Cash App launches ‘pay later’ feature for P2P pay transfers
Block says that the new feature has strong built-in protections to keep users from so-called debt spirals.
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Insider trading or random guy? It doesn’t matter to Polymarket
In mid-March, conspiracy theories swirled claiming Benjamin Netanyahu had been replaced by an AI clone. Though there was no actual proof that the Israeli Prime Minister had been injured or killed, on X this spurred a flurry of posts promoting prediction markets where people bet on whether he would be out of office by March […]
Uber expands its $4,000 ‘Go Electric’ grant to drivers nationwide
Since last year, Uber has been offering drivers in a handful of locations – California, Colorado, Massachusetts and New York City – $4,000 to swap their gas guzzlers for electric vehicles. The company must have liked the results because today it announced that it would be expanding eligibility for its “Go Electric” grant to drivers […]
Trump’s birthright citizenship ban may fail — but the administration already got too far
On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Trump v. Barbara, a case challenging President Donald Trump’s 2025 executive order banning birthright citizenship. Justices seemed skeptical of the administration’s argument, but by taking up birthright citizenship at all, they showed how much ground nativists have gained since Trump’s first term. The 14th Amendment is […]
De-fi platform Drift suspends deposits and withdrawals after millions in crypto stolen in hack
Blockchain trackers put the cryptocurrency heist in the hundreds of millions of dollars and is already on track to be the largest crypto theft in 2026 so far.
NASA launches four astronauts toward the Moon on the Artemis II mission
NASA’s Artemis II flight, which is set to take four astronauts toward the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years, successfully launched on Wednesday evening. The Artemis II mission, part of NASA’s Artemis program that’s intended to bring humans back onto the Moon as early as 2028, will bring the four astronauts […]
The reputation of troubled YC startup Delve has gotten even worse
Delve faces new allegations that it violated the open source license of its customer, Sim.ai, by taking the customers’s tool and passing it off as its own.
‘System failure’ paralyzes Baidu robotaxis in China
Passengers in Baidu’s robotaxis were trapped for up to two hours.
A new dating app, Sonder, has a deliberately annoying sign-up process (and it’s working)
Sonder profiles are completely unstructured, encouraging users to build something that looks like a mood board or a digital collage. Think MySpace rather than LinkedIn.