Largest Botnet Takedown, Mistral's AI Coding Model, BYD's 1,300-Mile Hybrid, and Cosmic Ray Archaeology in Greece

We're experimenting and would love to hear from you! Welcome to Discover Daily, where we bring you the latest in tech, science, and culture. In today's episode, we start with the takedown of the 911 S5 botnet by the U.S. Department of Justice and FBI, which was responsible for a wide range of cybercrimes, including the theft of $5.9 billion in COVID-19 relief funds. The botnet, managed by YunHe Wang, hacked into over 19 million IP addresses globally, using malicious VPN applications to push m...