Prediction Market Polymarket Poised to Relaunch in US Within Days
Polymarket prepares to relaunch for U.S. users by self-certifying markets through its CFTC-licensed exchange.
Polymarket prepares to relaunch for U.S. users by self-certifying markets through its CFTC-licensed exchange.
It’s unclear when US President Donald Trump could announce another pick to chair the CFTC amid a government shutdown with no end in sight.
President Donald Trump is launching a new government-run website that he says will let Americans buy medications at lower prices. The new website, called TrumpRx, is expected to launch in 2026 and will direct consumers to discounts on drugmakers’ online stores, including Pfizer’s, as reported earlier by The New York Times and NPR. The Tuesday … Read more
Tilly Norwood is not real, but the company that created her hopes that she’s the first of many AI-generated stars.
Today, the Lego Game Boy officially goes on sale. It’s surprisingly good. But in Australia, one woman has already created a more amazing version. Natalie the Nerd, the self-taught circuit board designer and Game Boy modder whose gorgeous transparent Game Boy we featured in August, is doing what Nintendo and Lego didn’t: make it playable. … Read more
Privacy coin Zcash rebounded on Wednesday, soaring to levels not seen since 2022.
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The acting chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Bureau, Travis Hill, has been nominated by President Donald Trump to take over the role more permanently, which would elevate an official who has leaned hard against the trend of debanking that plagued crypto insiders and their businesses. Hill, a former staffer at the Senate Banking Committee, … Read more
The SPAC King’s newest, dubbed “American Exceptionalism,” went public with $345 million. But Chamath doesn’t want people to buy shares.
The Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra is on sale for $999.99, its lowest price to date. From Apple devices to chargers, we’re already seeing a wave of discounts on some of our favorite gadgets ahead of Amazon’s October Prime Day event. And while there are plenty of great deals across the board, some of the biggest … Read more
“Character.ai is freeriding off the goodwill of Disney’s famous marks and brands, and blatantly infringing Disney’s copyrights,” a Disney lawyer wrote.
Memecoins, once dismissed as little more than internet jokes, have cemented themselves as a permanent fixture of the crypto economy, according to new research from Galaxy Digital. In a report published Wednesday, research analyst Will Owens argues that the sector has matured into a cultural and economic force in its own right. Galaxy estimates digital … Read more
Traders and data suggest that Bitcoin may benefit from the US government shutdown, but how long will the gains last?
Players claim that they’re earning big money by playing the weed-themed Solana game, Addicted—but will the high last for long?
Table of Links Abstract and I. Introduction II. Background III. Paranoid Stateful Lambda IV. SCL Design V. Optimizations VI. PSL with SCL VII. Implementation VIII. Evaluation IX. Related Work X. Conclusion, Acknowledgment, and References III. PARANOID STATEFUL LAMBDA Paranoid Stateful Lambdas (PSLs) provide unifed access to the computation and storage resources of the cloud and … Read more
Whizz has seen e-bike rentals drop by about 8% since National Guard troops arrived in the city.
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Identity! What an efficient label to encapsulate such a concept of great practical and philosophical depth. Like an ominous name pronounced by a wise sage with outstretched arms to capture a rather illusive and mysterious phenomenon. Picture yoda making that discovery. A rather more general term though, this article will be focusing on a more … Read more
In windswept, remote Thacker Pass in the far northern reaches of Nevada, a massive lithium mine has drawn impassioned protest from local Indigenous peoples, ranchers, and environmentalists. | Photo: Getty Images Donald Trump’s administration is taking a 5 percent equity ownership of mining company Lithium Americas, on top of another 5 percent stake in the … Read more
California just made history as the first state to require AI safety transparency from the biggest labs in the industry. Governor Newsom signed SB 53 into law this week, mandating that AI giants like OpenAI and Anthropic disclose, and stick to, their safety protocols. The decision is already sparking debate about whether other states will … Read more
The mining pool has yet to acknowledge the loss of funds, but blockchain sleuths have said at least some of the money was laundered through Tornado Cash.
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This post is cowritten with Thomas Voss and Bernhard Hersberger from Hapag-Lloyd. Hapag-Lloyd is one of the world’s leading shipping companies with more than 308 modern vessels, 11.9 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) transported per year, and 16,700 motivated employees in more than 400 offices in 139 countries. They connect continents, businesses, and people through … Read more
This post was co-written with Shriram Sridharan, Taeuk Kang, and Santhosh Kumar Manavasi Lakshminarayanan from Rox. Rox is building a new revenue operating system for the applied AI era. Modern revenue teams rely on more data than ever before, such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, marketing automation, finance systems, support tickets, and live product … Read more