Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: CoinMarketCap data shows the crypto market is struggling with an “Alameda gap” after new coin applications fell from 10,264 in Q1 2022 to 6,350 in Q4 2022 — Data from CoinMarketCap shows a precipitous decline in applications for token listings as liquidity dries up.
Read More(Image: Waldemar Brandt/Unsplash)After a lengthy wait, the Biden administration announced Wednesday a set of standards for its national electric vehicle charger network. Its priorities include ensuring universal EV charger compatibility and bolstering domestic charger production. When the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed, it did so with a provision for a national network of 500,000 EV chargers.
Read MoreCredit: Samsung The Samsung Galaxy S23 release date is less than 24 hours away. That means it’s your last chance to pre-order one of the devices for a free memory upgrade and up to $150 Samsung Credit. These perks are in addition to the trade-in values and other bonuses on offer. But while these incentives
Read MoreRichard Waters / Financial Times: Q&A with IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on OpenAI’s ChatGPT, research into LLMs, companies using AI, Deep Blue and chess, practical uses for generative AI, and more — IBM led some of the 20th century’s most pioneering projects in artificial intelligence and supercomputing …
Read MoreTawnell D. Hobbs / Wall Street Journal: US law enforcement officials and other experts say TikTok has emerged as the biggest and fastest-growing danger zone for child sexual exploitation online — Law-enforcement officials say platform has emerged as biggest danger zone; adults who watch videos of young people are served up more of them
Read MoreThis week, we discuss all the ways generative AI is upending journalism, marketing, shopping, and search.
Read MoreAnd according to tracing firm Chainalysis, one very prolific scammer ran at least 264 of those scams in 2022 alone.
Read MoreLooming apocalypse. Paranoid conspiracies. Rocket-obsessed oligarchs. As Thomas Pynchon’s novel turns 50, its world feels unnervingly present.
Read MoreISS 80mm forward nadir mosaic created with imagery from Expedition 66. Three crewmembers of the International Space Station (ISS) will have to wait a little longer for their ride home. Russia’s Roscosmos has announced a delay in the launch of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft, which is slated to replace the MS-22 that sprung a coolant
Read MoreResearchers have spent years warning that text-generation algorithms can spew bias and falsehoods. Tech giants are rushing them into products anyway.
Read MoreThe avian flu has killed millions of chickens, decimated wild birds—and moved into mammals. Now the poultry industry needs new measures to stop its spread.
Read MoreBloomberg: A profile of FTX co-founder and CTO Gary Wang, a roommate to Sam Bankman-Fried at MIT who is cooperating with the US, as insiders say he may have key insights — They’d come a long way together, from teenage mathletes to MIT frat brothers to crypto billionaires.
Read MoreClive Thompson / MIT Technology Review: A brief history of Rust, a programming language that emerged from a side project and has been instrumental in driving the shift toward memory safe programming — For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust. — Many software projects emerge because …
Read MoreAnup Roy / Bloomberg: The Reserve Bank of India publishes a list of 32 entities, including Google Pay and Amazon Pay, that can act as online payment aggregators in the country — The Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday published a list of 32 entities, including Alphabet Inc.’s Google Pay, Amazon.com Inc.’s Amazon Pay …
Read MoreAs more businesses adopt microservice architectures for their applications, more developers have had to grapple with the concepts of orchestration and choreography. Although these terms are sometimes used interchangeably, there are key differences between these two architectural patterns. Orchestration is a centralized approach to making all control decisions about interactions between services. Here a central
Read MoreBing Blogs: Microsoft reflects on the new Bing: 71% gave AI answers a thumbs up, Bing can become repetitive after 15+ questions, a few sessions over two hours, and more — A little over a week ago, we shared an all new, AI-powered Bing search engine, Edge web browser, and integrated Chat, that we think
Read MoreThe UK now can buy refurbished iPads direct from Apple, but as always, the savings might not be the best.
Read MoreGood morning, Daily Authority readers. We’re just a few weeks away from MWC 2023, one of the largest mobile tech shows in the world. Our team will be on ground to get you the latest and greatest from the show floor, but the spate of new smartphone launches has already begun. Today’s feature is about
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: a China-based former ASML employee stole data from Teamcenter, a Siemens-made internal tool used to store technical info, in the past couple of months — A China-based former employee of ASML Holding NV — a critical cog in the global semiconductor industry …
Read MoreLily Hay Newman / Wired: The US CBP confirms implementing software to verify e-passports in June 2022, nearly 16 years after the US started issuing passports with RFID chips — After 16 years, the agency has implemented the software to cryptographically verify digital passport data—and it’s already caught a dozen alleged fraudsters.
Read MoreApple CEO Tim Cook is one of five big tech leaders subpoenaed by the House Judiciary regarding an investigation into censorship of legitimate viewpoints regarding issues such as COVID-19 policy.
Read MoreThe Justice Department has reportedly “ramped up” its work drafting an antitrust complaint against Apple over its iOS App Store.
Read MoreAkane Otani / Wall Street Journal: Jaime Rogozinski, who created r/WallStreetBets, sues Reddit, arguing the company breached its contract by removing him as a moderator in 2020 — Jaime Rogozinski says site ousted him without claim; Reddit calls suit frivolous — WallStreetBets’ founder is suing the site where it all began.
Read MoreIn Java, everything is an object—except primitives like int. Turns out that small caveat has had big implications for the language, which have compounded over the years. This seemingly minor design decision causes problems in key areas like collections and generics. It also limits certain performance optimizations. Project Valhalla, the Java language refactor, aims to correct these issues.
Read MoreCredit: Adamya Sharma / Android Authority OnePlus will extend the same update commitment as the OnePlus 11 to the OnePlus 11R. The company has confirmed that the cheaper phone will also get four years of Android updates and five years of security patches. Update: February 16, 2023 (3:40 AM ET): OnePlus Support has taken a
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