Strategy’s $66B Bitcoin machine hinges on capital markets, not BTC price: Report
Strategy’s biggest risk may not be a Bitcoin crash, but losing access to the capital markets that help it service $1.76 billion in annual obligations.
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GeForce Now is getting support for the Steam Controller
Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service will officially support Valve’s Steam Controller and Steam Machine starting later this year. With Steam Controller support, you’ll be able to play games with Valve’s great new gamepad when using the GeForce Now app on your Steam Deck or Steam Machine. If you’re using GeForce Now on Windows or … Read more
Bitcoin Rally Is Outrunning the Rest of the Market: Here’s Why
Bitcoin gained roughly 24% this week while the broader crypto market grew by less, a mismatch that shows up clearly in Bitcoin’s rising share of the total crypto market.
Measuring Decision Confidence in Business Intelligence and Analytics
Your Dashboards Don’t Have a Data Problem. They Have a Trust Problem. Why the most valuable analytics KPI isn’t dashboard adoption—it’s Decision Confidence. Every organization wants to be data-driven. The playbook usually looks the same: collect more data, build more dashboards, define more KPIs, and measure report usage. It makes perfect sense on paper: when … Read more
Governed reports with Amazon Quick Desktop and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Amazon Quick Desktop brings governed, AI-assisted reporting to the files your team already manages on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSx for ONTAP), cutting weekly report preparation from hours to minutes. Today, producing those reports takes hours of manual effort each week. Teams re-read the same documents, reformat metrics, and copy summaries into Slack. Leaders … Read more
Life360 expands pet tracking with new $8 scannable tags and zoomie alerts
Life360’s new $7.99 scannable pet tags alert families when a lost pet is found and share its last known location, while new care-tracking features help households keep tabs on feeding, walks, medication, and more.
Bitwise launches self-custodied tokenized stock portfolios with Coinbase
Bitwise’s new portfolios automatically rebalance Coinbase tokenized stocks while allowing eligible non-US investors to keep the assets in their own wallets.
Crypto Group Warns Regulators Against Expanding Stablecoin KYC
The crypto trade group warned that forcing issuers to verify identities for peer-to-peer wallet transfers would “cripple the industry” as regulators implement the GENIUS Act.
LayerZero unveils trading infrastructure for crypto and tokenized markets, ZRO surges
The trading infrastructure runs on LayerZero’s Zero blockchain, backed by Citadel Securities with DTCC and ICE exploring institutional market applications.
How to Keep an AI Voice Consistent Across Every Video Clip
The first time I heard it, I almost didn’t catch it. Same character, same scene, four clips apart, and her voice had gotten a half-step brighter and about ten percent faster, like she’d swapped actresses between takes and nobody told the sound department. The fix for an AI voice that drifts between clips is to … Read more
DGrid AI token jumps 93% after launch as decentralized AI network goes live
DGAI nearly doubled in its first day of trading as DGrid expands its distributed AI inference network and rolls out hardware for its personal AI agent.
That fake Grand Theft Auto VI demo is actually just malware
Grand Theft Auto fans, eager for news about one of the most anticipated video games of all time, appear especially vulnerable to this new cyberattack.
Benchmarking RocksDB’s Three Amplification Factors
If you’ve read anything about RocksDB, LevelDB, Cassandra, or any other LSM-tree database, you’ve met the three amplification factors: Space amplification — bytes on disk ÷ bytes of live data Read amplification — I/O operations per logical read Write amplification — bytes written to disk ÷ bytes your application handed over They’re always presented the same way: three … Read more
Pacific Fusion’s next fusion machine could clear a key hurdle to commercial power
Fusion startup Pacific Fusion broke ground on a demonstration facility in New Mexico that it says will generate enough energy to power itself.
Why Enterprise AI Pilots Keep Failing
MIT researchers looked at corporate AI pilots and found that 95 percent fail to deliver measurable results — compared to a 25 percent failure rate for ordinary IT projects. [ 1 ] BCG found that 74 percent of companies see no value at all from their AI spending. [ 2 ] S&P Global watched the … Read more
Bitcoin slips from $80K as gold cools with falling US bond yields
Bitcoin bulls battled for control of the $80,000 zone as gold came off its highest levels since mid-May on falling US bond yields.
Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica
Lica co-founders are going to work on Gamma’s new research team.
SHAP in Production: Scaling Model Explainability Without Killing Latency
Every team that ships SHAP to production learns the same lesson the hard way: the explainability demo that looked great in a notebook falls over the moment it has to run inside a real-time inference path. A model that serves predictions in 40ms suddenly takes 800ms once you bolt SHAP onto it. Product wants explanations … Read more
Crypto Fund Founder Convicted of Fraud Over Fake Trading Bot
Japheth Dillman told investors that Block Bits Capital’s “Autotrader” software was finished and running, and took nearly $1 million.
Bitwise turns Coinbase’s tokenized stocks into automated AI, robotics and tech portfolios
The crypto ETF issuer is pushing deeper into onchain asset management as tokenization create new ways to build and manage investments.
Apple rescues Hide My Email feature from the privacy scrap heap
Apple says it will no longer ditch using its icloud.com domain for hiding people’s email addresses.
Ethereum’s Next Challenge Is Connecting Public Infrastructure to the Real Economy
Promises, damn promises, and leverage The blockchain industry was founded on a handful of ambitious promises: censorship resistance, ownership, independence, and open access. Someone born when the Bitcoin whitepaper was published would be in high school today. Looking back after nearly two decades, it’s worth asking a difficult question: have we actually delivered on those … Read more
Apple’s ‘new’ polishing cloth is the same except $10 cheaper
Apple just dropped a new polishing cloth, and unlike its refreshed Mac Mini models, it comes with a price cut, as spotted earlier by MacRumors. The polishing cloth is still “made with soft, nonabrasive material” but costs $9 instead of $19. It doesn’t look like anything else has changed, as the description matches an archived … Read more
OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale, benchmarks show
Tested on SemiAnalysis’ InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño registered both more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt than the currently available state-of-the art.
Dozens of Fake Firefox Wallet Extensions Linked to Crypto-Stealing Malware
Forty are confirmed malicious, impersonating OKX, Rabby and TronLink to harvest recovery phrases from anyone who types one in.
OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip can power faster AI responses than the competition
OpenAI says its new AI chip, Jalapeño, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI systems, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. During a briefing with reporters, OpenAI hardware vice president Richard Ho said Jalapeño offers the “best of both worlds” with lower latency and higher throughput, as AI systems … Read more
Arcus launches tokenized perp positions on Robinhood Chain
Arcus introduced transferable ERC-20 tokens for perpetual positions and lets tokenized stocks back leveraged trades without requiring users to sell their holdings.
Apple’s latest Mac Mini runs on a new M6 chip, and starts at $899
The base model of the Mac Mini comes with 256GB of storage, 16GB of RAM, and costs $899.