Treasury for Trump-Backed World Liberty to Raise $1.5B for WLFI Buys
Financial infrastructure firm ALT5 Sigma Corporation signaled its plans to establish a $WLFI treasury, shortly after the token became poised to trade.
Month: August 2025
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FG Nexus Buys $200M in Ether in Bid for 10% Network Stake
FG Nexus, the digital assets arm of Fundamental Global Inc., has acquired 47,331 ETH worth roughly $200 million at $4,228.40 per token as part of an aggressive strategy to become one of the world’s largest corporate holders of ether. The Charlotte, North Carolina-based company formally kicked off its accumulation plan on July 30 with a … Read more
PUMP Surges as Meme Coin Launchpad Pump.fun Regains Top Spot on Solana
Pump.fun’s token surged as the meme coin launchpad clawed back market share from LetsBonk, its biggest competitor on Solana in recent weeks.
iRobot’s future isn’t looking up
iRobot, maker of the iconic Roomba robot vacuum, announced its second-quarter earnings late last week, and the numbers keep going down. Despite launching an entirely new product line, its revenue declined 23 percent to $127.6 million from the previous quarter, with the lucrative US and European markets being hit hardest. The company has struggled in … Read more
Ocean’s new app brings inbox triage, tasks and invites to Gmail users
Ocean debuts an email app for Gmail users with triage tools, a task manager and more.
Rumble Gains on Plans to Acquire Tether-Affiliated Northern Data
Video sharing platform Rumble (RUM) gained on Monday on plans to acquire cloud computing firm Northern Data in an all-stock deal, which would see the two firms stablecoin issuer Tether (USDT) invested in merging into one. If the deal proceeds, Rumble would give 2.319 newly-issued shares for each Northern Data share. Northern Data shareholders would … Read more
Bitcoin will make history at $340K if BTC beats last cycle's 2100% gains
Bitcoin getting to $340,000 this cycle is a “very big ask,” but over the past five years, BTC has already won the macro asset returns game, research shows.
Cloudflare Is Not a CDN
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AP to end its weekly book reviews
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Creditcoin’s Bold Plan to Make the World’s Invisible $2 Trillion Economy Visible
The motorcycle taxi driver in Kampala didn’t know he was making financial history. I watched Samuel—not his real name—hand over 50,000 Ugandan shillings to his friend Joseph, sealing a handshake loan that would never appear on any credit bureau’s radar. Their transaction, multiplied millions of times across sub-Saharan Africa, represents the world’s largest invisible economy. … Read more
Made by Google 2025: How to watch Google debut the Pixel 10, Pixel Watch 4, and more
Google is hosting its Pixel 10 event next week. Learn how to watch the tech giant reveal its new mobile devices and what else you can expect.
Trump admin stops illegal freeze of $5B EV charger funds after losing in court
The money is on the table again, but with fewer requirements for proving out safety, environmental impacts, and inclusion of minority- and women-owned businesses.
No-Code EPSS-Powered Vulnerability Management in Budibase
One of the primary challenges in vulnerability management is the overwhelming number of vulnerabilities combined with limited resources. Not all vulnerabilities are equally dangerous, and not every one requires urgent remediation. For example, a vulnerability with a high CVSS score might pose little real-world risk if the likelihood of exploitation is extremely low. This is … Read more
Meta makes conservative activist an AI bias advisor following lawsuit
Conservative activist Robby Starbuck will serve as an advisor at Meta to address “ideological and political bias” within the company’s AI chatbot, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The move comes as part of a settlement Meta reached with Starbuck, who filed a lawsuit claiming Meta AI wrongly stated he was involved … Read more
Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Reddit says that it has caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to start blocking the Internet Archive from indexing the vast majority of Reddit. The Wayback Machine will no longer be able to crawl post detail pages, comments, or profiles; instead, it will only be able … Read more
The value of institutional memory
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Michael Saylor’s Latest Bitcoin Buy Is Strategy’s Smallest in Months
Strategy spent $18 million on Bitcoin last week—the firm’s smallest transaction since March as it celebrates five years of buying BTC.
CoinDesk owner Bullish ups IPO goal to $1B as Wall Street backs crypto push
The IPO is led by Wall Street heavyweights JPMorgan, Jefferies and Citigroup, SEC filings show.
Filecoin Narrows Loss After 7% Slump
Filecoin (FIL) exhibited high volatility throughout the 24-hour trading session, registering a comprehensive 7% range, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis model. The model showed that FIL hit a high of of $2.68 and a subsequent low of $2.49, during the period. FIL endured a precipitous decline commencing approximately 07:00 on Aug. 11, down markedly … Read more
GitHub CEO to step down
The move comes as GitHub is facing growing competition from companies like Google and Cursor over AI tools for programmers.
iPhone 17, the ‘thinnest iPhone ever,’ and everything else we’re expecting out of Apple’s hardware event
From a new slim iPhone Air model to redesigned AirPods, here’s what to expect from this year’s Apple event.
Ford is betting the future on smaller EV batteries
Ford just announced its new universal EV platform that is expected to rein in costs for the company’s money losing EV business. Chief among those cost savings will be a much, much smaller battery. Ford said the new battery will be 15 percent smaller than that of a BYD Atto electric crossover. BYD uses the … Read more
UI vs. API. vs. UAI
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