Month: May 2025

The Protocol: Self-spreading Malware Found in Privacy Crypto Dero

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Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, the Ethereum protocol reporter on CoinDesk’s Tech team. In this issue: The Solana Network Is Now Live on MetaMask Privacy Crypto Dero Targeted With New Self-Spreading Malware FIFA Teams Up With Avalanche to Build Its Own … Read more

Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings joins Anthropic’s board of directors

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Anthropic is adding a new person to its board: Reed Hastings, Netflix’s chairman, co-founder, and former CEO. “Hastings brings extensive experience from founding and scaling Netflix into a global entertainment powerhouse, along with his service on the boards of Facebook, Microsoft, and Bloomberg,” Anthropic says in its announcement post. The company adds that “as someone … Read more

Building a multimodal RAG based application using Amazon Bedrock Data Automation and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases

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Organizations today deal with vast amounts of unstructured data in various formats including documents, images, audio files, and video files. Often these documents are quite large, creating significant challenges such as slower processing times and increased storage costs. Extracting meaningful insights from these diverse formats in the past required complex processing pipelines and significant development … Read more

Tailoring foundation models for your business needs: A comprehensive guide to RAG, fine-tuning, and hybrid approaches

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Foundation models (FMs) have revolutionised AI capabilities, but adopting them for specific business needs can be challenging. Organizations often struggle with balancing model performance, cost-efficiency, and the need for domain-specific knowledge. This blog post explores three powerful techniques for tailoring FMs to your unique requirements: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), fine-tuning, and a hybrid approach combining … Read more

From Steam Engines to Ethereum Staking: How Insurance Enables Innovation

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The crypto industry is on the precipice of mainstream adoption. But, like many exciting innovations from previous eras, this technology brings new risks. And these new risks must be mitigated before crypto can achieve its full potential. During the Industrial Revolution, steam power drove immense progress but carried deadly risks. Steam boilers exploded with alarming … Read more

LexisNexis leaked social security numbers and other personal data of over 364,000 people

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The data analytics firm LexisNexis Risk Solutions says it suffered a breach that could have exposed the names, Social Security numbers, contact information, and driver’s license numbers of over 364,000 people, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. In a notice filed with the state of Maine, LexisNexis says “an unauthorized third party” accessed its data through … Read more

Coinbase data breach 2025: What was stolen and what you need to know

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Background of Coinbase’s May 2025 breach Coinbase, America’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, received an unsolicited email from an unknown threat actor on May 11, 2025. They claimed to possess sensitive information about its customers and demanded a ransom of $20 million.  Before examining the breach, it is interesting to understand how it happened at a public … Read more

From Hype to Reality: 2025’s Emerging Innovations in DePIN and AI

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DePIN: decentralized physical infrastructure networks While DePIN projects, in theory, attempt to provide real utility to crypto, there are few that truly solve real-life problems, have a sensible business model capable of disrupting existing companies and cannot be easily spoofed. Most are simply solutions in search of a problem. One notable exception is a flight-tracking … Read more

You can now try interactive AI worlds backed by Pixar’s cofounder

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AI companies have recently been experimenting with interactive, AI-generated worlds. There’s an AI-generated version of Quake. An AI-generated Minecraft. Google DeepMind is also building a team to develop models that “simulate the world.” Now, an AI startup backed by Pixar cofounder Edwin Catmull is trying to put its own spin on the idea – something … Read more

U.S. Labor Department Picks Up Crypto Torch, Throws Out Previous Warnings

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The U.S. Department of Labor is reversing its earlier caution about including crypto investments in people’s retirement savings, arguing that issuing warnings about the hazards of digital assets failed to maintain appropriate neutrality about what the agency tells investment officials. The new compliance directive issued on Wednesday clarified that the department has no business singling … Read more

Family safety app Life360 adds Tile’s lost-item trackers, years after its acquisition

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Over three and a half years after family locator app Life360 acquired lost item tracker Tile for $205 million, the two services are finally fully integrated. On Wednesday, Life360 announced that the item-finding capabilities of Tile, a competitor to Apple’s AirTag and other Bluetooth-based trackers, are now available from inside its main app. The update … Read more