Month: July 2025
Quintenz, Possible Future U.S. Crypto Watchdog, Stymied Again on Step Toward CFTC Job
Brain Quintenz, President Donald Trump’s pick to take over the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that’s anticipated to be the premiere U.S. crypto regulator, needs a sign-off from the Senate Agriculture Committee before he can get a confirmation vote. But that step has now been delayed a second time. The committee was set to vote on … Read more
Anti-CBDC bill could curb Fed’s power over digital dollar, sponsor says
The US House of Representatives will be in recess for the month of August, but the Senate still has a week of business to address two crypto bills before breaking.
Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit
A screenshot from Light of Motiram. Sony is suing Tencent to attempt to stop the release of Light of Motiram, which Sony describes as a “slavish clone” of its Horizon series of games, as reported by Reuters. Light of Motiram was announced last year with a trailer featuring an aesthetic that’s quite similar to the … Read more
Bitcoin Miner MARA Boosts BTC Buying Power With Nearly $1 Billion Raise
The miner initially said it would raise $850 million.
Warner Bros. Discovery will be Warner Bros. and Discovery after they break up
This time next year, the corporate entity known as Warner Bros. Discovery will be no more, and the two companies it’s splitting into have some very inspired names. Today, Warner Bros. Discovery announced that “Warner Bros.” and “Discovery Global” are the names of the two new businesses that will exist after it completes its restructuring … Read more
Flexport sells former freight unicorn Convoy’s tech two years after buying it
The assets of Convoy are now in the hands of DAT Freight & Analytics.
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You Can Now Buy NBA Top Shot NFTs From Vending Machines in Japan
NBA Top Shot collectibles are now available via Japanese vending machines, expanding their reach into the real world.
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Yet another Pixel 6A caught fire
Another user has reported their Pixel 6A catching fire — but this time, it appears to have occurred after applying Google’s recent battery performance update that was intended to prevent overheating issues, as spotted by Android Authority. In a post on Reddit, a Pixel 6A user says they awoke to a “horrible smell and a … Read more
Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare
An app designed to help women spot the “red flags” of men they date has incidentally put its users at risk. 404 Media reported that Tea was hacked by 4chan users last week, resulting in the selfies and driver’s licenses of its mostly women users being posted to 4chan. An independent researcher for 404 Media … Read more
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Microsoft Edge is now an AI browser with launch of ‘Copilot Mode’
Microsoft’s Edge browser introduces an AI-powered “Copilot Mode” for smarter web browsing.
Your Whistle pet tracker will stop working next month
Tractive is offering Whistle users a free replacement pet tracker. | Image: Tractive Tractive, an Austrian company that makes smart location and activity trackers for dogs and cats, is expanding its presence in the US by acquiring a competitor, Whistle, from Mars Petcare. As a result of the acquisition, the Whistle platform is being shut … Read more
PayPal launches crypto checkout tool, adds support for over 100 tokens
PayPal is rolling out a new crypto payment tool that will allow US merchants to receive payments with more than 100 cryptocurrencies.
Anthropic unveils new rate limits to curb Claude Code power users
The new rate limits will go into effect August 28 for subscribers to Anthropic’s $20-per-month Pro plan, as well as its $100 and $200-per-month Max plans.
Trump Eyes Moving U.S. Economy Further Into Crypto Via Mortgages, 401(k)s
With crypto policy now representing one of President Donald Trump’s most concrete achievements in his second term, the White House is reportedly gearing up toward further moves to affix digital assets into a more prominent role in the U.S. economy. Trump is widely expected to soon issue an executive order that calls for American’s retirement … Read more
Build a drug discovery research assistant using Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock
Drug discovery is a complex, time-intensive process that requires researchers to navigate vast amounts of scientific literature, clinical trial data, and molecular databases. Life science customers like Genentech and AstraZeneca are using AI agents and other generative AI tools to increase the speed of scientific discovery. Builders at these organizations are already using the fully … Read more
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The Easiest Way to Detect, Encode, and Search Faces Using AI
CocoIndex supports multi-modal processing natively – it could process both text and image with the same programming model and observe in the same user flow (in CocoInsight). In this blog, we’ll walk through a comprehensive example of building a scalable face recognition pipeline using CocoIndex. We’ll show how to extract and embed faces from images, … Read more
Here’s The Exact Indie-Hacking Vibe-Coding Setup I Use as a Middle-Aged Product Manager
I suppose you’ve seen a lot of memes about product managers making 3000-line pull requests to the senior devs’ repository. Now you can meet one of them—that’s me, yes. A Bit of History My vibe-coding journey started a year and a half ago. While burned out by immigration hurdles and resettlement, and working my pretty … Read more
DOJ Seeks Forfeiture of Bitcoin Tied to ‘Chaos’ Ransomware Group
The ransomware group emerged as recently as February, according to a cybersecurity firm.