Month: July 2025

A Donkey Kong movie is a safe bet for Nintendo’s growing entertainment empire

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It’s looking like Nintendo might have a DK-sized addition to its feature film lineup. The company has filed a copyright notice for a motion picture listed as an “Untitled Donkey Kong Project.” And last month, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said in an investors call that the company was working on more movies, explaining that “although … Read more

Tomorrow: TechCrunch All Stage launches in Boston — and ticket prices rise

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TechCrunch All Stage officially kicks off tomorrow at 7:30 a.m. ET at SoWa Power Station in Boston — and that’s when ticket prices jump to full rate. This isn’t just another founder event. It’s the summit built to help startups fundraise smarter, scale faster, and lead with impact. Whether you’re tightening your pitch, planning a … Read more

Grayscale Files Confidential Submission for IPO With SEC

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Grayscale Investments said it confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a filing that signals plans for an initial public offering (IPO). The asset manager didn’t disclose details of the submission and said the registration is expected to take place after the SEC completes its review process, … Read more

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Stellar (XLM) Surges 20.8% Over Weekend

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CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 3688.41, up 3.2% (+115.64) since 4 p.m. ET on Friday. Seventeen of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: XLM (+20.8%) and HBAR (+19.1%). Laggards: BCH (-4.3%) and FIL (-0.5%). … Read more

Right to Code? Tornado Cash Dev Roman Storm’s Money Laundering Trial Kicks Off Monday

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NEW YORK, New York — Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm’s criminal money laundering is slated to begin in Manhattan on Monday morning, when Storm’s lawyers and prosecutors will begin to select a jury to oversee Storm’s four-week trial. Storm was arrested in Washington state in 2023 and charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy … Read more

Open Source Standards Are Breaking Vendor Lock-In for GPU Developers

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Hey there, GPU enthusiasts! Today, as the tech ecosystem changes rapidly, GPU programming has quickly become the powerhouse behind important structures from cutting-edge AI and machine learning to high-performance computing and stunning graphics. As we look toward the future of computing, two key factors are reshaping this landscape: diversity in programming approaches and the growing … Read more

Scrape Smarter, Not Harder: Let MCP and AI Write Your Next Scraper for You

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In past episodes of The Lab series on The Web Scraping Club, we used Firecrawl to scrape the content of this newsletter, a vector DB like Pinecone to store the articles’ markdown, and the OpenAI API to retrieve information and append the context to our prompt to get better answers. This approach has limitations. The context window size (the amount of information … Read more

Michael Saylor’s Strategy Adds 4,225 Bitcoin, Bringing BTC Stack to 601,550

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Strategy (MSTR), the largest publicly traded company holding bitcoin (BTC), increased its BTC reserves by acquiring 4,225 BTC for a total of $472.5 million last week. This latest addition brings Strategy’s total bitcoin holdings to 601,550 BTC purchased for $42.87 billion, representing an average acquisition price of $71,268 per coin. At bitcoin’s current market price … Read more

BONK Surges 12% as Grayscale Monitoring Sparks Institutional Momentum

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BONK posted a sharp 12% intraday gain during the last 24 hours, climbing from $0.0000250 to $0.0000281 before settling at $0.0000265, up 6.2%. The Solana-based meme token surged following news that Grayscale Investments included BONK in its expanded institutional monitoring framework, signaling rising interest from asset managers and potential future product development. Trading momentum intensified … Read more

CLARITY Act Could be a Game Changer for Institutional Adoption of Crypto: Benchmark

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The long-anticipated CLARITY Act may prove to be a game changer for digital asset markets, potentially ushering in a wave of institutional adoption, according to a note from Benchmark analyst Mark Palmer. The CLARITY Act aims to establish a clear regulatory framework for digital assets in the U.S., distinguishing cryptocurrencies as either commodities or securities. … Read more

How incel language infected the mainstream internet — and brought its toxicity with it

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This excerpt from Adam Aleksic’s Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language has been abridged for online publication. The book is out on July 15th. The modern-­day incel is entirely an invention of the twenty-­first century. Before the internet, lonely men simply didn’t have a way to gather and share ideas. That … Read more