SEC moves its former top crypto cop Tenreiro to IT office: Report
The Securities and Exchange Commission has reassigned its top litigator to the agency’s computer management office, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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China tariffs may already be hiking up import fees
US consumers may already be seeing additional fees on shipments from China after President Donald Trump’s tariff on Chinese goods took effect on Tuesday. Clint Reid, the founder and CEO of a company that offers software to help with cross-border commerce, posted screenshots on X showing additional charges added to a shipment from DHL: The … Read more
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Volkswagen claims it’s actually making that $20,000 EV and will show it next month
Volkswagen teased this concept image of its forthcoming entry-level EV. Volkswagen has announced that next month, it will show off a new low-cost, entry-level EV that could cost just €20,000 (about $20,800 USD), the price it suggested it would hit back when it announced the ID. Life concept in 2021. That’s a steal compared to … Read more
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CFTC to Review Prediction Markets in Public Roundtable
The CFTC’s roundtable review is expected to influence both centralized and blockchain-based prediction markets.
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Boston Dynamics joins forces with its former CEO to speed the learning of its Atlas humanoid robot
Boston Dynamics Wednesday announced a partnership designed to bring improved reinforcement learning to its electric Atlas humanoid robot. The tie-up is with the Robotics & AI Institute (RAI Institute), earlier known as The Boston Dynamics AI Institute. Both organizations were founded by Marc Raibert, a former MIT professor who served as Boston Dynamics’ CEO for … Read more
SoftBank could soon buy Renee James’ Ampere chip company for about $6.5B
And it’s the latest in an ongoing saga over the company’s future ownership. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Technical Metrics Integration Flow: Observability and Monitoring
Have you noticed that your company has hundreds of dashboards filled with technical metrics, making it even harder to understand what you should focus on? If you’re a developer, you likely use only a few dashboards and monitor a handful of services you’re responsible for. Developers have their own metrics, DevOps teams have others, and … Read more
Streamers Adin Ross and FaZe Banks Plan Crypto ‘GTA 6’ Server—Would It Be Banned?
Adin Ross and FaZe Banks want to create a crypto-fueled GTA 6 server built around a new coin—but history suggests Rockstar won’t allow it.
Sonos lays off 200 ahead of rumored set-top box release
Sonos announced that it has laid off 200 people in a letter posted to its site Wednesday. The news follows a 100-person layoff in August. Both rounds arrive in the wake of a disastrously botched update to the Sonos app that alienated broad swaths of the premium audio hardware firm’s extremely loyal fanbase. The new … Read more
How DeepSeek Works – Simplified
Hello people! Welcome to the Programming and Doodles blog. Today, we’ll be talking about DeepSeek in-depth— including its architecture, and most importantly, how it’s any different from OpenAI’s ChatGPT. You don’t have to subscribe to read this but I highly recommend subscribing. In a Glance, DeepSeek is an open-source large language model (or as we … Read more
Steam now warns you if an ‘early access’ PC game might be abandoned
Steam’s early access program helps small to medium-sized developers get an idea off the ground, but not every game actually does. Now, Valve has a notice designed to warn Steam users when they visit an early access game’s store page if it’s been a minute since the last update. If the dev’s lofty goals for … Read more
MicroStrategy, now ‘Strategy,’ records $670M net loss in Q4
Strategy’s fourth-quarter loss came as it stacked another 218,887 Bitcoin — its most aggressive quarter yet.
Media Slant: Alternative County Matching of Newspapers and Filtering of the Article Snippets
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Data 3. Measuring Media Slant and 3.1. Text pre-processing and featurization 3.2. Classifying transcripts by TV source 3.3. Text similarity between newspapers and TV stations and 3.4. Topic model 4. Econometric Framework 4.1. Instrumental variables specification 4.2. Instrument first stage and validity 5. Results 5.1. Main results … Read more
Trump’s CFTC Head Slams Prediction Markets Resistance Under Predecessor
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s legal campaign against prediction market platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi can’t just be shut down, according to Caroline Pham, the acting agency chairman put in place by President Donald Trump. Pham said the agency will gather experts for a roundtable meeting, probably next month, that can build a … Read more
Qwertykeys halts keyboard shipments to US over tariff costs and confusion
The keyboard company Qwertykeys has temporaily halted all shipments to the United States in response to President Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods going into effect. The company says it’s working on ways to mitigate shipping costs and that the tariffs have made it so that “all keyboards from China to the U.S. are now subject … Read more
Super Bowl Sweepstakes: Perplexity AI’s Million Dollar Question
AI search upstart, Perplexity, is throwing serious cash at a Super Bowl contest in the hopes of wooing new users.
Trellix lowers cost, increases speed, and adds delivery flexibility with cost-effective and performant Amazon Nova Micro and Amazon Nova Lite models
This post is co-written with Martin Holste from Trellix. Security teams are dealing with an evolving universe of cybersecurity threats. These threats are expanding in form factor, sophistication, and the attack surface they target. Constrained by talent and budget limitations, teams are often forced to prioritize the events pursued for investigation, limiting the ability to … Read more
The Protocol: Ethereum’s Wall Street Cheerleader
Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Ben Schiller, CoinDesk’s Opinion and Features editor. In this issue: Ethereum’s Wall Street cheerleader Avalanche cuts fees by 75% Arbitrum integrates Bitcoin UBS tests ZKSync for gold This article is featured in the latest issue of The Protocol, our … Read more
Scout Motors sued over plan to sell EVs direct to consumers
Scout Motors’ plan to eschew traditional dealerships and sell EVs directly to consumers is running into legal trouble. A group of Volkswagen and Audi dealers filed a lawsuit this week against Scout Motors, the EV that spun out of Volkswagen. The lawsuit, which was first reported by Automotive News, seeks to block Scout’s direct-to-consumer sales … Read more
Bench burned through $135 million before shutting down
A clearer picture of Bench’s downfall is emerging thanks to new bankruptcy filings, which show the accounting startup burned $135 million before collapsing. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.