USC’s 9th games expo returns May 13 with 60 games
Source: Venture Beat USC Games announced its 9th annual USC Games Expo will return to USC’s campus on May 13 with more than 60 student games. Read Full Article
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World’s largest sovereign wealth fund grows indirect BTC exposure by 153%
Source: Coin Tegraph Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, managed by Norges Bank Investment Management, has positions in MicroStrategy, Square, Tesla, MARA Holdings, Riot Platforms and Coinbase. Read Full Article
Forza Horizon 5 is coming to the PS5 this spring
Source: The Verge Forza Horizon 5 is the next Xbox Game Studios title making the jump to PlayStation. The open-world racing game is launching on PS5 this spring and will include the same content as what’s available in its Xbox and PC versions, according to a blog post. If you want to play the game…
Mistral Small 3 brings open-source AI to the masses — smaller, faster and cheaper
Source: Venture Beat French AI startup Mistral unveils a breakthrough 24B parameter language model that matches the performance of models three times its size, challenging tech giants with faster speeds and lower computing costs while targeting enterprise deployments. Read Full Article
How archivists are preserving video game history
Source: The Verge When I ask Frank Cifaldi, the founder and director of the Video Game History Foundation, to explain the importance of preserving and maintaining old video games, he answers with a movie analogy. Imagine, he said, “if movies were only released on, like, VHS, ever. You want to watch Back to the Future?…
Cerebras becomes the world’s fastest host for DeepSeek R1, outpacing Nvidia GPUs by 57x
Source: Venture Beat Cerebras Systems launches DeepSeek’s R1-70B AI model on its wafer-scale processor, delivering 57x faster speeds than GPU solutions and challenging Nvidia’s AI chip dominance with U.S.-based inference processing. Read Full Article
How can you add to your income to increase personal loan amount? Here are 8 ways | Mint
Source: Live Mint If you currently have a personal loan request pending and are unable to raise the required amount, then it could be either because your credit score or your income is too low that you failed to convince the bank’s credit department. So, what could be the alternative in this case? You could raise your…
Why is Litecoin (LTC) price up today?
Source: Coin Tegraph Litecoin price is up today after the SEC acknowledged Canary Capital’s spot LTC ETF application within two weeks of its initial filing on Jan. 16. Read Full Article
Lagarde Is Confident EU’s Central Banks Will Shun Bitcoin
Source: Live Mint (Bloomberg) — European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde predicted that no European Union country will choose to add Bitcoin to its monetary reserves. Responding to comments by her Czech counterpart, Ales Michl, that his institution will look into the matter, she cast doubt on such prospects, saying the cryptocurrency doesn’t meet criteria…
DeepSeek database left user data, chat histories exposed for anyone to see
Source: The Verge DeepSeek has secured a “completely open” database that exposed user chat histories, API authentication keys, system logs, and other sensitive information, according to cloud security firm Wiz. The security researchers said they found the Chinese AI startup’s publicly accessible database in “minutes,” with no authentication required. The exposed information was housed within…