Crypto exchange Bybit says a hacker took control of one of its cold Ethereum wallets, resulting in what analysts estimate was the loss of ~$1.5B worth of tokens
- North Korean group Lazarus suspected by industry researchers — Prices of Ether, Bitcoin and other tokens decline after theft
Sources: US negotiators pressing Ukraine for access to its minerals raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Starlink if a deal is not reached
U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access …
Arkham says ZachXBT submitted proof that North Korea's Lazarus Group is behind Bybit's $1.5B hack, which is the largest single theft in crypto history
RT Watson / The Block :
Some physicists are skeptical about Microsoft's claims of achieving a quantum computing breakthrough with Majorana 1, citing the lack of detailed evidence
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Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes orders the immediate and full suspension of Rumble in the country due to noncompliance with court orders
Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered U.S. video-sharing platform Rumble (RUM.O) immediate and full suspension …
NFT marketplace OpenSea says the US SEC has ended an investigation into the company, after OpenSea received a Wells Notice in August 2024
Nonfungible-token marketplace OpenSea said that it was informed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission that the regulator has ended an investigation …
Many SV startups are using AI to boost productivity in research, coding, and more, reducing reliance on VC money for hiring, fueling “tiny team” success stories
Tech start-ups typically raised huge sums to hire armies of workers and grow fast. Bluesky: @aaronosaur.us . Mastodon: @jchyip@mastodon.online . X: @gjain , @bittingthembits , @stevelohr , and @tmroha...
Even as Trump embraces crypto, attracting millions of new investors, the Bybit hack and memecoins show how crypto remains the wild West of the financial world
Hours after Coinbase said the S.E.C. was dropping a lawsuit against it, another major cryptocurrency exchange reported a potentially record-setting theft.
OpenAI says it found evidence of an AI-powered surveillance tool used by a Chinese security operation to identify anti-China posts on social media in the West
The company said a Chinese operation had built the tool to identify anti-Chinese posts on social media services in Western countries.
Trump says Tim Cook told him that Apple “stopped two plants in Mexico” and will build products in the US instead, a move Apple hasn't publicly discussed
- President says tariff threat prompted move from planned plants — Cook, Trump held private meeting Thursday at the White House
A look at the debate about whether AI models can truly reason, as some researchers describe the current pattern of reasoning as “jagged intelligence”
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Apple removes Advanced Data Protection for iCloud in the UK after the government ordered it to build a backdoor, something the company says it will never do
Better no security than a false sense of one. Ari Cohn / @aricohn.com : Apple's UK user data is now more vulnerable. It's not Apple's fault; they're PROTECTING users by not giving a false sense of se...
Apple releases visionOS 2.4 developer beta, adding Apple Intelligence, a guest mode, a Spatial Gallery app, an iPhone app for remote installs, and more
here's all the new features Wes Davis / The Verge : The Vision Pro is getting easier to share with guests, and adding a new iPhone app Aaron Brown / GB News : Apple unveils blockbuster Vision Pro upda...
The Hang Seng Tech Index, which tracks the top 30 Hong Kong-listed tech firms, rose 6.5% on February 21, hitting its highest level since early 2022
- Alibaba, Bilibili, Lenovo surge in HK after reporting results — Xi's meeting with sector leaders is another catalyst: analyst
iOS 18.4 dev beta adds Apple Intelligence-powered Priority Notifications, to show important alerts in a separate lock screen section at the top, off by default
Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac :
Alibaba's Hong Kong-listed shares jumped 14.6% on February 21 after CEO Eddie Wu said it would invest “aggressively” in AI; Alibaba's HK stock is up 70.36% YTD
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times :
President Trump signs a memorandum to consider retaliatory measures, including tariffs, on countries that impose digital service taxes on US tech companies
they threaten U.S. leadership in the digital economy. Stan Portman / @stan_p_bluepill : @atrupar He can't even let a reporter do their job without making it about him. How hard is it to just answer a ...
Latin American e-commerce giant MercadoLibre's stock reached a record high on February 21 after it reported a record $639M net income on $6.1B in revenue in Q4
- Latin America e-commerce, fintech giant blows away estimates — MercadoLibre extends lead as most valuable Latin American firm
NetEase CEO William Ding has cut hundreds of jobs, closed game studios, and reduced international investment as he refocuses on a smaller portfolio of titles
Bloomberg :
The US SEC approves a yield-bearing stablecoin by Figure Markets, which Figure says is the first yield-bearing stablecoin registered as a security with the SEC
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg :
Lumotive, whose optical semiconductor tech can “steer” laser light and is an alternative to lidar, raised a $45M Series B co-led by Gates Frontier and MetaVC
Taylor Soper / GeekWire :
Block shares closed down 17.69% on February 21, their steepest drop since 2020, after Q4 earnings missed est. and guidance for 2025 failed to reassure investors
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC :
Sakana AI walks back claims that its new AI CUDA Engineer can speed up AI training by up to 100x, after complaints about worse-than-average training performance
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Trump directs CFIUS to limit Chinese investments in key areas, and says US will consider outbound investment restrictions to China in sectors like chips and AI
Bloomberg :
Renaissance Capital: 12 of 40 fintech firms that went public in the US since 2020 have given positive investor returns; only Shift4 and AppLovin are profitable
All topics — Situational awareness: OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever is raising over $1 billion for his startup Safe Superintelligence …
Sources: AMD is in talks with Asian companies for a $3B to $4B sale of data center manufacturing plants, which it inherited in its $4.9B ZT Systems acquisition
Bloomberg :
Source: the US Marshals Service is struggling to come up with a rough estimate of its bitcoin holdings, complicating plans for a US Bitcoin reserve
Tom Carreras / CoinDesk :
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