Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Jan 13, 2025 3:25 PM Judge Ends One Man’s 11-Year Quest to Recover $765 Million in Bitcoin by Digging Up a Landfill A UK judge ruled against James Howells, who has been trying to get a hard drive with private keys to a cryptocurrency fortune out of a…
Zeyi Yang Business Jan 13, 2025 3:03 PM With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’ Some say they joined Xiaohongshu, which translates to “little red book,” to spite the US government after a ban on TikTok became more likely. Photograph: Tada Images/ Shutterstock As TikTok anxiously awaits a Supreme Court…
By Reece Rogers Artificial Intelligence Jan 13, 2025 6:00 AM AI Financial Advisers Target Young People Living Paycheck to Paycheck AI finance apps are reaching Gen Z and millennial users with personalized chatbots that offer money advice—and upsell them big-time. ILLUSTRATION: ROB EN ROBIN Leaders at artificial intelligence companies often ask users (and investors) to…
Katie Drummond Business Jan 13, 2025 6:00 AM Rich Men Rule the World The holders of the vast majority of the world’s wealth? Men. So many men—from Trump and Musk and Putin to every CEO, crypto schmo, and solar bro in between. Photograph: Samuel Corum/Getty Images Whenever I get a new job, the first thing…
Elana KleinAnthony Lydgate The Big Story Jan 13, 2025 6:00 AM Mapping Elon Musk’s Global Empire From tunnels to Tesla factories to SpaceX launch facilities, there’s barely a place on Earth that doesn’t feel the gravitational pull of humanity’s wealthiest reply guy. Animation: Jacqui VanLiew; Getty Images Elon in the Lone Star State Off-World Activity…
Will Knight Business Jan 13, 2025 6:06 AM New US Rule Aims to Block China’s Access to AI Chips and Models by Restricting the World The US government has announced a radical plan to control exports of cutting-edge AI technology to most nations. Bloomberg/Getty Images The Biden administration announced a bold and controversial new export…
Jorge Ramis Business Jan 11, 2025 1:03 PM Latin American Fact-Checkers Brace for Meta’s Next Moves So far Meta has only abandoned fact-checking in the US. If and when it expands, the move will be a huge blow to the Latin American news ecosystem. GettyRodrigo Meade It was 2016, and the problem of fake news…
By Makena Kelly Business Jan 10, 2025 9:00 AM The Government Wants to Protect Robux From Hackers In a new proposal issued Friday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking to regulate virtual currencies used in Roblox and other video games like US dollars. Photo-Illustration: Ali Cherkis/Getty The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a new…
Kate Knibbs Business Jan 9, 2025 5:33 PM Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal One of the most important AI copyright legal battles just took a major turn. Photograph: KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/Getty Images Meta just lost a major fight in its ongoing legal battle with a group…
Paresh Dave Business Jan 9, 2025 4:02 PM Rumble Among 15 Targets of Texas Attorney General’s Child Privacy Probe Texas has become a leading enforcer of internet rules. Its latest probe includes some platforms that privacy experts describe as unusual suspects. Photograph: NurPhoto Over the past decade, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has wielded his…
