Month: January 2025

Blockchain payment company Ripple has announced the acquisition of two additional Money Transmitter Licenses (MTLs) in the United States, one from New York and another from Texas on Monday.  This brings Ripple’s total to over 55 Money Transmitter Licenses across its payments, custody, and stablecoin operations, underscoring the company’s robust growth in the regulatory landscape.
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Jan 28, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Technology DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that has captured much of the artificial intelligence (AI) buzz in recent days, said it’s restricting registrations on the service, citing malicious attacks. “Due to large-scale malicious attacks on DeepSeek’s services, we are temporarily limiting registrations to ensure continued service,” the company said
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Hugging Face introduced two new variants to its SmolVLM vision language models last week. The new artificial intelligence (AI) models are available in 256 million and 500 million parameter sizes, with the former being claimed as the world’s smallest vision model by the company. The new variants focus on retaining the efficiency of the older
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DeepSeek for iOS has overtaken OpenAI’s ChatGPT to top the App Store’s “Top free apps” chart in the US. The eponymous Chinese company released the open-source DeepSeek-R1 artificial intelligence (AI) model last week, which outperforms OpenAI’s o1 AI model in several benchmarks. This release has made the company and its AI chatbot the talk of
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Jan 27, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Software Security Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in GitHub Desktop as well as other Git-related projects that, if successfully exploited, could permit an attacker to gain unauthorized access to a user’s Git credentials. “Git implements a protocol called Git Credential Protocol to retrieve credentials from the credential helper,” GMO
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Dado Ruvic | Reuters On Monday, Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek took over rival OpenAI’s coveted spot as the most-downloaded free app in the U.S. on Apple‘s App Store, dethroning ChatGPT for DeepSeek’s AI Assistant. Global tech stocks sold-off and were on pace to wipe out billions in market cap. Tech leaders, analysts, investors and
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