Block is rolling out Bitcoin payments to its 4 million Square merchants worldwide. The system uses Bitcoin Lightning Network for fast, low-cost transactions. This comes as Block seeks new revenue streams after disappointing Q3 earnings.
The European Commission is reportedly pushing to make its 2020 recommendations on high-risk 5G vendors legally binding. This would force member states to completely phase out Huawei and ZTE equipment from their networks. The move comes as countries like Germany and Sweden are already implementing re
Hyundai AutoEver America suffered a major breach between February 22 and March 2, 2024, exposing sensitive customer data. This marks the automotive giant’s third major security incident in three years, raising serious questions about their data protection practices.
Short-term rental company Sonder Holdings is filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and winding down US operations. The collapse follows Marriott International abruptly ending their booking collaboration, causing massive financial losses.
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is making a massive pivot from education and housing to exclusively focus on curing all diseases using artificial intelligence. They’re committing to 10x computing power by 2028 and betting big that AI can achieve what traditional biology can’t. It’s either wildly ambi
Wikipedia is telling AI companies to stop scraping its content and use its paid Enterprise API instead. The nonprofit saw an 8% drop in human traffic while AI bots overwhelmed its servers. Now they want attribution and financial support from AI developers.
Slack suffered a significant outage on Monday, November 10, with thousands of users reporting connection problems. The platform acknowledged investigating a “new incident” as workplaces relying on the service faced communication disruptions.
2025 has seen unprecedented internet restrictions globally, from political censorship in Tanzania and Cameroon to mandatory age verification in Western countries. VPN services are becoming crucial tools for maintaining digital privacy and accessing information freely online.
Privacy activists are sounding alarms about proposed EU legislation that would make it easier for Big Tech companies to harvest Europeans’ personal data for AI training. The changes could fundamentally undermine GDPR protections that have been in place for years.
AMD has stealth-launched a new Ryzen 5 7500X3D gaming processor that’s only available in Micro Center’s PowerSpec pre-built desktops. The chip appears to be a slightly scaled-back version of the existing 7600X3D with no official announcement from AMD. This continues AMD’s pattern of retailer-exclusi
