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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with witnesses, such as by sharing former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison's diary with the NYT — Sam Bankman-Fried's bail was revoked ahead of his October fraud trial, a U.S. judge said on Friday, after prosecutors accused …
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| 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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| 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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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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| 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: Better.com plans to go public via a SPAC merger, raising $750M, after initially planning a $6B SPAC in May 2021 — Shareholders at SPAC partner Aurora Acquisitions voted in favor of the merger proposal — New York-based digital lender Better.com will be going public via … | 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.| 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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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/cybersecurity
| 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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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
How yesteryear's screenless fitness bands were largely replaced by either more powerful and cheaper smartwatches or wearables with pricey monthly subscriptions — Smartwatches are the default wearable option these days, but why is it so hard to find simple yet affordable alternatives like the fitness bands of yesteryear?| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
Sources and docs detail Worldcoin's struggle to define its purpose, the orb not scanning Asian people's eyes and allowing multiple signups per person, and more — Is it a crypto company? A biometric authentication platform? A “human economic system”? Inside Worldcoin's struggle to find itself.
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