CryptoNews

Convicted UK Woman Found With $4B in BTC, the SEC Seeks $2B Fine From Ripple, and More

A London woman has been convicted for money laundering, having been found with over $4.3 billion in bitcoin, which she converted into physical assets. The SEC is seeking a nearly $2 billion fine from Ripple Labs in a landmark XRP lawsuit, a move Ripple’s CEO deems unprecedented. The activation of a dormant bitcoin wallet, known as “37X,” which transferred 94,504.03 bitcoin, has reshuffled…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Hacking internal AI chatbots with ASCII art is a security team’s worst nightmare

Insider threats are among the most devastating types of cyberattacks, targeting a company’s most strategically important systems and assets. As enterprises rush out new internal and customer-facing AI chatbots, they’re also creating new attack vectors and risks. How porous AI chatbots are is reflected in the recently published research, ArtPrompt: ASCII Art-based Jailbreak Attacks against…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI21 Labs juices up gen AI transformers with Jamba

Ever since the groundbreaking research paper “Attention is All You Need” debuted in 2017, the concept of transformers has dominated the generative AI landscape. Transformers however are not the only path forward with generative AI. A new approach from AI21 Labs dubbed…
DefenseNews

Northrop says Air Force design changes drove higher Sentinel ICBM cost

A Northrop Grumman official on Monday attributed the explosive projected cost growth of the U.S. Air Force’s next intercontinental ballistic missile to the service’s design changes, including to the nuclear missile’s silo and connecting cables. The Air Force’s original plan for modernizing its ICBM enterprise included keeping nearly all its existing copper cabling in place to be reused for…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

HD Hyundai announces lithium phosphate battery pack for commercial trucks

HD Hyundai Infracore (HDI) is set to debut a new, 35 kWh lithium phosphate battery pack to power the next generation of electrified commercial equipment. While the new HD Hyundai lithium phosphate battery isn’t technically out yet (it will officially bow at Intermat 2024 at Paris-Nord Villepinte next month), the battery pack has been in development since back when Infracore was still a Doosan…
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