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Spartans Casino’s $7M Leaderboard is Wiping Out Draftkings and BetMGM: The Ultimate Platform for Real Winners

Today at 23:00 PM, via Tech Financials

Why settle for a platform designed to slowly drain your bankroll? While traditional operators like Draftkings and BetMGM distract players with temporary baseball promos and separate prediction markets, the standard for digital betting has completely shifted. Serious bettors are walking away from these outdated models. Spartans flips the mathematical script, operating as a platform built […]

Amazon May Sell Trainium AI Chips To Third Parties In Shot At Nvidia

Today at 23:00 PM, via Slashdot

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company may eventually sell its Trainium AI chips directly to outside customers, not just through AWS, which would put Amazon in more direct competition with Nvidia. “There’s so much demand for our chips that it’s quite possible we’ll sell racks of them to third parties in the future,” Jassy wrote in his annual shareholder letter Thursday. He also revealed the...

OpenAI To Limit New Model Release On Cybersecurity Fears

Today at 22:00 PM, via Slashdot

OpenAI is reportedly preparing a new cybersecurity product for a small group of partners, out of concern that a broader rollout could wreak havoc if it were released more widely. If that move sounds familiar, it’s because Anthropic took a similar limited-release approach with its Mythos model and Project Glasswing initiative. Axios reports: OpenAI introduced its “Trusted Access for Cyber” pilot...

Hacker Steals 10 Petabytes of Data From China’s Tianjin Supercomputer Center

Today at 21:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: A hacker has allegedly stolen a massive trove of sensitive data — including highly classified defense documents and missile schematics — from a state-run Chinese supercomputer in what could potentially constitute the largest known heist of data from China. The dataset, which allegedly contains more than 10 petabytes of sensitive information, is...

Wild chimpanzees recorded waging ‘civil war’ with coordinated attacks between two groups

Today at 20:00 PM, via The Guardian

New study describes what may be the first case of a unified community of chimps, in Uganda, turning on itself

On a June day in 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was quietly observing a small cluster of the Ngogo chimpanzee group in Uganda’s Kibale national park when he noticed something strange. As other members of the chimpanzees’ wider group moved closer through the forest, the chimpanzees...

EFF Is Leaving X

Today at 20:00 PM, via Slashdot

After nearly 20 years on the platform, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says it is leaving X. “This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue,” the digital rights group said. “The math hasn’t worked out for a while now.” From the report: We posted to Twitter (now known as X) five to ten times a day in 2018. Those tweets garnered somewhere between 50 and 100 million...

Rise Expands Employer of Record Coverage for Global Fintech Startups

Today at 19:44 PM, via Tech Financials

New York, NY (PinionNewswire) — Rise, the global payroll, compliance, and workforce platform for modern teams, today announced expanded Employer of Record coverage to help fintech startups hire full-time employees internationally without setting up local legal entities. The expansion gives fintech companies a faster way to access top global talent across key hiring markets, including […]

The Tech Behind the $7M Record: Spartans Betting Platform Built the World’s Most Aggressive Reward Engine

Today at 19:25 PM, via Tech Financials

Managing a world record amount of $7,000,000 in monthly payouts requires more than just capital; it requires a robust, high-speed technological infrastructure. Spartans.com has engineered a crypto casino platform capable of processing millions of transactions with near-zero latency, ensuring that leaderboard rankings are updated in real-time and prizes are distributed instantly via the...

Waymo Is Offering To Help Cities Fix Their Potholes

Today at 19:00 PM, via Slashdot

Waymo is launching a pilot with cities and Google’s Waze to share pothole data collected by its robotaxis, giving local transportation departments a new way to find and fix road damage more quickly. “We realized, hey, once we’re at scale, we can actually share this data with cities, which is something that they’ve asked for and something that we collect at scale,” said Arielle Fleisher, Waymo’s...

Is space exploration worth the money and effort? | Letters

Today at 18:11 PM, via The Guardian

Readers respond to an article by Zoe Williams in which she argued the space race was pointless

Zoe Williams speaks for many of us when she notes that the US space mission is pointless (Let’s stop going into space. There’s nothing to see and no one to talk to, 7 April). Unfortunately, it is worse than that. With a $100bn budget, the Artemis programme represents a truly spectacular...

Skilled Older Workers Turn To AI Training To Stay Afloat

Today at 18:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: [Five skilled workers aged 50 and older spoke] to the Guardian about how, after struggling to find work in their fields, they have turned to an emerging and growing category of work: using their expertise to train artificial intelligence models. Known as data annotation, the work involves labeling and evaluating the information used to...

Little Snitch Comes To Linux To Expose What Your Software Is Really Doing

Today at 17:00 PM, via Slashdot

BrianFagioli writes: Little Snitch, the well known macOS tool that shows which applications are connecting to the internet, is now being developed for Linux. The developer says the project started after experimenting with Linux and realizing how strange it felt not knowing what connections the system was making. Existing tools like OpenSnitch and various command line utilities exist, but none...

Woman with three deadly diseases has ‘remarkable’ recovery after cell therapy

Today at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

Treatment reset wayward immune system of patient with life-threatening conditions, say scientists, in a world first

A woman who lived with three life-threatening autoimmune diseases for more than a decade has returned to a near-normal life after a cell therapy reset her wayward immune system.

The 47-year-old had had nine different treatments, none of which had a lasting impact, before receiving...

FSCA Fines Ian Roscoe R1.5m, Debars Him 20 Years

Today at 16:50 PM, via Tech Financials

The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) has imposed an administrative penalty of R1 500 000 on Mr Ian Roscoe (Mr Roscoe) and debarred him for a period of 20 years. The FSCA stated that the regulatory action follows an investigation by the Authority in respect of Mr Roscoe. The FSCA confirmed that the investigation found […]

High Court Interdicts Fusion Over Unregistered Insurance

Today at 16:45 PM, via Tech Financials

The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) announced today that it welcome the judgment delivered by the Gauteng Division of the High Court on 23 March 2026, which interdicted Fusion from issuing its construction guarantees and confirmed the FSCA’s longstanding position that registration under the National Credit Act 34 of 2005 (NCA) by a party issuing […]

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