The National Institute of Standards and Technology could fire as many as 500 staffers, according to multiple reports — cuts that further threaten a fledgling AI safety organization. Axios reported this week that the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) and Chips for America, both part of NIST, would be “gutted” by layoffs targeting probationary employees […]
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Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, said Friday it has temporarily suspended all spot trading on its platform as it works to resolve an issue. The exchange did not identify the nature of the issue, but said it was working to bring it back “as soon as possible,” suggesting the bottleneck isn’t significant. Binance commands […]
Crypto giant Binance temporarily suspends spot trading by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch
Do Kwon, the founder of Terraform Labs, which operated the so-called TerraUSD stablecoin and its sister token LUNA, was arrested in Montenegro Thursday morning after months in hiding while trying to board a flight to flee Dubai with falsified documents. Thursday night — a few hours after Kwon was arrested at the airport in Podgorica, the […]
US, South Korea both seek Do Kwon’s extradition to face charges by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch
Twitter has changed many things related to its subscription program Twitter Blue in the last few hours. The company said that the paid plan is now available for purchase globally. It also changed the cooling-off period for new accounts to buy Twitter Blue to 30 days. When Elon Musk first launched the Twitter Blue plan […]
New accounts now have to wait only 30 days for Twitter Blue by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
Twitter has picked April Fool’s Day, otherwise known as April 1, to start removing legacy blue checkmarks from the platform. Despite the significance of the day Twitter chose, the removal of legacy checkmarks has been anticipated for months now. Musk tweeted in December that the company would remove those checks “in a few months” because […]
Twitter will kill ‘legacy’ blue checks on April 1 by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
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Daily Crunch: In SEC filing, Accenture reveals plans to dismiss 19,000 workers over the next 18 months by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
If the crypto industry doesn’t get clear rules of the road, expertise will move offshore, experts say.
Coinbase execs weigh in on the crypto’s future in US amid regulatory scrutiny by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch
A brown macroalgae native to the Atlantic’s Sargasso Sea is increasingly a menace to coastal ecosystems and communities across the Gulf of Mexico, ever since mats of the normally beneficial seaweed (known as sargassum) exploded in numbers in 2011. This is the backdrop for Carbonwave, which recently raised $5 million to put the hulking algae […]
Startup says the seaweed blobbing toward Florida has a silver lining by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch