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A US judge revokes SBF's bail after the DOJ accused him of tampering with witnesses, such as by sharing former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison's diary with the NYT — Sam Bankman-Fried's bail was revoked ahead of his October fraud trial, a U.S. judge said on Friday, after prosecutors accused …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
After a contentious public hearing, the California Public Utilities Commission allows Waymo and Cruise to operate driverless cabs 24/7 throughout San Francisco — Waymo and Cruise were approved to operate their robotaxi services 24/7 in San Francisco after a contentious six-hour public hearing …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Poland arrests five people as Europol and the DOJ take down the Lolek “bulletproof” host for allegedly facilitating Netwalker ransomware and other attacks — Update 8/11/23: Updated with information from DOJ about alleged Netwalker Ransomware involvement.
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| Jesse Levine / Bloomberg: |
After new fight claims from Musk, Zuckerberg warns “anything” Musk says hasn't been agreed on; Musk also said surgery will prevent him from fighting for months — - Musk hasn't agreed on a date for the fight, Meta CEO says — Meta's Threads launch helped fuel the Musk-Zuckerberg rivalry
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| Bloomberg: |
The US Cyber Safety Review Board, created by Biden, plans to investigate cloud computing attacks, including the recent government email Microsoft breach — - Cyber Safety Review Board to examine targeting of cloud — Senator Wyden had called for investigations of Microsoft
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X lowers its eligibility threshold for ad revenue sharing from 15M to 5M impressions in the past three months; Musk: “only views from verified handles count” — Elon Musk-owned social network X, formerly Twitter, said late Thursday that it is lowering requirements for its creator payout program.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Teens replicated a 2008 hack of Boston's subway fare system; the transit authority invited them to present their work, a contrast to its response 15 years ago — In 2008, Boston's transit authority sued to stop MIT hackers from presenting at the Defcon hacker conference on how to get free subway rides.| Connie Kim / HousingWire: |
SEC filing: NYC-based digital lender Better.com plans to go public via a SPAC merger, raising $750M, after announcing plans in May 2021 for a $7.7B SPAC merger — Shareholders at SPAC partner Aurora Acquisitions voted in favor of the merger proposal — New York-based digital lender Better.com … | Financial Times: |
US VC and PE firms are assessing how Biden's executive order on Chinese tech impacts their holdings and are weighing strategies to comply or exit China — Private equity and venture capital funds targeted in Biden administration's crackdown — After President Joe Biden announced a ban …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Researchers deployed exposed Windows servers as honeypots for hackers, recording 190M events and 100 hours of video of their actions, like installing malware — Imagine being able to sit behind a hacker and observe them take control of a computer and play around with it.
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| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
At an Australian parliamentary hearing, an X executive defended restoring a user who shared CSAM as an example of posting “out of outrage to raise awareness” — At Australian parliamentary hearing, company points to content being shared ‘out of outrage to raise awareness of an issue’
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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