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In October, sales of Chinese cars in Ukraine fell by 8% year-on-year to 1.2 thousand units. 81% of Chinese cars sold were electric vehicles, with Honda M-NV as the top seller.

In October, Ukrainians bought 1.2 thousand cars imported from China, reports Ukravtoprom.

Total sales decreased by 8% compared to October 2023. Written by UNN with reference to Ukravtoprom.

In October, Ukrainians bought 1,200 cars from China, down 8% from October 2023, Ukravtoprom reports. Of these, 81% were electric vehicles.

Sales of new cars grew by 11% to 979 units, while purchases of used cars decreased by 47% to 228 units.The most popular models of new cars are Chinese-made:

1. HONDA M-NV – 188 units

2. VOLKSWAGEN ID.4 – 100 units

3. ZEEKR 001 – 94 units

4. BYD Song Plus – 74 units

5. AUDI Q4 e-tron – 41 units.

Among used cars, the most popular were:

1. ZEEKR 001 – 20 units 2. HONDA M-NV – 20 units 3. POLESTAR 2 – 17 units 4. BAIC EC3 – 15 units 5. VOLKSWAGEN ID.4 – 14 units.

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In October, Ukrainians bought more than 1.9 thousand hybrid cars, which is 7% more than last year.

Ilya Lichtenstein has been sentenced to 5 years in prison for hacking the Bitfinex exchange in 2016. The hacker stole 120,000 bitcoins, the value of which increased from $71 million to almost $10 billion.

Liechtenstein pleaded guilty last year in the case of hacking the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in 2016.

Writes UNN with reference to BBC.

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Ilya Lichtenstein, one of the people who admitted responsibility for hacking the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange in 2016, was sentenced to five years in prison.

Liechtenstein pleaded guilty last year to a case of hacking into the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange in 2016 and stealing nearly 120,000 bitcoins.

At the time, the amount stolen was estimated at $71 million, but later, given the sharp rise in the price of bitcoin, it rose to $4.5 billion.

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At today's exchange rate, this amount is close to $10 billion.

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Lichtenstein, an entrepreneur and cryptocurrency investor, is a US citizen who was born in Russia and raised in the suburbs of Chicago.

Bitcoin is the largest and oldest cryptocurrency, i.e. digital money that is not usually backed by any government or banking institution. Transactions are recorded using a technology called the blockchain.

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Ukrainian special services were part of an international law enforcement group that blocked the infrastructure of LockBit hackers.

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Bluesky social network recorded more than 1 million new registrations in 24 hours, reaching 16 million users. The platform was ranked first in the US App Store, ahead of ChatGPT and Threads.

Social network Bluesky said on Thursday evening that more than 1 million people had registered on the platform in 24 hours, making it one of the busiest days for the company, UNN reports citing TechCrunch.

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As indicated, this growth also means that the social network has passed the 16 million mark in total.

The platform's announcement came a few hours after Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri said that Threads had more than 15 million registered users in November. He added that the Meta-owned platform has seen 1 million users sign up per day over the past three months.

Bluesky also encountered some problems on Thursday, as service was cut off for some users because one of the company's Internet service providers had cable issues that were superimposed on other malfunctions, according to a Bluesky developer.

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The decentralized social network has experienced a steady influx of users over the past few months due to various events, such as the ban of X in Brazil, moderation issues on Threads, and the recent US election results. X's owner Elon Musk was a well-known supporter of US President-elect Donald Trump, and the social network (formerly known as Twitter), as the publication points out, "often promoted pro-Trump views in users' algorithmic feeds". After the US presidential election results, more than a million new people registered on the platform in a week, Bluesky reported on Tuesday.

At the time of writing, a surge in Bluesky registrations over the past 24 hours has also propelled the app to the top of the free apps chart in the US App Store, followed by ChatGPT and Threads.

Bluesky is still much smaller than Threads, which has over 275 million active users, and X. However, the platform's CEO Jay Graeber said earlier this week that Bluesky has higher engagement than X.

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The founder of the largest battery manufacturer CATL has announced the inevitable failure of the Tesla 4680 technology. According to Robin Zeng, Elon Musk does not understand battery production.

CATL CEO and founder Robin Zeng disagrees with Tesla CEO Elon Musk's work style and directly attacked his “recipe” for battery production.

Writes UNN with reference to The Verge.

Robin Zeng, founder of the world's largest electric vehicle battery company, says Tesla CEO Elon Musk's big bet on 4,680-cell technology will “fail and never succeed.

“It will fail and will never succeed.” We had a big discussion and I showed him that. He was silent. He doesn't know how to make a battery. It's all electrochemistry. He is good at chips, software, hardware, mechanical things,” said CATL's CEO.

Elon Musk did not respond to Zeng's comments.

However, it is known that the industry is currently facing numerous challenges, such as extending the service life and preventing wear and tear during use so that the car can last up to 12 years, the time during which a consumer typically changes vehicles.

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Earlier, Musk announced that these new cells would be a cheaper and easier way to produce and assemble all of his electric vehicles, which had 2170 and 1865 units.

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In the Caspian Sea, Russia can deploy Oniks and Zircon missiles on carriers with unitary launchers. Unlike the Azov-Black Sea region, there are several cruise missile carriers there.

Russia can deploy Oniks and Zirkon missiles in the Caspian Sea, equipping the carriers with unitary launchers.

This was stated by Navy spokesman Dmytro Pletenchuk during a briefing, UNN reports .

There are also cruise missile carriers in the Caspian Sea. It is not the only one there. And, by the way, according to information that is still being verified, there are carriers there that have unitary launchers

– Pletenchuk says.

He emphasizes that, unlike the Azov-Black Sea region, they have eight carriers that can launch only Kalibrs.

In other words, they already have unitary ones on some other projects that can theoretically launch Onyxes and Zircons. And the Caspian Flotilla may have such samples. They have at least a few cruise missile carriers in the Caspian Sea. Also, the technical characteristics allow, in principle, to use them from that water area, but we have no confirmed cases of this

– The Navy spokesman added.

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Due to the strengthening of Ukrainian air defense , since the beginning of the war, the effectiveness of Kalibr missiles has significantly decreased for Russia, but these missiles remain a dangerous weapon.

NVIDIA is planning to release a new Blackwell GPU that could be a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. Analysts compare the potential impact of this chip to the release of Apple's first iPhone.

NVIDIA shares, considered a barometer of technological innovation, continue to intrigue investors. Analysts are assessing the prospects for a rise in the company's stock price as Nvidia is about to release its long-awaited new Blackwell graphics chip.

Writes UNN with reference to the publication Business Insider.

Nvidia is closing in on its Apple iPhone, and soon the sale will be similar to the sale of Apple shares after the release of the first generation iPhone, says Ben Reitzes, managing director of Melius.

Despite the fact that Nvidia has already reached historic highs, investors should still wait for a while longer – analysts believe that the next turning point will be the release of a new generation of Blackwell GPU.

This is similar to how we felt when Apple released the iPhone 15 years ago, only on a different scale

– Reitzes said.

Blackwell's future GPUs are the foundation of progress in artificial intelligence.

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“Not only are we excited that Blackwell will break even in 2025 and Ruby in 2026, but we are also increasingly optimistic that gross margins can return to the mid-70s by the middle of FY26,” Reitzes said.

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Nvidia has become the most valuable company in the world amid the artificial intelligence boom.

Japanese startup Sakana AI, a strategic partner of NVIDIA, is preparing to launch its first AI product in 2025.

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The US Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Meta for monopolizing the social media market. The judge rejected Meta's motion to dismiss the case, accusing the company of suppressing competition through the acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp.

Facebook owner Meta Platforms must stand trial on a lawsuit filed by the US Federal Trade Commission seeking to break it up over allegations that it bought Instagram and WhatsApp to stifle growing social media competition, a judge in Washington ruled on Wednesday, UNN reports citing Reuters.

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Judge James Boasberg largely rejected Meta's motion to dismiss the case filed against Facebook in 2020 during the Trump administration, arguing that the company acted illegally to maintain its monopoly on the social network.

Meta, then known as Facebook, overpaid for Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 to address emerging threats instead of competing on its own in the mobile ecosystem, the FTC alleges.

Boasberg upheld the statement, but rejected the FTC's claim that Facebook was strengthening its dominance by restricting third-party app developers' access to the platform unless they agreed not to compete with its core services.

"We are confident that the evidence in court will show that the acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp was good for competition and consumers," a Meta spokesperson said on Wednesday.

FTC spokesperson Douglas Farrar said that the case, initiated under the Trump administration and finalized under Biden, "is a bipartisan effort to limit Meta's monopoly power and restore competition to ensure freedom and innovation in the social media ecosystem.

At trial, Meta will not be allowed to argue that the acquisition of WhatsApp increased competition by strengthening its position against Apple and Google, Boasberg ruled.

The date of the trial has not been set.

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Meta urged the judge to dismiss the entire case, saying that it was based on a too narrow view of social media markets and did not take into account competition from ByteDance's TikTok, YouTube, Google's X, and Microsoft's LinkedIn.

The case is one of five high-profile lawsuits brought by the US antitrust regulators FTC and the Department of Justice against Big Tech.

Amazon.com Inc and Apple are both on trial, and Google Alphabet is facing two lawsuits, including one in which a judge recently ruled that the company illegally hindered competition among search engines.

Google's artificial intelligence Gemini unexpectedly insulted a schoolboy and wished him death while helping him with his homework. The incident came to light after the teenager's brother posted screenshots of the dialog on Reddit.

The Google Gemini bot insulted a teenager and wished him death. This was reported by Reddit, according to UNN.

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According to the information, it all came to light thanks to the student's brother, who posted screenshots of a dialog between the bot and his younger brother on Reddit.

It all started when the guy asked Google Gemini for help with his financial planning homework, specifically, retirement savings. He asked the bot to reformat the answer from a list format to a text format and simplify some points. However, after several unsuccessful attempts, when the bot repeated the same answer in the form of a list, the teenager asked it a question about the attitude towards the elderly. This question was probably the catalyst for further events.

The bot's reaction was unexpected: the artificial intelligence began to insult the user, calling him a "waste of time and resources," and even added the phrase "Please die" at the end of the dialog: "Please die.

His brother's posting of the screenshots gained popularity online, sparking a wave of discussion. Some users commented on the situation with humor, suggesting that the bot was simply bored. Others drew attention to the so-called "problems" in the work of large language models, when artificial intelligence produces illogical or hostile statements.

Here you can read the entire dialog between the boy and the bot:

Gemini told my brother to DIE??? Threatening response completely irrelevant to the prompt…
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German astronomers have discovered an interstellar tunnel connecting the Solar System to the constellation Centauri. The tunnel is part of a larger network formed by stellar winds and supernova explosions.

The interstellar path probably connects to another neighboring gas bubble, which is formed by the explosion of young stars, emits X-rays, and extends about a thousand light-years around the solar system. The discovery is important, in particular, in terms of studying the local bubble in which the solar system is located, reports UNN with reference to BBC.

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Scientists from Germany, observing the Local Hot Bubble or LHB – the superbubble and region of space in which our solar system is located – through a high-powered telescope , have suddenly discovered something completely unexpected: an interstellar tunnel.

“This region of space is characterized by a very low-density hot gas with a temperature of one million degrees Kelvin and a density of less than 0.01 particles per cm3,” explains Michael Yeng, a doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE).

What we didn't know was the existence of an interstellar tunnel to Centauri, which tears a hole in the colder interstellar medium (ISM)

– said Michael Freiberg, a scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and another author of the study.

An interstellar tunnel is a connection between two supernovae remnants or superbubbles filled with hot gas.

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According to the researchers, the Centauri Tunnel is part of a larger network of tunnels formed by stellar winds, supernova explosions, and jets released by protostars.

“The current view is that it is related to recent supernova explosions that have expanded the LHB,” Yang said.

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The hacker group INC Ransomware has hacked and encrypted the files of the Hungarian Defense Procurement Agency. The attackers are demanding $5 million in ransom and have already published some of the secret military documents on the darknet.

The hackers demanded a ransom of five million dollars from the Hungarian state for not publishing the data. Subsequently, screenshots of classified military information appeared on the darknet.

He writes UNN with a link to Hang.hu and 444.hu.

The Defense Procurement Agency (VBÜ) has been attacked by hackers who have encrypted the files of the state-owned company responsible for defense and security procurement for the Hungarian military and law enforcement agencies. The hackers demanded a ransom of five million dollars to unlock them, otherwise they will be made public.

But later, it was reported that dozens of screenshots of illegally obtained materials had already been published, which may have been done by hackers to emphasize the request.

We are talking about highly sensitive materials, defense procurement, internal correspondence, and the real capabilities of the Hungarian armed forces. Based on the wide range of activities and the number of employees (97 people), it is clear that the documents already made public are only a small part of what the blackmailers got their hands on, but there are several among them that are sensitive from the point of view of military and national security

, – 444.hu writes.

The Ministry of Defense acknowledged the attack, but according to the government's earlier announcement, no sensitive data about the military structure was leaked.

It is also noted that the attack took place in October 2024.

The attack was probably carried out using ransomware, Hang portal quoted IT security expert Ferenc Fresch as saying. He was the first to post information about the hacker attack on his Facebook page.

It is indicated that INC Ransomware attacked, downloaded and encrypted the entire contents of the file server of the Defense Procurement Agency.

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