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Three Men Sentenced for Running Fraudulent Website That Enabled Criminals to Circumvent Bank Anti-Fraud Checks

29Jan

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Three Men Sentenced for Running Fraudulent Website That Enabled Criminals to Circumvent Bank Anti-Fraud Checks

(WNY News Now) Three men have been convicted for operating a website that allowed scammers to get around banking security procedures and steal money.Vijayanathan Vijayasidhurshan NCAC PhotoAllum Picari's NCAA photoZa Siddeeque NCA photo According to a National Crime Agency investigation, Callum Picari, 23, of Hornchurch, Essex; Vijayasidhurshan Vijayanathan, 21 of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire; and Aza Siddeeque, 19, of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, were the operators of www.OTP.Agency. One-time passcode is what OTP stands for. In order to commit account takeover, fraud, and theft, criminals had to pay a monthly subscription fee for a service that gave them online access to personal bank accounts and other accounts. They achieved this by using social engineering to trick bank account holder...

The 63+ best sales this week: Blundstone, Saatva and more

29Jan

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The 63+ best sales this week: Blundstone, Saatva and more

With President's Day rapidly approaching, the upcoming weeks will be ideal for deals on seasonal apparel, mattresses, bedding, and other items. Take advantage of sales on pillows, comforters, sheets, and other items at some of our favorite bedding companies, such as Saatva and Helix. Additionally, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Lowes are offering discounts on TVs, furniture, and other items as you stock up on supplies for the big game. These sales and more are included below, along with bestsellers, NBC Select staff picks, and previously suggested companies. Keep in mind that some items can have a limited-time sale, and you should be aware of the holiday shipping dates. GO Ahead and SkipBest deals from NBC Select's top brands | Best deals on clothing and accessories | Best deals on kitchenware ...

Tech stocks fall as China’s DeepSeek sparks U.S. worries about the AI race

29Jan

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Tech stocks fall as China’s DeepSeek sparks U.S. worries about the AI race

As concerns grew that the Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeekleap was outpacing the United States in AI research, tech stocks fell sharply on Monday morning. The nation's biggest tech companies are tracked by the Nasdaq Composite, which fell more than 3%. After declining earlier, the Dow was up, while the S&P 500 fell by over 2%. China's DeepSeek, which revealed an open-source AI model in December after claiming that it took just two months and less than $6 million to develop, was the catalyst for the sell-off. Concerns that China may surpass the United States in the scope and effectiveness of its AI efforts are fueled by the fact that those claims would be significantly less than the hundreds of billions of dollars that American tech companies like OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta...

Panama Man Arrested for DWI, Leaving Scene of Accident, and Resisting Arrest

29Jan

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Panama Man Arrested for DWI, Leaving Scene of Accident, and Resisting Arrest

(WNY News Now) After a hit-and-run incident in Jamestown early Sunday morning, a Panamanian is charged with several offenses, including driving under the influence and resisting arrest. New York's Jamestown Officers from the Jamestown Police Department's Third Platoon arrived at a car accident on West 3rd Street at around 12:00 a.m. on January 26, 2025. Officers found the implicated car had left the area when they arrived. The Jamestown Police K-9 Unit found the suspect car on East 2nd Street at around 1:18 in the morning and started a traffic stop. It was found that the driver, Carlos J. Ruiz, 27, of Panama, New York, was operating the vehicle while drunk. Ruiz allegedly resisted the arresting cops and fought with them physically before being restrained and taken into custody. After mor...

Falconer Man Arrested for DWI Following Single-Vehicle Accident in Town of Poland

29Jan

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Falconer Man Arrested for DWI Following Single-Vehicle Accident in Town of Poland

(WNY News Now) The Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office has charged a Falconer man with several offenses after a single-car collision on Quaint Road revealed that he was operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Poland, New York. The Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office was called to a single-vehicle collision on Quaint Road in the Town of Poland on Saturday, January 25, 2025, at around 8:50 p.m. The driver was identified by deputies as James D. McGrath, a resident of Falconer, New York, who is 54 years old. At the scene, an investigation revealed that McGrath was driving under the influence. He was also accused by the authorities of failing to stop at a stop sign and driving at an unreasonably fast speed. After the accident, EMS took McGrath to UPMC Jamestown for assessment. He is expected to ...

University of South Carolina apologizes for playing song of LSU players’s late father at game

29Jan

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University of South Carolina apologizes for playing song of LSU players’s late father at game

Shortly after the Gamecocks' decisive victory against the Tigers in women's basketball on Sunday, the University of South Carolina issued an apology for its arena DJ playing a song by the late father of a Louisiana State University player. South Carolina at number twodefeated LSU, then ranked No. 5.Friday night in Columbia, two great programs that have won the last three NCAA titles square off against one another in a hotly contested matchup. Additionally, the late rapper Camoflauge, whose real name was Jason Akeil Johnson, performed "Cut Friends" by the arena DJ, DJ T.O., during the post-horn party. Star LSU guard Flau Jae Johnson, the rapper's daughter, was not happy with the music selection and took it as a crude jab. Johnson, who also raps, was born in 2003, five and a half months afte...

Earthquake off Maine coast rattles New England

29Jan

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Earthquake off Maine coast rattles New England

Light to moderate shaking occurred throughout the state of Maine, as well as in areas of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Connecticut, on Monday due to an earthquake that was centered off the coast of the state. Just before 10:30 a.m. ET, the U.S. Geological Survey recorded the earthquake as a 3.8-magnitude temblor. About 45 miles southwest of Portland, off the coast of York Harbor, Maine, was the epicenter. As of right now, there have been no reports of fatalities or major damage, and the National Weather Service has not issued any tsunami watches, warnings, or advisories. Within the following week, there is a 15% chance of at least one aftershock of magnitude 3 or higher, according to the USGS estimate. Since a 4.8-magnitude earthquake near Lebanon, New Jersey, in April, t...

Cigarette Sparks Residential Fire on Pearl Street in Forestville

29Jan

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Chautauqua County

Cigarette Sparks Residential Fire on Pearl Street in Forestville

(WNY News Now) On Saturday, January 25, 2025, a residence fire on Pearl Street in Forestville was determined to be caused by a cigarette setting off flammable materials on a front porch. The Forestville Fire Department responded to a residence fire on Pearl Street in Forestville on Saturday, January 25, 2025, at around 10:12 a.m. with mutual aid assistance. In order to save more property damage, firefighters moved swiftly to put out the fire. The Chautauqua County Fire Investigation Team responded on the scene to evaluate the incident and identify its cause after the fire was contained. Following a comprehensive investigation, authorities determined that a cigarette coming into touch with flammable materials on the front porch of the house was the cause of the fire. Thankfully, the fire di...

Brittany Mahomes slams Buffalo Bills fans for hanging Kermit doll dressed as Patrick Mahomes

29Jan

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Brittany Mahomes slams Buffalo Bills fans for hanging Kermit doll dressed as Patrick Mahomes

Brittany Mahomes is reminding Buffalo Bills fans of the value of sportsmanship as the Kansas City Chiefs celebrate their AFC Championship victory on Sunday. Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes' wife addressed a November incident involving Bills supporters at a tailgate on her Instagram Story. Chiefs fans were incensed when a Kermit the Frog doll wearing a curly wig and a #15 Chiefs jersey was displayed at the event and hanged on a pole. A persistent joke about the star quarterback's voice being like the Muppet was referenced by the puppet's likeness to him. Many fans claimed that the stunt, which staged a mock lynching of the Black quarterback, was racist and in bad taste. Buffalo, do we remember this? In her Sunday post, Brittany Mahomes included a picture of the incident and the words, "A...

A new AI assistant from China has Silicon Valley talking

29Jan

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A new AI assistant from China has Silicon Valley talking

Silicon Valley has been rocked by a little lab in China. The U.S. tech industry has been discussing and debating what the abrupt arrival of an advanced AI helper from DeepSeek, a little-known firm in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, implies about the larger AI development race. The AI models that drive DeepSeek's assistant are already outperforming the best models in the United States, despite the fact that they were created with a fraction of the resources, according to the business. The assistant recently ranked number one in the Apple App Store. A week ago, DeepSeek released R1, their most recent large language model. R1 is already outperforming a number of other models, including as Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash, Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Meta's Llama 3.3-70B, and OpenAI's GPT-4o. It is ...