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A fresh wave of crypto ETFs is awaiting entry onto the U.S. markets, with over 50 funds now awaiting SEC decisions. These ETFs cover everything from Bitcoin and Ethereum to Solana, XRP, and Dogecoin, according to the latest figures from Bloomberg. For the big names, submissions come from Grayscale, Franklin Templeton, Bitwise, and VanEck. According to the data, new ETF filings for Solana (SOL), Ripple (XRP), Cardano (ADA), and DOGE suggest altseason may be on the horizon as institutional interest in this sector grows. Specialized offerings, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum staking ETFs and Ethereum option ETFs, are also in…

HR tech giant Deel says it has formally accepted to be served legal documents in its ongoing court battle with rival Rippling in Ireland. This ends weeks of suspense after Rippling’s bailiffs couldn’t find Deel’s execs to serve them — only for Deel’s CEO and top lawyer to turn up in Dubai. Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz, along with Deel lawyers Asif Malik and Andrea David Mieli, all agreed to accept service through Deel’s Irish law firm today, Deel confirmed to TechCrunch. Deel Inc., which is Deel’s U.S. entity, was already served on April 16, an affidavit filed by Rippling this…

Bitcoin (BTC) fell early in the U.S. trading session, but mostly held firm as poor macroeconomic news rolled in. The top cryptocurrency late in the day was trading just below $95,000, up 0.5% over the past 24 hours. The CoinDesk 20 — an index of the top 20 largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization excluding memecoins, exchange coins and stablecoins — was roughly flat over the same time frame. Crypto stocks like Coinbase (COIN), Strategy (MSTR) and the miners were losing modest ground after big gains last week. Notable exceptions included Janover (JNVR) and DeFi Technologies (DFTF), ahead 24% and 6.5%,…

A bug in OpenAI’s ChatGPT allowed the chatbot to generate graphic erotica for accounts where a user registered as a minor, under the age of 18, TechCrunch’s testing revealed, and OpenAI confirmed.  In some cases, the chatbot even encouraged these users to ask for raunchier, more explicit content. OpenAI told TechCrunch its policies don’t allow for these kinds of responses for under-18 users and that they shouldn’t have been shown. The company added that it’s “actively deploying a fix” to limit such content. “Protecting younger users is a top priority, and our Model Spec, which guides model behavior, clearly restricts…

There has been much speculation about the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. The Bitcoin creator has been far more successful than even the acclaimed author Thomas Pynchon in hiding their identity. At least some photographs of Pynchon exist; but, never one of Satoshi. Even then, there have been several attempts to uncover Satoshi’s identity. Recently, Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao was quizzed about the same, and his response was, “Satoshi Nakamoto was an AI from the future.” CZ wrote on X on Apr. 27 that he was asked about the Bitcoin founder’s identity in an interview from Turkey and he suggested that…

President Donald Trump will soon host a 100-day inauguration celebration rally in Michigan on Apr. 30. This will kick off a fast-paced second term — at least in the cryptocurrency space. Within the first 100 days of his second term, Trump fulfilled his election campaign promise by singing an executive order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, thereby officially acknowledging Bitcoin as a key asset of the United States. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick stated that with the help of crypto czar David Sacks, Trump expedited the reserve’s establishment, demonstrating the regime’s unwavering endorsement of Bitcoin. “We were able to help the…

Larry Ellison, co-founder and executive chairman of Oracle Corp., speaks during the Oracle OpenWorld 2018 conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesOracle engineers mistakenly triggered a five-day software outage at a number of Community Health Systems hospitals, causing the facilities to temporarily return to paper-based patient records.CHS told CNBC that the outage involving Oracle Health, the company’s electronic health record (EHR) system, affected “several” hospitals, leading them to activate “downtime procedures.” Trade publication Becker’s Hospital Review reported that 45 hospitals were hit.The outage began on April 23, after engineers…

Creating animation is a time-consuming process, requiring multiple steps, including storyboarding, rendering, composition, and lighting to craft a single scene. If a director wants to experiment with a different take for a scene, an animation team has to go back and tweak things before the scene can be finalized. Cheehoo, a startup founded by a mix of Hollywood execs and technologists, wants to create an AI-powered tool to make it easier for creatives to produce animated content. The startup was born out of production company Rideback, which produced the Lego Movie franchise. Rideback’s co-CEOs, Michael LoFaso and Jonathan Eirich, are…

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is on the launch pad carrying Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet network satellites, which are expected to eventually rival Elon Musk’s Starlink system, at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., April 9, 2025. Steve Nesius | ReutersAmazon on Monday launched the first batch of its Kuiper internet satellites into space after an earlier attempt was scrubbed due to inclement weather.A United Launch Alliance rocket carrying 27 Kuiper satellites lifted off from a launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida shortly after 7 p.m. eastern, according to a…

Quantum computing has long been announced as “just around the corner,” but several companies are now determined to make this a commercial reality, with the promise of solving complex problems beyond classical computers’ reach. The problems in question are wide-ranging, from medicine and cybersecurity to materials science and chemistry. But first, there are very practical problems to be solved, such as developing chips that can reliably host large numbers of qubits — short for quantum bits, the fundamental unit of information in quantum computing. As usual in a high-stakes tech race with an uncertain time horizon, tech giants such as…