Month: August 2025
Internet from Space for the Price of a Coffee? Meet Spacecoin
Picture this: two dollars a month for internet from space. Not the familiar copper cables snaking through your walls, not fiber optic lines buried beneath city streets—actual satellites orbiting 340 miles above your head, beaming 5G signals directly to your phone. I would have called this science fiction eighteen months ago. Today, it’s operational reality. … Read more
Elon Musk says he’s suing Apple for rigging App Store rankings
There’s a sore loser in this popularity contest. Elon Musk says that his artificial intelligence company xAI “will take immediate legal action” against Apple for allegedly manipulating its App Store rankings to the advantage of rival AI apps. In a series of X posts on Monday night, Musk suggested that Apple was “playing politics” by … Read more
Microsoft releases lightweight Office taskbar apps for Windows 11
Microsoft is starting to roll out lightweight taskbar apps for Microsoft 365 users on Windows 11. These taskbar apps will automatically launch at startup and provide quick access to contacts, file search, and calendar straight from the Windows taskbar. The Microsoft 365 companion apps, as Microsoft calls them, are starting to roll out to business … Read more
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Tether, Tron-Backed T3 Financial Crime Unit Has Frozen $250M of Criminal Assets in a Year
The T3 Financial Crime Unit, a joint initiative by Tron, Tether, and blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs, has now frozen over $250 million worth of criminal assets less than a year after its launch. “Freezing over $250 million in illicit assets in less than a year is a powerful testament to what’s possible when the … Read more
USDC issuer Circle to launch new layer-1 Arc blockchain this year
USDC issuer Circle introduced its layer-1 blockchain, Arc, and said its Q2 revenue and reserve income increased 53% year-over-year.
Bitcoin Traders Watch CPI for Fed Cues: Crypto Daybook Americas
By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Well, it’s that time of the month when the market holds its breath for the latest U.S. inflation figures, which set the tone for the Fed’s interest-rate policy. Bloomberg’s consensus estimates indicate the July figure, due at 8:30 a.m., is likely to show an increase in … Read more
Metaplanet, Smarter Web add almost $100M in Bitcoin to treasuries
Metaplanet and the UK’s The Smarter Web Company added nearly $100 million in Bitcoin on Tuesday, boosting their positions among the largest public corporate BTC holders.
Taylor Swift’s 12th announced at 12:12 on the 12th
Taylor Swift at NFL Game. Taylor Swift leaned into her love for symbolism with the announcement of her dozenth album, titled The Life of a Showgirl. TS12 was introduced in a teaser — already viewed over 65 million times — for the next episode of the New Heights podcast airing Wednesday, hosted by boyfriend Travis Kelce and his big brother … Read more
GTA V now has DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation support
Rockstar Games is adding Nvidia’s DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation support to Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced today. Nvidia is also releasing a new Game Ready driver today that will improve Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced performance, as well as support the enhanced version of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II that’s available today. The DLSS 4 … Read more
Ford is doubling down on EVs — the timing is awful
On Monday, Ford introduced an innovative new manufacturing process that it says will help make its EVs more sustainable, more desirable, and more importantly, more affordable. The timing couldn’t have been worse. EV tax credits were set to expire at the end of September. President Trump’s trade war was tilting the balance in favor of … Read more
FLOKI’s Valhalla MMORPG Storms U.S. Television With 60-Day National Commercial Blitz
Miami, Florida, August 11th, 2025/Chainwire/–FLOKI’s flagship play-to-earn MMORPG, Valhalla, has officially entered the U.S. mainstream with the debut of its first-ever national television commercial. The 30-second spot aired on Saturday, August 9, at 6:30 p.m. EST during Valhalla’s interview segment on New To The Street. For the next 60 days, viewers across the United States … Read more
FTX Investors Sue Law Firm, Alleging Role in Exchange’s Fraud
Plaintiffs allege that Fenwick & West designed shell companies and structures that enabled the theft of billions in FTX customer funds.
When Experts Disagree, Let UNIPELT Decide
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Preliminaries Unifying PELT Methods Experiments 4.1 Experiment Setup 4.2 Analysis of Individual PELT Methods 4.3 Analysis of UNIPELT 4.4 Efficiency of PELT Methods Related Work Conclusion, Acknowledgements, and References 5 Related Work Parameter-Efficient Tuning of PLMs. As it is increasingly infeasible to train and store full copies of … Read more
Why KuCoin Is Letting Institutions Trade Crypto with UBS Tokenized Money Market Funds
Can a Traditional Money Market Fund Become Collateral for Crypto Trading? KuCoin has announced that it will now support UBS uMINT, the first tokenized money market investment fund launched by UBS Asset Management and distributed via DigiFT. This marks the first time a global cryptocurrency exchange has enabled institutional tokenholders to use UBS uMINT as … Read more
SEC to focus on ‘clear’ crypto regulations after Ripple case: Atkins
The end of the almost five-year legal dispute will enable the agency to dedicate more time to developing clear regulatory frameworks, according to SEC Chair Paul Atkins.
Experimental Evaluation of UNIPELT: Robust Gains Over Fine-Tuning and Individual PELT Methods
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Preliminaries Unifying PELT Methods Experiments 4.1 Experiment Setup 4.2 Analysis of Individual PELT Methods 4.3 Analysis of UNIPELT 4.4 Efficiency of PELT Methods Related Work Conclusion, Acknowledgements, and References 4 Experiments We conduct extensive experiments with 8 tasks × 4 data sizes × 7 methods × 5 runs … Read more
Markets Today: Bitcoin, Ether Hold Gains as Ethena Hits $11.9B TVL, Pudgy Penguins Race to F1
The global crypto market cap rose 2% in the past 24 hours to $4.03 trillion as major cryptocurrencies posted gains. Bitcoin (BTC) added 2.3% to $118,527, ether rose 0.7% to $4,293. Solana and XRP each advanced 4.4% while Dogecoin gained 4.7%. The rallies came alongside heavy short liquidations, with risk sentiment improving after a relatively … Read more
The Tuning Trifecta: UNIPELT’s Gated Symphony of BitFit, Adapter, and Prefix-Tuning
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Preliminaries Unifying PELT Methods Experiments 4.1 Experiment Setup 4.2 Analysis of Individual PELT Methods 4.3 Analysis of UNIPELT 4.4 Efficiency of PELT Methods Related Work Conclusion, Acknowledgements, and References 2 Preliminaries 2.1 PELT Methods without Additional Parameters PLMs can be used as feature extractors where only the top … Read more
Combining PELT Methods with Gating: How UNIPELT Delivers Robust LM Tuning Across Tasks
:::info Authors: (1) Yuning Mao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the work was done during internship at Meta AI (yuningm2@illinois.edu); (2) Lambert Mathias, Meta AI (mathiasl@fb.com); (3) Rui Hou, Meta AI (rayhou@fb.com); (4) Amjad Almahairi, Meta AI (aalmah@fb.com); (5) Hao Ma, Meta AI (haom@fb.com); (6) Jiawei Han, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (hanj@illinois.edu); (7) Wen-tau Yih, … Read more
Control Processing Concurrency for Large Scale RAG Pipelines in Production
CocoIndex is designed to be production-ready from day one—built to process data in parallel, maximizing throughput while keeping your systems safe. Today, we’ll look at how to optimize performance without overloading your environment. With CocoIndex, it’s just one configuration away. :star2: Star CocoIndex if you like it – https://github.com/cocoindex-io/cocoindex CocoIndex’s parallelism model boosts speed by … Read more
ARK Invest buys $19M of Jack Dorsey’s Block as stock tumbles to $73
ARK Invest’s latest Block purchase is its first in months, signaling a potential shift in the company’s investment strategy.
8% of Ethereum Supply Now Sitting in ETFs or Company Reserves
The percentage of ETH held by ETFs and corporate reserves has risen from just 3% at the beginning of April.
How Aditxt and Crypto.com are Bridging Biotech and Crypto Finance
Why did Aditxt turn to Crypto.com to secure its biotech treasury? Aditxt, a social innovation platform advancing health technologies, signed an agreement with Crypto.com to establish a custodial crypto account. The move supports its plan to back biotech innovation with a digital asset reserve including Bitcoin. Under the agreement Crypto.com will serve as custodian for … Read more
Metaplanet Boosts Bitcoin Reserves with $61M Purchase
Metaplanet (3350) said it bought another 518 bitcoin (BTC) as part of its Bitcoin Treasury Operations. The purchase was made at an average price of $118,519 per bitcoin, bringing the total purchase value to about $61 million, the Tokyo-based investment company said in a post on X. The company, holder of the sixth-largest corporate stash … Read more
Epic says Fortnite is coming back to iOS in Australia
Epic Games has announced that it’s bringing Fortnite back to iOS in Australia, after the country’s federal court ruled that Apple and Google’s app marketplaces are anticompetitive. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said on X that Fortnite will be made available on iPhones via the Epic Games Store “at a date to be determined,” while the … Read more
Stripe Building Payments Blockchain ‘Tempo’ With Paradigm: Fortune
Stripe is building a new blockchain dubbed Tempo with crypto venture firm Paradigm, according to a now-removed job posting dated Aug. 3 on the Blockchain Association website. The role sought a product marketer with Fortune 500 experience, signaling an enterprise push, according to Fortune. The move coincides with the development of other stablecoin-focused blockchains. These … Read more