US Treasury used AI to recover $4 billion in fraud over past year
The US Treasury has tapped into AI machine learning to sift through data to detect and prevent billions of dollars in check fraud.
Researchers hack AI-enabled robots to cause ‘real world’ harm
Penn Engineering researchers said they created an algorithm that bypassed normal safety protocols stopping AI-powered robots from performing harmful actions.
Worldcoin unveils new Layer-2 network 'World Chain'
World, formerly Worldcoin, says its World Chain will privilege verified human users over bots by giving them priority access to block space and an allowance of free gas.
Dogecoin Jumps 7% as Musk Touts D.O.G.E at Trump’s Pennsylvania Campaign
The proposed department, abbreviated as D.O.G.E, will seek to make government spending of taxpayer money more efficient while streamlining departments that handle spending.
Ethereum’s Pectra fork adds dynamic blob fees to to improve L2 scaling
A proposal to change the blob gas target and max values on Ethereum comes seven months after blobs were introduced in the blockchain’s Dencun upgrade in March.
Dogecoin Moons Again After Musk Drops Token Mention During Pennsylvania Town Hall
Someone asked Musk if he would head up a new “Department of Government Efficiency.” Musk responded with a lighthearted grin, “Yeah, Doge.”
Bitcoin to pump if oil, energy prices surge amid Middle East tension: Hayes
BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes predicts Bitcoin’s price will rise alongside surging oil and energy prices if tensions between Iran and Israel boil over.
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Former watch trader is now building the AWS of grid storage, Terralyr
The startup’s technology is a twist on the virtual power plant concept, in which batteries are aggregated and portions of the whole are sold off to various customers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
CFTC says court ‘erred at every turn’ in allowing Kalshi’s election markets
The CFTC says a federal court judge “mistakenly erred” when it allowed betting market Kalshi to list event contracts for the 2024 US elections.
US has 26M strong ‘crypto voting bloc’ ahead of elections — Survey
One in seven, or 16%, of respondents in a survey by The Digital Chamber said they’d vote for the most pro-crypto candidate.
SEC Files Last-Minute Appeal in Ripple Case—Why the XRP Army is Outraged
While the SEC isn’t contesting the ruling that XRP sales to retail investors aren’t securities, it is instead focusing on other key aspects.
Memecoins drove Tron network revenue to new high over Q3: Messari
Nearly a third of Tron’s record $151 million quarterly revenue came from its new memecoin launchpad SunPump over a two week period.
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Amazon indicates employees can quit if they don’t like its return-to-office mandate
AWS CEO Matt Garman has harsh words for remote workers: return to the office or quit. The Amazon executive recently told employees who don’t like the new five-day in-person work policy that, “there are other companies around,” presumably companies they can work for remotely, Reuters reported on Thursday. Amazon’s top boss, Andy Jassy, told employees … Read more
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Indonesia, Turkiye, Nigeria and Other Emerging Crypto Markets in 2024
Crypto regulation in the world continues to change rapidly. Financial authorities realize that banning cryptocurrencies does nothing and are changing their approaches. In addition to regions with developed crypto regulation (US, EU, UAE, LatAm, etc.), the situation is also changing in emerging markets in Asia and Africa. There is a strong demand for cryptocurrency transactions, … Read more
Automattic offered employees another chance to quit — this time with nine months’ severance
Days after 159 people accepted Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg’s offer of a six-month severance package to employees who wanted to leave, the company floated a new offer late on October 16 of a nine-month severance package to anybody who quit immediately. Employees had four hours to decide whether they wanted to take the deal. In … Read more