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Commerce Department divisions reportedly ban DeepSeek from government devices
Several Department of Commerce bureaus are said to have told staff not to use DeepSeek's AI chatbot on government devices. "To help keep Department of Commerce information systems safe, access to the new Chinese based AI DeepSeek is broadly prohibited on all [government-furnished equipment]," one bureau told staff in an email, Reuters reports. "Do not download, view, access any applications, desktop apps or websites...
Published on: March 18, 2025 | Source:
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Battle of the dirt-cheap tablets: Amazon Fire HD 8 vs. Walmart Onn 8
Apple’s iPads get all the headlines, and with good reason: They’ve long been considered the best tablets for most people. But none of them come cheap. For folks on a tighter budget, I’ve spent the last few weeks testing a couple of 8-inch slates on the dirt-cheap end of the price spectrum: the $100 (but frequently discounted) Amazon Fire HD 8 and the $79 Walmart Onn 8”. They aren’t the only tablets available in this...
Published on: March 18, 2025 | Source:The Morning After: The next iPhone could have been port-free
The iPhone 17 Air (even the name is a rumor) is reportedly arriving this fall. As that Air suffix suggests, it could be Apple’s thinnest iPhone ever. However, while thin is all good, an arguably more intriguing change didn’t quite make it through the design process. In the latest Power On newsletter (we love a newsletter), Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said Apple had planned to ditch the USB-C port, making “Apple’s first...
Published on: March 18, 2025 | Source:Mastering Growth in the AI Era: How to Stand Out, Acquire Customers, and Raise VC Dollars with B Capital, Zetta, and Glasswing
3 top VCs gathered at SaaStr Annual to do a deep dive on AI in B2B today, from what customers really want in the enterprise to what VCs are funding: Karen Page, General Partner at B Capital Rudina Seseri, Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures, which focuses on early-stage AI and Frontier Tech investments in Enterprise... Continue Reading
Published on: March 18, 2025 | Source:The 17 best portable Bluetooth speakers for 2025
Whether you're jamming out at the beach, setting up a backyard movie night or just want some tunes while you work, a great portable Bluetooth speaker is a must-have. The best options today go beyond just playing music — they deliver punchy bass, crisp vocals and even customizable sound modes to match whatever you're listening to. Some models even pack extras like a built-in LED light for a cool light show, making them...
Published on: March 18, 2025 | Source:Bitcoin price fails to go parabolic as the US Dollar Index (DXY) falls — Why?
Bitcoin (BTC) has fallen 12% since March 2, when it nearly reached $94,000. Interestingly, during the same period, the US dollar weakened against a basket of foreign currencies, which is usually seen as a positive sign for scarce assets like BTC. Investors are now puzzled as to why Bitcoin hasn’t reacted positively to the declining DXY and what could be the next factor to trigger a decoupling from this trend.US Dollar...
Published on: March 17, 2025 | Source:Polymarket bettors say there’s a 100% chance the Fed ends QT before May
Betters on Polymarket believe it’s now a certainty that the US Federal Reserve will wind down its quantitative tightening (QT) program by May of this year, a move many analysts say could trigger the next leg of the crypto bull market.By March 14, Polymarket’s betting odds that the Fed would end QT by April 30 was 100%, where it remains unchanged at the time of writing.The wager, titled “Will Fed end QT before May?,”...
Published on: March 17, 2025 | Source:Boeing Starliner astronauts finally head home, nine months later
Eight days. That’s how long Boeing Starliner’s mission — its first flight test with crew aboard — was supposed to last. But this mission has been singular in almost every way, and astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have instead spent the past nine and a half months aboard the International Space Station. Now, finally, they're headed home. Their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule is slated to begin undocking from the...
Published on: March 17, 2025 | Source:XRP’s role in US Digital Asset Stockpile raises questions on token utility — Does it belong?
Ripple’s XRP (XRP), the third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, gained national recognition after President Donald Trump mentioned the “valuable cryptocurrency” alongside BTC, ETH, SOL, and ADA as part of a planned US strategic crypto reserve. Trump’s executive order on March 6 established a new structure for the altcoins — the Digital Asset Stockpile, managed by the Treasury.While the crypto community remains...
Published on: March 17, 2025 | Source:Robinhood shares up 8% after launching betting markets hub
Robinhood has launched a betting markets hub as the online brokerage — best known for stock trading — expands its presence in emergent asset classes, including cryptocurrencies and event contracts, according to a March 17 announcement.Robinhood’s stock, HOOD, rose roughly 8% on the Nasdaq after the announcement, according to data from Google Finance. The new betting feature will let users “trade contracts for what the...
Published on: March 17, 2025 | Source:DOGE staffer violated security policies at Treasury Department, court filing shows
The filing was part of a case brought by state attorneys general seeking to block DOGE access to sensitive information. The post DOGE staffer violated security policies at Treasury Department, court filing shows appeared first on CyberScoop.
Published on: March 17, 2025 | Source:BTC dominance steadily rising since 2023, is altseason now a relic?
Bitcoin (BTC) dominance, a measure of Bitcoin's overall share of the crypto market, has been steadily rising since 2023 amid a torrent of new cryptocurrency coins and tokens.The current BTC market dominance is roughly 61.6%, down from the local peak of 64.3% recorded on Feb. 3.BTC market dominance broke back above 60% on Feb. 2 amid a general market downturn over fears of a prolonged trade war between the United States...
Published on: March 17, 2025 | Source:Alphabet’s Starlink competitor Taara is spinning off into an independent company
Alphabet is letting its laser-based internet company Taara fly and be free, according to reporting by Financial Times. Google’s parent company is spinning off the service from X, its moonshot incubator system (not to be confused with X the social network.) Taara uses light beams to provide high-bandwidth internet and phone services to hard-to-reach areas of the world. This places it in direct competition with Elon Musk...
Published on: March 17, 2025 | Source:Move is now primed to grow DeFi
Opinion by: Alex Nguyen, CEO at VibrantXThe Move programming language’s origin is not super cypherpunk. Facebook (now Meta) created Move after the Libra/Diem team compared major smart contract languages (Bitcoin Script, Ethereum Virtual Machine bytecode languages) and decided their formidable in-house tech talent could make a new language built on years of private and public sector research.The original team, including...
Published on: March 17, 2025 | Source:Raspberry Pi Pico 2's RP2350 SoC goes on general sale
Raspberry Pi has announced the general availability of the RP2350 A and B, the SoC that powers the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 which features both an Arm and RISC-V CPU
Published on: March 17, 2025 | Source:Web3 has a metadata problem, and it’s not going away
Opinion by: Casey Ford, PhD, researcher at Nym TechnologiesWeb3 rolled in on the wave of decentralization. Decentralized applications (DApps) grew by 74% in 2024 and individual wallets by 485%, with total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (DeFi) closing at a near-record high of $214 billion. The industry is also, however, heading straight for a state of capture if it does not wake up.As Elon Musk has teased...
Published on: March 16, 2025 | Source:How an obscure US government office has become a target of Elon Musk
Rightwing campaign propelled by tech billionaire accuses General Services Administration’s 18F of being a far-left cellNever miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time.Federal employees in a little-known office dedicated to tech and consulting services were at work on the afternoon of 3 February when Elon Musk tweeted about their agency for the first time.“That group has...
Published on: March 16, 2025 | Source:How to navigate this terrible job market? Niche down.
How I landed a Product Designer role in 2 applications.After over four years of working freelance/contract, I entered the full-time job market for the first time this year. I had seen the layoffs, the astronomical applicant counts, and the barrage of pessimistic takes about the state of product design all over LinkedIn. I braced myself for a painful, prolonged process.To my surprise, this was my quickest job search...
Published on: March 15, 2025 | Source:Bitcoin’s role as an inflation hedge depends on where one lives — Analyst
For years, inflation was primarily a concern for emerging markets, where volatile currencies and economic instability made rising prices a persistent challenge. However, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, inflation became a global issue. Once-stable economies with historically low inflation were suddenly grappling with soaring costs, prompting investors to rethink how to preserve their wealth.While gold and real...
Published on: March 15, 2025 | Source:Bitcoin poised to reclaim $90,000, according to derivatives metrics
Bitcoin (BTC) failed to sustain levels above $85,000 on March 14, despite a 1.9% gain in the S&P 500 index. More importantly, it has been over a week since Bitcoin last traded at $90,000, prompting traders to question whether the bull market is truly over and how long selling pressure will persist. Bitcoin basis rate rebounds from bearish levelsFrom a derivatives perspective, Bitcoin metrics have shown resilience...
Published on: March 15, 2025 | Source:Trade war puts Bitcoin’s status as safe-haven asset in doubt
Several years back, many in the crypto community described Bitcoin as a “safe-haven” asset. Fewer are calling it that today.A safe-haven asset maintains or increases in value in times of economic stress. It can be a government bond, a currency like the US dollar, a commodity like gold, or even a blue-chip stock.A spreading global tariff war set off by the United States, as well as troubling economic reports, have sent...
Published on: March 15, 2025 | Source:Eggings, swastikas and dog poop: Tesla bears brunt of people’s ire against Musk
In response to the billionaire’s scorched-earth raids on US government agencies, Tesla chargers and showrooms are being targetedIn the early morning hours of Donald Trump’s inauguration day, a person wearing a long black cloak and face mask wheeled a cart down an Oregon sidewalk. He was headed toward a Tesla showroom in Salem, and his cart appeared to be loaded with molotov cocktails, according to court documents. One...
Published on: March 15, 2025 | Source:Bitcoin needs weekly close above $81K to avoid downside ahead of FOMC
Bitcoin needs to close above the key $81,000 weekly level to avoid more downside volatility ahead of next week’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, which will offer investors more cues on the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy for 2025.Bitcoin (BTC) price fell over 3% during the past week to trade above $83,748 as of 9:33 am UTC, Cointelegraph MarketsProdata shows.Bitcoin price continues to risk significant...
Published on: March 15, 2025 | Source:From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet
Big players, including Microsoft, with Copilot, Google, with Gemini, and OpenAI, with GPT-4o, are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public. How do these large language model (LLM) programs work? OpenAI’s GPT-3 told us that AI uses “a series of autocomplete-like programs to learn language” and that […]
Published on: March 14, 2025 | Source:Growth in Bitcoin and stablecoin adoption could accelerate dedollarization
The US dollar has long reigned as the world’s primary reserve currency and the default choice for global trade and international transactions. But its dominance is now facing growing scrutiny as shifting geopolitical and economic forces—and concerns over the potential weaponization of the greenback—push more countries to accelerate efforts to loosen their dependence on the dollar.By almost every measure, the US dollar’...
Published on: March 14, 2025 | Source:California’s legal push on geolocation data collection must take aim at the right targets, privacy experts say
An investigation by California’s attorney general into use of location data could rein in the worst abusers, but should also be able to determine legitimate business use. The post California’s legal push on geolocation data collection must take aim at the right targets, privacy experts say appeared first on CyberScoop.
Published on: March 14, 2025 | Source:Bitcoin bull market in peril as US recession and tariff worries loom
In the first three months of his presidency, Donald Trump has ignited trade tensions by announcing tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China and the result has been unexpected turmoil in US and global markets.The fallout from the tariffs has been relatively swift, and the impact has been felt across the crypto market. As of March 8, the US president had backed away from some plans to impose tariffs on certain Mexican and...
Published on: March 14, 2025 | Source:Nintendo Switch 2 is coming soon: Everything we know about specs, pricing, games and more
As the world turns, so do the console generations. The Nintendo Switch 2 will arrive in 2025, over eight years after its predecessor. Nintendo officially revealed the successor to its best-selling home console in a brief trailer on January 16. The Switch 2 looks functionally very similar to the original system, albeit with a larger display, magnetic Joy-Cons and a sleeker design. The company also reaffirmed that the...
Published on: March 14, 2025 | Source:Argentina finalizes rules for virtual asset providers
Argentina’s securities regulator has finalized rules for virtual asset service providers (VASPs), which cover general codes of conduct and custody requirements for cryptocurrency exchanges and other platforms facilitating digital asset transactions.The regulations were published on March 13 by the National Securities Commission, also known as CNV, under General Resolution No. 1058.According to a translated version of...
Published on: March 14, 2025 | Source:How to Connect, Read, and Process Sensor Data on Microcontrollers – A Beginner's Guide
In today’s world, computers are ubiquitous and generally serve two primary purposes. The first is general-purpose computing, where they handle a wide range of tasks, including running diverse applications and programs. Examples include laptops, deskt...
Published on: March 14, 2025 | Source:Apple's AirPods 4 drop to a record low of $100
Apple’s AirPods 4 earbuds are on sale via Amazon for just $100. This is a new record low price, representing a discount of $29. The deal is for the standard model and not the one with ANC. However, that model is also on sale for $149, which is a discount of 17 percent. These earbuds are generally considered some of the best AirPods on the market. The sound quality is improved over the previous generation, as is the...
Published on: March 14, 2025 | Source:Trump’s crypto task force should work with as much enthusiasm as DOGE
Opinion by: Kadan Stadelmann, chief technology officer, Komodo PlatformThe Crypto Task Force held a press conference in early February 2025. It struck the wrong tone. While the task force gave lip service to regulatory clarity, the goal seemed to placate the crypto industry, not bring about change that empowers individuals.On Jan. 23, the president established a working group for digital assets to propose a federal...
Published on: March 14, 2025 | Source:US Rep. Byron Donalds to introduce bill codifying Trump’s Bitcoin reserve
A new bill set to be introduced in Congress aims to formalize President Donald Trump’s executive order establishing a US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, a move that could further integrate Bitcoin into the nation’s financial strategy.Trump signed an executive order on March 7 to use Bitcoin (BTC) seized in government criminal cases to establish a national reserve.The legislation, introduced by US Representative Byron...
Published on: March 14, 2025 | Source:The Morning After: Is the Roomba an endangered species?
The company behind Roomba robovacs told investors earlier this week that revenue was substantially down and it’s struggling to pay its debts. Amazon was briefly tapped to acquire the robot company iRobot, but the threat of a European Commission investigation led to the retailer terminating the deal — apparently happy enough to pay off the $94 million termination fee. That, however, isn’t enough to tackle the $200...
Published on: March 14, 2025 | Source:Hands-on: Samsung Game Booster Plus for One UI 7 is here (kinda)
The ability to add general apps to Game Booster is an overdue but welcome move too.
Published on: March 14, 2025 | Source: