Bitcoin Briefly Hits $64,000, Now Back Halfway To $62K
In a blazing start to March, the feverish activity of Bitcoin has set it up for its largest monthly increase in almost three years early Thursday. Money pouring into listed bitcoin funds is fueling a huge gain, and bitcoin is now just a stone’s throw away from a record high. Source: Coingecko Investor Frenzy As […]
Anycubic 3D printers hacked worldwide to expose security flaw
Image: Midjourney According to a wave of online reports from Anycubic customers, someone hacked their 3D printers to warn that the devices are exposed to attacks. The person behind this incident added a hacked_machine_readme.gcode file to their devices—a file that usually contains 3D printing instructions—alerting the affected users that their printer is impacted by a […]
Gemini agrees to return $1.1 billion to Earn customers as part of NYDFS settlement
The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) reached a settlement agreement with Winklevoss-owned crypto exchange Gemini. The NYDFS announced the settlement in a press release published on Feb. 28. The regulator said that Gemini failed to protect its customers adequately and had multiple compliance issues. Superintendent Adrienne Harris said: “Gemini failed to conduct […]
Justices debate New York interest requirement on national bank escrow accounts
ARGUMENT ANALYSIS By Ronald Mann on Feb 28, 2024 at 6:41 pm The justices heard oral argument in Cantero v. Bank of America on Tuesday. (J Main via Shutterstock) The argument Tuesday in Cantero v. Bank of America revealed a bench of justices struggling to reconcile provisions of the National Bank Act that protect national […]
What Is Sovereign AI? | NVIDIA Blog
Nations have long invested in domestic infrastructure to advance their economies, control their own data and take advantage of technology opportunities in areas such as transportation, communications, commerce, entertainment and healthcare. AI, the most important technology of our time, is turbocharging innovation across every facet of society. It’s expected to generate trillions of dollars in […]
RMIT University creates new 3D printed titanium metamaterial that shows “supernatural strength”
RMIT University has announced that a team of researchers have created a new metamaterial, a term used to describe an artificial material with unique properties not observed in nature, from common titanium alloy, to be used 3D printing. The university, which has three campuses and two sites in Australia, as well as two campuses in […]
Brothers in arms
William Warin Bainbridge Jr., Class of 1922, and Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, Class of 1926, grew up on Manhattan’s Riverside Drive, the eldest of three sons of an upwardly mobile stationer who dabbled in real estate. Both went to MIT. And both would play important roles in World War II—one on the front lines at Normandy […]