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.
Nvidia confirms a “rare” manufacturing issue affecting under 0.5% of RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti GPUs, which are missing render units, the latest hitch since launch
Where did the ROPs go? … In the grand scheme of things, that doesn't sound like a lot of affected GPUs …
DefiLlama: Bybit experienced a “bank run” of over $4B after the ~$1.5B hack, leading to a ~$5.5B total outflow; CEO says “about 50%” of funds were withdrawn
Major cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has seen total outflows of over $5.5 billion after it suffered …
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
There are reports that this address was used in an exploit on Bybit. Faarea Masud / BBC : Cryptocurrency theft of £1.1bn could be biggest ever Cas Abbé / Blockchain.News : Lazarus Group Hacks Bybit fo...
Apple abandons the budget phone market with the iPhone 16e; sources: the M4 MacBook Air may launch in March and Apple may eventually meld the modem and main CPU
Last week, Apple introduced the long-awaited successor to the iPhone SE: the iPhone 16e. In doing so, it all but abandoned the budget smartphone market.
A deep look at “the Zizians”, a cult-like group of young tech people exiled from Silicon Valley's rationalist community and allegedly linked to a killing spree
A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist …
A Maldita study of nearly 1.2M Community Notes on X published globally in 2024 shows that professional fact-checkers are among the three most cited sources
Notes that cite fact-checkers earn more trust from X users and combat misinformation faster — When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced …
Researchers estimate that air pollution related to data centers from Google, Microsoft, and Meta resulted in $5.4B in US public health costs from 2019 to 2023
Research suggests the price of treating illnesses related to building of computing infrastructure in the US is on the rise
A look at India's Svamitva Scheme, which has digitally mapped out landholdings using drones in 300K+ villages as of January 2025, as concerns mount over errors
The Svamitva scheme seeks to use drones to map out landholdings in inhabited rural areas. But so far, work has been opaque and riddled with errors. X: @scroll_in , @scroll_in , @scroll_in , @_vaishna...
Some US school districts are adopting Sonny, an AI “wellbeing companion,” to provide mental health support to students when there aren't enough counselors
Is a human-AI texting service the future of mental-health care for students? — Teens around the country are confiding … Bluesky: @daniloc.xyz , @kiwired , and @radiobeartime.com . LinkedIn: Ana Bran...
Sources: Shein's 2024 sales were up 19% YoY to $38B, far below the forecasts made in 2023; some investors push Shein to cut pre-IPO valuation from $66B to ~$30B
Competition from Temu adds to pressure on fast-fashion group's valuation as it seeks approval for UK listing
Some physicists are skeptical about Microsoft's claims of achieving a quantum computing breakthrough with Majorana 1, citing the lack of detailed evidence
contrary to what you may have read in some other places — www.nature.com/articles/d41... Elizabeth Gibney / @lizziegibney : By far the most informative and nuanced take you will get on today's quant...
Some journalists are taking freelance jobs with AI training data companies like Scale AI, which recruit them for tasks such as fact-checking and prompt drafting
The gig work platform Outlier is one of several companies courting journalists to train large language models (LLMs). Bluesky: @andrewdeck , @tylerborchers.com , @tonymartin , and @amywestervelt . Mas...
The iPhone 16e gives Apple a chance to get more competitive in China, where rivals like Huawei are becoming more sophisticated with the government's help
The less-expensive 16e model arrives in the world's biggest smartphone market, where local tech companies benefit from Beijing's help
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
Between the tech job market and big tech's increasing worker hostility, it does look like supply has outstripped demand for tech workers. — https://www.nytimes.com/... Jason Yip / @jchyip@mastodon.o...
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
X is rolling out Grok-powered AI tools for advertisers to generate ready-to-use ad copy and imagery and provide campaign performance analysis
https://www.adweek.com/... X: Kendra Barnett / @kendraebarnett : NEW for @Adweek: @X has debuted AI-powered advertising tools for creative development and campaign performance analysis. It's part of t...
An investigation details how Chinese cybercrime groups are turning phished payment card data into new Apple or Google wallets for online and in-store use
https://krebsonsecurity.com/ ...
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
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A look at the debate about whether AI models can truly reason, as some researchers describe the current pattern of reasoning as “jagged intelligence”
And the big question is: Is that true? — I found that the best answer lies in between hype and skepticism. — www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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
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Filing: Amazon estimated the fair value of its stake in Anthropic at $14B at the end of December 2024, after agreeing to invest $8B in Anthropic so far
Eugene Kim / Business Insider : Bluesky: @businessinsider.com Bluesky: @businessinsider.com : Amazon initially backed Anthropic in 2023. The move has reaped huge rewards for the cloud giant.
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
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