Playdate Gaming Handheld Maker Bans Generative AI Tools for Development
Panic, the firm behind the Playdate handheld, now prohibits creative AI applications while preserving developer productivity aids.
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Panic, the firm behind the Playdate handheld, now prohibits creative AI applications while preserving developer productivity aids.
Congressional candidate Alex Bores outlined a policy that would trigger payments to Americans if surging AI use reduces employment.
Alibaba released Qwen3.6-Max-Preview, its most powerful AI model yet, topping six major coding benchmarks and posting gains in world knowledge and instruction following over its predecessor.
Reabold Resources faced criticism for plans to use a gas field to mine Bitcoin, but said serving U.K. energy demand remains its main focus.
A weekend post summarizing ideas from CEO Alex Karp’s 2025 book reignites debate over Silicon Valley’s role in warfare and national defense.
Bitcoin Core version 31.0 is now available for download . See the release notes for more information about the bug fixes in this release. If you have any questions, please stop by the #bitcoin IRC chatroom ( IRC , web ) and we’ll do our best to help you. Bitcoin Core 31.0 released was originally pub…
This week’s newsletter describes an idea for nested MuSig2 Lightning nodes and summarizes a project formally verifying secp256k1’s modular scalar multiplication. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Julian Moik to discuss Newsletter #400.
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Armin Sabouri, Pyth, Conduition, and Jonas Nick to discuss Newsletter #399.
This week’s newsletter describes how wallet fingerprinting can damage payjoin privacy and summarizes a proposal for a wallet backup metadata format. Also included are our regular sections summarizing proposals and discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
Bitcoin Core version 28.4 is now available for download . See the release notes for more information about the bug fixes in this release. If you have any questions, please stop by the #bitcoin IRC chatroom ( IRC , web ) and we’ll do our best to help you. Bitcoin Core 28.4 released was originally pub…
Bitcoin Core version 29.3 is now available for download . See the release notes for more information about the bug fixes in this release. If you have any questions, please stop by the #bitcoin IRC chatroom ( IRC , web ) and we’ll do our best to help you. Bitcoin Core 29.3 released was originally pub…
Bitcoin Core version 30.2 is now available for download . See the release notes for more information about the bug fixes in this release. If you have any questions, please stop by the #bitcoin IRC chatroom ( IRC , web ) and we’ll do our best to help you. Bitcoin Core 30.2 released was originally pub…
We have become aware of a wallet migration bug introduced in Bitcoin Core 30.0 and 30.1. Under rare circumstances, when the migration of a wallet.dat file fails, all files in the wallet directory may be deleted in the process, potentially resulting in a loss of funds. A fix is forthcoming and will b…