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Filings and DOJ officials describe how a gang threatened, assaulted, and tortured 11 victims in likely the worst crypto-focused serial extortion case in the US — More than a dozen men threatened, assaulted, tortured, or kidnapped 11 victims in likely the worst-ever crypto-focused serial extortion case of its kind in the US.
More: US Department of Justice, Metacurity, and The Daily Hodl
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| Paul Kiernan / Wall Street Journal: |
The US finalizes rules requiring custodial crypto platforms to report user transaction info to the IRS; DeFi platforms are exempt amid fierce crypto lobbying — Treasury finalizes rules to deter crypto tax evasion—but softens them after industry lobbying push| Janko Roettgers / The Verge: |
Redbox's owner, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, files for bankruptcy protection; Chicken Soup took on $325M in debt when it acquired Redbox in 2022 — Redbox's owner, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, filed for bankruptcy protection overnight.
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| Dallin Grimm / Tom's Hardware: |
Hugging Face unveils Open LLM Leaderboard v2 that tests models across six benchmarks; Chinese models dominate the top 10 with Alibaba's Qwen taking the top spot — Optimizing LLMs to be good at specific tests backfires on Meta, Stability. — Hugging Face has released its second LLM leaderboard …
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| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
A look at the disastrous launch of Stable Diffusion 3, which struggles to generate correct human anatomy, and concerns over the tool's new and different license — Stability AI botched the launch of its latest model, proving the Stable Diffusion community doesn't need the company that brought it to the world.| Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg: |
Source: Microsoft told over a dozen Texas agencies and public universities that their emails were exposed in the Russian hack of Microsoft, disclosed in January — - Company initially disclosed the cyberattack in January — Some agencies say exposed emails related to routine matters
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How some doctors are using the Apple Watch to diagnose and help their patients manage medical conditions, despite the availability of FDA-approved devices — Some doctors are telling patients to get the watch to manage their conditions. Researchers study how it could be used for heart disease … | The Verge: |
A look at the possible impact of SCOTUS overturning Chevron deference and curbing federal agencies' power on net neutrality, Big Tech regulation, and more — Since the New Deal era, the bulk of the functioning US government is the administrative state — think the acronym soup of agencies like the EPA, FCC, FTC, FDA, and so on.
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Source: Amazon plans to use a controversial trade rule used by Temu and Shein, which exempts packages worth $800 or less from tariffs, for its discount section — Amazon is planning to use the same controversial trade rule as Temu and Shein to import items sold on its upcoming discount … | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
A US judge rules that SEC charges against Binance, Binance.US, and CZ for violating federal securities laws can proceed, but dismisses secondary sales charges — A federal judge ruled the SEC had plausibly alleged Binance, Binance.US and Changpeng Zhao violated federal securities laws.| Steven Levy / Wired: |
An interview with Illia Polosukhin, a co-author of Google's Attention Is All You Need paper, on open-source AI, his Web3 company Near, “user-owned AI”, and more — Illia Polosukhin doesn't want big companies to determine the future of artificial intelligence.| Chandra Asmara / Bloomberg: |
Indonesia's government declines to pay the $8M demanded by LockBit 3.0 for the ransomware attack that affected hundreds of ministries and public institutions — - The recovery will only be completed in mid-August: minister — Indonesia's parliament called the government to task … Sponsor Posts
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