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nice page featuring no-kyc services. most are predictably geared towards currency exchange but there are some interesting ones on there
1337 0xdeadbeef hackers only
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Are you nerds going to let someone driving a Subaru mock you?
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Our analysis shows that the total server CapEx for DeepSeek is ~$1.6B, with a considerable cost of $944M associated with operating such clusters. Similarly, all AI Labs and Hyperscalers have many more GPUs for various tasks including research and training then they they commit to an individual training run due to centralization of resources being a challenge. X.AI is unique as an AI lab with all their GPUs in 1 location.
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"I am concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal law by airing commercials," the letter reads. "In particular, it is possible that NPR and PBS member stations are broadcasting underwriting announcements that cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements." Both PBS and NPR's chief executives told the Times that their advertising complies with the FCC's underwriting regulations.
"To the extent that taxpayer dollars are being used to support a for profit endeavor or an entity that is airing commercial advertisements," the letter continues, "then that would further undermine any case for continuing to fund NPR and PBS with taxpayer dollars."
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The situation on RTX 50 launch day looks dire. It seems that the few people who manage to find the cards in stock online will either be powered by fast AI algorithms or simply lucky to be near retailer servers.
We previously reported on the RTX 50 launch day lottery in Japan. The country is known for such draws, which, in order to prevent scalping, give everyone in line an equal chance to purchase limited-supply products. Only those whose tickets are chosen will be allowed to buy the product. While it's hard to call that a win, at least some participants don't leave empty-handed.
According to Japanese media, one of the lotteries at PC Koubou, which started earlier (around 15:00 local time), ended in chaos. People were seen climbing over the fence of a nearby kindergarten, and screams were heard. There's also a photo of a destroyed kingergarten sign (added above). The lottery concluded before many attendees even arrived, leading to frustration and disorder at the venue.
The PC Koubou Parts Hall has started calling for entries for a lottery to purchase the RTX5090, but the situation is currently in chaos.
Angry shouts were heard, and some people even climbed over the fence of the kindergarten next door.
@sarasteam0151 (translation)
Swedish retailer Inet confirms there may not be any RTX 5090 stock at launch. It seems they are waiting for an update from their courier company. Even if any 5090 units arrive, the retailer expects them to sell out immediately. The 5080, on the other hand, should sell "quickly."
According to a Redditor who compiled a list of MicroCenter locations and their expected RTX 5090/5080 stock, only 233 RTX 5090 cards were distributed across all stores in the U.S. Similarly, only 2,393 RTX 5080 models were allocated. This is an extremely low number of cards for launch day, though it's important to note that we cannot verify the accuracy of this list.
However, Tustin, California, appears to be one of the few locations where lining up might make sense. The queue is already over 300 people long show messages shared on Reddit, meaning that if the numbers above are correct, the last people in line won't even have a chance to buy a card.
While it's great to see such high demand for new graphics cards, it's difficult to understand why NVIDIA did not prepare a larger stock for launch. The company was not forced to release the cards this early, and there is clearly a significant supply issue. Nothing would have changed if the launch had been delayed by a month, allowing board partners to build inventory. This way, customers wouldn't have to rely on luck, fast reflexes, or being prepared to camp outside stores.
New griftmaxxxing op just dropped 
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DeepSeek R1 is now live on Azure AI Foundry and @GitHub. Experience the power of advanced reasoning on a trusted, scalable AI platform with minimal infrastructure investment. Learn more: https://t.co/y84leQvRi8 #AzureAIFoundry pic.twitter.com/tA9I6E5Dbl
— Microsoft Azure (@Azure) January 30, 2025
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A: No, of course not, silly. Redditors are already indistinguishable from bots.
is going to kill himself because a Google firmware update nerfed his phone battery
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The FBI seized domains for the following:
Forums: Cracked(dot)io, Nulled(dot)to
Selling Platforms: mysellix(dot)io, sellix(dot)io
Merchants: starkrdp(dot)io
People are speculating that this campaign was targeting credential stuffing attacks/account selling.
Discussions:
FBI seizes domains for https://t.co/AQtlCuVu4P, https://t.co/EUzbMJ1aSS hacking forums - @sergheihttps://t.co/THqbokuvf6https://t.co/THqbokuvf6
— BleepingComputer (@BleepinComputer) January 29, 2025
🚨FBI Domain Seizure Notice 🚨
— vxdb (@vxdb) January 29, 2025
Cracked[.]io, Nulled[.]to, Starkrdp[.]io have all had their nameservers changed this morning to the following:https://t.co/FXXUi7Jjjrhttps://t.co/tiIHk3kO7z
No seizure banner yet, stay tuned pic.twitter.com/3jLjrr0urz
Today the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation seized several more prominent Threat Actor forums.
— vx-underground (@vxunderground) January 29, 2025
- cracked-dot-io
- starkrdp-dot-io
- nulled-dot-to
- mysellix-dot-io
The DNS records for the forums have been changed to ns1.fbi.seized-dot-gov. pic.twitter.com/ZYz5hvh8pN
.webp?h=10 "Cat Ears (wiggly) - MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW")
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Developing AI regulation before developing AI models and then bragging about it is the most EU thing ever pic.twitter.com/qyd6dgTxjE
— Lina Seiche (@LinaSeiche) January 27, 2025
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Imagine hating on us when we're literally just minding our own business and browsing the web 🙃
— Firefox 🔥 (@firefox) January 28, 2025
Apparently Brave got a little cheeky in Google Playstore (I don't see this in Tim Apple's store) and Mozzila is coping hard.
Firef*x claps back after Brave browser's Play Store shenanigans
https://old.reddit.com/r/firef*x/comments/1ic4w56/i_guess_this_is_a_response_for_braves_forget_the/
Why would they give their competitor free advertising
where is the competition? the true privacy browser is firef*x
*conditions apply. Please turn off data collection, sponsored links, non-privacy-preserving website advertising preferences, weather on New Tab page, pocket sponsored posts, default browser agent, Normandy, as well as suggestion improvements for search and web browsing. Be sure to not enable AI, and set default search engine to something that isn't Google.
**kindly please ignore that even if you turn off data collection, we will still relentlessly reach out to incoming.telemetry.mozzarella.org and location.services.mozzarella.com.
Firef*x really be doing anything but enable hdr support on YouTube.
Same reason I doubt I will ever trust something made by Lenovo. They screwed up in such a bad way in the past with that whole root cert thing on their OEM images that even a decade+ on I still associate them with it and never consider their products as an option if I can find anything else to do the job.
It is essentially a cult. The crypto crowd loves to overhype stuff as they are used to do it in their pyramid schemes.
Some other people also believe brave to be some kind of anti woke browser. It's just ideology.
in a newly-bought Macbook, install Firef*x and Chrome, then compare. despite having the M4 processor and generous amounts of unified memory, Chrome lags while Firef*x is buttery smooth
i feel sorry for people who's using Chrome, they don't even know they got used to terrible experience that they think it's normal. it's like not knowing what's above 60 Hz refresh rate or not having experienced OLED
Firef*x for everything. Safari if I want to stream 4K on Netflix. Chrome if my work will be primarily on Google Docs or Gmail. Brave if it's winter and I want to use my computer as a space heater
I use Firef*x on my computer and brave on my phone. I haven't noticed brave heating up my phone though. What's going on with Brave that everyone hates them so much?
personally, i don't like that you can't disable or hide the features that are bundled with the browser - vpn, crypto, and ai. as for the company behind Brave, i dislike their marketing because they have no business hating on other browsers if they're just a Chrome reskin themselves.
as for the heating part, well, that's my experience on Mac because it's so unoptimized. Chrome is slow as it is, but when you bundle it with other bloat, it takes a toll on your machine. there's also a long-running joke that Brave mines crypto, that's why it gets hot
Brave on my old M1 laptop literally has better battery life than Safari. You can turn all the shit off. Neighbor what world are Mozzilatards living in? Oh yeah, one where Furryfox has a 69% market share and they're not a fat slob in a boring butt IT job for some middling company.
Don't be a lameass Furryfox user, be brave! The browser that puts you first | Brave
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OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company's proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property.
The San-Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of 'distillation', a technique used by developers to obtain better performance on smaller models by using outputs from larger, more capable models. This allows them to achieve similar results on specific tasks at a much lower cost.
OpenAI declined to comment further on details of its evidence. Its terms of service state users cannot "copy" any of its services or "use output to develop models that compete with OpenAI".
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Why I left!
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Doesn't actually explain why they left but don't worry you can now join the "Emily Young Groomercord" 
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Like occasionally I just need a question answered but the workarounds to avoid getting fingerprinted are a pain in the butt.
I went like a whole year without posting, got a new phone and computer in the interim, used brave with all the privacy settings enabled, and my new account still got banned on creation today.
It's annoying because reddit has almost a complete monopoly on product knowledge and general Q&A for some hobby things and I just want to ask someone which fricking wetsocks to buy without using TOR 
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