The San Francisco start-up’s valuation could triple in less than six months.
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Trial Reveals New Details of How FTX Died
Prosecutors in the criminal fraud case have built the most intricate account to date of the cryptocurrency exchange’s frantic final days.
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Crypto Influencers and ‘Degenerates’ Flock to Sam Bankman-Fried’s Trial
The presence of crypto YouTubers, podcasters and commentators at the FTX founder’s fraud trial has created something of a culture clash in the courtroom.
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Supreme Court Pauses Ruling Blocking Biden Administration’s Contacts With Tech Platforms
The court also agreed to hear the administration’s appeal, paving the way for a major ruling on how far government can go to encourage sites to delete asserted misinformation.
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Feel-good story of the week: 2 ransomware gangs meet their demise
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) From the warm-and-fuzzy files comes this feel-good Friday post, chronicling this week’s takedown of two hated ransomware groups. One vanished on Tuesday, allegedly after being hacked by a group claiming allegiance to Ukraine. The other was taken out a day later thanks to an international police dragnet. The first group, calling...
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Okta says hackers breached its support system and viewed customer files
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Identity and authentication management provider Okta said hackers managed to view private customer information after gaining access to credentials to its customer support management system. “The threat actor was able to view files uploaded by certain Okta customers as part of recent support cases,” Okta Chief Security Officer David Bradbury said...
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Thanks to AI, the future of programming may involve YELLING IN ALL CAPS
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Not long after OpenAI first unveiled its DALL-E 3 AI image generator integrated into ChatGPT earlier this month, some users testing the feature began noticing bugs in the ChatGPT app that revealed internal prompts shared between the image generator and the AI assistant. Amusingly to some, the instructions included commands written...
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RIP to my 8-port Unifi switch after years and years of Texas outdoor temps
Enlarge / My original US-8-150W shortly before being replaced. Don’t judge my zip-tie mounting job—it held for eight years! (credit: Lee Hutchinson) This morning, I’d like to pour one out for a truly awesome piece of gear that did everything I asked of it without complaint and died before its time: my Unifi 8-port POE...
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An Industry Insider Drives an Open Alternative to Big Tech’s A.I.
The nonprofit Allen Institute for AI, led by a respected computer scientist who sold his company to Apple, is trying to democratize cutting-edge research.
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Researchers Say Guardrails Built Around A.I. Systems Are Not So Sturdy
OpenAI now lets outsiders tweak what its chatbot does. A new paper says that can lead to trouble.