Binance boycott, CEO’s response, and over $2.6B withdrawn
The Binance boycott causes over $2.6B worth of withdrawals from the popular crypto exchange platform. Binance is facing controversy after Ray Youssef, co-founder of Paxful, claimed the company froze P...
Google-Yelp lawsuit: A different kind of star wars
The battle between tech giants has heated up with the Google-Yelp lawsuit. Yelp, the popular review platform, is accusing Google of using its power as the top search engine to push its own services an...
The AI and bitcoin mining clash for U.S. power has begun
A major energy struggle is unfolding in the United States, as big tech companies and cryptocurrency miners clash over power supplies. As artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing data centers g...
Toncoin blockchain rolling again after six-hour halt
Toncoin (TON) has resumed normal activity after halting block production for nearly six hours because of a surge in traffic.
The TON network announced Aug. 28 on its X account that it had stopped bloc...
Techdirt Passes Two Million Comments!
Just a quick post to note an amazing (to me!) milestone. At some point last week (on Wednesday basically), this site passed over two million comments. That is since the site’s commenting feature lau...
Brazil Threatens to Ban Elon Musk’s X
The country’s Supreme Court gave the service 24 hours to name a legal representative in Brazil or face suspension....
OpenAI Eyes $100 Billion Valuation
While some young A.I. companies have struggled to compete with the tech industry’s giants, OpenAI has been rapidly expanding....