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FOIA docs: Prashant Bhardwaj, hired in March as the US OCC’s first officer to police fintech firms, lied about his work history; OCC quietly replaced Bhardwaj (Michael Roddan/The Information)

Michael Roddan / The Information: FOIA docs: Prashant Bhardwaj, hired in March as the US OCC’s first officer to police fintech firms, lied about his work history; OCC quietly replaced Bhardwaj  —  In March, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency—the powerful federal banking regulator—tapped Prashant Kumar Bhardwaj …

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The UK and South Korea warn that the North Korean Lazarus hacking group is using a zero-day in the authentication software MagicLine4NX for supply-chain attacks (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: The UK and South Korea warn that the North Korean Lazarus hacking group is using a zero-day in the authentication software MagicLine4NX for supply-chain attacks  —  The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) warn that the North Korean Lazarus …

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A Yamaha DX7 On A USB Dongle

The Yamaha DX7 was released in 1983, with its FM synthesis engine completely revolutionizing the electronic music world at the time. It didn’t come cheap, and still doesn’t today, but we are blessed with emulators that can give us the same sound on a budget. In that vein, [Kevin] decided to whip up a Yamaha

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With $18.12B in revenue and $10.42B in operating profit in Q3, Nvidia becomes the world’s biggest chip maker, beating TSMC and Intel for the top spot (Mark Tyson/Tom’s Hardware)

Mark Tyson / Tom’s Hardware: With $18.12B in revenue and $10.42B in operating profit in Q3, Nvidia becomes the world’s biggest chip maker, beating TSMC and Intel for the top spot  —  The green team has made incredible gains in 2023.  —  Nvidia has swung from fourth to first place in an assessment of chip

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Filing: Nvidia says regulators in the EU and China requested information about its sale of GPUs and how it allocates their supply (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

Aaron Holmes / The Information: Filing: Nvidia says regulators in the EU and China requested information about its sale of GPUs and how it allocates their supply  —  Regulators in Europe and China have questioned Nvidia about how it allocates its supply of highly sought-after chips used for running AI software, the company said in

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Hackaday Podcast 245: The Silver Swan, ET’s Umbrella Antenna, Model Tanks vs Space Shuttle Tires

This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi link up through the magic of the Internet to go over some of their favorite stories from the last week. After revealing the bone-chilling winners of this year’s Halloween contest, the discussion switches over to old-timey automatons, receiving deep space transmissions with a homebrew antenna

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