Poland lost $230 million in cryptocurrency trying to buy Venezuelan oil in 2023 — USB drives with crypto handed directly to scammers

Many folks’ gut reaction may be that the use of cryptocurrency made the cash untraceable, but the problem isn’t with the blockchain. In fact, for the vast majority of currencies, the on-chain ledger offers more visibilit…

NOR Flash and SLC NAND production are under threat as capacity gets routed to more profitable products — ‘severe undersupply’ threatens everyday electronics

BNP Paribas forecasts the average NAND price will hit $279.50 per terabyte during 2026, up from $73.10 in 2025. JPMorgan expects the memory shortage to persist for at least another two years, with customers getting just …

Microsoft director called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an ‘existential threat’ to publishers — re

The brief cited an internal memo dated January 2023 by Microsoft director of Applied Science Brent Hecht, where he allegedly said, “Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all t…