Man in his 60s runs massive Ponzi scam while on probation for past fraud

Key Takeaways A South Korean man ran a $60 million Ponzi scheme targeting over 2,200 investors under the guise of AI and crypto businesses. The scam promised 300% returns and mainly affected victims aged 50-70, many of whom were unfamiliar with crypto technologies. Share this article South Korean police arrested a man in his 60s […]

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Brunswick (BC) Q2 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

Image source: The Motley Fool. DATE Thursday, July 24, 2025, at 11 a.m. ET CALL PARTICIPANTS Chief Executive Officer — David Foulkes Chief Financial Officer — Ryan M. Gwillim Need a quote from one of our analysts? Email [email protected] RISKS Management stated that tariffs continue to directly impact earnings, with total tariff costs for Chinese […]

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Morgan Stanley Profit Jumps 17% in Q2

Morgan Stanley (MS 0.36%), a global financial services provider known for its investment banking, wealth management, and trading operations, posted second quarter results on July 16, 2025. The company reported earnings per share of $2.13, outpacing analyst expectations of $1.98, and revenue of $16.8 billion versus an anticipated $16.07 billion. Profitability and revenue climbed 17 […]

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A Discussion of ‘Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features’: Discussion and Author Responses

We want to thank all the commenters for the discussion and for spending time designing experiments analyzing, replicating, and expanding upon our results. These comments helped us further refine our understanding of adversarial examples (e.g., by visualizing useful non-robust features or illustrating how robust models are successful at downstream tasks), but also highlighted aspects of […]

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AI and Workers’ Wellbeing: Lessons from Germany’s Early Experience

Yves here. This post gives a cautiously negative finding on AI implementation in Germany. If one reads carefully, one can infer that a significant part of the survey population is in factory or related settings, such as logistics management, particularly given the comment on lower physical effort and reduction in time spent. We have pointed […]

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SharePoint 0-Day, Chrome Exploit, macOS Spyware, NVIDIA Toolkit RCE and More

Even in well-secured environments, attackers are getting in—not with flashy exploits, but by quietly taking advantage of weak settings, outdated encryption, and trusted tools left unprotected. These attacks don’t depend on zero-days. They work by staying unnoticed—slipping through the cracks in what we monitor and what we assume is safe. What once looked suspicious now […]

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Ethereum Just Approached $3,500. 3 Reasons This Leading Cryptocurrency Is Still a Buy

Cryptocurrencies are rounding into form. Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap, hit fresh all-time highs of more than $123,000 on July 14. The asset’s run has also sent a jolt into Ethereum (ETH 4.66%), which shot up to almost $3,500 per token on July 17 after having a difficult year so far. Ethereum […]

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Rust Async Web Framework Performance Breakthrough(4081)

GitHub Homepage As a junior computer science student, I have encountered various frameworks during my web development learning journey. From traditional Apache to modern Node.js, each framework has its unique advantages and limitations. Recently, I discovered an impressive Rust web framework whose performance made me reconsider the design philosophy of web servers. Performance Bottlenecks in […]

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South Plains (SPFI) Q2 2025 Earnings Transcript

Image source: The Motley Fool. DATE Wednesday, July 16, 2025, at 5 p.m. EDT CALL PARTICIPANTS Chairman & CEO — Curtis Griffith President & CEO — Cory T. Newsom Chief Financial Officer — Steven Crockett Chief Banking Officer — Brent Bates Need a quote from one of our analysts? Email [email protected] TAKEAWAYS Loan Portfolio: Loans […]

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A Discussion of ‘Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features’: Robust Feature Leakage

Ilyas et al. report a surprising result: a model trained on adversarial examples is effective on clean data. They suggest this transfer is driven by adverserial examples containing geuinely useful non-robust cues. But an alternate mechanism for the transfer could be a kind of “robust feature leakage” where the model picks up on faint robust […]

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