As Skype shuts down, its legacy is end-to-end encryption for the masses
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HackerPulse wants to help enterprises spot engineering bottlenecks
HackerPulse builds dashboards of information pulled from engineering tools to show how and where engineers spend their time. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Ex-Football Star Ronaldinho’s Token Dips 18% on Debut Amid Insider Trading Allegations
“Ownership was not renounced? Now it is,” the ex-footballer tweeted after a cybersecurity firm flagged that tokens could have been burned at will by the creator.
Tether Names Simon McWilliams as CFO Amid Push for Full Audit
Tether has appointed Simon McWilliams as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) as the leading stablecoin issuer moves toward the completion of a full financial audit. McWilliams, a finance executive with over 20 years of experience, is set to lead Tether’s transparency and regulatory engagement efforts. The appointment, according to the company’s announcement, represents a … Read more
Strategy Bitcoin Holdings Steady Last Week; Company Declares First Preferred Dividend
Disclaimer: The analyst who wrote this piece owns shares of Strategy (MSTR) Strategy (MSTR) on Monday morning confirmed it did not purchase additional bitcoin (BTC) in the week ended Sunday, keeping its total holdings at 499,096 BTC. Led by Michael Saylor, the company has notably been making sizable bitcoin purchases nearly every week for the … Read more
Jolla founders take the wraps off an AI assistant to power up their push for privacy-friendly GenAI
Jolla, the erstwhile mobile maker turned privacy-centric AI business — via sister startup, Venho.ai — has taken the wraps off an AI assistant that’s touted as a “fully private” alternative to letting data-mining cloud giants crawl all over your personal information. The AI assistant is designed to integrate with apps like email, calendar and … Read more
Coinbase Chasing Receipts at SEC to Tally Cost of Agency’s Crypto Saga
As the smoke clears on its own newly dropped enforcement case, Coinbase is demanding the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission cough up a record of its spending on investigations and actions against the wider industry in recent years The biggest U.S. crypto exchange is filing a Freedom of Information Act request — using its contractor … Read more
Binance to Delist Tether and Other Stablecoins for EEA Users, Due to MiCA Regulations
The news of Tether’s delisting comes as the firm appoints a new CFO in a “historic step” towards a full financial audit.
U.S. Crypto Strategic Reserve More Likely, Further Details Needed: Citi
A U.S. crypto strategic reserve appears more likely after President Trump’s announcement over the weekend, Wall Street bank Citi (C) said in a research report on Monday. The President announced that XRP, solana (SOL) and cardano (ADA) would be included in a strategic reserve, and later added bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) to the list … Read more
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Core Scientific Appoints Former Investment Banker as New CFO
Core Scientific, Inc. (CORZ), a provider of digital infrastructure for high-performance computing (HPC) and bitcoin miner, has announced the appointment of Jim Nygaard as its new chief financial officer, effective Mar. 17. Nygaard, a veteran finance executive, brings extensive experience in M&A, corporate finance, and capital markets from his tenures at XMS Capital Partners and … Read more
What Are Crypto Leaders Saying About Trump Crypto Reserve Plans? Read Here to Find Out
U.S. President Donald Trump stormed the crypto world on Sunday night with the announcement of a crypto strategic reserve plan that includes XRP, Cardano’s ADA and Solana’s SOL — later adding bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) to the mix. Trump has been discussing the idea of a strategic crypto reserve since his 2024 presidential campaign. … Read more
Blue Ghost private lander reaches the Moon intact
This photograph snapped by Blue Ghost shows the Moon’s surface and Earth on the horizon. The Blue Ghost spacecraft has landed on the moon, making history as the first private lander to “successfully” achieve this feat according to its creator, Firefly Aerospace. The Texas-based commercial aerospace firm announced on Sunday that its lander had “softly … Read more
U.S. Senate Expected to Vote on Erasing IRS’s Crypto Broker Rule That Threatens DeFi: Source
The U.S. Senate is poised to vote this week on reversing an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rule, that the crypto industry has declared a serious threat to decentralized finance (DeFi), according to a person familiar with the Senate’s planning. The IRS’s attempt in December to expand the world of brokers required to disclose certain tax … Read more
Cloudsmith raises $23M to improve software supply chain security
The software supply chain is notoriously porous: a reported 81% of codebases contain high- or critical-risk open source vulnerabilities. A single vulnerability can have a far-reaching impact on the wider software supply chain, as evidenced by the likes of the Log4Shell exploit that saw millions of applications exposed to potential remote code execution hacks via … Read more
Opera unveils an AI agent that runs natively within the browser
Browser company Opera has unveiled a new AI agent called Browser Operator that can complete tasks for you on different websites. In a demo video, the company showed the AI agent finding a right pair of socks from Walmart; securing tickets for a football match from the club’s site; and looking up a flight and … Read more
Crypto Investment Products See Record $3.8 Billion Exodus in Three-Week Plunge: CoinShares
Crypto funds posted their largest weekly outflow on record, while Bitcoin faced its steepest losses as the market recalibrated.
Trump’s crypto reserve plan faces Congress vote, may limit rally
The crypto market surged after Trump’s reserve announcement, but analysts warn the rally may be temporary as regulatory hurdles remain.
Your Brand Is Sinking Without These Three Points of Contact
The news cycle is exceptionally choppy right now. Brands need to make critical decisions on where they stand and the course ahead. And if they don’t take a stand and choose where they’re headed, how long can they stay up and stay above the waters? When boating, or doing other things where a fall can … Read more
Inside the Math Banks Use to Decide If You’re a Credit Risk
Imagine you are managing a bank’s credit portfolio: every loan issued is a bet on the borrower’s ability to meet their obligations. But how can you determine which borrowers are reliable and which ones might struggle with repayments? This is where Probability of Default (PD) models come into play. PD models are tools used in the … Read more
As the SEC Continues Its Crypto Litigation Retreat, Here’s What’s Still Outstanding
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is undertaking a full-scale retreat from much of the major crypto litigation started under former Chair Gary Gensler, but not everyone is off the hook. At least four lawsuits against crypto companies — Ripple, Kraken, Cumberland DRW and Pulsechain — remain ongoing, and probes into another three firms — Unicoin, Crypto.com … Read more
Stablecoin presence key to blockchain legitimacy, says ZachXBT
ZachXBT said major stablecoin issuers like Tether and Circle define blockchain legitimacy, while questioning the absence of stablecoins on Cardano and XRP Ledger.
Crypto.Com Wants to Revive $5B Worth of CRO Tokens It Once Burned in Peculiar ‘Golden Age’ Proposal
Cronos, the blockchain ecosystem related to Crypto.com, wants to bring back 70 billion CRO tokens it burned in 2021 in a strange proposal that has largely left its community members flummoxed . The now-live governance proposal aims to restore its original 100 billion token supply under a strategy dubbed “The New Golden Age for Cronos.” … Read more
Here’s Why Productivity Hacks Don’t Work—And What You Should Be Focusing on Instead
You’ve probably tried every productivity hack under the sun, from the Pomodoro timers to the habit of stacking and waking up at 5 a.m. to join the club. Maybe they worked for a little while, but eventually, life got in the way. Perhaps you missed one day, then another, and before you knew it, you … Read more