Owe Martin Andresen, a German national, faces money laundering charges after using a cryptocurrency-based payment processor to purchase gold bars and sending them to his home address. Adresen was the alleged admin of “Dream Market,” a darknet market that shut down in 2019.
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Authorities charged Dream Market’s Owe Martin Andresen with 12 money laundering counts for buying gold…
With the evening moon appearing as a crescent phase for much of this upcoming week, we now have an opportunity to view some of the fainter sky objects that now occupy our spring evening sky. Looking high overhead and toward the south just after nightfall, there is a broad…
The most mysterious and yet ubiquitous stuff in the cosmos, dark matter is effectively invisible. This is simply because it doesn’t interact with light. But what if instead of trying to see dark matter, scientists attempted to hear it instead?
New research suggests dark…
“What’s that bright light in the sky?” a friend messaged me the other evening. “Venus,” I replied, without thinking about it. There was a pause, then: “How can you tell? And why is it suddenly so bright?”
People always notice Venus by accident. When it’s low on the horizon after dark, but just high enough and bright enough, it suddenly becomes obvious. It’s why Venus has a…
On Friday, OpenAI launched a new set of personal finance tools in preview for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the U.S., letting them connect their accounts and ask questions ranging from spending analysis to future financial planning.
OpenAI has partnered with the financial…
AI video-generation startup Runway doesn’t have the typical Silicon Valley pedigree. No Stanford founders, no ex-Google founders, no nine-figure seed round that bought them time to ignore revenue. Its three founders – two from Chile, one from Greece – met at NYU’s…
As AI models increasingly become commoditized, startups are racing to build the software layer that sits on top of them. One interesting entrant into this space is Osaurus, an open source, Apple-only LLM server that lets users move between different local AI models, either locally or in the cloud, while keeping their files and tools all on their own hardware.
Osaurus evolved out of the idea for a…
Steven Meisel is, without question, one of the most influential fashion photographers walking this Earth today. He once shot 28 Vogue covers in a single year. He discovered Stella Tennant. He shaped the visual language of Italian Vogue for decades.
And yet, the American…
Dua Lipa has made headlines this week for filing suit against Samsung for allegedly using her copyrighted image for commercial purposes without permission. And this isn’t just a small claim, either.
The Albanian-born British singer is seeking an eye-watering $15 million…
Canon has announced the rollout of its new Authenticity Imaging System, a C2PA-compliant solution designed to help news organizations verify the provenance and history of images from the moment they are captured.
Launching in May 2026 across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the system has been developed for use with supported Canon cameras, initially the EOS R1 and EOS R5 Mark II.
With the…
