Microsoft 'deeply sorry' for global outage after almost 24 hours of disruption
Experts say the event is a "stark reminder" of how heavily the world relies on a small group of big tech providers.
XRP Backer Counters SWIFT’s New Speed Report
The preference for nearly-immediate settlement time windows unites a roster of banks in SWIFT’s chain trial.
All US airports are currently ground stopped
The FAA has issued a ground stop affecting all U.S. airports, preventing any flights from departing to U.S.
Kraken parent Payward gains market share as slower trading weighs on earnings
Payward’s adjusted EBITDA fell 66% year over year to $60 million, even as its share of global spot trading nearly…
US regulators move ahead on crypto trust charters as Senate scrutiny grows
Coinbase’s trust company received final clearance as lawmakers seek records on crypto firms’ compliance and potential…
China’s $3.2 Billion AI Pipeline Still Calls for Nvidia Chips Washington Restricts
Chinese data center projects are still being designed around restricted Nvidia processors, even as Beijing pushes…
DOJ, CFTC Sue Arkansas to Block Kalshi Crackdown as Prediction Market Battle Escalates
The U.S.
Big tech is here to let us down
Microsoft's Outlook, Teams, and Copilot services went down, affecting businesses, schools, universities, and courts,…
Crypto
JPMorgan’s Bitcoin and Crypto-Linked Holdings Approach $1 Billion
The bank’s Q3 13F shows roughly $981 million across Bitcoin ETFs, Strategy and Coinbase—likely over $1 billion counting…
SpaceX to attempt double catch of huge Starship rocket
Elon Musk’s company will try to grab both parts of the rocket for the first time.
This young startup wants to power floating data centers with the ocean’s heat, and investors are already on board
Drogue is harvesting heat from the ocean to power data centers on floating vessels.
In elephants, the resilience of communities has its limits
In Sri Lanka, ecological change is shrinking a park's elephant population.
Wales out to derail Norway's repair job in Oslo
Norway's golden generation host Wales in a crunch Nations League clash on Saturday, aiming to end a rare losing streak…
Live-migration support in FreeBSD and bhyve coming
FreeBSD's bhyve hypervisor now supports live virtual machine migration, allowing running VMs to move between hosts over…
No AI Slop: A Manifesto
A group of software engineers and leaders have created the "No AI Slop Manifesto," drawing parallels to the 2001 Agile…
Trump Jr. out as Kalshi advisor after his firm's big investment in Polymarket
Trump son advised Kalshi and got equity while Trump admin helped Kalshi in lawsuits.
Someone's Impersonating This Blog
A blogger discovered that someone had scraped their entire blog and rehosted it at a nearly identical domain…
AI agent startup LangChain hits $3B valuation
LangChain now claims 7,000 customers of its model and platform agnostic agent management tool LangSmith.
Dormant Bitcoin Wallets Wake Up After 16 Years, Moving $6.9 Million
Two Bitcoin mining rewards from September 2010 moved minutes apart.
OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Wallet With Visa, Mastercard and Amex
OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Wallet to let artificial intelligence (AI) agents complete purchases using customers’ existing…
PEPE Price Decline Deepens as Sellers Take Control
PEPE rallied by 60% over a 60-day time frame, but failed to hold its ground and has bounced back with losses of 11.19%…
Technology as a Search Problem
# Summary The article proposes that technological innovation can be understood as a search problem through a vast…