Month: June 2025
AI-Driven Cybersecurity Compliance: A Strategic Imperative
The average cost of a data breach in 2024 was $4.88 million. By contrast, the average savings in millions for companies that extensively used security automation and AI in prevention was $2.22 million. The difference? Their approach to cybersecurity compliance. To help you safeguard sensitive data and information systems, this article explores ways your organization … Read more
Circle Shares Surge on NYSE Debut, Signalling Strong Appetite for Stablecoin Issuers
Shares of Circle (CRCL) began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Thursday, opening at $69 a share in early trading. The stock at point surged to as much as $100, more than 200% above the $31 price it had set the night before. The company announced late Wednesday that it sold roughly … Read more
Anduril raises $2.5B at $30.5B valuation led by Founders Fund
Founders Fund has led another, enormous round for defense tech startup Anduril with a $1 billion investment as part of a new $2.5 billion raise, the largest check the firm has ever written. Existing investors also piled in, an Anduril spokesperson tells TechCrunch. Anduril has now doubled its valuation to $30.5 billion with this series … Read more
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Modernize and migrate on-premises fraud detection machine learning workflows to Amazon SageMaker
This post is co-written with Qing Chen and Mark Sinclair from Radial. Radial is the largest 3PL fulfillment provider, also offering integrated payment, fraud detection, and omnichannel solutions to mid-market and enterprise brands. With over 30 years of industry expertise, Radial tailors its services and solutions to align strategically with each brand’s unique needs. Radial … Read more
CoinDesk Top Women in Web3 & AI—Methodology
At first glance, throwing Web3 and AI into a headline might seem like a bad example of buzzword soup, the practice of media companies trying to game the algorithms (and your attention) by using a bunch of the most-searched words of the day. But CoinDesk has been following the slow integration of applications that track … Read more
Midea is recalling its U-shaped air conditioners because of potential mold growth
The air conditioner’s innovative U-shaped design helps block noise, but in some cases it can hinder proper water drainage. | Image: Midea Midea is recalling around 1.7 million of its U and U Plus window air conditioners sold in the US, plus another 45,900 sold in Canada. The air conditioners launched in 2020 with a … Read more
Top 50 Women in Web3 and AI
At first glance, throwing Web3 and AI into a headline might seem like a bad example of buzzword soup, the practice of media companies trying to game the algorithms (and your attention) by using a bunch of the most-searched words of the day. But CoinDesk has been following the slow integration of applications that track … Read more
Nintendo’s GameCube Controller for the Switch 2 is back in stock
If you missed your chance the first time around, you now have another opportunity to pick up Nintendo’s GameCube Controller for the Nintendo Switch 2. The wireless gamepad is available once again from the My Nintendo Store for $64.99, giving fans another shot at securing the recently launched gamepad. To place your order, you’ll need … Read more
Ethereum price to $3K? ETH bulls might need to wait, analysis suggests
Institutional inflows and rising Ethereum transaction fees contrast with sluggish network activity and caution on the Ether futures market.
Contextual retrieval in Anthropic using Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
For an AI model to perform effectively in specialized domains, it requires access to relevant background knowledge. A customer support chat assistant, for instance, needs detailed information about the business it serves, and a legal analysis tool must draw upon a comprehensive database of past cases. To equip large language models (LLMs) with this knowledge, … Read more
Google restricts Android sideloading
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White House Crypto Chief Bo Hines Met With El Salvador’s Bukele to Discuss Bitcoin
El Salvador and the United States are looking to ramp up their crypto partnership. Bo Hines, the executive director of the White House’s Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets, met with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Wednesday. “The aspiring Bitcoin Superpower came to meet with the OG Bitcoin Country to discuss areas of mutual … Read more
Run small language models cost-efficiently with AWS Graviton and Amazon SageMaker AI
As organizations look to incorporate AI capabilities into their applications, large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for natural language processing tasks. Amazon SageMaker AI provides a fully managed service for deploying these machine learning (ML) models with multiple inference options, allowing organizations to optimize for cost, latency, and throughput. AWS has always … Read more
EasyA Promises Even Bigger Hackathon After Record-Breaking Success at Consensus 2025
The EasyA Consensus Hackathon, hosted on May 14-16 in Toronto, was the largest blockchain-related hackathon in North American history — and its organizers, brothers Phil and Dom Kwok, are planning on going even bigger next year in Miami. “We had some really good results, really cool projects,” the duo told CoinDesk in an interview recently. … Read more
Circle’s USDC Likely to Remain DeFi’s Go-To Stablecoin: Compass Point
Circle’s USDC stablecoin has a dominant presence across the crypto industry’s growing number of decentralized exchanges, lending protocols, and other DeFi settings, the analysts say.
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The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Drone Tech Arms Race in Ukraine (6/5/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 5, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, NASA STS-40 Launched 3 Women Into Space in 1991, Montenegro Joined NATO in 2017, The First Artificial Rubber Tires Were Produced in 1937, Women Were Appointed For the … Read more
Introducing Bounce, a tool to move your following between Bluesky and Mastodon
A major development showcasing the potential for the open social web was unveiled Thursday at the online conference known as FediForum. The makers of Bridgy Fed, the tool that connects decentralized open social networks, like Mastodon and Bluesky, developed a new project called Bounce that will allow users to migrate their social network followers across networks powered by … Read more
Snapchat launches an Apple Watch app globally
While you could already preview Snapchat messages on your Apple Watch by enabling them on your iPhone, there wasn’t a way to respond to them until now.
Ballerina is a dance-by-numbers return to the world of John Wick
Ana de Armas as Eve in Ballerina. | Lionsgate Lionsgate was always going to need to take the John Wick franchise in a new direction if it wanted to keep the film series going after the inevitable exit of its central star. A spinoff series came and went with a telling lack of fanfare that … Read more
Bounce lets you move from Bluesky to Mastodon without losing followers
While Bluesky and Mastodon are both decentralized social media networks, they operate on different protocols, ActivityPub and AT Protocol. You might not ever know that unless you’re our kind of nerd and / or someone who’s trying to expand their reach on other platforms without starting from scratch. Tools like Bridgy Fed exist for broadcasting … Read more
Ex-Google Chief Eric Schmidt Backs Firms Behind Blockchain Credit Bureau
High throughput blockchain Keeta and credit data platform SOLO, companies both backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, are introducing an on-chain credit bureau to give digital asset owners access to mortgages, small business loans, and other traditional lending services. Keeta and SOLO have created PASS, a blockchain-based, bank-grade financial identity layer, using know-your-customer, income, … Read more