U.Today – U.Today brings you the three most crucial news stories from the last day.
Elon Musk releases crucial ‘Black Mirror’ statement to warn the community
In a recent post on X, Elon Musk, a world-famous centi-billionaire who has a special interest in the latest technological developments, expressed his distrust of the modern Microsoft (NASDAQ:) feature. The feature is called “Recall” and, according to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, it is a semantic search of users’ entire history that will facilitate them find everything they have ever seen or done on their computers. The principle of Recall is uncomplicated: Windows will constantly take screenshots of your computer’s screen, and then operate a generative AI model together with the NPU to process all this data and make it searchable. Despite its promising utility, Musk criticized the feature, comparing it to what an episode of “Black Mirror” might show, suggesting that the show’s dystopian scenario where technology controls humanity is becoming closer to reality. “I am definitely disabling this ‘feature’,” Musk wrote, perhaps suggesting that data collected by “Recall” could potentially be easily accessed and used to control user activities.
Shibarium is one step away from a major record as transactions enhance by 209%
Like the rest of the market, Shibarium’s Layer 2 solution has recently seen positive results from the modern growth trend. According to data provided by Shibariumscan, the daily number of transactions increased from 6,000 on May 14 to 18,560 on May 20, an enhance of over 209%. For weeks, the number of daily transitions to Shibarium remained relatively constant, but the situation changed after the implementation of the Shibarium demanding fork on the mainnet. This was a turning point for the L2 protocol. With the enhance in transaction volume, Shibarium now aims to break the record of 420 million total transactions. While it’s unclear when exactly this will happen, Shibarium has the right catalyst to facilitate it take its position to modern heights. Currently, according to Shibariumscan data, the total number of transactions on Shibarium is 417,525,512.
Bullish statement issued by Samson Speech: “Omega is coming”
Bitcoin, the flagship cryptocurrency, has finally made its long-awaited move towards reaching its all-time high again, climbing back to $71,000 – the highest price level since April 1, when BTC was trading at $71,330. The likely catalysts for BTC’s sudden recovery were positive CPI data, which showed easing inflation, as well as a full week of inflows into Bitcoin ETFs. Such a positive change in Bitcoin’s price could not have gone unnoticed by Jan3 CEO Samson Mow, a renowned BTC maximalist who once predicted that the above-mentioned asset could one day reach up to $1 million. Mow reached for X to comment on the BTC price enhance, making another prediction; this time it is about the Omega Bitcoin candle coming soon. As the CEO previously explained, the Omega candle is a gigantic trading candle on the Bitcoin chart that is accompanied by high-volatility movements. Meanwhile, Bitcoin is changing hands at $70,006, down 0.25% in the last 24 hours, according to CoinMarketCap.