Month: June 2025
Twenty Years of TiddlyWiki (2024)
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DOGE, ADA Nosedive 7% as Crypto Traders Digest ‘Recession’ Sentiment
Dogecoin DOGE and Cardano’s ADA ADA led the declines on Friday as crypto traders digested mixed macro data and recession concerns sparked by an escalating feud between President Donald Trump and tech titan Elon Musk. DOGE tumbled nearly 7% in 24 hours, while ADA slid 6.5% to reflect a risk-off shift among crypto traders. Bitcoin … Read more
Ether Trader Bets Millions on ETH Blasting Above $3.4K by June-End
Last month, CoinDesk reported that big money is becoming increasingly bullish on ether ETH, with price charts indicating a potential rally above $3,000. New evidence has now emerged, supporting those claims. On Thursday, a trader paid a premium of over $2 million to purchase a total of 61,000 contracts of June-end expiry ether call options … Read more
Bitcoin, Ether Bulls Hit With $800M Liquidation as Trump-Musk Tussle Rattles BTC, ETH
A late-night Twitter spat between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk sparked fresh uncertainty in global markets, sending major cryptocurrencies tumbling and wiping out nearly $1 billion in leveraged bets. Bitcoin BTC dropped below $101,000 overnight before bouncing modestly, with DOGE and ADA among the worst hit, down over 6% each in the past 24 … Read more
OpenAI Challenges Court Order to Preserve User Data in NYT Lawsuit
The AI firm said the order to retain deleted ChatGPT chats undermines user privacy as legal its battle escalates.
Ross Ulbricht’s big Bitcoin donor tied to Silk Road successor Alphabay: Report
Chainalysis told WIRED that it tracked a $31 million Bitcoin donation to online black market Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht to a successor marketplace called Alphabay.
Uber in ‘study phase’ of using stablecoins to lower costs, says CEO
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says the ride-sharing giant is looking at whether stablecoins can help it save when money around the world.
Trump-Musk spat sees Bitcoin tumble, liquidating $308M in longs
Bitcoin long traders took a hit over the past 24 hours amid Bitcoin’s price dwindling amid broader macroeconomic tension and continued sell-offs by long-term holders.
Meta Oversight Board Slams Parent Company Over Viral Ronaldo Deepfake
Meta’s Oversight Board ordered the removal of a Ronaldo deepfake ad, calling out the platform’s weak enforcement of anti-fraud rules.
The New Tools Rewriting the Web
What started as a personal blogging resolution turned into a realization. Today’s publishing is global, dynamic, and automated. With new tools, creators can translate, distribute, and amplify a single post across channels, languages, and audiences, redefining what it means to hit “publish.”
Text-to-Voice? No, It’s Something More: Text-to-Emotion.
With real-time performance and emotional control, generative voice technology has taken a leap: it’s not just about sounding human anymore – it’s about making your audience feel something.
Uber Once Again Says It’s Considering Crypto Years After Considering BTC Payments
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the ride-hailing giant is exploring the use of crypto as a payment method, which marks the third time the company has made the claim since 2021. Speaking Thursday at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, Khosrowshahi said the company is in the “study phase” of evaluating stablecoins for operational … Read more
I am an audience, first and foremost
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Building an AI server on a budget
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Open Source Distilling
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US wants $7.7M in crypto laundered in North Korea IT worker plot
The Justice Department has filed a civil forfeiture complaint to seize crypto and NFTs allegedly tied to laundering efforts by North Korea.
Test Postgres in Python Like SQLite
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How Circle’s IPO Stacks Up Against Other Crypto Market Debuts
Circle closed with an $18.4 billion valuation, well below Coinbase’s IPO but ahead of newer entrants like Fold and eToro.
Asia Morning Briefing: Bitcoin Bulls Laser Focused on $120K Despite Trump-Musk Turmoil
Good Morning, Asia. Here’s what’s making news in the markets: Welcome to Asia Morning Briefing, a daily summary of top stories during U.S. hours and an overview of market moves and analysis. For a detailed overview of U.S. markets, see CoinDesk’s Crypto Daybook Americas. Bitcoin BTC is trading above $101.5K as Asia begins its trading … Read more
Multi-Token Prediction: Bridging Training-Inference Mismatch in LLMs
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Method 3. Experiments on real data 3.1. Benefits scale with model size and 3.2. Faster inference 3.3. Learning global patterns with multi-byte prediction and 3.4. Searching for the optimal n 3.5. Training for multiple epochs and 3.6. Finetuning multi-token predictors 3.7. Multi-token prediction on natural language 4. … Read more
Differentiating Multi-Token Prediction from Prior LLM Training Methods
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Method 3. Experiments on real data 3.1. Benefits scale with model size and 3.2. Faster inference 3.3. Learning global patterns with multi-byte prediction and 3.4. Searching for the optimal n 3.5. Training for multiple epochs and 3.6. Finetuning multi-token predictors 3.7. Multi-token prediction on natural language 4. … Read more
‘A Different Era’: Bored Ape Creator Yuga Labs Wants to Kill the ApeCoin DAO
Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs has proposed axing the ApeCoin DAO, with plans to create a new entity to oversee the Ethereum token.
VPN Usage Spikes in France as Pornhub Blocks Users Over Age Restrictions
Pornhub’s France block over age checks sparked a 1,000% ProtonVPN signup surge, highlighting pushback against ID laws.