Brazilian police arrested the hacker who stole everyone’s SSN
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Federal Police of Brazil announced the arrest of the hacker linked to a breach that leaked 2.9 billion records that included sensitive personal information, including some Social Security numbers. The data from that hack, which came to light in August, was put for sale on the … Read more
Bitcoin ETFs Race Past $20 Billion Milestone in Just 10 Months
Approved in January, Bitcoin exchange-traded funds have experienced trading activity like no other ETF product.
Staked Ether Is Creating a Benchmark for the Crypto Economy, Says ARK Invest
The growing use of stETH in DeFi protocols means the asset is slowly taking the role of the fed funds rate in the crypto ecosystem, says ARK Invest.
Galaxis Teams Up With TV Show ‘Killer Whales’ to ‘Empower Creators’
The partnership will see Galaxis showcased throughout the reality show, as well as “actively supporting” the Web3 projects featured.
Experts say OpenAI’s patent pledge amounts to little more than ‘virtue signaling’
This week, OpenAI quietly published a statement on its website pledging not to use its patents offensively. Asserting its commitment to the principles of “broad access” and “collaboration,” OpenAI said that it would only use its patents in a way that supports innovation. “We pledge to only use our patents defensively, so long as a … Read more
Unity attempts to turn things around with its latest game engine release
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Unity hasn’t had the easiest go of things as of late, but as part of its efforts to get back in the good graces of game developers, the company has released Unity 6 globally. In addition to new features like tools that let developers to target mobile web, … Read more
U.S. Election Betting: Federal Court ‘Erred’ in Letting Kalshi Launch Prediction Markets, CFTC Says
A federal judge “erred” in letting prediction market purveyor Kalshi list and trade election contracts, attorneys for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission argued in a brief to an appellate court Wednesday, reiterating many of the arguments it made during its case before the lower court.
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Marc Benioff warns that AI, while useful, is overhyped and partly blames Microsoft
One of the tech industry’s biggest hype men, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, is psyched about AI, but points out that it hasn’t cured cancer. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Google replaces executive in charge of Search and advertising
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Thursday that Prabhakar Raghavan, the executive in charge of the company’s search engine and ads products, is leaving his role. Longtime Google executive Nick Fox will replace Raghavan, who will now take on the role of chief technologist. “Prabhakar has decided it’s time to make a big leap in … Read more
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Sam Altman’s Eye-Scanning Orbs Can Now be Summoned ‘Like a Pizza’, Say Worldcoin Execs
The project will now be know simply as “World” and plans to release “Orb 2.0,” the executives said during a presentation.
Most US voters prefer a pro-crypto candidate — Grayscale CLO
More than half of voters in the United States are more likely to vote for a pro-crypto candidate versus one who is not, Craig Salm said.
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Wrapped Bitcoin Wars Ramp Up as Kraken Reveals kBTC
Crypto exchange Kraken has unveiled a new wrapped Bitcoin product dubbed kBTC, joining a growing battle with Coinbase, 21.co, and BitGo.
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US Presidential Election Tops $2 Billion in Betting Volume on Polymarket
Trump is currently leading the Polymarket betting pool on the winner of the U.S. election, which has topped $2 billion in total volume.
Majors Fall 1 to 2%, A New Tiger takes to the Charts, Van Eck teases Big Web3 Gaming
A lucky GOAT memecoin trader turned $5,000 into $1.5M during GOAT’s run to $300M. A new memecoin based on Disney Park’s new baby tiger “Bakso” was a top mover on Wednesday, running to $10M (now $6M). Crypto majors fall 1-2%, memes red across board. a16z calls 2024 crypto’s biggest year yet in “State of Crypto” … Read more
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Use Amazon SageMaker Studio with a custom file system in Amazon EFS
Amazon SageMaker Studio is the latest web-based experience for running end-to-end machine learning (ML) workflows. SageMaker Studio offers a suite of integrated development environments (IDEs), which includes JupyterLab, Code Editor, as well as RStudio. Data scientists and ML engineers can spin up SageMaker Studio private and shared spaces, which are used to manage the storage … Read more
Summarize call transcriptions securely with Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Bedrock Guardrails
Given the volume of meetings, interviews, and customer interactions in modern business environments, audio recordings play a crucial role in capturing valuable information. Manually transcribing and summarizing these recordings can be a time-consuming and tedious task. Fortunately, advancements in generative AI and automatic speech recognition (ASR) have paved the way for automated solutions that can … Read more
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