Author: Vidya Saras
By Katherine K. Chan THE PHILIPPINES’ economic expansion is set to fall short of official targets through 2026 as a widening graft investigation into flood control projects weighs on public spending and investor confidence, according to Deutsche Bank Research. “The graft probe has weighed on sentiment onshore and will likely drag growth below potential over the coming quarters as it continues to evolve,” Deutsche Bank economist Junjie Huang said in a Nov. 22 report. Heightened caution among public officials could lead to uneven disbursements even as President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. confirmed that unused infrastructure funds would be reallocated to…
TD Cowen analysts say Strategy’s stock could face continued pressure due to an impending MSCI review. The firm expects that PBTCs like Strategy will be removed from all MSCI indexes this February. A formal decision is expected around mid-January. Cowen called the potential removal “capricious” but emphasized that investors should prepare for sustained selling pressure. The analysts note that Strategy is not a fund, trust, or holding company. Instead, it is a public operating company. Its $500 million software business generates all of its revenue. Meanwhile, its Bitcoin treasury operations are innovative and active, offering unique Bitcoin-backed securities. “Removing Strategy…
Last month marked the 2 year anniversary of Ethereum’s public announcement at The North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami, Florida, USA. Amid much rumour and excitement, a sizeable crowd mobbed the young Vitalik Buterin after his on-stage announcement, questioning the merit and his desire to build such a system. It can be hard to truly appreciate how far we’ve come in the last couple years. Sometimes it feels as if the cryptoeconomic sphere moves at such a blistering speed that weekly news announcements have become the norm rather than the exception. Interest in the field has exploded for lots of…
As cloud mining grows more sophisticated, 2026 is shaping up as the year when a few standout platforms may evolve into the tech giants of crypto infrastructure. With advances in AI, capital investment, regulatory clarity, and scaling renewable energy infrastructure, some cloud mining providers are well-positioned to dominate. This article explores which platforms could rise to that level—and how MagiCrypto is competing in that race.Key Trends That Will Fuel the Rise of Mining GiantsBefore naming potential giants, it’s worth understanding what qualities will define them in 2026:AI-driven optimization: Platforms that use machine learning to optimize hashpower, power consumption, and switching…
As generative AI pushes the speed of software development, it is also enhancing the ability of digital attackers to carry out financially motivated or state-backed hacks. This means that security teams at tech companies have more code than ever to review while dealing with even more pressure from bad actors. On Monday, Amazon will publish details for the first time of an internal system known as Autonomous Threat Analysis (ATA), which the company has been using to help its security teams proactively identify weaknesses in its platforms, perform variant analysis to quickly search for other, similar flaws, and then develop…
Next week, we celebrate our nation’s shared, uniting holiday of civic thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a seasonal, needed reminder of the promise and reality of America. We the People are not doing well. We are divided, angry, and house-poor. That said, whether you are liberal, conservative, progressive, or MAGA, we all have much – by any real, clear metric – to be thankful for and much that’s deserving of our collective, bipartisan celebration, cherishing, and defense. We are a better and more united people when we look up in shared gratitude.
Why are AI dev teams still training and storing multiple large language models for different deployment needs when one elastic model can generate several sizes at the same cost? NVIDIA is collapsing the usual ‘model family’ stack into a single training job. NVIDIA AI team releases Nemotron-Elastic-12B, a 12B parameter reasoning model that embeds nested 9B and 6B variants in the same parameter space, so all three sizes come from one elastic checkpoint with no extra distillation runs per size. Many in one model family Most production systems need several model sizes, a larger model for server side workloads, a…
On the surface, the Superbox media streaming devices for sale at retailers like BestBuy and Walmart may seem like a steal: They offer unlimited access to more than 2,200 pay-per-view and streaming services like Netflix, ESPN and Hulu, all for a one-time fee of around $400. But security experts warn these TV boxes require intrusive software that forces the user’s network to relay Internet traffic for others, traffic that is often tied to cybercrime activity such as advertising fraud and account takeovers. Superbox media streaming boxes for sale on Walmart.com. Superbox bills itself as an affordable way for households to…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Recent developments have shown that China’s possible connection to Ripple’s XRP may be stronger than most realize. Versan Aljarrah, founder of Black Swan Capitalist, points out that the country already has indirect exposure to the token through specific financial channels. These pathways indicate that Ripple’s payment rails have long been facilitating international transactions, quietly integrating the altcoin into key global financial networks and regions. China’s Proposed Indirect Exposure To XRP Through Ripple Aljarrah’s recent remarks reveal a more complex picture of China’s relationship with XRP. In his…
The Little People concept had quickly attracted wider attention well beyond rural Georgia. Babyland even got a mention in the UK’s Daily Express as early as 1980, albeit as “the kind of lunatic scheme that appeals to Americans”. Still, as cynics might say, there’s one born every minute, and the concept’s blockbuster commercial potential was spotted by Coleco Industries, a company mainly known for its electronic toys such as the ColecoVision video game console. In 1982, the firm licensed the dolls for a mass-produced version. In a marketing masterstroke, the Little People were now called Cabbage Patch Kids.More like this:• How…