Author: Vidya Saras

Blockchain oracle platform Chainlink has partnered with the US-based Fortune 500 company Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) to bring foreign exchange and precious metals data onchain. Chainlink announced Monday that the collaboration will bring ICE’s Consolidated Feed, which aggregates market data from over 300 global exchanges and marketplaces, to the derived data sets that power Chainlink Data Streams. According to Chainlink, these feeds support over 2,000 decentralized applications (DApps) and major financial institutions to provide the market information necessary to operate in tokenized environments. The partnership marks a major step in integrating traditional market infrastructure within the blockchain ecosystem.  Enhancing the accuracy of rates used by…

We all want more for less—or at least I do. It’s that Holy Grail of deals that makes the idea of budget gadgets so appealing, and especially so in the world of phones. The whole idea of a budget phone is pitching you what may as well be the bargain of the century. For less money, budget phones ostensibly offer you a device that does it all: browses the web, retrieves your email, makes calls and texts, gives you near-unlimited access to apps, and even captures important memories like your niece’s first birthday and the horrible decision to hire a…

Nothing is as crucial to the functionality of a free market as its money. Money constitutes half of every transaction, representing one side of all value expressed in the exchange of goods and services. But what, exactly, is the price of money? The commodity with the highest marketability tends to become a society’s preferred medium of exchange — that is, its money. Prices denominated in this common medium enable economic calculation, which in turn allows entrepreneurs to spot opportunities, make profits and push civilization forward. We’ve seen how supply and demand determine the price of goods, but determining the price…

When we asked many of you, “What are you most excited for at Devcon4?” most people replied: the people! This is the one time a year we all get together in one place. We don’t want to spend all of our time at Devcon sitting in a dark room, staring in silence at a person on a stage – we want to see, meet and talk with each other. In that spirit, we’re designing the programming and environment of Devcon4 to provide the time and space for all of us to make new connections – between people and ideas. This…

Few recent software releases have been as hyped as OpenAI’s launch of its GPT-5 model. “GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD level expert,” said CEO Sam Altman in a recent press briefing.Is this new release as big of an upgrade as OpenAI claims? What do these changes actually mean for ChatGPT users? WIRED reporters are currently testing this newest drop from OpenAI, and seeing how GPT-5’s ability to write, code, and perform other tasks compares to past releases.At our next subscriber-only livestream, we’ll be answering your…

The headlines say Howard Stern might be ending his show. But for a lot of us, it ended a long time ago. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.

Google Research has unveiled a groundbreaking method for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) that slashes the amount of required training data by up to 10,000x, while maintaining or even improving model quality. This approach centers on active learning and focusing expert labeling efforts on the most informative examples—the “boundary cases” where model uncertainty peaks. The Traditional Bottleneck Fine-tuning LLMs for tasks demanding deep contextual and cultural understanding—like ad content safety or moderation—has typically required massive, high-quality labeled datasets. Most data is benign, meaning that for policy violation detection, only a small fraction of examples matter,…

“Unfortunately, because of the natural language nature of prompt injections, blocking them using classifiers or any kind of blacklisting isn’t enough,” they said in their report. “There are just too many ways to write them, hiding them behind benign topics, using different phrasings, tones, languages, etc. Just like we don’t consider malware fixed because another sample made it into a deny list, the same is true for prompt injection.” Hijacking Cursor coding assistant via Jira tickets As part of the same research effort, Zenity also investigated Cursor, one of the most popular AI-assisted code editors and IDEs. Cursor can integrate…

In true multiversal fashion, Star Trek: Picard meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe, at least behind the camera. At Saturday’s STLV convention, former Picard showrunner Terry Matalas took the stage to unveil Marvel-approved morsels about his upcoming Disney+ series, Vision Quest. While the panel was light on trailers or footage, it was packed with tantalizing tidbits that have us ready to hit the “add to watchlist” button now. From Picard to the MCU, Terry Matalas teases AI intrigue, returning villains, and familiar faces in Vision Quest. Marvel Studios The sci-fi series will reunite Matalas with two familiar faces from Picard: Todd…

Nigel Farage’s uncompromising assault on Britain’s climate commitments is facing pushback from within his own party’s expanding support base, with polling revealing that younger Reform UK voters are markedly more sympathetic to net zero and renewable energy than their leader. The former Ukip and Brexit Party chief has dismissed the UK’s 2050 net zero target as “complete and utter madness”, while his deputy, Richard Tice – also Reform’s energy spokesperson – has branded the renewables industry a “massive con”. Their manifesto pitch includes scrapping the legal net zero goal, ending subsidies for green power, taxing renewable developers and even levying…