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Crypto Trader Eisenberg Convicted of Fraud in $110 Million Mango Markets Scheme

Today at 22:01 PM, via Slashdot

A jury found Avraham “Avi” Eisenberg guilty on all three counts of fraud and manipulation in a $110 million crypto trade scheme using the Mango Markets platform. Axios: The case was the first known test for a jury to decide whether existing U.S. laws governing fraud and market manipulation apply to the world of decentralized finance (DeFi). The 28-year-old Eisenberg will be held to account for...

The Trump Jury Has a Doxing Problem

Today at 21:25 PM, via Wired

One juror in former US president Donald Trump’s criminal case in New York has been excused over fears she could be identified. It could get even messier.

Boeing Aims To Bring Flying Cars To Asia By 2030

Today at 21:22 PM, via Slashdot

U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing plans to enter the flying car business in Asia by 2030, looking to tap demand for the fast travel the vehicles could provide in the region’s traffic-choked cities. Nikkei: Boeing Chief Technology Officer Todd Citron revealed the plans in an interview with Nikkei. The company is developing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) craft at subsidiary Wisk...

Nigeria To Criminalise Fiber Cable Damage Costing Telecoms Billions

Today at 20:41 PM, via Slashdot

Nigeria will criminalize the destruction of broadband fiber cables following repeated complaints by MTN Nigeria and other telecommunications companies that they are losing billions of naira, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter. From the report: Nigeria’s works ministry, which supervises federal road constructors, is finalizing the regulation that will be signed as an...

Author Granted Copyright Over Book With AI-Generated Text – With a Twist

Today at 20:00 PM, via Slashdot

The U.S. Copyright Office has granted a copyright registration to Elisa Shupe, a retired U.S. Army veteran, for her novel “AI Machinations: Tangled Webs and Typed Words,” which extensively used OpenAI’s ChatGPT in its creation. The registration is among the first for creative works incorporating AI-generated text, but with a significant caveat – Shupe is considered the author of the “selection,...

Big Sixty60 app revamp coming

Today at 19:32 PM, via MyBroadband

Shoprite CEO Pieter Engelbrecht recently revealed that the Sixty60 app was being rewritten.

Hackers Are Threatening To Publish a Huge Stolen Sanctions and Financial Crimes Watchlist

Today at 19:22 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: A financially motivated criminal hacking group says it has stolen a confidential database containing millions of records that companies use for screening potential customers for links to sanctions and financial crime. The hackers, which call themselves GhostR, said they stole 5.3 million records from the World-Check screening database in March and are...

Fossil of ‘largest snake to have ever existed’ found in western India

Today at 18:46 PM, via The Guardian

Scientists estimate Vasuki indicus was up to 15m long, weighed a tonne and would have constricted its prey

Fossil vertebrae unearthed in a mine in western India are the remains of one of the largest snakes that ever lived, a monster estimated at up to 15 metres in length – longer than a T rex.

Scientists have recovered 27 vertebrae from the snake, including a few still in the same position as...

Meta Releases Llama 3 AI Models, Claiming Top Performance

Today at 18:40 PM, via Slashdot

Meta debuted a new version of its powerful Llama AI model, its latest effort to keep pace with similar technology from companies like OpenAI, X and Google. The company describes Llama 3 8B and Llama 3 70B, containing 8 billion and 70 billion parameters respectively, as a “major leap” in performance compared to their predecessors. Meta claims that the Llama 3 models, trained on custom-built...

Countdown Is On for the Bitcoin ‘Halving’

Today at 18:11 PM, via New York Times

Bitcoin aficionados are hoping that a scheduled reduction in the number of new coins going into circulation will cause the price of the cryptocurrency to skyrocket.

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