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“The main rival, Bitcoin, is very primitive compared to Ethereum”, Rob Zel, Bitni’s founder claims

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The launch of Bitcoin over a decade ago opened up opportunities for the development and launch of a ton of other cryptocurrencies, Ethereum being the foremost. Often compared to Bitcoin, Ethereum 2.0 is a truly decentralized P2P (peer-to-peer) blockchain-powered cryptocurrency. Transitioning from the energy-consuming and inherently flawed proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism to the proof-of-stake (PoS), Ethereum […].

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Washington state lawmakers vote to phase out gasoline cars by 2030

The Verge

Traffic Jam. Washington state lawmakers have passed a measure that would phase out the sale of gas-powered vehicles starting in 2030. The Clean Cars 2030 initiative passed Thursday as an amendment to a bill that requires state utilities prepare for an electric-vehicle future. The bill now awaits Gov. Jay Inslee’s signature. That’s five years earlier than planned gas vehicle bans in California and Massachusetts, and the first ban on gas cars passed by legislators, rather than by an executive orde

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Sommelier gets $1M R&D grant from The Graph to deliver blockchain market data improvements

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Sommelier, a decentralized finance (DeFi) blockchain protocol and Ethereum bridge that acts as a co-processor to the Ethereum world computer, has announced a $1M Research and Development grant from The Graph Foundation. The grant will fund ongoing Research and Development of indexing performance, protocol optimizations, and improvements to the Graph Node.

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Why Microsoft’s new AI acquisition is a big deal

Venture Beast

Microsoft's acquisition of Nuance signals the tech giant's AI strategy in Azure, self-driving cars, and other products beyond health care AI. Read More.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Palo Alto Networks: As Cloud Security Threats Skyrocket, Automation Can Help

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Palo Alto Networks’ biannual Unit 42 Cloud Threat Report found that the COVID-19 pandemic, and related shift to remote work, sent cloud security risks through the roof. While that’s become a common theme among recent reports, the numbers still shock, especially among those industries that faced the greatest pressures to adapt and move to the […].

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Twitter having a partial outage Saturday morning

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. It looks like problems on Twitter that began Friday night are persisting Saturday morning. People on the east coast of the US were reporting that while the page would load, they were unable to send tweets and DMs. As of 11 AM ET Saturday, the site was still experiencing issues for many users. There’s no official word on how widespread the outage is, but Twitter said Saturday it was “fixing an issue with it servers.”.

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Google introducing a feature in Chrome 90 to create links to highlighted text on a webpage

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. An upcoming feature in Chrome 90 will allow users to create a link to a section of a website that they’ve highlighted. First launched as a browser extension called Link to Text Fragment last year, Google has now added the feature within Chrome itself. The new feature is still rolling out to users; I wasn’t able to get it to work even after I updated to Chrome 90.

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Dell is spinning out VMware in a deal expected to generate over $9B for the company

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Dell announced this afternoon that it’s spinning out VMware, a move that has been suspected for some time. Dell acquired VMware as part of the massive $58 billion EMC acquisition (announced as $67 billion) in 2015. The way that the deal works is that Dell plans to offer VMware shareholders a special dividend of between $11.5 […].

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang interview: From the Grace CPU to engineer’s metaverse

Venture Beast

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spoke with the press during GTC 21 about everything from the Grace AI CPU to the Omniverse. Read More.

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Boxes of RTX 3080 Ti 12GB GPUs have been photographed on their way to LA

TechSpot

Caught in the camera’s lens are a handful of pallets, each containing a dozen boxes of maybe a hundred GPUs. The well-protected crate is labeled with the 3090 and aforementioned 3080 Ti. The cardboard boxes contain GeForce GT 710’s and Radeon RX 580’s.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Amazon has canceled its Lord of the Rings MMO game

The Verge

Amazon Game Studios has canceled a Lord of the Rings online role-playing game, Bloomberg reported. The company announced the project with Leyou-owned Athlon Games back in 2019, and planned it to be a free-to-play game for PC and consoles. The game was to be set “at a time long before the events of The Lord of the Rings , exploring lands, people and creatures never seen before by fans of the Tolkien universe,” according to an announcement from Athlon at the time.

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The SASE wave: Why cloud-native edge security is gathering huge momentum

Venture Beast

Secure Access Service Edge is less than two years old but is already moving the needle when it comes to forging a new market. Read More.

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Regulators Urge Peloton Tread+ Owners to Stop Using Treadmill 'Immediately,' and Peloton Is Pissed

Gizmodo

In the wake of multiple reports of injuries and at least one death involving Peloton’s Tread+ treadmill, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued an “urgent warning” that the product “poses serious risks” to children’s safety and should not be used in households with small children or pets. Read more.

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Memory maker aims to develop DDR5 modules clocked at over 10,000 MHz

TechSpot

The DDR5 memory standard released by JEDEC set clock speeds between 4,800 MHz and 6,400 MHz, but SK Hynix and Samsung have already promised more than that. Samsung stated that its DDR5 memory would go up to 7,200 MHz, and SK Hynix went a step further claiming it would reach.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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CPSC urges people with children at home to stop using Peloton Tread Plus treadmill ‘immediately’

The Verge

Photo by Ethan Miller / Getty Images. The Consumer Product Safety Commission on Saturday issued a warning about Peloton Tread Plus treadmills, saying the machines pose “serious risks to children for abrasions, fractures, and death.” In a March blog post by CEO John Foley, the company said it was aware that a child had died in an accident on the treadmill.

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U.S. Federal Investigators Are Reportedly Looking Into Codecov Security Breach, Undetected for Months

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U.S. federal investigators are purportedly looking into a security breach at Codecov , a platform used to test software code with more 29,000 customers worldwide, Reuters reported on Saturday. The company has confirmed the breach and stated that it went undetected for months. Read more.

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NASA reschedules Ingenuity helicopter’s first flight on Mars for Monday

The Verge

An artists’ rendering of the Ingenuity and its parent rover Perseverance | NASA/JPL-Caltech. NASA has rescheduled the first flight of its Ingenuity Mars helicopter to April 19th at 3:30AM ET, the agency announced Saturday. The four-pound helicopter that arrived on Mars on February 18th with its parent rover Perseverance has seen its first flight delayed a few times.

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Third Date’s the Charm (Maybe): NASA Reschedules First Ingenuity Flight on Mars for Monday

Gizmodo

NASA has given an eager public a new date for the Ingenuity helicopter’s first controlled flight on Mars: Monday, April 19. This would be the third time Ingenuity’s flight has been rescheduled to date, and with some luck, it might be the real deal. Read more.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Roblox to introduce content ratings for games to better restrict age-inappropriate content

The Verge

Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. Virtual gaming platform Roblox is developing content ratings for games and easier-to-use parental controls, the company’s chief privacy officer Remy Malan told The Wall Street Journal. Half of Roblox’s audience of more than 30 million daily users are kids under 13, but the platform has struggled at times to contain sexually explicit content.

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PlayStation 5 Is Now the Fastest-Selling Console in U.S. History

Gizmodo

Sony’s PlayStation 5 is the fastest-selling gaming console in U.S. history in both unit and dollar sales, according to retail analyst firm The NPD Group. So if you’ve been struggling to get your hands on one since its release last November, scalpers may not be entirely to blame. Read more.

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Judge in Australia finds Google misled Android users about location data collection

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. A judge in Australia found Google misled users about personal location data the company collected via Android devices, a violation of Australian law, the Associated Press reported. According to Federal Court Judge Thomas Thawley, the violations occurred between January 2017 and December 2018. Users creating a new Google account while setting up a new Android device were led to believe that the “Location History” setting was the only Google account setting

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Rep. Suzan DelBene on out-of-date privacy laws, and why she’s not giving up on federal legislation

GeekWire

Rep. Suzan DelBene. (GeekWire Photo / Nat Levy). It’s one of the hottest topics in tech, but despite broad agreement about the importance of online privacy, the United States has yet to pass comprehensive, modern, federal legislation that addresses the issue. U.S. Rep Suzan DelBene, a Democrat from Washington state, wants to change that. “Technology has created incredible new opportunities, but our laws have not kept up,” she says. “So it is incumbent on Congress to make

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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During Indianapolis shooting, FedEx cell phone policy meant some family members couldn’t reach workers

The Verge

Police caution tape blocks the entrance to the site of a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis. | Photo by JEFF DEAN/AFP via Getty Images. During a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis on Thursday, a company policy barring some employees from having their cell phones on them while working prevented family members from being able to contact workers inside the facility, The New York Times reported.

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Washington state governor expected to sign new bill ending prohibition on municipal broadband

GeekWire

Rep. Drew Hansen sponsored Washington’s net neutrality bill in 2017 with support from Gov. Inslee. Now he’s helped get a public broadband law through the legislature. (Photo courtesy of HouseDemocrats.WA.Gov.). Washington municipalities will be able to offer direct-to-consumer broadband service across the state later this year under legislation Gov.

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Google Project Zero will give a 30-day grace period before disclosing security issues

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Google’s Project Zero, a team of dedicated security engineers tasked with reducing the number of “zero day” vulnerabilities around the entire internet, says it will give developers an extra 30 days before disclosing vulnerability issues, in order to give end-users time to patch their software. Developers will still have 90 days to fix bugs, but Project Zero will wait another 30 days before it discloses the details of the bug publicly.

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