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On this week’s episode of Yahoo Finance Future Focus, our host Brian McGleenon spoke to Standard Chartered Head of Crypto Research Geoff Kendrick, who shared his insights into the evolving landscape where traditional finance incumbents, such BlackRock and Franklin Templeton, are involving themselves in the cryptocurrency sphere via the recently launched spot bitcoin exchange traded funds (ETFs). A spot bitcoin ETF is a financial product that investors hope will pave the way for mainstream… Source link

Amid spread of AI tools, tech giant joins fight for a transparent online world. February 8, 2024, 9:00 AM ET • 5 min read Google announced Thursday that it is joining a coalition of companies dedicated to helping increase transparency around artificial intelligence and digital content. As examples of AI-generated content continue to make headlines — from fake sexually explicit AI images of Taylor Swift, to a deceptive AI-generated voice clone of President Biden — the need for clarity around… Source link

Google is downplaying reports of malware abusing an undocumented Google Chrome API to generate new authentication cookies when previously stolen ones have expired. In late November 2023, BleepingComputer reported on two information-stealing malware operations named Lumma and Rhadamanthys, claiming they could restore expired Google authentication cookies stolen in attacks. These cookies could then be loaded into threat actors’ browsers to gain access to an infected user’s… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Bitcoin rediscovers its mojo as banks stumble, says Standard Chartered’s Geoff Kendrick  Yahoo Finance Source link

DETROIT — There’s only silence around the Brooklyn Nets after they’re eliminated from the playoffs, or if the New York Knicks are a bigger mess — or the time before a trade demand. These past few weeks, they’ve been creeping and now they’re on the come-up, making themselves relevant in the Eastern Conference. But Kevin Durant notices the lack of attention his team has received. “I get that other people don’t look at our roster as a championship roster, but when we get wins the… Source link

The Matter standard can only simplify the use of smart home devices from various brands if products actually support it. Today, Google has announced that it has enabled Matter support for its Nest and Android devices — you don’t even have to download or install any update. That means the Google Home speaker, Google Home Mini, Nest Mini, Nest Audio, Nest Hub (1st and 2nd gen), Nest Hub Max and the new Nest WiFi Pro, can now serve as a hub for Matter that you can use to control your smart… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Speculators cleaving to the view that the crypto rout is mostly over are at risk of a rude awakening in 2023, according to Standard Chartered. Most Read from Bloomberg A further Bitcoin plunge of about 70% to $5,000 next year is among the “surprise” scenarios that markets may be “under-pricing,” the bank’s Global Head of Research Eric Robertsen wrote in a note on Sunday. Demand could switch from Bitcoin as a digital version of gold to the real thing, spurring to a 30%… Source link

While large tech companies are currently feeling the heat from regulators and Congress, over a century ago, the trustbusters had their sights on Big Oil. Around the turn of the twentieth century, Big Oil was John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Trust. By 1904, the monopoly controlled 91% of the U.S. oil market and 85% of final sales. But it was in the early wildcat days of 1863 that Rockefeller first founded the company that would become synonymous with “black gold.” Through a web of… Source link

May 5, 2022 PRESS RELEASE Apple, Google, and Microsoft commit to expanded support for FIDO standard to accelerate availability of passwordless sign‑ins Faster, easier, and more secure sign‑ins will be available to consumers across leading devices and platforms Mountain View, California In a joint effort to make the web more secure and usable for all, Apple, Google, and Microsoft today announced plans to expand support for a common passwordless sign-in standard created by the… Source link

Jeff Fenster, Everbowl CEO and Founder Jeff Fenster, Everbowl CEO and Founder Jeff Fenster, Everbowl CEO and Founder SAN DIEGO, Feb. 04, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — California-based, craft superfood chain, Everbowl™ (https://www.everbowl.com), will now run its business operations off the Bitcoin Standard and is converting cash reserves to Bitcoin. As Founder and CEO, Jeff Fenster explains, “We’ve concluded that running the business exclusively on cash isn’t the most advantageous, nor the safest,… Source link