In its 2024 National Risk Assessments on Money Laundering, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has unveiled the concerning trend of criminals increasingly turning to cryptocurrencies to finance illegal activities.
US Treasury Reports Identify Crypto’s Role in Illicit Finance
The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced in a press release that it has issued its 2024 National Risk Assessments on…
Disney invests $1.5B in Fortnite maker Epic Games to build a persistent game universe
February 8, 2024
Disney is investing $1.5 billion for an equity stake in Fortnite and Unreal Engine maker Epic Games as part of a broader partnership to create a new Disney gaming universe.
The companies plan to create an expansive and open games and entertainment universe. I would say…
Roblox Corporation today gave its latest earnings report, for the last quarter of 2023 and the full year together. The company reported strong growth across the quarter, with substantial increases in bookings and daily active users. Some of the losses have also grown at the…
Google Deepmind proposes ‘self-discover’ framework for LLMs, improves GPT-4 performance
February 8, 2024
In a bid to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), researchers from Google Deepmind and University of Southern California have proposed a new ‘self-discover’ prompting framework.
Published on arXiV and Hugging Face this morning, the approach goes beyond existing prompting techniques used by LLMs and has been found capable of improving the performance of known…
IBM is hoping to advance the state of the art for artificial intelligence (AI) security with an open source project called the Adversarial Robustness Toolbox (ART).
Today, ART is being made available on Hugging Face as a set of tools that will help AI users and data…
Kyndryl teams up with Google Cloud on responsible generative AI
February 8, 2024
Kyndryl unveiled an extended collaboration with Google Cloud to spearhead the development of responsible generative AI solutions across industries.
Since their initial partnership in 2021, Kyndryl and Google Cloud have been at the forefront of transforming global businesses…
The latest edition of hand-held equipment U.S. Army soldiers can use to navigate and sync maneuvers performed well in the presence of simulated enemy electronic warfare attack, according to the Pentagon’s independent weapons tester.
The second-generation Dismounted Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing System, or DAPS GEN II, is more effective than the legacy Defense Advanced GPS Receiver…
The Defense Innovation Unit is poised to take on more responsibility for coordinating technology efforts within the Pentagon and is working more closely with combatant commands to make sure those capabilities are meeting their needs, according to its new strategy.
The…
Quick Charge Podcast: February 6, 2024
February 8, 2024
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
Europe’s coal electricity generation tanked by 26% and gas by 15% in 2023, according to a new report from energy think tank Ember.
That collapse resulted in an impressive 19% reduction in the EU’s power sector emissions. What’s more, for the first time, wind power, which grew by 18%, surpassed gas, which only accounted for 17% of Europe’s electricity.
Wind and solar power are now taking…
