Month: June 2024
Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI, said this week that machine-learning companies can scrape most content published online and use it to train neural networks because it’s essentially “freeware.”
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Nearly 4,000 Arrested In Global Police Crackdown On Online Scam Networks
According to Interpol, nearly 4,000 people around the world have been arrested for a variety of online crimes, with $257 million in assets seized. The Record reports: The operation, dubbed First Light, was conducted by police officers from 61 countries and targeted phishing, investment fraud, fake online shopping sites, romance scams, and impersonation scams, according to a statement by Interpol. In addition to arresting thousands of potential cybercriminals, the police also identified over 14,600 other possible suspects across all continents.
During the searches, law enforcement seized suspects’ real estate, high-end vehicles, expensive jewelry, and many other high-value items and collections. They also froze 6,745 bank accounts used for transferring money obtained through illegal operations. In one case, the police intercepted $331,000 gleaned from a business email compromise fraud involving a Spanish victim who unknowingly transferred money to someone in Hong Kong. In another case, authorities in Australia successfully recovered $3.7 million on behalf of an impersonation scam victim after the funds were fraudulently transferred to bank accounts in Malaysia and Hong Kong.
The criminal networks identified during the operation were spread around the globe. In Namibia, for example, the police rescued 88 local youths who were forced into conducting scams as part of a sophisticated international crime network, according to Interpol. Law enforcement from Singapore, Hong Kong, and China prevented an attempted tech support scam, saving a 70-year-old victim from losing $281,200 worth of savings.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
According to Interpol, nearly 4,000 people around the world have been arrested for a variety of online crimes, with $257 million in assets seized. The Record reports: The operation, dubbed First Light, was conducted by police officers from 61 countries and targeted phishing, investment fraud, fake online shopping sites, romance scams, and impersonation scams, according to a statement by Interpol. In addition to arresting thousands of potential cybercriminals, the police also identified over 14,600 other possible suspects across all continents.
During the searches, law enforcement seized suspects’ real estate, high-end vehicles, expensive jewelry, and many other high-value items and collections. They also froze 6,745 bank accounts used for transferring money obtained through illegal operations. In one case, the police intercepted $331,000 gleaned from a business email compromise fraud involving a Spanish victim who unknowingly transferred money to someone in Hong Kong. In another case, authorities in Australia successfully recovered $3.7 million on behalf of an impersonation scam victim after the funds were fraudulently transferred to bank accounts in Malaysia and Hong Kong.
The criminal networks identified during the operation were spread around the globe. In Namibia, for example, the police rescued 88 local youths who were forced into conducting scams as part of a sophisticated international crime network, according to Interpol. Law enforcement from Singapore, Hong Kong, and China prevented an attempted tech support scam, saving a 70-year-old victim from losing $281,200 worth of savings.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Amazon hires founders away from AI startup Adept
Adept, a startup developing AI-powered “agents” to complete various software-based tasks, has agreed to license its tech to Amazon and the startup’s co-founders and portions of its team have joined the ecommerce giant. Geekwire’s Taylor Soper first reported the news. According to Soper, Adept co-founder and CEO David Luan will join Amazon, along with Adept
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Adept, a startup developing AI-powered “agents” to complete various software-based tasks, has agreed to license its tech to Amazon and the startup’s co-founders and portions of its team have joined the ecommerce giant. Geekwire’s Taylor Soper first reported the news. According to Soper, Adept co-founder and CEO David Luan will join Amazon, along with Adept […]
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Quordle today – hints and answers for Saturday, June 29 (game #887)
Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions.
Here’s yet another tricky Quordle puzzle to complete, but on the plus side it’s a Saturday, so you’ve got plenty of time to get it done.
Enjoy playing word games? You can also check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and NYT Strands today pages for hints and answers for those puzzles.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Quordle today (game #887) – hint #1 – Vowels
How many different vowels are in Quordle today?
• The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 3*.
* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).
Quordle today (game #887) – hint #2 – repeated letters
Do any of today’s Quordle answers contain repeated letters?
• The number of Quordle answers containing a repeated letter today is 0.
Quordle today (game #887) – hint #3 – uncommon letters
Do the letters Q, Z, X or J appear in Quordle today?
• No. None of Q, Z, X or J appear among today’s Quordle answers.
Quordle today (game #887) – hint #4 – starting letters (1)
Do any of today’s Quordle puzzles start with the same letter?
• The number of today’s Quordle answers starting with the same letter is 0.
If you just want to know the answers at this stage, simply scroll down. If you’re not ready yet then here’s one more clue to make things a lot easier:
Quordle today (game #887) – hint #5 – starting letters (2)
What letters do today’s Quordle answers start with?
• B
• P
• R
• S
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
Quordle today (game #887) – the answers
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The answers to today’s Quordle, game #887, are…
BASILPLAIDREMITSHEIK
Yet more difficult words in today’s Quordle, with SHEIK having an uncommon EI format (and a K), and both BASIL and PLAID being a little more obscure than some of the words that regularly crop up in the game. OK, so neither are strictly obscure – but they might not spring readily to mind in the way that some words do.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Daily Sequence today (game #887) – the answers
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The answers to today’s Quordle Daily Sequence, game #887, are…
UNIONGORGEFISHYDRIER
Quordle answers: The past 20
Quordle #886, Friday 28 June: SCENE, PRIMO, MOGUL, OPIUMQuordle #885, Thursday 27 June: MAXIM, DOWNY, ROUSE, ATOLLQuordle #884, Wednesday 26 June: NORTH, LEVER, SERUM, SLATEQuordle #883, Tuesday 25 June: APPLY, FUNKY, SWORE, TWEAK Quordle #882, Monday 24 June: ANGER, SILKY, HURRY, ANODEQuordle #881, Sunday 23 June: SPIED, DIZZY, ABUSE, POPPYQuordle #880, Saturday 22 June: GROIN, STOVE, SHRUB, HARSHQuordle #879, Friday 21 June: INDEX, CLUED, ORBIT, LOSERQuordle #878, Thursday 20 June: DELVE, BEZEL, MAMMA, AZUREQuordle #877, Wednesday 19 June: CELLO, PRIVY, HUMOR, PAPERQuordle #876, Tuesday 18 June: ABYSS, OCTET, BEEFY, PUPALQuordle #875, Monday 17 June: AWAIT, SHADY, SWEET, DRAPEQuordle #874, Sunday 16 June: URBAN, MOIST, SPOOL, BELIEQuordle #873, Saturday 15 June: LOGIC, SOOTY, WAGON, BRIDEQuordle #872, Friday 14 June: MERIT, RASPY, THOSE, WATERQuordle #871, Thursday 13 June: NORTH, MOUND, PEACE, RETRYQuordle #870, Wednesday 12 June: QUILT, PARTY, SPARK, SINCEQuordle #869, Tuesday 11 June: CLANK, GONER, LIEGE, TIARAQuordle #868, Monday 10 June: ANGST, SUAVE, MAYBE, PLUMPQuordle #867, Sunday 9 June: ABIDE, TERRA, THUMP, CLUNG
NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Saturday, June 29 (game #384)
Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here’s all you need to know to solve today’s game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.
It’s the weekend, which means you have more time in which to solve Connections! And you might need it – because this one is potentially tricky. There are hints below if you need them.
What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections today (game #384) – today’s words
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Today’s NYT Connections words are…
SATMAYSUNWALLWEDPUTCOUPLETWOTIETUELAIDTOOWILDPLACEDUNITE
NYT Connections today (game #384) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
Yellow: Follow them!Green: I youBlue: Sub-groupPurple: All that glittersYELLOW: HOMOPHONESGREEN: CONNECTBLUE: PLACED DOWNPURPLE: ___FLOWER
Need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections today (game #384) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
YELLOW: HOMOPHONESGREEN: CONNECTBLUE: PLACED DOWNPURPLE: ___FLOWER
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #384) – the answers
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The answers to today’s Connections, game #384, are…
BLUE: PLACED DOWN LAID, PLACED, PUT, SATGREEN: CONNECT COUPLE, TIE, UNITE, WEDYELLOW: HOMOPHONES TO, TOO, TUE, TWOPURPLE: ___FLOWER MAY, SUN, WALL, WILD
My rating: ModerateMy score: 1 hint
I always struggle when Connections uses lots of short words. I guess it makes sense – there tend to be more ways in which they could be used as prefixes etc. Anyway, that probably explains why I made a mistake early on here, guessing TUE, WED, SAT and SUN as days of the week, only to find out I was on the wrong track.
The breakthrough came when I looked at one of the longer words, PLACED, and formed the blue group. Like that one, green was simple synonyms, and with only eight words left the homophones of the yellow group became apparent.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Friday, 28 June, game #383)
PURPLE: UNDERWEAR IN THE SINGULAR BOXER, BRIEF, DRAWER, SHORTGREEN: WIGGLE ROOM FREEDOM, LATITUDE, LICENSE, SLACKBLUE: INDICATION TO PROCEED CUE, PROMPT, SIGNAL, WORDYELLOW: TYPES OF BAGS CLUTCH, MESSENGER, SATCHEL, TOTE
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don’t technically need to solve the final one, as you’ll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What’s more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It’s a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
It’s playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Saturday, June 29 (game #118)
Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here’s all you need to know to solve today’s game, including the spangram.
I really enjoyed today’s Strands puzzle and hope you will do too. Maybe that’s because I found it to be quite easy – but don’t worry if you struggle a little, because I’ve got some hints for you below.
Want more word-based fun? Then check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Strands today (game #118) – hint #1 – today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… It’s way over your head
NYT Strands today (game #118) – hint #2 – clue words
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
LETTERELITESPOONNOTEPLANPLAY
NYT Strands today (game #118) – hint #3 – spangram
What is a hint for today’s spangram?
• Heavens above
NYT Strands today (game #118) – hint #4 – spangram position
What are two sides of the board that today’s spangram touches?
• First: left, 4th row
• Last: right, 4th row
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands today (game #118) – the answers
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The answers to today’s Strands, game #118, are…
COMETASTEROIDPLANETGALAXYMOONSATELLITESPANGRAM: OUTERPSACE
My rating: EasyMy score: Perfect
I’m a proper space buff and spend much of my free time staring at the skies through a telescope, taking photos of distant galaxies and nebulae – or more often cursing the fact that it’s a cloudy night yet again.
Anyway, that helped me find all of the answers easily once again today – well, once I’d worked out what the theme was. I’d uncovered dozens of potential answers, all of which ended up merely being hints (none of which I used), before I finally got COMET, and realized what the connection was. After that it was plain sailing, other than the spangram, which took me a little while to identify.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Friday 28 June, game #117)
SALSASOULJAZZBLUESROCKDISCOFOLKCOUNTRYSPANGRAM: MUSICGENRE
What is NYT Strands?
Strands is the NYT’s new word game, following Wordle and Connections. It’s now out of beta so is a fully fledged member of the NYT’s games stable and can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
I’ve got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you’re struggling to beat it each day.
Last Chance To Buy – Kai Cat Coin Presale Price ($KAI) Ends Tomorrow!
Today is the last day altcoin gem hunters eager for another Web3 heist can purchase Kai Cat Coin (KAI) tokens… Continue reading Last Chance To Buy – Kai Cat Coin Presale Price ($KAI) Ends Tomorrow!
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Today is the last day altcoin gem hunters eager for another Web3 heist can purchase Kai Cat Coin (KAI) tokens in presale for a fixed, low, pre-market price with sound tokenomics.
Tomorrow the exciting new AI-enabled Ethereum cat meme coin will be listed on exchanges, starting with Web3’s biggest and best decentralized exchange Uniswap.
(Check out the presale website to enter the $10,000 airdrop contest for new Kai Cat buyers.)
After that anything can happen to KAI prices on the open market, and the project’s tokenomics and roadmap are designed to ensure Kai Cat is a long-term high flier in crypto.
Let’s Go Whale Fishing
Kai Cat is a crypto cat that loves to fish, but Kai heard that there’s a currency war on between dogs and cat meme coins in 2024, so he’s coming out of his early retirement after the last bull market and showing up to help the cause and go fishing for orcas, whales, and kraken.
Kai Cat has already made an appearance on CoinPedia, The Washington City Paper, and Blockchain Today. Meanwhile, crypto influencers have had some great things to say about it.
Michael Wrubel, speaking to over 315K subs on his crypto YouTube channel said:
“Recently I’ve been trying to find some other meme coins that are in the presale that are set to launch during this stage of the bull market. We’re finally starting to see a lot more attention coming back into altcoins. Recently, I did invest in a project called Kai Cat.”
Meanwhile, ClayBro told his crypto YouTube channel’s 130K subs what will happen to early cats if the meme gods favor Kai Cat Coin and markets pick KAI to rally after going to exchange:
“I like bringing you these coins early on because the staking is crazy… Because you guys are getting in the earliest, you’re going to have the most price increases along the way.”
The KAI economy’s token roadmap is designed from the outset by a team that knows what they’re doing to optimize for that result and build a massive, lasting token economy that lives on the Ethereum blockchain, powered by the ETH peer-to-peer network.
Generous, Long-Range Tokenomics
The tokenomics for Kai Cat allocate 15% of the Kai economy to liquidity for smooth transactions and stable market conditions.
Another 15% of KAI tokens are allocated to staking so that KAI will hold its weight in the crypto market and continue attracting more inflows to grow investors’ capital.
Meanwhile, 25% of the coin’s economy will go toward the “Feline Flux” marketing initiative for Kai Cat. Then another 25% is dedicated to a very generous community engagement pot to drive social clout and spread the word about Kai Cat Coin. That leaves 20% for buyers to purchase in presale at a price fixed low so that KAI has room to run once it’s listed on exchange.
Kai Cat Coin Presale Ends In 24 Hours!
Once the presale ends, Phase 1 of the KAI token roadmap is staking to hold weight and get an insta-launch or at least avoid an insta-selloff when going to exchange.
Phase 2 will feature Kai’s “Purr Points” to reward community engagement and clawback ROI from the doge memes to put in the cat column.
Phase 3 is Kai Cat’s ultimate vision: total domination of the doges in Web3 meme currency as meme coin whales adopt and big name celebrity shills tell X what they’ve got in their bag.
Kai Cat Presale Is Almost Over! Hurry, don’t wait to get your presale price.
Don’t Let This Cat Out Of The Bag
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