The U.S. Justice Department has announced the seizure of Popeyetools, a cybercrime marketplace, and unmasked its role in illicit cryptocurrency transactions. Administrators Abdul Ghaffar, Abdul Sami, and Javed Mirza were charged with selling stolen financial data and facilitating crimes involving ransomware and fraud. Since 2016, Popeyetools generated $1.7 million in revenue, partly from…
A federal grand jury in Miami has charged nine individuals with laundering U.S. drug proceeds into cryptocurrency for Mexican and Colombian cartels, utilizing “a network of black market cryptocurrency launderers and unlicensed money transmitters,” according to the U.S.
DeepSeek’s first reasoning model R1-Lite-Preview turns heads, beating OpenAI o1 performance
November 21, 2024
DeepSeek, an AI offshoot of Chinese quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer Capital Management focused on releasing high-performance open-source tech, has unveiled the R1-Lite-Preview, its latest reasoning-focused large language model (LLM), available for now exclusively through…
Snowflake beats Databricks to integrating Claude 3.5 directly
November 21, 2024
Soon after announcing its earnings for the third quarter of FY25, Snowflake dropped a bombshell: It is teaming up with leading AI vendor Anthropic to further advance AI projects for its customers.
The data ecosystem giant has signed a multi-year strategic agreement, bringing Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 family of models to its core platform on AWS. The move will allow enterprises using Snowflake to…
OpenScholar: The open-source A.I. that’s outperforming GPT-4o in scientific research
November 21, 2024
Scientists are drowning in data. With millions of research papers published every year, even the most dedicated experts struggle to stay updated on the latest findings in their fields.A new artificial intelligence system, called OpenScholar, is promising to rewrite the rules…
US Army fires Precision Strike Missile in salvo shot for first time
November 21, 2024
In a first, the U.S. Army and Lockheed Martin fired two new Precision Strike Missiles, or PrSMs, in a salvo test shot as part of production qualification flight testing at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, Lockheed announced.
The testing proved PrSM’s capability to be…
EcoFlow DELTA Pro Ultra: The Ultimate Home-Backup Station
November 21, 2024
It should be no surprise that we’re closing out the week with another great lineup of Black Friday Green Deals. Leading the official sales is the exclusive discount our readers are getting on the EcoFlow DELTA Pro Ultra Home-Backup Station at a new $4,230 low. Coming up right behind it we have Velotric’s early Black Friday changeup that is adding two more e-bikes to the savings event while…
If you ask Lucid (Lucid) CEO Peter Rawlinson, the company is the “most immune” EV maker if President-elect Donald Trump cuts the federal tax credit for electric cars. Despite the claim, Lucid’s stock is hitting a new all-time low at under $2 a share.
Is Lucid immune to…
Lexus cuts RZ electric SUV prices by over $10,000 with its new entry-level 2025 model
November 21, 2024
The all-electric luxury electric SUV is getting significantly cheaper. Lexus launched a new entry-level 2025 RZ trim with starting prices over $10,000 less than last year’s model. And you get just as much driving range.
2025 Lexus RZ electric SUV prices and driving…
Bitcoin Surpasses $95,000: A Milestone in Cryptocurrency Markets
November 21, 2024
Bitcoin (BTC) reached an all-time high of $95,023 on Bitstamp today, gaining 4% against the U.S. dollar in the past 24 hours and 5.2% over the past week. With a market capitalization of $1.87 trillion, bitcoin now ranks as the seventh most valuable global asset, trailing Amazon.
Bitcoin Hits $95,000, Bolstering $1.87 Trillion Market Cap
Daily trading volume for BTC) surged to $76.65 billion…
