Coinbase makes a major play for India’s booming $3 billion crypto market with local currency launch
Coinbase announces INR rails to make the platform fully accessible to Indian retail traders.
Month: May 2026
Dell is bringing back the XPS 13 as a MacBook Neo competitor — with a temporary discount to $599
Dell is aiming for students like Apple did with the MacBook Neo. | Image: Dell Dell is making good on its tease from CES and finally announcing a new XPS 13. The XPS 13 returns as a budget-friendly option, launching in July at a promotional student price of $599 – though that introductory deal only … Read more
The QD-OLED gaming monitor that started it all got a big upgrade
The AW3426DW familiar specs, updated design language, and a bunch of QD-OLED enhancements. | Image: Alienware Alienware is taking to this year’s Computex 2026 in Taipei to announce some cool gaming monitors, most notably two exciting OLED options that are coming at different points this year. First off, the company is debuting the successor to … Read more
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Five Common Failure Modes in FLUX Illustration LoRA Training
I have trained more than a dozen FLUX LoRAs over the last several months, almost all of them aimed at illustration styles. Editorial flat vector, brush-painted, line-art-with-fills, hand-drawn cartoon. A few worked. Most hallucinated in reproducible ways the existing public write-ups skip past or hide behind cherry-picked sample grids. This is a write-up of how … Read more
Are New Turing Tests Measuring Intelligence or Human Anxiety?
The Moving Goalposts: Why New Turing Tests Prove Human Immaturity, Not AI Failure I have spent my entire life, starting from my university days, working with information—not just writing texts, but conducting statistical analysis of news streams. Today, scrolling through news feeds, I get a persistent feeling that humanity has finally realized how catastrophically fast … Read more
Apple’s strategy for smart glasses is the same as smart watches
Apple isn’t just looking to take on Meta in the smart glasses market; it’s looking to upend eyewear as a whole, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. When the Apple Watch launched, it wasn’t simply competing against the Pebbles and the Motorolas of the world. The company also had Swatch, Fossil, and Seiko in its crosshairs. … Read more
New AI Benchmarks Are Testing Consistency Instead of Memorization
We are living through a massive shift in software development. Everywhere you look, developers are building new applications powered by artificial intelligence. They plug a language model into their backend to handle customer support or analyze data. On the surface, these tools look incredibly capable. They write beautiful emails. They summarize fifty-page documents in seconds. … Read more
llms-txt-gen Earns a 49.78 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building an AI-Readiness CLI Tool
Built llms-txt-gen, an open-source CLI that gives any website an LLM-Readiness Score (0–100), flags pages invisible to AI crawlers, and writes a ready-to-commit llms.txt in one command. No API key. MIT licensed. Scored 49.78 on the Proof of Usefulness benchmark.
US, UK central bankers offer contrary views on stablecoins
Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller told a conference on Sunday that stablecoins expand the reach of US policy while the Bank of England’s Megan Greene expects their popularity will soon fade.
Erin Brockovich takes aim at data center secrecy
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission.
Claude Code Works Better When You Let Sessions Die
I caught myself avoiding /clear for the third day in a row before I realized I was treating chat history like working memory. The context window was at something like 70%, the model had started repeating itself, and I was still adding to the same session because some half-load-bearing detail from Tuesday afternoon was buried … Read more
How to watch Nvidia’s Computex keynote
Watch the stream below. | Image: NVIDIA NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang is set to take the stage for his GTC Taipei keynote at 8PM PT / 11PM ET. You can watch all the announcements here and embedded below. Rumors have been flying about what to expect from today’s presentation, but the big one is the … Read more
Strategy’s Michael Saylor teases BTC buy with ‘working better’ tweet
Strategy could be set to announce it has resumed buying Bitcoin after pausing in recent weeks as the biggest crypto looks poised to close out the month down more than 3.5%.
A massive $1.26 billion sale of BlackRock’s IBIT was likely a rapid exit by a large investor
NYDIG, meanwhile, rejected the basis-trade theory, citing the large discount and the lack of an unusual spike in corresponding CME bitcoin futures volume.
Here’s your first look at ‘A Minecraft Movie Squared’ with Kirsten Dunst as Alex
Squared. Get it? | Image: Mojang The A Minecraft Movie sequel officially has a title: A Minecraft Movie Squared. What’s more, we now know that Kirsten Dunst will star as Alex, the game’s female character option, and that Matt Berry is set to play an even bigger role in this film. He voiced Nitwit in … Read more
How the House Financial Services Committee is taking on tokenization: State of Crypto
Rep. French Hill, head of the House Financial Services Committee, weighed in on outstanding policy issues in an interview with CoinDesk last month.
‘This is fine’ artist KC Green reaches agreement with AI startup Artisan
The startup has apparently taken down the ads using KC Green’s “This is fine” meme.
Kraken ‘plans’ regulated perp contracts as rivals are quick off the blocks
In the wake of CFTC approval of perpetual futures contracts tied to the spot price of Bitcoin, Kraken expects to offer those to US institutional clients within “the next month.”
How Stellar became part of DTCC’s tokenization push for Wall Street securities onchain
Wall Street’s clearing giant chose a public blockchain with compliance tools built for regulated assets, Stellar Development Foundation CEO Denelle Dixon said.
Bitcoin preps 3% May downside, but US PMI data may boost BTC price
Bitcoin faced ending May lower by around 3%, with the possibility of US PMI data giving BTC price action a boost next week.
TechCrunch Mobility: It doesn’t matter that people hate the Ferrari Luce
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.
Feeble Little Horse leans into digital weirdness on bitknot
Even the cover revels in a low-bit digital aesthetic. | Image: Saddle Creek / Feeble Little Horse From the opening moments of bitknot, it’s obvious that Feeble Little Horse has found an entirely new gear. Where on Girl with Fish the blown-out textures were more ’90s indie rock and shoegaze, on their latest LP, there’s … Read more
United flight forced to turn around because of a Bluetooth speaker name
An hour in flight UA236 returned to Newark. | Screenshot: The Verge United flight 236 from Newark to Palma de Mallorca on Saturday night was forced to turn around just an hour after takeoff due to security concerns around a Bluetooth signal. Multiple Redditors claimed to be on the flight and reported that the crew … Read more