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[Link] Congress Suddenly Wants to Know If US Taxpayers Were Helping El Chapo
Read: 4/3/2023 www.vice.com
The DEA and FBI face questions about whether they tolerated high-level Mexican corruption as US tax dollars flowed to fight the drug war.
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[Link] CYBER: Taking Elon Musk Seriously
Read: 23/11/2022 www.vice.com
We have to talk about Elon Musk. It’s fun to make fun of him, and whatever he’s doing at Twitter certainly looks like the weird flailing of a man who doesn’t know how to run a company. But let’s take Musk seriously for an hour or so. He is the richest man in the world.
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[Link] Australians unlikely to know cost of scrapped submarines until after election, Peter Dutton says
Read: 18/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Australian voters are unlikely to be told the full cost of scrapping the French submarine deal before the election, with Peter Dutton signalling the negotiations will not be wrapped up until after July.
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[Link] Police Shut Down ‘Hydra,’ One of the Largest Dark Web Marketplaces
Read: 6/4/2022 www.vice.com
On Tuesday, Germany’s Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) announced the operation in a press release where they called Hydra “the world’s largest illegal darknet marketplace,” according to a Google translation of the announcement.
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[Link] Sean Penn calls for billionaire to step up and buy aircraft for Ukraine
Read: 3/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
The Hollywood actor Sean Penn has called for a billionaire to come forward and buy two squadrons of F-15 or F-16 aircraft for Ukraine in an unlikely attempt to tip the scales against the Russian invaders in the five-week-old war.
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[Link] Lid blown off Conti ransomware gang after leaked internal files analyzed
Read: 13/3/2022 www.theregister.com
It was a Ukrainian security specialist who apparently turned the tables on the notorious Russia-based Conti, and leaked the ransomware gang's source code, chat logs, and tons of other sensitive data about the gang's operations, tools, and costs.
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[Link] 'Horrible to think about': Dire warning on spread of fire ants
Read: 16/2/2022 www.abc.net.au
The national fire ant program began in 2017 with a $411 million budget from the Commonwealth, states and territories, but recently admitted it needs more money and time to eradicate the ants.
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[Link] Peter Thiel Is Stepping Down From Facebook to Go Full MAGA
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel is stepping down from the board of Meta, Facebook’s parent company said Monday.
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[Link] Woman Who Allegedly Laundered $1B in Bitcoin Was Cringe YouTube Rapper
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
On Tuesday, the U.S. government accused Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Morgan, 31 of laundering around $1 billion in cryptocurrency stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex hack. As it turns out, Morgan did not exactly keep the low profile you would expect of an alleged criminal.
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[Link] Record Labels Face Sanctions Over ‘Destroyed’ Piracy Evidence
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
Internet provider Bright House has asked a Florida federal court to sanction several record labels for 'destroying' evidence that it says is crucial to the ongoing piracy liability lawsuit.
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[Link] Record Labels Still Want to Know if Piracy Trial Jurors Read TorrentFreak
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
The piracy liability trial between several major record labels and Internet provider Grande is about to begin. To rule out conflicts, both sides submitted an updated series of questions for the jury selection.
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[Link] Serbia backs out of controversial Rio Tinto lithium mine
Read: 23/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
Serbian authorities have abandoned plans to build a controversial lithium mine, the prime minister has said, following weeks of protests against the project set to be built by Anglo-Australian firm Rio Tinto.
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[Link] Richard Branson Wants Singapore To Spare a Prisoner's Life. We Asked Him Why.
Read: 23/1/2022 www.vice.com
In an interview with VICE World News, the billionaire anti-death penalty activist highlighted the case of an intellectually disabled man sitting on death row. It was through international headlines that Richard Branson learned about an especially disturbing death penalty case unfolding in Singapore.
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[Link] 'I talk to 20 Australians a day': Meet Frank, his job is to scam you
Read: 8/12/2021 www.abc.net.au
If you answer your phone and Frank* is on the other end of the line, he'll keep you talking for as long as he can. And Frank has already done his homework before calling you in Australia.
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[Link] University of California Refuses to Release ‘Preliminary and Conceptual’ Dormzilla Agreement
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
The University of California rejected a public records request to release its agreement with billionaire Charlie Munger over the megadorm to be built on the Santa Barbara campus because the agreement is “preliminary and conceptual in nature,” the Office of the President determined.
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[Link] WhatsApp criticised for plan to allow messages to disappear after 24 hours
Read: 6/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
WhatsApp users are to be given the option to have their messages disappear after 24 hours, a change that drew immediate criticism from children’s charities. In a blog post announcing the change, WhatsApp, which has 2 billion users, said its mission was to “connect the world privately”.
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[Link] While Americans mark Thanksgiving, Republicans panned over Harris attack
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
An attack on Kamala Harris for buying expensive French cookware rebounded on the Republican party over Thanksgiving, moving social media users to compare the vice-president’s culinary outlay with the cost to taxpayers of Donald Trump’s four years in power.
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[Link] JPMorgan CEO Joked About Outlasting China’s Communist Party. The Fun Didn’t Last Long.
Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com
America’s most powerful banker has had his fair share of controversial opinions, but rarely has he walked back something as quickly as he did after he joked about the world’s second-most powerful country.
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[Link] Keystone XL pipeline developers seek $15 billion for cancellation in one of biggest trade appeals against U.S. ever
Read: 24/11/2021 financialpost.com
Developers of Keystone XL are seeking to recoup more than US$15 billion in damages connected to President Joe Biden’s decision to yank a permit for the border-crossing oil pipeline even after construction began. With a request for arbitration filed Monday, Calgary-based TC Energy Corp.
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[Link] Meta delays encrypted messages on Facebook and Instagram to 2023
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The owner of Facebook and Instagram is delaying plans to encrypt users’ messages until 2023 amid warnings from child safety campaigners that its proposals would shield abusers from detection.
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[Link] ‘Domino effect’ warning as $200 billion wiped off cryptocurrency market
Read: 16/11/2021 www.news.com.au
Hundreds of billions of dollars have been wiped off cryptocurrencies in a market-wide crash that has brought the price of bitcoin down below $60,000.
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[Link] Twiggy Stardust: the man who sold, er saved, the world
Read: 14/11/2021 www.afr.com
David Bowie concealed one last alter-ego: an iron ore magnate and global warming messiah simply known as Andrew.
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[Link] New York City’s Billionaires’ Row Just Got Its Very Own Homeless Shelter
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
Residents of Manhattan’s so-called Billionaires’ Row—a smattering of ultra-posh, super-expensive skyscrapers abutting Central Park—just might have to encounter poor people after all.
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[Link] Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Have Completely Lost It on Twitter
Read: 8/11/2021 www.vice.com
Bezos, the Amazon founder whose net worth is around $200 billion, implied that he would personally throw actor Leonardo DiCaprio off a cliff in a tweet.
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[Link] House Democrats Back Off Targeting Billionaire Tax Schemes and Swap in New Nicotine Levy
Read: 6/11/2021 theintercept.com
A new version of the Build Back Better Act that the House Rules Committee released Wednesday was amended to protect tax avoidance schemes used by the ultrawealthy in their estate planning.
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[Link] Don’t Go Cheering Facebook for Killing Its Face Recognition Database Just Yet
Read: 4/11/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
On Tuesday, Facebook offered us a brief respite from the deluge of awful news stories on the company with a pretty pleasant-sounding announcement.
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[Link] Elon Musk Tweets an Ancient Chinese Poem. Here’s What It Means.
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
The world’s richest man, with $335 billion in wealth and caught up in Twitter spats, now wants some peace, at least according to an 1,800-year-old Chinese poem he just shared.
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[Link] Facebook has ruined our reality, now it’s coming for the metaverse too
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
“Facebook”. The word paints a thousand pictures, every one of them a portrait of some element of the human condition I could happily live without. Message requests from veterans in Montana that read, “Hello beautiful Lady.
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[Link] Activision Blizzard ends forced arbitration as CEO takes a massive pay cut
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theverge.com
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick sent a letter updating employees on the further steps he and the company will take to change its image in the wake of multiple sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuits.
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[Link] $100M Theranos investor did little vetting for fear of upsetting Elizabeth Holmes
Read: 31/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Theranos sent a major investor financial projections that were wildly optimistic—perhaps even deceptive—the jury heard yesterday in the criminal trial of company founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes.
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[Link] How the nation’s newest billionaire built a software giant
Read: 27/10/2021 www.afr.com
Tony Walls, the founder of software company Objective Corp, has quietly added $20 million a week to his wealth pile over the past five months.
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[Link] Why Does FaZe Clan Think It’s Worth $1 Billion?
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
FaZe Clan, the esports and gaming influencer group, announced plans on Monday to become “the only digitally native, youth-focused lifestyle and media platforms publicly traded on a U.S.
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[Link] What Crisis? Facebook Made $9 Billion In Profit in the Last 3 Months
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. On the face of it, Facebook has been having one of the worst weeks in its history.
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