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Month: August 2025
Microsoft is killing off Windows 11 SE, its Chrome OS competitor
Windows 11 SE running on a low-cost laptop. Microsoft is ending support for Windows 11 SE next year, five years after it launched the operating system on low-cost laptops that were designed to compete with Google Chromebooks. Windows 11 SE was only available on devices for education customers, such as schools, and it was supposed … Read more
Everything we think we know about the Google Pixel 10 phones
This is the one Pixel 10 image Google has released officially, and we think it’s the Pro. Google is readying its next set of hardware announcements, and has already confirmed that the Pixel 10 series is launching this month. We even know what one of the phones looks like, thanks to the official image up … Read more
Crypto Treasury Companies Risk Ignoring Lessons from History, Warns Galaxy
The rapidly-expanding crop of public companies using their stock to accumulate digital asset treasuries ought to trigger lessons from history about the way compounded risks can spread through the financial system and then dramatically unravel, warns a report on the trend by Galaxy Digital. The growth model of Digital Asset Treasury Companies (DATCOs), which now … Read more
BNB Slides as Tariffs, Stronger Dollar and Fed Policy Weigh on Crypto Markets
BNB fell more than 4.5% in the last 24 hours, dropping from around $805.7 to $766 at the time of writing as investors move away from risk assets as U.S. interest-rate cut hopes faded. The selling accelerated near $803, where a surge in trading volume, roughly 56% above average, marked a turning point, according to … Read more
The untold impact of cancellation
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Ethena’s USDe Outpaces BlackRock’s Bitcoin, Ether ETFs With $3.1B Inflow Surge
Ethena’s synthetic stablecoin, USDe, has crossed $8.4 billion in supply, adding more than $3.14 billion over 20 days in a surge that outpaced flows into BlackRock’s (BLK) flagship bitcoin and ether exchange-traded funds. According to on-chain data curated by the Ethena community, the supply increase since July 17 is the fastest period of growth since … Read more
Reddit plans to unify its search interface as it looks to become a search engine
Reddit is working on a new unified interface that will merge its legacy search and AI-powered Q&A features, as well as make its search box more prominently visible in the app.
Joby Aviation and defense contractor L3Harris to test autonomous hybrid aircraft
Joby’s years of R&D with the DoD may be paying off. The company has signed an agreement with defense contractor L3Harris to develop a gas-turbine hybrid VTOL that can fly autonomously — for defense applications.
Assetera Opens Tokenized Securities Market to Crypto Exchanges With MiFID-Compliant API
Assetera, a regulated trading platform based in Austria, introduced an API that allows cryptocurrency exchanges to offer tokenized financial products like stocks and government bonds without applying for their own MiFID license. The tool is designed to plug a gap in the European market, where strict financial rules have made it difficult for crypto platforms … Read more
Terence Tao’s NSF grants suspended
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Bing made Google dance and then stole some search traffic
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wanted to make Google dance two years ago, with an AI overhaul of Bing that was designed to steal Google’s all-important search market share. Now, there are plenty of signs that Microsoft has successfully taken search share off Google, both in the US and worldwide. Earlier this week Microsoft reported that … Read more
Metaplanet plans to raise additional $3.7B to buy Bitcoin
The Japanese investment firm’s stock offering is part of its treasury strategy to acquire 210,000 Bitcoin by the end of 2027.
Gemini 2.5 Deep Think
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MCP Servers 101: Turn Your AI Agent into a Productive, Permissioned Dev Sidekick
Prerequisites: Node ≥ 18, Git, a modern IDE (Cursor or VS Code), and an API‑key‑enabled AI assistant (Claude Desktop, GitHub Copilot, etc.). Why MCP isn’t just another buzzword When I first heard Anthropic describe MCP as “USB-C for AI,” I was skeptical. Another “universal protocol”? Cool idea, but would it work in the real world? Turns out — it … Read more
Andreessen Horowitz warns of loopholes in draft crypto rules
Andreessen Horowitz urged the US Senate Banking Committee to scrap the “ancillary asset” concept in draft crypto legislation, warning of loopholes.
Bitcoin Slides as Rate-Cut Hopes Fade: Crypto Daybook Americas
By Francisco Rodrigues (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) The wind seems to be coming out of the crypto market’s sails. Bitcoin (BTC) fell 3% in the past 24 hours, dropping below $115,000, and it’s actually one of the better performing of the largest cryptocurrencies. The CoinDesk 20 (CD20) index, a measure of the broader … Read more
How to Secure a Linux Server
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Gemini 2.5 Deep Think
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Samsung TVs are coming back online after apps stopped working
Samsung smart TVs appear to be functioning normally again after experiencing a global outage yesterday. Users across Reddit and Samsung’s community forum started reporting issues with their TVs at around 5PM ET on Thursday, finding themselves unable to open apps like YouTube, Apple TV, Hulu, and Prime Video. While apps were still visible on the … Read more
Google rolls out Gemini Deep Think AI, a reasoning model that tests multiple ideas in parallel
Google released its first publicly available “multi-agent” AI system, which uses more computational resources, but produces better answers.
Toward Holistic Evaluation of LLMs: Integrating Human Feedback with Traditional Metrics
Abstract The article advocates for a more comprehensive evaluation method for Large Language Models (LLMs) by combining traditional automated metrics (BLEU, ROUGE, and Perplexity) with structured human feedback. It highlights the limitations of standard evaluation techniques while emphasizing the critical role of human assessments in determining contextual relevance, accuracy, and ethical appropriateness. Through detailed methodologies, … Read more
Ray Dalio sells final Bridgewater stake after predicting debt collapse
While continuing to voice economic warnings in recent years, Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio recently increased his recommended allocation to Bitcoin and gold to 15%.
Spot Ether ETFs clock $5.4B monthly inflow record amid 20-day streak
Spot Ether ETFs recorded $5.43 billion in net inflows in July, marking a 369% monthly surge and extending their daily inflow streak to 20 consecutive days.