Inside the world's largest crypto casino Stake, which claims ~4% of all BTC transactions, with popularity boosted by celebs like Drake and influencers on Kick
Drake just needed some juice. In 82 minutes of online slots play, the Canadian rapper's starting balance of $3.5 million worth of Bitcoin had dwindled to $422,355.
An in-depth look at the US SEC's EDGAR system breach that was disclosed in 2017, as one of the key hackers, Olga Kuprina, says EDGAR remains a soft target
When a notorious gang of Ukrainian cybercriminals hit a crucial database, the regulator quickly downplayed the breach. Bluesky: @bloomberg.com and @bykenarmstrong X: @noelleinmadri...
How rapid advances in AI are helping Harvard's Galileo Project and other UFO research efforts process huge amounts of data in real time from multiple sources
Harvard's Galileo Project has brought high-end academic research to a once-fringe pursuit, and the Pentagon is watching. X: @discoplomacy and @bw X: Sam / @discoplomacy : Finally, ...
A profile of Joseph Firmage, who co-founded USWeb, which went public with a $2.5B market cap in 1997, and is now being sued by “antigravity machine” investors
Joseph Firmage helped create today's digital economy. These days, he's being sued by antigravity-machine investors … X: @bradstone and @bw . Forums: Slashdot X: Brad Stone / @brad...
A profile of Italian private equity firm Bending Spoons, which has acquired distressed SaaS businesses like WeTransfer and Evernote, and plans to spend billions
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg : X: @bw X: @bw : After buying Evernote, cutting staff and raising prices, Bending Spoons is looking for its next deal https://www.bloomberg.com/...
A look at sports data tech companies like Sportradar, which set betting odds for sports gambling apps and websites, as they build models to keep people betting
The global empire of sports betting is now crashing into the USA and it is incomprehensibly more sophisticated, technical, and profitable than you might possibly imagine. — This ...
A look at sports data tech companies like Sportradar, which set betting odds for sports gambling apps and websites, as they build models to keep people betting
Big-money data deals and advanced statistical models are helping to predict match outcomes and keep people betting. Bluesky: @cachiporra.bsky.social . X: @jeremy_keehn , @bw , @har...
A profile of FTC Chair Lina Khan, whose term ended in September 2024, as a bipartisan club of tech figures and VCs, including Reid Hoffman, call for her ouster
Biden's FTC chair has toughened merger oversight, taken on noncompetes and made the donor class crazy.
A profile of Texas-based Tyler Tech, which has become a dominant US local government software provider, despite a history of software flaws and release delays
Tyler Tech dominates America's software industry managing parks, courts, municipal offices and prison networks. And you thought the DMV was rough before. X: @stephenehorn , @skhau...
A look at the tech sector's longevity obsession, with Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, Larry Page, and others pledging millions of dollars to firms pursuing longer life
Tech titans, venture capitalists, crypto enthusiasts and AI researchers have turned longevity research into something between the hottest science and a tragic comedy. Mastodon: @ca...
An excerpt from the book Number Go Up traces “wrong number” texts to Chinese gangs in Cambodia and Myanmar using forced labor to run pig butchering Tether scams
of human trafficking. Thousands of people across Southeast Asia are lured with the promise of good jobs, then trapped and forced to scam. Zeke Faux / @zekefaux : It turns out peopl...
An excerpt from the book Number Go Up traces “wrong number” texts to Chinese gangs in Cambodia and Myanmar using forced labor to run pig butchering Tether scams
of human trafficking. Thousands of people across Southeast Asia are lured with the promise of good jobs, then trapped and forced to scam. Zeke Faux / @zekefaux : It turns out peopl...
How a seminal 2017 paper by Google researchers laid the groundwork for the AI hype cycle, resulting in a Silicon Valley frenzy not seen since the dot-com boom
In late May, 300 entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, journalists and assorted self-described thought leaders crammed into Shack15 … LinkedIn: Peter Leyden . Tweets: @business , @ip...
A look at Replika's decision to block adult content in its AI companion chatbot; 60% of paying customers had a romantic element in their Replika relationship
and this can lead to love, and in this case, to heartbreak 💔 https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/... Jon Christian / @jon_christian : getting major Pygmalion vibes fr...
How Silicon Valley became obsessed with effective altruism, championed by SBF before he dismissed it as a dodge, and doomsday scenarios like killer rogue AI
Sonia Joseph was 14 years old when she first read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, a mega-popular piece of fan fiction … Tweets: @chafkin , @ellenhuet , @business , @ca...
A look at Alphabet X's Mineral project to build unmanned rovers with sensors and cameras for collecting data that helps agricultural companies improve yields
When Deb Menicos walks a strawberry field, she doesn't just look at the berries. Menicos, who holds a Ph.D. in plant breeding … Tweets: @theteamatx , @chafkin , @rpethe , and @bus...
El Salvador's Bitcoin “revolution” is failing miserably and behind the debacle are crypto evangelists from wealthier countries who cheered on President Bukele
ing rich down here!” https://twitter.com/... Tonya Garcia / @tgarcianyc : This story is unbelievable. “He doesn't behave as the president of an in-debt and poor country.” https://w...
An in-depth look at crypto and blockchains: the underlying tech, its uses and meaning, the crypto financial system, and trust, money, and community
- What If You Don't Like It? — Digital Cash — Part II — What Does It Mean? — A Store of Value — A Distributed Computer
After investors bet an estimated ~$100B on self-driving vehicles, startups see little progress, falling back on simulations and remote operators as losses mount
An in-depth look at the research collaboration between NASA and the FAA since 2017 to write new US airspace rules for safely accommodating millions of drones
and maybe one day, people https://www.bloomberg.com/... @bw : If drone delivery becomes widespread, the sky could be filled with scores of drones. Go inside the massive undertaking...