reshaping Tech Infrastructure

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The concept of circular economy is moving from theory into practice across tech and infrastructure sectors—and it’s moving fast. As organizations feel increasing pressure to cut waste and reduce their environmental footprint, companies with an eye on the future are creating innovative solutions that transform old-school liberal models into sustainable, closed-loop systems. This shift isn’t … Read more

SEC Ditches PayPal’s PYUSD Probe, Removing Key Regulatory Hurdle for Its Stablecoin

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has closed its investigation into PayPal’s dollar-backed stablecoin, PayPal USD (PYUSD), without taking enforcement action, ending a regulatory chapter that began more than a year ago, the company said. “In November 2023, we received a subpoena from the U.S. SEC Division of Enforcement relating to PayPal USD stablecoin. The … Read more

Crypto to accelerate AI adoption — LONGITUDE panel

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Cryptocurrency can accelerate artificial intelligence adoption by helping AI startups onboard users, according to Polygon’s co-founder Sandeep Nailwal. “You can use crypto incentives and disincentives to onboard users to onboard the ecosystem players,” Nailwal said during a panel discussion at the LONGITUDE by Cointelegraph event. He added that projects with effective onchain incentive structures might … Read more