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Opera’s new browser might save you from doomscrolling

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Air includes mindfulness tools and break reminders in its floating sidebar. Norway-based Opera has announced a new browser, Opera Air, with a focus on mindfulness and mental wellbeing. It includes break reminders, breathing exercises, and a suite of relaxing soundscapes to help users both focus and de-stress. “The web is beautiful but it can be … Read more

Bitcoin Hashrate Hits All-Time High Defying Analyst Expectations

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Bitcoin (BTC) hashrate has reached another all-time high, with seven-day moving average jumping to 833 exahashes per second (EH/s), according to Glassnode data. This represents a 9% increase from 767 EH/s in the past few days. According to Miner Mag, pre-orders for mining hardware have begun to decline following the pre-halving surge. Many mining firms … Read more

Bitcoin Still Following Previous Cycle’s Trajectory Despite Price Drop: Van Straten

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Bitcoin (BTC) continues to follow the trajectory of its 2017 cycle. Despite recent market turbulence, driven by escalating tariff tensions between the U.S and its neighbouring countries, as well as China. Bitcoin remains up approximately 525% from its cycle low during the FTX collapse in November 2022. Comparatively, at the same stage in the 2017 … Read more

Egypt’s Khazna banks $16M for its financial super app and expansion into Saudi

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A large portion of Egypt’s population lacks access to traditional banking, forcing many to rely on cash transactions and informal lending. Khazna, a fintech startup founded in 2019, is tackling this issue by offering financial services tailored for low- and middle-income workers. The company provides solutions like salary advances, digital payments, and microloans to help … Read more

Galaxy and BitGo Buddy Up for Crypto Staking Despite Legal Spat

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Galaxy Digital (GLXY), the cryptocurrency trading company helmed by Mike Novogratz, is bringing its blockchain staking capabilities to regulated custody specialist BitGo Trust, despite the legal spat between the two firms. It makes sense to play nice: The deal brings Galaxy’s staking and validator services, which handle over $4 billion billion in staked crypto assets, … Read more

China opens Google antitrust probe in retaliation to tariffs

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The antitrust investigation was launched alongside retaliatory tariffs and export controls. China has launched an antitrust investigation into Google as part of a salvo of responses to US tariff increases, including its own retaliatory tariffs and export controls. China’s State Administration for Market Regulation announced the Google probe on Tuesday over suspicions the US search … Read more

Can Culturally Responsive Computing Close the Racial and Gender Gap in STEM?

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Abstract Despite numerous efforts and substantial funding, the academic interest and performance of youth from historically marginalized classes (African American, Native American, Latino, and Indigenous) along with racial minorities and women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), statistically portrays a large variation in comparison to White and Asian counterparts. These discrepancies can be attributed … Read more

Kraken Secures License to Enter EU Derivatives Market

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Crypto exchange Kraken secured a Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) license in the European Union. Kraken was able to obtain the license that will enable it to offer crypto derivatives products in the block of 27 nations by acquiring a Cypriot investment firm which had the license from the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission … Read more

Grubhub confirms data breach affecting customers and drivers

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U.S. food delivery giant Grubhub says hackers accessed the personal details of customers and drivers after breaching its internal systems.  Grubhub is a popular food-ordering and delivery platform with over 375,000 merchants and 200,000 delivery providers using its platform in more than 4,000 U.S. cities. New York-based Wonder Group acquired the company last fall in … Read more

A Well-intentioned Cashback Program Caused an Increase in Fraud—Here’s What Happened

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We all know that loyalty programs and reward systems like cashback in e-commerce are great tools to encourage repeat purchases. We aimed to increase the frequency of purchases by paying our premium users cashback earlier than they normally do within 15 days. However, this well-intentioned move led to an unexpected result: :::warning Increased Fraud! 😫 … Read more

Waabi and Volvo team up to build self-driving trucks at scale

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Self-driving truck startup Waabi is partnering with Volvo Autonomous Solutions to jointly develop and deploy autonomous trucks, an important milestone as it gets closer to a commercial launch.  The tie up also marks Volvo’s second partnership to co-develop self-driving big rigs with a startup partner. In May 2024, Volvo teamed up with Aurora Innovation to … Read more

Howard Lutnick Softens Stance on Tether Stability, Investment Ties

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Howard Lutnick, the chairman of Cantor Fitzgerald and President Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. Commerce Secretary, was recently playing defense during another nomination hearing in front of Senate Democrats about the financial services giant’s investment in Tether, the company that issues the world’s largest stablecoin, USDT. Lutnick appeared before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, … Read more

Lending Protocol Aave Processes $200M in Liquidation Without Adding to Bad-Debt Burden

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Decentralized lending protocol Aave processed millions in liquidations Monday without accruing any new bad debt, showcasing its resilience during market volatility, data from Chaos Labs shows. The crypto market wilted early Monday, with the price of bitcoin (BTC) falling to nearly $91,000 from $100,000 as concerns of a renewed trade war between the U.S. and … Read more