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MARA Holdings Sets Date for Q4 and Fiscal Year 2024 Earnings Call
MARA Holdings will host a conference call on February 26, 2025, to discuss its Q4 and fiscal year 2024 financial results. Shareholders can register to participate and submit questions ahead of the call. (Read More)Source link
Sam Altman’s World Halts Operations in Brazil: What’s Happening
World is pausing its operations in Brazil after an appeal to continue collecting citizens’ biometric data failed. The national watchdog ordered the project to cease exchanging crypto for this data, and World will need to pause its operations in order to adapt to this decision. World Pauses Operations in Brazil to Adapt to National DataSource link
Elon Musk Says His New AI Chatbot Is ‘Scary Smart’—And Arriving in Weeks
Elon Musk claims Grok-3 has found solutions "you wouldn't even anticipate," and that the AI chatbot features an uncensored “unhinged mode.”Source link
GitHub Reports Service Disruptions in January 2025
GitHub experienced three incidents in January 2025, causing service disruptions due to deployment, configuration changes, and hardware failures, according to GitHub's availability report. (Read More)Source link
HashFlare Co-Founders Plead Guilty in $577M Crypto Mining Ponzi Scheme
The co-founders of Hashflare, a crypto mining ponzi scheme that stole $577 million from hundreds of thousands of investors around the world, both pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin, both 40, were arrested in their native Estonia in November 2022 and extradited to the U.S. on an 18-count indictment. Yesterday, both men pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.Between 2015 and 2019, Potapenko and Turõgin convinced Hashflare’s investors to rent a percentage of the scheme’s crypto mining operations in exchange for a percentage of the cryptocurrency Hashflare produced. But, according to court documents, Hashflare had only a...