Alex Mashinsky was arrested on Thursday morning. He and his former firm also face lawsuits from the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators.
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Judge’s Ruling on Ripple’s XRP Token Gives Crypto Industry a Victory
A judge ruled that the sale of the cryptocurrency XRP on public exchanges did not violate securities law.
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Texas TikTok Ban Challenged for Threatening ‘Academic Freedom’
A lawsuit filed on Thursday says Gov. Greg Abbott’s ban is compromising research and teaching at public universities.
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WordPress plugin installed on 1 million+ sites logged plaintext passwords
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) All-In-One Security, a WordPress security plugin installed on more than 1 million websites, has issued a security update after being caught three weeks ago logging plaintext passwords and storing them in a database accessible to website admins. The passwords were logged when users of a site using the plugin, typically abbreviated...
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Chasing defamatory hallucinations, FTC opens investigation into OpenAI
Enlarge / OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies about AI rules before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law on May 16, 2023, in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | Win McNamee ) OpenAI, best known for its ChatGPT AI assistant, has come under scrutiny by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over...
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Threads Review: How Meta’s New App Stacks Up Against Twitter
One of us is a Twitter addict; the other not so much. In the end, we were both unsure how people might use Threads in the long run.
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F.T.C.’s Lina Khan Faces Fresh Questions After Microsoft Ruling
Lina Khan has said a fear of defeat should not deter the agency from suing big tech companies. But after Microsoft won a ruling this week, her critics say that strategy is flawed.
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Linux could be 3% of global desktops. What happened to Windows?
How can you argue against these numbers? (credit: 20th Century Fox / Aurich Lawson) According to one measurement by one firm, Linux reached 3.07 percent market share of global desktop operating systems in June 2023. It’s a notable first for the more than 30-year-old operating system, though other numbers in Statcounter’s chart open it up...
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Musk announces new AI company that seeks to “understand the universe”
Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks via video link at the opening ceremony of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on July 6, 2023. (credit: REBECCA BAILEY/AFP via Getty Images) On Wednesday, Elon Musk formally announced the formation of xAI, a company aimed at understanding “the true nature of the universe” that will draw...
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(BPRW) FPL Awarded $160,000 to Eight Local College-Bound Students
(Black PR Wire) Riviera Beach, FL – Eight recipients of the NextEra Energy Scholarship for Black Students in the Southeastern Consortium for Minorities in Engineering (SECME) proudly hold up their $20,000 college scholarship check from Florida Power &…