Tag: Binance
Sam Altman back as boss of OpenAI, Stellantis in talks with Chinese battery-maker
OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman will return as boss just days after he was fired by the board, the firm has said. The agreement "in principle" involves new board members being appointed, the tech company added. It comes after Mr Altman was sacked on Friday triggering an open letter from staff who threatened to resign unless…
Cybercriminals loot over $600 million from crypto projects in first half 2023
According to analysis from the Atlas VPN team, various crypto projects and their clients lost a whopping $666,354,302 to 125 cyberattacks in the first half of 2023. Nevertheless, compared to the same period last year, crypto-related cyber incidents and losses are declining. The Binance Smart Chain (BSC) ecosystem experienced the highest number of incidents, totaling 30,…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Meta plans text-based Twitter rival
Meta has shown staff plans for a text-based social network designed to compete with Twitter, sources have told the BBC. It could allow users to follow accounts they already follow on Instagram, Meta's image-sharing app. And it could potentially allow them to bring over followers from decentralised platforms such as Mastodon. A Meta spokesperson confirmed…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Google Pixel Fold will cost whopping £1749!
Google has announced its first folding smartphone, with a market-leading starting price of £1,749. That puts the Pixel Fold well ahead of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4, the world's most expensive foldable handset, which comes in at £1,649. Like its competitor, Google's effort has a familiar smartphone form factor when closed but opens up into more…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Twitter users vote for Elon Musk to step down
Twitter users have voted in favour of Elon Musk stepping down as the platform's chief executive after the billionaire ran a poll on his future. A total of 57.5% voted "yes" after Mr Musk asked his 122 million followers whether he should stand down. Mr Musk, who bought Twitter for $44bn (£36bn), said before the…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Amazon unveils Prime Air delivery drone
Amazon has unveiled its newest delivery drone that will soon be dropping packages from 12 feet in the air in two U.S. cities. The retail giant has long wanted to solve the last leg of package delivery, especially since it launched Amazon Prime's Two-Day delivery offering in 2005. Jeff Bezos first announced drone delivery in 2013,…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Twitter Blue goes live in the UK
Twitter Blue, the social media platform’s subscription service that allows users to buy a blue verification badge for the first time, has gone live in the UK. Twitter users on Apple’s iOS can now sign up and pay for the service, which will give them the blue-tick badge next to their profile name on the…
Tech Digest daily roundup: YouTube Wear OS app only works with Samsung
Google's YouTube Music app for Wear OS is now live, a few months after the tech giant promised to release one for the platform. That certainly sounds like great news for users who've been waiting for it after Google retired Play Music for Wear OS in 2020. The bad news is, as noted by 9to5Google, it only currently works…
Tech Digest daily round up: Lenovo ‘quietly announces’ Smart Clock 2
Without any fanfare or an official announcement, Lenovo has unveiled the successor to its Google-powered Smart Clock – quietly allowing the Smart Clock 2 to slip into the world's collective consciousness by way of a product page. Marked as 'coming soon' on Lenovo's official US site, the second generation of Smart Clock presents a reinvented shape, improved speaker…
Hackers steal nearly £31 million in Bitcoin from online exchange
Hackers have stolen nearly £31 million in Bitcoin from Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, its chief executive has said. Binance said hackers were able to withdraw 7,000 Bitcoin (£30.9m) in one transaction after using “a variety of techniques, including phishing, viruses and other attacks”. The Japan-based exchange’s chief executive Changpeng Zhao,…
