A $400,000 Polymarket wager tied to Maduro’s capture has prompted Ritchie Torres to propose legislation restricting insider trading on political prediction markets....
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Session’s Chris McCabe and Alex Linton tell Cointelegraph that AI-integrated devices could bypass messaging encryption, creating privacy and security issues....
As crypto, governments and Big Tech converge on digital identity, selective disclosure and zero-knowledge proofs are emerging as a privacy-first alternative to surveillance systems....
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Lou Gerstner, the former CEO of IBM, has died at 83. James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images Lou Gerstner, who led IBM's turnaround in the 1990s, has died, the company told staff. He kept IBM intact and ...
Advances in quantum computing this year clarified timelines and forced a reassessment of Bitcoin’s future security...
HeyGen CTO Rong Yan advises against focusing solely on promotions in tech careers. Illustration by Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images HeyGen CTO Rong Yan says you shouldn't fo...
Military would use sensors, drones and satellites to ensure compliance in support of a European-led ‘reassurance force’...
Dubai Sports Council organised the event under the patronage of Crown Prince of Dubai and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashi...
Whether it’s Snake’s elevator ascent to the rainy cliffs of Shadow Moses or the climactic battle between student and mentor in the final moments of Snake Eater, Hideo Kojima and Konami’s epic spy thri...
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Tech leaders like Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk led a workforce efficiency crusade in 2025. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images; Steve Granitz/FilmMagic The "efficiency" m...
X's Grok chatbot hasn't stopped accepting users' requests to strip down women and, in some cases, apparent minors to AI-generated bikinis. According to some reports, the flood of AI-generated images i...
Video game console sales cap out each generation at around 250 million, so how will the console manufacturers break through that barrier? By learning a crucial lesson from the videotape format war, on...
Supply chain shortages drive developers to use smaller and less efficient power sources to fuel AI power demand...
Jamie Siminoff hopes teaming up with Watch Duty will help fight wildfires like the one that tore through the Pacific Palisades and burned down the garage that he founded Ring out of in 2012. Shelby Mo...
Forget the hype. These are the LLMs that caught our attention in 2025—from autonomous coding assistants to vision models processing entire codebases....
Russia's Defence Ministry released the first images of an intermediate-range weapon entering service. Analysts identified a former airfield near the Russian border as a likely site....