Telegram to Enable NFT Conversion for New Gifts Feature
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has teased an exciting new feature that will allow for the conversion of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) amid the launch of the platform’s latest feature, Gifts. This…
LEGO Removes Crypto Scam from Homepage After Being Hacked
LEGO Group, the well-known toy manufacturer, has reportedly eliminated a “LEGO Coin” token scam that briefly appeared on its homepage following a hack on October 5. The incident has raised…
New Research Shows Martian and Lunar Sand Could Be Used for Bricks
Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have uncovered a groundbreaking technique for converting sand found on Mars and the Moon into solid bricks, marking a significant step toward establishing sustainable colonies…
Harris Blasts Arkansas Governor’s Comments About Her Lack of Biological Children
Vice President Kamala Harris responded sharply to remarks made by Arkansas GOP Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who suggested that Harris “doesn’t have anything keeping her humble” because she doesn’t have…
X’s Return to Brazil Faces Further Delays After Paying Fines to Wrong Bank, Court Says
X’s return to Brazil is facing further delays after the Brazilian Supreme Court revealed that the company paid its fines to the wrong bank. This development, reported by Reuters, follows…
Mark Zuckerberg Surpasses Jeff Bezos as World’s Second Richest Person
Mark Zuckerberg has ascended to become the world’s second-richest person, surpassing Jeff Bezos according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. On Thursday, Zuckerberg’s net worth reached an impressive $206.2 billion, eclipsing…
YouTube Shorts Just Got a Little Longer
YouTube is rolling out significant updates to its Shorts platform, extending the maximum video length to three minutes starting on October 15. This change comes in response to user requests,…
Chinese Cyberattack Targets U.S. Broadband Providers and Wiretap Systems
Chinese hackers infiltrated the networks of U.S. broadband providers, accessing systems used by the federal government for court-authorized wiretapping, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The intrusion, targeting networks…
Visa Unveils Platform for Tokenized Digital Asset Management
Visa has officially launched its new Visa Tokenized Asset Platform (VTAP), aimed at facilitating the issuance and management of digital assets. On October 3, Visa announced the VTAP, which is…
OpenAI Introduces Canvas for Writing and Coding Projects
OpenAI is introducing Canvas, a new workspace interface aimed at enhancing project management for writing and coding within ChatGPT. This marks a significant shift from the traditional chat-based interface, offering…
Palworld Pushes Mobile Launch Despite Nintendo Lawsuit
Palworld, the creature-catching game often referred to as “Pokémon with guns,” is pressing forward with its mobile launch plans, despite a patent infringement lawsuit from Nintendo. The indie developer Pocketpair…
Spotify Launches Automatic Offline Backup Playlist for Premium Users
Spotify has launched a new feature called Offline Backup for Premium users, which automatically creates a playlist when users lose internet connection. This playlist pulls together recently queued and played…
Banks to Join SWIFT Digital Asset Trials in 2025
Banks across North America, Europe, and Asia are gearing up to participate in upcoming trials involving digital assets organized by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT). On October…
Coinbase Pushes CFTC for Documents to Defend Against SEC
Coinbase has filed a petition in federal court seeking to compel the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to provide communication records with several crypto token issuers. This request is crucial…
Sora Co-Lead Leaves OpenAI for Google DeepMind
Tim Brooks, co-lead on OpenAI’s video generation project Sora, has left the company to join Google DeepMind, Google’s AI research division. Brooks, who had been co-leading the development of Sora…
Nvidia’s Blackwell Chip Faces Unprecedented Demand, Says CEO Jensen Huang
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has described the demand for the company’s upcoming Blackwell artificial intelligence chip as “insane.” In an interview with CNBC’s “Closing Bell Overtime,” Huang noted that every…
Court Revives 2020 AT&T Case Over $24M Crypto Theft via SIM Swap
AT&T is set to return to court facing charges related to its failure to protect user information, following an appeal that overturned part of a summary judgment in the company’s…
Nvidia Unveils New AI Model That Rivals GPT-4 in Both Vision and Language Tasks
Nvidia has introduced a groundbreaking open-source artificial intelligence model, poised to rival industry-leading systems like OpenAI’s GPT-4. This new development, named the NVLM 1.0 family, is headlined by the NVLM-D-72B,…
BTC Whales Not in Sufficient Profit to Dump on Market
An analysis of the Bitcoin unrealized profit ratio comparing new and old whales indicates that large Bitcoin holders have not yet realized enough profits to justify selling their significant holdings…
Facebook Tackles Celebrity Deepfake Scams After $43 Million Lost by Australians
Facebook has ramped up efforts to tackle celebrity deepfake scams in Australia after Australians lost $43 million to such schemes. Meta introduced a Fraud Intelligence Reciprocal Exchange (FIRE) tool in…