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GM’s electric future depends on a new battery — and this facility
GM wants to slash EV prices by deploying new battery tech up to a year earlier than planned. This building is key to making that happen.
As VC-backed e-bike startups went bankrupt, bootstrapped Lectric grew
Lectric, which says the U.S. market is ripe for competition and choice, has launched three new brands in the past six months.
The most interesting startups right now want to get you off your phone
While the AI fundraising machine keeps breaking its own records, some founders are building in the other direction. Mirror founder Brynn Putnam just raised money for Board, a startup focused on bringing people together through in-person games and social experiences. Cyberdeck creators are going viral crafting whimsical DIY computers that literally encourage users to touch grass. Unlike the AI-free browser crowd, this doesn’t just feel like backlash, … Read more
Crypto Biz: Nobody told Saylor ‘never sell’
Strategy’s Bitcoin sale challenged the “never sell” narrative, while JPMorgan attacked CLARITY and Capital B pursued a huge fundraising plan for BTC.
Stop Optimizing for Robots (They’re Chasing the Humans Anyway)
Write for the humans. The robots will follow them right to you. That’s the whole article. If you stop reading here, you’ve got the part that matters. But the reasoning — the part that follows — is why it’s true, and why almost everyone is about to optimize in the wrong direction. The Numbers Are … Read more
The Sonos Era 100 speaker is down to its lowest price in months
Whether you’re considering starting a Sonos speaker setup, or adding to an existing group, the Sonos Era 100 is worth picking up. The compact, capable smart speaker is currently marked down to $189 ($30 off) at a variety of retailers, including Amazon, Best Buy, and directly from Sonos. If you want an even lower price, … Read more
BlackRock-backed tokenization firm Securitize clears key hurdle to go public on NYSE
The tokenization specialist behind BlackRock’s BUIDL fund could begin trading on the NYSE as SEC approves merger registration.
Pump.fun bounty platform pays users to tattoo tokens and chase viral stunts
Pump.fun launched a new bounty platform where users started funding bizarre memecoin marketing stunts, including forehead tattoos, skydiving as a mascot and setting a vehicle on fire.
This is your laptop… on AI
We’re now deep into developer conference season, and one of the themes so far is the relentless conviction from Big Tech companies that AI is going to change everything about how we do everything. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang made that clearer than anyone this week, when he described a completely new way of using our laptops … Read more
Supabase doubles valuation to $10B in 8 months
Supabase, an example of an open source project becoming a fast-growing company, has greatly benefited from AI tools like Claude, Codex, and other vibe-coding platforms.
80% of Your Wallet Users Are Gone in a Week. The Fix Isn’t UX
Industry-wide, fewer than 20% of Web3 wallet users return after 7 days. I used to think that was a competitor problem, then I saw it firsthand at a leading non-custodial wallet on TON. Non-custodial wallets are the only product category where users own their exit as completely as they own their assets. If someone decides … Read more
Bitcoin Dives Below $60K Following Strong Jobs Data, Zcash Crash Shaking Crypto Confidence
Bitcoin has now fallen more than 50% from its October peak, dipping below $60,000 as the crypto industry reckons with the Zcash vulnerability.
What happens when your phone is confiscated at the airport
Even if you’ve done nothing wrong, it’s never a good idea to hand your phone to the cops. But international travelers at American airports often have no choice – even if they’re US citizens. When Minnesota labor organizer Janette Zahia Corcelius returned home from a three-week trip to Europe in late April, she was detained … Read more
Saylor says Bitcoin needs ‘disciplined expansion’ as analysts weigh demand reset
Michael Saylor’s essay calls for Bitcoin to expand through banks, credit, securities and higher layers while preserving its base layer.
Google and FBI warn of ransomware group that sends fake IT workers to hack victims in person
Cybercriminals, part of a gang known as Silent Ransom Group, have sent people pretending to be IT support employees to law firms’ offices, where the criminals have stolen data using USB drives or remote access tools.
Memecoins dogecoin, shiba inu dive 9% as bitcoin nears $60,000
Dogecoin and Shiba Inu led losses among major tokens as heavy volume and liquidations overwhelmed support levels, extending a broader risk-off move across crypto markets.
The New Youth “Disease”: How AI Is Destroying Musical Identity – and Creating a Generation of AI Hat
Many specialists won’t like how freely I use the word “disease” here. But by the end, you’ll understand why I chose it. I’ve personally encountered this phenomenon in a severe enough form to shout about it – the way you’d shout about a serious illness that society doesn’t yet recognize or know how to treat.
Government Stablecoin Payments Would Fuel ‘Tax Evasion Economy,’ Lawmaker Warns
Rep. Brad Sherman warned that allowing government payments in stablecoins would “sanctify an alternative to the U.S. dollar.”
U.S. House tax committee weighs crypto bills, including relief for small transactions
Seven draft bills are being circulated by the House Ways and Means Committee ahead of a hearing next week, including proposals to ease small-gain, mining and staking burdens.
Winklevoss-Backed Zcash Treasury Plunges Nearly 40% on ZEC Privacy Bug Concerns
Cypherpunk Technologies shares tumbled to their lowest point since March as jitters tied to a Zcash bug knocked the Winklevoss-backed firm.
Bitcoin teases ‘seller exhaustion’ as BTC price downside reaches $60.3K
Bitcoin sellers were losing steam, market analysis said as ongoing BTC price downside brought the market closer to $60,000.
Font Converters Earns a 49.57 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Lossless, Privacy-First Font Pipeline
Font Converters is a free, privacy-first web tool that turns one font into all the formats you actually need, converting losslessly between the 8 major font formats and generating the matching @font-face CSS. It also re-sets whole documents (PDF, DOCX, and more) in any font, including OpenDyslexic for accessibility, and bundles utilities like a font … Read more
New York lawmakers pass one-year ban on new data centers
The New York State legislature passed a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, the first statewide ban of its kind if Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul signs it into law. Lawmakers behind the bill say it’s meant to give policymakers time to understand the impact of large data centers on the environment and energy prices. … Read more
A Practical Security Architecture for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
A safe RAG architecture keeps untrusted content out of the prompt where it can do damage, enforces who can read what at the retriever, and limits what the model can do after retrieval. Most RAG systems I have seen in real projects do the first half and skip the rest. They retrieve, they answer, they … Read more
Fraud Detection Isn’t a Machine Learning Problem
Subtitle: A fraud model is only useful if it improves the way a risk team acts on real transactions. Fraud detection is often described as a machine learning problem. In practice, it is a decision systems problem. That difference matters. You can build a model with a strong offline score and still end up with … Read more