Brian Armstrong says Coinbase spent $50M fighting SEC lawsuit – and beat it

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Techme101

Coinbase on Friday said the SEC has agreed to drop the lawsuit against the company with prejudice, meaning it cannot be filed again.  The move, which is still subject to the approval of the SEC’s Commissioners, is yet another signal that the Trump administration plans to be more friendly to crypto than the SEC was […]
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Google Announces Quantum-Safe Digital Signatures in Cloud KMS, Takes “Post-Quantum Computing Risks Seriously”

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Techme101

This news about Google Cloud Key Management Service is part of the tech giant’s post-quantum computing strategy.

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iOS 18.4 will bring Apple Intelligence-powered ‘Priority Notifications’

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Techme101

Apple on Friday released its first developer beta for iOS 18.4, which adds a new “Priority Notifications” feature, powered by Apple Intelligence. The addition aims to help users manage their notifications by prioritizing important alerts and minimizing distractions from less important ones.  These priority notifications are displayed in a separate section on the phone’s Lock […]
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Apple Breaks Silence on UK Probe, Removes Data Protection Tool From UK Users

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Techme101

The U.K. government demanded a backdoor into Apple’s Advanced Data Protection.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says market got it wrong about DeepSeek’s impact

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Techme101

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said the market got it wrong when it comes to DeepSeek’s technological advancements and its potential to negatively impact the chipmaker’s business. Instead, Huang called DeepSeek’s R1 open source reasoning model “incredibly exciting” while speaking with Alex Bouzari, CEO of DataDirect Networks, in a pre-recorded interview that was released […]
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Report: OpenAI plans to shift compute needs from Microsoft to SoftBank

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Techme101

OpenAI is forecasting a major shift in the next five years around who it gets most of its computing power from, The Information reported on Friday. By 2030, OpenAI expects to get three-quarters of its data center capacity from Stargate, a project that’s expected to be heavily financed by SoftBank, one of OpenAI’s newest financial […]
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Tesla recalls more than 375,000 vehicles in U.S. due to failing power-assisted steering systems

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Techme101

Tesla is voluntarily recalling 376,241vehicles in the U.S. to correct an issue with failing power-assisted steering systems.

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Apple Pulls iPhone Security Feature in UK

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Techme101

Law enforcement in the country was pressuring the company to create a tool that would act like a back door into customers’ data.

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Norway’s 1X is building a humanoid robot for the home

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Techme101

Norwegian robotics firm 1X unveiled its latest home robot, Neo Gamma, on Friday. The humanoid system will succeed Neo Beta, which debuted in August. Like its predecessors, the Neo Gamma is a prototype designed for testing in the home environment. Images of the robot show it performing a number of household tasks like making coffee, […]
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Sakana walks back claims that its AI can dramatically speed up model training

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Techme101

This week, Sakana AI, an Nvidia-backed startup that’s raised hundreds of millions of dollars from VC firms, made a remarkable claim. The company said it had created an AI system, the AI CUDA Engineer, that could effectively speed up the training of certain AI models by a factor of up to 100x. The only problem […]
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