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Month: June 2025
Cypherock X1 Review: A Crypto Hardware Wallet With a Slick Card-Based Security Model
The Cypherock X1 employs a shard-based security model using cards with secure elements, to guard against the threat of wrench attacks.
Strategy's Michael Saylor signals impending Bitcoin purchase
According to data from SaylorTracker, Strategy’s BTC investment is up over 50%, representing unrealized capital gains of over $20 billion.
Early AI investor Elad Gil finds his next big bet: AI-powered rollups
Elad Gil started betting on AI before most of the world took notice. By the time investors began grasping the implications of ChatGPT, Gil had already written seed checks to startups like Perplexity, Character.AI, and Harvey. Now, as the early winners of the AI wave become clearer, the renowned “solo” VC is increasingly focused on … Read more
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NERD RAGE! how I got a Russian oligarch’s yacht kicked out of a port in Turkey, raised hell, struck a blow for Ukraine, got seen more than a million times plus irritated a bunch of powerful people using this one weird old trick. A true story So the TL;DR is down at the bottom. But … Read more
Who Watches the Watchbots? New Framework Lets AI Judge AI
The use of AI agents skyrocketed in 2024. This is attributed to the ease with which LLM agents can carry out activities. Popular LLM agents, such as Deep Research by OpenAI and Replit AI Agent, have been shown to possess higher capabilities than typical LLMs. Building a peer-to-peer evaluation of AI agent systems using human-centric … Read more
Successful Founders Built Lives That Energize Rather Than Drain Them
Listen Here → https://open.spotify.com/episode/1MmUcQ5nSYLRFBUQopeRm2?si=RZ5n9Ez_RUWVhVx2iJbcHQ&embedable=true The Hidden Business Strategy No One Talks About Your relationship is failing. Not your business relationships. Your real ones. The ones waiting for you at home while you “crush it” for another 14-hour day. While you’re optimizing conversion rates and chasing investor meetings, your actual life is quietly unraveling. Your partner … Read more
Elevenlabs Conversational AI 2.0
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Best Short-Form AI Video Generator? Kling 2.1 vs Google Veo 3
Chinese AI firm Kuaishou launched its upgraded Kling 2.1 models just days after Google’s Veo 3 drop. Here’s how they stack up.
TON blockchain network back online after brief outage
Representatives for The Open Network (TON) said the outage was caused by an error in the masterchain dispatch queue and was resolved.
Bitcoin could consolidate, but ETH, HYPE, TAO and QNT may resume their up move
Bitcoin’s rise above $105,000 could improve sentiment, triggering a rally in ETH, HYPE, TAO, and QNT.
Police Tech That I Saw During ‘Cop Con’
There’s a particularly cheeky episode of Brooklyn 99 about a fictitious Tri-State Police Officers Convention, an annual conference that brings police officers—including the show’s ensemble—together for presentations, professional development, and parties. “Cop-Con” is a ride: Despite their captain urging them to be on their best behavior, members of the squad spend their time at the … Read more
The HackerNoon Newsletter: OpenAI Wants to Design How You Live With AI (6/1/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 1, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Marilyn Monroe Was Born in 1926, The European Central Bank Was Founded in 1998, Nissan Motor Came Into Existence in 1934, and we present you with these top … Read more
‘Money Printing’ Will Lift Bitcoin to $250K This Year: Arthur Hayes
Bitcoin’s price will more than double within the next six months, according to BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes. Here’s why he expects the surge.
Bitcoin traders target $100K and under as monthly close seals 11% gain
Bitcoin traders eye the weekly close for cues as to where BTC price action may be headed next — but sub-$100,000 levels are already on their radar.
How college students built the fastest Rubik’s Cube-solving robot yet
The student-built Purdubik’s Cube set a new Guinness World Record by solving a Rubik’s Cube in just 0.103 seconds. | Photo: Matthew Patrohay / Purdue University A team of Purdue University students recently set a new Guinness World Record with their custom robot that solved a Rubik’s Cube in just 0.103 seconds. That was about … Read more
Sam Altman biographer Keach Hagey explains why the OpenAI CEO was ‘born for this moment’
In “The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future,” Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey examines our AI-obsessed moment through one of its key figures — Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. Hagey begins with Altman’s Midwest childhood, then takes readers through his career at startup Loopt, accelerator Y Combinator, … Read more
The machine economy has arrived and bots have wallets
Autonomous delivery robots are no longer just couriers. They’re economic actors with their own wallets, negotiating, earning and spending in real time. Bots have evolved from tools into agents, economic participants in their own right.
The Verge’s 2025 Father’s Day gift guide
Father’s Day rules. It’s a day to celebrate all that dads have contributed to the people, homes, and communities that they’re a part of. Being a dad is a lot of work – something I can vouch for, being a relatively new one myself – so for Father’s Day, why not give dear old dad … Read more
Bitcoin to $250K? Arthur Hayes Makes Bold Predictions
At Bitcoin 2025, BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes sat down with Decrypt reporter André Beganski to discuss his Bitcoin and Ethereum price predictions for 2025, the future of Bitcoin treasury companies, and more.
The Biggest Games Releasing in June 2025
June is stacked: The Nintendo Switch 2 drops with 20+ games, while Death Stranding 2 and Dune: Awakening bring the heat to PS5 and PC.
Why do lawyers keep using ChatGPT?
Every few weeks, it seems like there’s a new headline about a lawyer getting in trouble for submitting filings containing, in the words of one judge, “bogus AI-generated research.” The details vary, but the throughline is the same: an attorney turns to a large language model (LLM) like ChatGPT to help them with legal research … Read more
A new movie taking on the tech bros
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 85, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, sorry in advance that this week is a tiny bit politics-y, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Sean Evans … Read more
Learning from the Amiga API/ABI
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