Four Years Ago, a Crypto Boss Went Missing. Now His Successor Has.
The mysterious collapse of a European cryptocurrency exchange helps to explain why the industry hasn’t shaken off its reputation as a magnet for criminals.
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Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Just Used AI to Fix a Kernel Bug
Linus Torvalds just used AI to help fix a Linux kernel bug. Let me tell you that this is a rare event. Not because Torvalds
Proton Mail Wants to Organize Your Emails Automatically
Proton Mail (partner link), the service people turn to for escaping Big Tech, has rolled out “Categories” as a new inbox view that automatically sorts
Letara raises ¥2.6bn (roughly $16mn) for hybrid rocket engines the law does not call explosive
Letara, a Hokkaido University spinout, has raised about ¥2.6bn, roughly $16mn, for hybrid rocket engines that use plastic as fuel and are not legally classified
Researchers found 768 leaked AWS keys that still work, and the containment policy leaves plenty possible
Truffle Security found 768 leaked AWS keys granting full control of corporate accounts, including 526 root keys, with 88% of tested credentials still active. AWS
Lawsuit demands Logitech hand tariff refunds over to customers
Logitech is facing a proposed class action lawsuit for not giving customers tariff refunds. In April 2025, Logitech raised the prices on 51 percent of
Chinese regulators tell Tesla to fix nearly 3 million cars
Tesla is facing a massive recall in China today. Chinese regulators are taking a stricter approach to safety, and the automaker now has to add
A free AI model is winning over developers. And nobody knows whose servers it runs on
An anonymous model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter last week, free to use with a million-token context window, and developers have been impressed. OpenRouter’s
Nvidia AI server prices are rising more than 15% from early next year
Nvidia’s largest customers have been notified that servers containing its AI chips will rise in price by more than 15% in many cases from early
Apollo finds AI is hitting paychecks rather than payrolls
An Apollo analysis of 321 occupations found that wages in jobs highly exposed to AI grew 6.7% more slowly after 2023, with no statistically significant
China’s AI and chip firms are handing out shares to keep their engineers
Chinese chip companies are running unusually broad equity schemes to keep engineers, with Cambricon covering 85.3% of its workforce and AMEC more than 97%. Europe’s
Putting mice into hibernation causes a major loss of synapses
Our leading hypothesis for how our memories are stored is that when you learn something, the connections among neurons involved get stronger and physically larger
Dismantling the Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife and water in US
Pause for a moment and listen. What do you hear? Chances are, somewhere in the background, is the ever-present hum of a road. More than
The company that just opened America’s newest battery plant says solid-state cars are a decade away
LG Energy Solution says the unsolved problem in solid-state batteries is making large cells at scale, and expects the technology to reach smartphones roughly a