North Korea’s sprawling crypto laundering network has been hammered as U.S. authorities seized $7.74 million tied to fake IT jobs, blockchain trickery, and weapons funding.
DOJ Targets North Korea’s Crypto Laundering Network With Asset Seizure
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on June 5 that it has filed a civil forfeiture complaint seeking to recover over $7.74 million in…
Ukrainian law enforcement recently arrested a 35-year-old man accused of hacking over 5,000 customer accounts of a hosting company to mine cryptocurrency, resulting in a loss of $4.5 million.
Hacker Deploys Software to Remotely Manipulate Servers
Ukrainian cyber police…
Electric truck startup Bollinger Motors seemed to be circling the drain last week, but a fresh investment from Mullen Automotive and a new/old face at the helm means there might be life in the medium-duty EV brand, yet. Here’s what we know, so far.
Last week, we wrote…
The SONDORS electric bicycle company infamously went bankrupt in 2023, yet it now appears to be attempting a rise from the ashes. The company’s founder and former CEO Storm SONDORS is back at the helm and pre-selling a new electric motorbike with a somewhat familiar name – the Meta AT.
But will riders be once bitten, twice shy?
SONDORS originally burst onto the scene way back in 2015 – the…
A leaked recording of a new Tesla training program reveals that the company is concerned about a growing employee morale issue. The instructor asked Tesla employees attending the training if they’d ever felt “I can’t work under these conditions “or had felt set…
Snowflake’s Openflow tackles AI’s toughest engineering challenge: Data ingestion at scale
June 4, 2025
For anyone in AI, it’s no big news that “data is the real prize.” If you have strong data foundations, your models and the applications powered by them will be right on the money.
But that’s where it gets messy. Building that foundation is no piece of cake…
A three-way partnership between AI phone support company Phonely, inference optimization platform Maitai, and chip maker Groq has achieved a breakthrough that addresses one of conversational artificial intelligence’s most persistent problems: the awkward delays that immediately signal to callers they’re talking to a machine.
The collaboration has enabled Phonely to reduce response times by…
Enterprises need to know if the models that power their applications and agents work in real-life scenarios. This type of evaluation can sometimes be complex because it is hard to predict specific scenarios. A revamped version of the RewardBench benchmark looks to give…
Binance is skyrocketing past 275 million users, fueling a global crypto revolution with blistering adoption rates, real-world utility, and dominance in digital financial infrastructure.
275 Million and Rising—Binance Solidifies Dominance in Explosive Digital Finance…
Stablecoins have quietly exploded into a multi-billion-dollar payments juggernaut, with several businesses leading the charge – and Tether dominating the field.
Artemis, Castle Island, Dragonfly Study: Stablecoin Monitoring Shows Several Unique Trends
Stablecoin payments totaled $94.2 billion from January 2023 through February 2025, according to a new industry study. The research, conducted by…
