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Empowering Senior Professionals: Interview with Startups of the Year 2024 Nominee, SNATIKA
Hey Hackers, SNATIKA has been nominated in HackerNoon’s annual Startups of The Year awards in Mumbai, India! We are honored to be recognized for our innovative approach to education, helping senior professionals accelerate their careers through flexible, assignment-based online programs. Please vote for us here: 📍 City (Mumbai, India) Voting Page 📍Parent Industry (Education) Voting … Read more
SEC Officially Dismisses Coinbase Lawsuit Over Crypto Securities Claims
Coinbase is in the clear after the SEC followed through on its agreement and voluntarily dismissed its case against the crypto exchange.
Coinbase Case Dropped by U.S. SEC as Agency Reverses Crypto Stance
Coinbase has been freed from its protracted legal battle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as the agency agreed to drop the case that’s been among the industry’s core fights in federal court. Though the SEC’s intention to agree to shut down the legal dispute had already gone public when the U.S. crypto exchange … Read more
Inside the Lazarus Group money laundering strategy
After Bybit’s hack, the Lazarus Group deployed its notorious money-laundering tactics — leaving a complex trail in the aftermath of yet another high-profile crypto heist.
Cricut’s new crafting machines are more accurate, faster, and cheaper
The Cricut Maker 4 and Explore 4 crafting machines in their new seashell and sage color options. | Image: Cricut Cricut has announced new versions of its crafting machines designed to print, cut, and emboss various materials using a collection of swappable tools. The new Cricut Maker 4 and Cricut Explore 4 are the first … Read more
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Apple will let parents share their kids’ ages to limit app access
Apple announced in a whitepaper that it plans to introduce a bunch of new child safety features, including letting parents share their kids’ age ranges with apps, refreshing the App Store’s age ratings system, and making it easier for parents to set up Child Accounts for their kids. The company says it will introduce the … Read more
Bitcoin ETFs Have Shed More Than $2.4 Billion So Far This Week
The funds based on Bitcoin’s spot price have been shedding assets as markets shy away from crypto and other risk-on investments.
Bank CEO calls out Washington's debanking “skullduggery”: Bitcoin Investor Week
Custodia Bank fought to service crypto firms under the previous administration but faced resistance from US regulators.
Meta fires around 20 employees for leaking confidential information
Meta has fired “roughly” 20 employees for leaking confidential information, The Verge reports. “We tell employees when they join the company, and we offer periodic reminders, that it is against our policies to leak internal information, no matter the intent,” Meta told the publication. “We recently conducted an investigation that resulted in roughly 20 employees … Read more
Waymo has doubled its weekly robotaxi rides in less than a year
Waymo is logging more than 200,000 paid robotaxi rides every week, according to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, who shared the stat about the tech giant’s subsidiary on X. Waymo commercially operates robotaxis in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix. The 200,000-weekly trips milestone is notable for a company that was providing only 10,000 rides a … Read more
How SenseiNode Is Building Proof-of-Stake Infrastructure in Latin America
A lot of attention is paid to the decentralization of the Bitcoin network. Bitcoin miners should set up shop in a number of different jurisdictions in order to prevent any kind of regulatory capture of the network, so the thinking goes. Some members of the crypto community even saw China’s 2021 crypto ban as a … Read more
Dubai-based Disrupt.com to invest $100M in AI startups
2024 was a disappointing year for MENA venture capital deals, but that could change as AI adoption accelerates.
Twitch is letting more streamers access its monetization tools
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy published an open letter on Thursday outlining the platform’s plans for 2025, which include upcoming features, updates to the mobile experience, as well as a significant change to its monetization policy. Of note, Clancy revealed that Twitch is opening up subscriptions and “Bits,” the virtual items that viewers buy to cheer … Read more
Microsoft releases a Copilot app for Mac
Microsoft is releasing a native Copilot app for macOS today. Much like the Windows app, the Copilot version for Mac will provide access to the web-based version of Microsoft’s AI assistant, where you can upload images and generate images or text. The macOS version of Copilot also includes a dark mode and a shortcut command … Read more
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company is ‘out of GPUs’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the company was forced to stagger the rollout of its newest model, GPT-4.5, because OpenAI is “out of GPUs.” In a post on X, Altman said that GPT-4.5, which he described as “giant” and “expensive,” will require “tens of thousands” more GPUs before additional ChatGPT users can gain access. … Read more
Tech Tumble Takes Toll on Bitcoin; Hedge Funder Targets $70K Handle in March
The January bursting of a massive speculative bubble in memecoins by itself seemed good enough reason for the general crypto market selloff of the past several weeks. The declines sped up in a big way this week, though, in part thanks to growing risk-off sentiment in the previously perky stock market. Down more than 2% … Read more
Spyzie stalkerware is spying on thousands of Android and iPhone users
Another little-known phone monitoring outfit has quietly amassed half a million customers, whose email addresses are now in Have I Been Pwned. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
House Dems Introduce Bill to Ban Trump, Congress From Promoting, Launching Meme Coins
The MEME Act would slap any high-ranking government official who makes money from promoting crypto tokens with criminal and civil penalties.
Are Solana, Polygon and Cardano in the Clear After SEC Crypto Case Dismissals?
Crypto exchanges appear to now be in safe waters—but legal experts say it’s still too early for token projects to rest easy.
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OpenAI unveils GPT-4.5 ‘Orion,’ its largest AI model yet
OpenAI announced on Thursday it is launching GPT-4.5, the much-anticipated AI model code-named Orion. GPT-4.5 is OpenAI’s largest model to date, trained using more computing power and data than any of the company’s previous releases. Despite its size, OpenAI notes in a whitepaper that it does not consider GPT-4.5 to be a frontier model. Subscribers … Read more
OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 is better at convincing other AIs to give it money
OpenAI’s next major AI model, GPT-4.5, is highly persuasive, according to the results of OpenAI’s internal benchmark evaluations. It’s particularly good at convincing another AI to give it cash. On Thursday, OpenAI published a white paper describing the capabilities of its GPT-4.5 model, code-named Orion, which was released Thursday. According to the paper, OpenAI tested … Read more
Hands-on with Alexa Plus in the smart home
The Echo Show 21, Amazon’s newest smart display, shows the new user interface for viewing your calendar, playing music, and other tasks. Oh, Alexa, how you’ve changed. The long-awaited new Alexa, Alexa Plus, is set to bring a more conversational, context-aware, and capable assistant to your smart home. With a new voice (eight of them, … Read more