Last week, Block, the payments and hardware company founded as Square by visionary and former Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, announced during its quarterly earnings call that it would cut around 40 ...

When Block Inc. cut 4,000 jobs this week, nearly half its workforce, co-founder Jack Dorsey pointed to AI as the culprit. Dorsey claimed that AI tools now allow fewer employees to accomplish the same ...

Block said Thursday it's laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its head count. Shares of the payment company skyrocketed as much as 24% in extended trading. It was last seen up nearly ...

Shares of Block are surging in after-hours as the company said it will cut more than 4,000 employees. Block, Inc. will cut more than 4,000 employees, reducing its workforce by nearly half as the ...

A solo miner turned $75 in rented hashpower into a $200,000 Bitcoin block reward, defying steep odds in a rare, lottery-like win. A rare and remarkable event in the Bitcoin mining world occurred ...

From yesterday's decision by Judge Kirk Sherriff (E.D. Cal.) in Johnson v. Fliger (for more on an earlier phase of the case, see here): Plaintiff Daymon Johnson, a professor of history at Bakersfield ...

Security researchers observed a 30% annual increase in ransomware victims listed on extortion sites last year, with AI helping to lower the barrier to entry for new threat groups. Searchlight Cyber's ...

Researchers developed a tiny fart-measuring device that snaps into underwear. Left: University of Maryland. Right: S. Botasini et al., Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X, 2025 under CC BY 4.0 How many ...

Since the Dallas Open’s launch in 2022, Taylor Fritz has almost always been the growing tournament’s number one seed. But his relationship with Dallas stretches all the way back to his early pro days ...

We all need change. The trick is to calibrate the appropriate amount of it. By Ronnie Scott Changing my number had always been a street-level fantasy, the kind of thing I’d dream in my idle hours of ...

Watch Out: Your Friends Might Be Sharing Your Number With ChatGPT You can now sync your contacts and 'find friends' on OpenAI. Is this the first major step toward the company becoming a social media ...

Political commentator Candace Owens alleged that Turning Point USA faked its All-American Halftime Show’s viewer numbers. Taking to X on Sunday, February 8, after the right-wing organization founded ...