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Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a sharp flow reversal between May 13 and May 14. On May 13, the ETFs posted a net outflow of $91.4 million, the largest daily withdrawal since April 30. The losses were entirely driven by Fidelity’s FBTC, which recorded $91.4 million in redemptions with no offsetting inflows across other issuers. However, the trend shifted on May 14 as spot Bitcoin ETFs brought in $319.5 million in net inflows. BlackRock’s IBIT led the day with $232.9 million of new capital, followed by Fidelity’s FBTC at $36.1 million and smaller positive contributions from Bitwise’s BITB, Ark’s ARKB, and…

AlphaEvolve: Google’s AI for Algorithm Discovery Google DeepMind has introduced AlphaEvolve, an innovative AI that creates new algorithms. This agent utilizes the power of Google’s Gemini large language models combined with an evolutionary framework. This unique approach allows AlphaEvolve to automatically test and refine algorithms, enhancing efficiency across Google’s data centers, chip designs, and AI training systems. Efficiency and Breakthroughs AlphaEvolve has shown a 0.7% boost in operational efficiency in Google’s data centers. It has also achieved notable breakthroughs in complex areas such as matrix multiplication and chip design. For instance, it recently broke the 56-year-old Strassen’s matrix multiplication record,…

Police in Europe have shut down a fake online trading platform that scammed hundreds of victims out of €3 million in a coordinated global operation involving five countries. A fake online trading platform that defrauded victims of more than €3 million (around $3,000,000 has been shut down following a coordinated international operation involving five countries. Authorities from Germany, Cyprus, Albania, the UK, and Israel worked together, supported by Europol and Eurojust, to dismantle the criminal network and arrest a key suspect in Cyprus. They also managed to seize “crucial evidence.” The scam, which targeted more than 100 known victims and…

Uber has revealed new details about its six-week-old partnership with restaurant booking platform OpenTable. The two companies announced their partnership in late March, and Uber revealed on Wednesday (May 14) that OpenTable would begin powering reservations via the Uber Eats app. The company shared more information about this arrangement with Bloomberg News. “For us at Uber Eats, restaurants are at the core of what we do, so it’s crucial that we help bring additional opportunities to drive revenue, engage existing diners and reach new ones,” Dara Khosrowshahi, chief executive officer of Uber, told Bloomberg via email. “We believe the food and…

Kent Ickler // ADVISORY: The techniques and tools referenced within this blog post may be outdated and do not apply to current situations. However, there is still potential for this blog entry to be used as an opportunity to learn and to possibly update or integrate into modern tools and techniques. TL;DR: This post describes the process of building an active system to automatically recon SPF violations. Disclaimer: There are parts of this build that might not be legal in your area. Use in the wild at your own risk. Discuss with your peeps before implementing. BHIS @Krelkci are not liable for your…

Google Issues Warning to U.S. Retailers About the Growing Threat of Scattered Spider CyberattacksGoogle’s Threat Intelligence team has issued an urgent warning for U.S. retail businesses, cautioning that they could soon become targets of a highly sophisticated cybercriminal group known as Scattered Spider. This group is suspected of being behind a series of major cyberattacks in the United Kingdom, including attacks on well-known retailers such as Harrods, Co-Op, and Marks & Spencer, which saw the deployment of DragonForce ransomware. In partnership with Mandiant, a cybersecurity company owned by Google, the tech giant has forecast that these attacks could begin as…

is one of the key techniques for reducing the memory footprint of large language models (LLMs). It works by converting the data type of model parameters from higher-precision formats such as 32-bit floating point (FP32) or 16-bit floating point (FP16/BF16) to lower-precision integer formats, typically INT8 or INT4. For example, quantizing a model to 4-bit means each parameter uses only 0.5 bytes, compared to 4 bytes in FP32. Post-training quantization methods like GPTQ and AWQ can dramatically reduce the size of large models. A model like Llama 3 with 70 billion parameters can occupy around 140 GB in FP16, but…

Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Windows Common Log File System CVE-2025-32706 is an Important elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting the Windows Common Log File System and has a CVSS score of 7.8. This flaw allows a local authenticated attacker to execute code with elevated system privileges due to improper input validation.  This zero-day vulnerability was discovered in late April 2025 by CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations, which responsibly disclosed the vulnerability to Microsoft through private channels. Microsoft subsequently validated the issue and released a patch to address it today (May 13, 2025). CVE-2025-32701 is an Important elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting…

Google warned today that hackers using Scattered Spider tactics against retail chains in the United Kingdom have also started targeting retailers in the United States. “The US retail sector is currently being targeted in ransomware and extortion operations that we suspect are linked to UNC3944, also known as Scattered Spider,” John Hultquist, Chief Analyst at Google Threat Intelligence Group, told BleepingComputer. “The actor, which has reportedly targeted retail in the UK following a long hiatus, has a history of focusing their efforts on a single sector at a time, and we anticipate they will continue to target the sector in…