Author: Vidya Saras

Once a prominent player in the cryptocurrency lending space, Celsius Network has commenced its second round of distributions to creditors, amounting to $127 million. This follows the company’s prior efforts to distribute approximately $3 billion in crypto and fiat currency, initiated after a successful vote on its reorganization plan earlier this year. The latest distribution is aimed at eligible creditors affected by Celsius’ collapse and subsequent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, which temporarily halted withdrawals before the reorganization efforts.  Celsius Implements Changes To Second Distribution According to court documents, the funds for this distribution were converted from cash received from Litigation…

tl;dr ETHStaker/clr.fund Ethereum Staking CLR ETHStaker and clr.fund are running a CLR funding round to help boost important projects for the Ethereum staking ecosystem. That is — projects that help make staking on Ethereum more accessible, safe, decentralized, and generally a pleasant experience. This funding round utilizes Constrained Liberal Radicalism, often referred to as Quadratic Funding (QF), to allocate a large pool of funds (more than $350k!) to relevant projects. QF ensures the amount of funds matched to a project is not just a function of dollars allocated, but also the number of unique individuals that allocate to a given…

Sony Group has officially announced the development of Soneium™, a cutting-edge blockchain infrastructure designed to bring Web3 technology into daily life. Developed by Sony Block Solution Labs Pte. Ltd., headquartered in Singapore, Soneium aims to revolutionize how decentralized applications (dApps), NFT marketplaces, and Web3 services are accessed and integrated into mainstream activities. A Vision to Decentralize and Democratize Web3 Sony’s blockchain initiative focuses on tackling two core challenges hindering Web3 adoption: limited mainstream use and the need for transformative applications. Soneium promises to provide a robust, public blockchain built to be scalable, cost-efficient, and user-friendly. By leveraging its wide range…

Society / November 29, 2024 In their new book We Choose To, Dr. Curtis Boyd and Glenna Halvorson-Boyd reflect on their decades helping women who needed abortions—before, during, and after Roe. Ad Policy (Courtesy of Disruption Books) Five years ago, when Curtis Boyd, MD, and Glenna Halvorson-Boyd, PhD, RN, set out to write a book about their lives and 50-year-career providing abortion care in Texas and New Mexico, Roe was still the law of the land. But their book, which was published in September, made its debut two years after that landmark case was overturned and just a few short…

Visualizing the potential impacts of a hurricane on people’s homes before it hits can help residents prepare and decide whether to evacuate.MIT scientists have developed a method that generates satellite imagery from the future to depict how a region would look after a potential flooding event. The method combines a generative artificial intelligence model with a physics-based flood model to create realistic, birds-eye-view images of a region, showing where flooding is likely to occur given the strength of an oncoming storm.As a test case, the team applied the method to Houston and generated satellite images depicting what certain locations around…

A malware loader, now named GodLoader, has been observed to be using Godot, a free and open-source game engine, as its runtime to execute malicious codes and has dropped known malware on at least 17,000 machines. Unaware users of the engine — which helps create 2D and 3D games and deploy them across various platforms including Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, and web browsers — are tricked into downloading the loader posing as legitimate cracks for the paid software. “Check Point Research discovered a new technique taking advantage of Godot Engine, a popular open-source game engine, to execute crafted GDScript,…

Searchlight PicturesFrom a steamy age-gap thriller starring Nicole Kidman to a Bob Dylan biopic featuring Timothée Chalamet, these are the films to stream and watch at the cinema this month.DisneyIt was in February 1964 that the US succumbed to Beatlemania. The Fab Four spent three weeks in the country that had influenced them so much, and their visit included an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, which was seen by 73 million people, as well as their first US concert in Washington DC. Beatles ’64 is an intimate chronicle of those whirlwind weeks, produced by Martin Scorsese and directed by…

The planned council would influence U.S. crypto policy and implement Trump’s promised Bitcoin reserve. Several crypto firms and their members are seeking positions on a crypto advisory council under Donald Trump’s upcoming presidency, Reuters said on Nov. 21. Companies including Coinbase, Kraken, Ripple, and Circle — as well as the VC firms Paradigm and a16z Crypto — could obtain board positions. So far, Circle’s plans to join appear to be the most definite. Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire told The New York Times in November that he wants a position on the council, according to a spokesperson cited by Reuters. Reuters…

In 2025, entrepreneurs will unleash a flood of AI-powered apps. Finally, generative AI will deliver on the hype with a new crop of affordable consumer and business apps. This is not the consensus view today. OpenAI, Google, and xAI are locked in an arms race to train the most powerful large language model (LLM) in pursuit of artificial general intelligence, known as AGI, and their gladiatorial battle dominates the mindshare and revenue share of the fledgling Gen AI ecosystem.For example, Elon Musk raised $6 billion to launch the newcomer xAI and bought 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, the costly chips used…

Allan Russell and Kana Kramer Jason Davis/Getty Images Jana Kramer has wanted to be on The Masked Singer since it debuted in 2019 — but her husband, Allan Russell, was somewhat more skeptical of the singing competition show. “I was so thrilled when I got the text, I was sitting there with my husband on the couch,” Kramer, 40, exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of her Thursday, November 28, elimination from the Fox series. “I just started screaming, and my husband’s like, ‘What?’ And I’m like, ‘I just got offered The Masked Singer.’ And he’s like, ‘The what?’ And I’m…