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What's in the US Government's New Strategic Reserve of Seized Crytocurrencies?(2025-05-31 15:00:04)

In March an executive order directed America's treasury secretary to create two stockpiles of crypto assets (to accompany already-existing "strategic reserves"of gold and foreign currencies). And the Washington Post notes these new stockpiles would include "cryptocurrency seized by federal agencies ...
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Hugging Face Introduces Two Open-Source Robot Designs(2025-05-31 10:00:12)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from SiliconANGLE: Hugging Face has open-sourced the blueprints of two internally developed robots called HopeJR and Reachy Mini. The company debuted the machines on Thursday. Hugging Face is backed by more than $390 million in funding from Nvidia Corp., IBM Corp....
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AI Could Consume More Power Than Bitcoin By the End of 2025(2025-05-31 05:00:04)

Artificial intelligence could soon outpace Bitcoin mining in energy consumption, according to Alex de Vries-Gao, a PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam's Institute for Environmental Studies. His research estimates that by the end of 2025, AI could account for nearly half of all electricity ...
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Football and Other Premium TV Being Pirated At 'Industrial Scale'(2025-05-31 00:00:10)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: A lack of action by big tech firms is enabling the "industrial scale theft" of premium video services, especially live sport, a new report says. The research by Enders Analysis accuses Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft of "ambivalence and inertia" o...
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US Sanctions Cloud Provider 'Funnull' As Top Source of 'Pig Butchering' Scams(2025-05-30 20:00:08)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: The U.S. government today imposed economic sanctions on Funnull Technology Inc., a Philippines-based company that provides computer infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of websites involved in virtual currency investment scams known as "p...
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