OpenAI and Google outdo the mathletes, but not each other
OpenAI and Google’s AI models achieved impressive results in a difficult math competition, but disputed how the other got their score.
Month: July 2025
Ring Users Report Mysterious Logins—Amazon Blames Backend Bug
Users spotted suspicious Amazon Ring logins dated May 28, days after the company’s founder rejoined to “make neighborhoods safer.”
How to break the ‘AI hype cycle’
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Tornado Cash Trial Takes a Turn as Roman Storm’s Lawyers Mull Mistrial
Storm’s lawyers said Monday that uncertainties over Tornado Cash’s role in some of the events recounted by witnesses could be grounds for a mistrial.
Serial spyware founder Scott Zuckerman wants the FTC to unban him from the surveillance industry
The spyware maker was banned from the surveillance industry in 2021, but was caught flouting the ban less than a year later. Now the founder wants the ban lifted altogether.
Crypto ATMs seized in the UK amid growing scrutiny of kiosk-based exchanges
Crypto ATM arrests in London come as US states like Wisconsin move to limit daily transactions and mandate fraud warnings.
LetsEncrypt Outage
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Judge allows testimony on ‘feasible’ Tornado Cash code changes
The second week of the Roman Storm trial kicked off with Judge Katherine Failla allowing a witness to testify that Tornado Cash could have been modified to prevent criminal use.
The Business of Memes: Inside the Solana Meme Coin Factory Pump.Fun
Pump.fun has generated $774 million in revenue, raised $600 million in 12 minutes, and created almost 12 million tokens on Solana. Can it keep it going?
Hive Digital accelerates AI pivot with $100M HPC expansion — Cointelegraph exclusive
Hive Digital’s HPC business is targeting a $100 million annual revenue run rate as it continues to diversify beyond Bitcoin mining.
Strategy Reveals Another Stock Offering to Boost $71 Billion Bitcoin Stash
Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) is launching a new financial product as a way to raise money for BTC buys.
Polymarket set to reenter US with $112M acquisition of QCEX derivitives exchange
Polymarket comes back to the United States more than two years after US regulators dropped investigations into the predictions market platform.
Neon Now Runs in VS Code
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Robinhood CEO Acknowledges OpenAI Crypto Stock ‘Controversy’—But Is Doubling Down
Vlad Tenev said Robinhood is dead set on expanding its tokenized stock offerings, despite warnings from the SEC about the novel asset class.
What the DOGE? Why Dogecoin Has Jumped 40% in a Week
The Elon Musk favorite is the biggest gainer over the past week among the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market value.
Myth vs. Reality: Real-World Runtime Performance of Node.js, Deno, and Bun
Introduction In the world of server-side JavaScript environments, Node.js has remained the de facto standard for over a decade, widely used in large-scale production systems across a variety of domains. However, in recent years, alternative runtimes such as Deno and Bun have emerged with their claimed performance advantages and modern architecture. Deno, introduced by the … Read more
StablecoinX to go public via SPAC merger, raising $360M for ENA treasury
The new entity will manage a crypto corporate reserve powered by the ENA token, with investors including Pantera, Galaxy Digital and the Ethena Foundation.
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