Sep 07, 2026Twila Rosenbaum MapQuest is back in the spotlight after refusing to adopt ‘Lake America’ for Lake Ontario. The 30-year-old navigation app jumped to No. 1 on Apple’s App Store in the U.S. and Canada. Download numbers spiked from hundreds per day to tens of thousands, and usage soared. Google and Apple complied with the federal name change, but MapQuest made its defiant stance a cultural moment. View more
Sep 06, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Anthropic has filed confidentially with the SEC for a US IPO, joining a wave of AI companies seeking to go public. The company, valued at $965bn, has seen surging revenue and could post its first profitable quarter. SpaceX has filed for a listing, while OpenAI has reportedly weighed one in 2026. View more
Sep 06, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is closing in on its first external funding round, raising more than $7.4bn at an almost $60bn valuation — a six-fold jump in just two months. Tencent, NetEase, JD.com and battery giant CATL are expected to participate, along with venture capital and state-backed funds. Founder Liang Wenfeng is also injecting his own capital as DeepSeek shifts strategy to attract top talent and accelerate its AI supply chain ambitions. View more
Sep 06, 2026Twila Rosenbaum NetMedia International has announced an updated Privacy and Cookie Policy, outlining how it collects, uses, and protects personal data. The revised policy focuses on GDPR compliance, cookie usage, and user rights. Users are encouraged to review the changes to understand their data protection options. View more
Sep 06, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Zcash developers have released Zakura Common, an open-source cryptography toolkit for faster shielded payments. Proof generation may drop from more than three seconds to under 200 milliseconds, with mobile transactions over 14 times faster. The software also accelerates wallet syncing and verification and requires no network upgrade. It supports a roadmap to scale Zcash toward 50,000 private transactions per second. View more
Sep 06, 2026Twila Rosenbaum The Cronos network was halted Sunday after an alleged $75 million exploit on Tectonic. An attacker reportedly inflated the thinly traded TONIC token 100-fold to borrow real assets, and the pause stranded funds. Tectonic's total value locked fell from roughly $121.7 million to $3 million. Neither Cronos nor Tectonic had provided a restart timeline as of Monday morning. View more
Sep 06, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Ripple outlined a four-stage plan to protect XRP Ledger from quantum computers. The roadmap includes vulnerability checks, quantum-resistant signatures, parallel rollout and emergency response. An AI-assisted cryptanalysis breakthrough has made the migration timeline more urgent. View more
Sep 06, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Solana's first network-wide validation vote ended in a nail-biter, with a proposal to accelerate new SOL issuance cuts narrowly passing. Validators connected to Kraken and Galaxy Digital flipped their votes shortly before the deadline, securing the result. The decision marks an important moment for Solana governance and its token economics. View more
Sep 06, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Solana validators and token holders are voting on the network’s first major onchain governance experiment. A proposal to accelerate reductions in new SOL issuance has reached 68.77% support, just above the supermajority threshold. A separate plan to raise transaction-fee burns stands at 62.72%, below the two-thirds requirement. All three measures cleared quorum, but any change would require additional technical work. View more
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