Author: Vidya Saras
Ethereum’s price action has spent an unusually long time moving sideways, and this behavior has tested the patience of many long-term bullish investors. When speaking of sideways movement, this movement has dragged on for many months, although Ethereum did manage to make a new all-time high in 2025. Interestingly, a technical analysis shared on X by Egrag Crypto shows how Ethereum’s current price action fits into previous playouts when viewed through an inverted monthly chart. This offers a perspective on what appears to be stagnation about to break into new price highs. Related Reading A Repeating Cycle With Changing Behavior…
After a smooth launch, please find a few updates of note below. These probably will be of interest only to the more advanced users amongst you – if you’re not a miner, there is nothing to action. Epoch switch in 2 hours Let’s start with a quick heads up to miners, the network will be switching epoch in roughly 2 hours. If you are using the geth/ethminer combo, you should be all set if you have opted to use the –autodag flag on geth and –no-precompute on ethminer. If not, keep an eye on your miners as they generate the…
Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) allow users to trade digital assets directly from their wallets without relying on centralized platforms. Unlike traditional exchanges, DEXs rely on smart contracts to automate trading, giving users full control over their funds while maintaining transparency and security.With dozens of DEXs available across multiple blockchains, choosing the right one can be overwhelming. In this article, we review the top 10 decentralized exchanges, compare their features, fees, and supported networks, and provide insights to help traders make informed decisions.Top Decentralized Crypto Exchanges ComparedExchangeSupported ChainsTypeTrading FeesBest ForHyperliquidNative Layer 1 onlyPerpetual Futures DEXLow fees and gas-free tradingAdvanced derivatives and leveraged…
Обично не, међутим, тако да се ослања на најновијег корисника кога одаберете. Локални казино и сајтови за спортско клађење нуде бонус за први депозит који можете користити једни на друге казино игре и клађење. Иако не, с обзиром на велику разлику у условима клађења између локалног казина и кампања за игре (коцкање је често драматично смањено), такви огласи за бонус поздрава су ретки. Јасно је да се бонус од 400 улога у било ком онлајн казину сматра погодбом. Нови играч добија прилично највећу суму новца бесплатно, чак и са минималним улогом, а успешна игра може донети профит у односу на…
Grok users aren’t just commanding the AI chatbot to “undress” pictures of women and girls into bikinis and transparent underwear. Among the vast and growing library of nonconsensual sexualized edits that Grok has generated on request over the past week, many perpetrators have asked xAI’s bot to put on or take off a hijab, a sari, a nun’s habit, or another kind of modest religious or cultural type of clothing.In a review of 500 Grok images generated between January 6 and January 9, WIRED found that around 5 percent of the output featured an image of a woman who was,…
Politics / January 9, 2026 In this week’s Elie v. US, The Nation’s justice correspondent makes the case to get rid of ICE, explores George Conway’s congressional campaign—and shares his New Year’s resolution. Ad Policy Demonstrators in Minneapolis protest the murder of Renée Good.(Victor J. Blue / Bloomberg via Getty Images) This is a preview of Nation Justice Correspondent Elie Mystal’s new weekly newsletter. Click here to receive this newsletter in your inbox each Friday. Every authoritarian regime throughout history has employed a roving band of armed thugs who operate outside the law to enforce its strongman’s will. Caesar had…
Artificial intelligence has captured headlines recently for its rapidly growing energy demands, and particularly the surging electricity usage of data centers that enable the training and deployment of the latest generative AI models. But it’s not all bad news — some AI tools have the potential to reduce some forms of energy consumption and enable cleaner grids.One of the most promising applications is using AI to optimize the power grid, which would improve efficiency, increase resilience to extreme weather, and enable the integration of more renewable energy. To learn more, MIT News spoke with Priya Donti, the Silverman Family Career Development Professor in the…
Enabling a persistent backdoor ChatGPT uses a Memory feature to remember important information about the user and their past conversations. This can be triggered by the user when the chatbot is asked to remember something, or automatically when ChatGPT determines that certain information is important enough to save for later. To limit potential abuse, and malicious instructions being saved in memory, the feature is disabled for chats where Connectors are in use. However, the researchers found that ChatGPT can read, create, modify, and delete memories based on instructions inside a file. This can be used to combine the two attack…
The Bitcoin (BTC) network mining difficulty, the relative computing challenge of adding a new block to the decentralized blockchain ledger, fell slightly to 146.4 trillion on Thursday, in the first difficulty adjustment of 2026. “The next Bitcoin difficulty adjustment is estimated to take place on Jan 22, 2026, 04:08:12 AM UTC, increasing the Bitcoin mining difficulty from 146.47 T to 148.20 T,” according to CoinWarz. Average block times are 9.88 minutes at the time of this writing, slightly below the 10-minute target, which means the next difficulty adjustment will increase slightly to align better with the target block time. The Bitcoin network…
Sydney Sweeney knows how to work a room, and at the Variety and Golden Globes pre-party in Beverly Hills, she worked it effortlessly. The actress arrived at the Aman Beverly Hills looking every bit the modern Hollywood siren, slipping into a black Vivienne Westwood one-shoulder satin mini dress that immediately became the most talked-about look of the night. Cameras flashed, heads turned, and social feeds lit up before she even reached the entrance. The dress itself was classic Westwood with a twist of danger. The satin finish caught the light with a soft, almost powdery glow, hugging her waist before…