Chen Jing, a computer scientist and blockchain expert, has left the United States to join Tsinghua University as a professor full-time. According to the China Computer Federation Digital Library, Chen Jing is a professor of computer science at Tsinghua University and a recipient of the National Overseas High-level Talent Program. Her main research interests are blockchain, smart contracts, computational game theory and mechanism design. She used to be the chief scientist and theoretical research...
Cantelopepeel, the core developer of Solana, announced his departure and founded Unto Labs to develop the new Layer 1 blockchain. As the core engineer of the new Firedancer client, he led the team to demonstrate the performance of 1 million transactions per second and 1 billion computing units per second at Breakpoint 2024. Unto Labs will adopt a new architecture, redesigning from virtual machines to consensus mechanisms, but will not create SVM chains. Cantelopepeel expects tens of millions of ...
OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati has announced her departure.
On August 4th, according to CBS, Jon Feiner, the principal deputy national security adviser of the White House, said that the United States is urging its citizens to leave Lebanon in an attempt to prepare for any situation in the Middle East. This move is not a prediction, but a prudent planning. The US is moving aircraft carriers to the Middle East purely for defensive reasons. The overall goal is to cool the situation in the region.