Grayscale wins lawsuit against SEC, while the agency settles first NFT case and Friend.tech hype crashes
If you’ve been dreaming about bitcoin spot ETFs, it’s time to talk to someone outside of the crypto world. This is coming from someone who literally had a dream about them this week.
Read moreLowering costs nets Salesforce a profitable quarter, but can it keep it up?
Salesforce had a better quarter than expected, but it's reporting and forecasting those results based on prior work, to a real degree.
Read moreYouTube Music gets more social, adds comments to the ‘Now Playing’ screen
YouTube Music redesigned its “Now Playing” screen recently, with the most notable update being a new comments section, which allows users to read and write comments directly from the app. The latest upgrade also includes easily accessible buttons, larger cover art and more. The redesign is rolling out to iOS
Read moreX plans to collect users’ biometric data, along with education and job history
X, formerly known as Twitter, will begin collecting users’ biometric data, according to its new privacy policy that was first spotted by Bloomberg. The policy also says the company wants to collect users’ job and education history. The policy page indicates that the change will go into effect on September
Read moreForever 21 data breach affects half a million people
Clothing giant Forever 21 said a data breach earlier in the year affects more than half a million individuals. A data breach notice filed with Maine’s attorney general said the fashion giant was hacked over a three-month period beginning early January 2023, during which intruders obtained files from its systems.
Read moreLeveling Up Through Side Projects in Software Engineering
As a new software engineer, one of my biggest takeaways is realizing the need to be selective and strategic with in-company side projects…Continue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreFirmware Updates that Don’t Suck
Firmware Updates That Don’t SuckOur Arsenal 2 Firmware Update. Less than 1 minute, 30 seconds “door to door”Since 2017, we’ve shipped over 250,000 Arsenals (an AI photography assistant for DSLR/mirrorless cameras).Being a small company, we didn’t have the customer support resources to walk users through the update process. Updates need to work,
Read moreStarfield review: Guns and ships galore, but a vacuum of wonder
The long-awaited “Skyrim in space,” Starfield, is out today after many years in development over at Bethesda. It’s ambitious and lavishly produced, but despite its size it lacks the sense of wonder and vastness that its pastoral predecessor epitomized. (I and my colleague Darrell both played the game and came
Read moreReed Jobs will discuss his new venture firm at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
You may be more familiar with his father, Steve Jobs, but Reed Jobs aims to make his own impact on the world by making cancer nonlethal. Jobs, who lost his father to pancreatic cancer while a student at Stanford, this year took the wraps off his venture firm Yosemite with
Read moreWithings’ ScanWatch 2 arrives with a temperature sensing
Withings introduced the original ScanWatch in Europe back in 2020, before bringing it to the U.S. the following year, with FDA-cleared features like atrial fibrillation (afib) detection. Announced today during the IFA event in Berlin, the ScanWatch 2 arrives with its predecessor’s features, such as SPO2 (oxygen saturation) measurement, activity
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