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SEC Makes 'Materially False and Misleading' Representations Against Crypto Firm — Judge Threatens Sanctions

December 6, 2023
The United States District Court for the District of Utah has expressed concerns that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is making “materially false and misleading representations” in its lawsuit against a crypto firm. The court has ordered the securities regulator to show cause why it should not be subject to sanctions. Court Threatens to Sanction SEC The U.S. Securities and…
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CryptoNews

Brazil's Banking Behemoth Itau Unibanco Debuts Cryptocurrency Trading Services – Bitcoin News

December 6, 2023
Itau Unibanco, the largest private bank in Brazil, has launched cryptocurrency trading services for its customers. Through Ion, its financial services platform, Itau will first offer access to two cryptocurrencies, ether and bitcoin, opening this feature gradually to all users. Itau Unibanco Opens Crypto Trading Services in Brazil Itau Unibanco, one of the largest banking institutions in Brazil…
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AI & RoboticsNews

New, open-source AI vision model emerges to take on ChatGPT — but it has issues

December 6, 2023
Nous Research, a private applied research group known for publishing open-source work in the large language model (LLM) domain, has dropped a lightweight vision-language model called Nous Hermes 2 Vision. Available via Hugging Face, the open-source model builds on the company’s previous OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B model. It brings vision capabilities, including the ability to prompt with images…
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NewsSpace

NASA’s Psyche Delivers First Images and Other Data

December 6, 2023
Loading Image Comparison… This mosaic of a star field in the constellation Pisces was made from “first light” images acquired Dec. 4 by both of the cameras on NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. Use the slider to view the star field with and without star names labeled.
GamingNews

Twitch plans to shut down in South Korea on February 27, 2024

December 6, 2023
Games livestreaming platform Twitch is shutting down its business operations in South Korea February 27, 2024. According to a blog post from CEO Dan Clancy, South Korea was “prohibitively expensive” to operate despite working to reduce costs. Twitch experimented with a…
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Grand Theft Auto VI trailer — The big cultural moment is here for games, a day early

December 6, 2023
Video games have been on a trek from subculture to mainstream culture for decades. And today we were treated to one of the biggest moments in the industry as Rockstar Games — its hand forced a day early by a leaker — released the trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI. If you’re a young gamer and are new to Grand Theft Auto as a series, then savor the moment. It might be another generation before…
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