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Bittrex, the now-defunct crypto exchange, is asking for its money back. The company settled with the SEC back in twenty twenty three for twenty-four million dollars over allegations it offered unregistered securities. Now, with the agency taking a far friendlier stance toward crypto under new leadership, Bittrex argues the legal landscape has shifted enough to warrant a refund. It's a bold ask, and one that signals how dramatically the regulatory winds have changed.
On the hardware front, the PCI-SIG consortium has released the first draft of the PCIe eight point zero specification, and the numbers are staggering. The new standard targets one terabyte per second of bandwidth, more than double what the current generation offers, and introduces new connector technology alongside that familiar backwards compatibility. This is the kind of foundational infrastructure work that quietly determines how fast everything else gets to move.
And in a more consumer-facing corner of tech, Blink has launched its first two-thousand-pixel video doorbell at just fifty dollars. The camera comes in wired and battery-powered versions, and American subscribers can receive AI-generated descriptions of what the camera captures, sent directly to their phones. It's a meaningful step up in clarity at a price point that undercuts most of the competition.
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