2026-01-01
My new deep-ish dive into how $160 million of export-controlled Nvidia chips were allegedly smuggled out of the US and into China. Here's a hint: it involves dummy front companies, fake logos, a secret warehouse in New Jersey and an undercover op... https://www.cnbc.com/...
CNBC
Unsealed documents detail a US operation that stopped the alleged smuggling of $160M worth of Nvidia H100 and H200 GPUs to China between Oct. 2024 and May 2025
2024-08-02
BREAKING: For months, I have been working w/ a great @CNBC team on a new documentary about Vladislav Klyushin, the Russian oligarch who was traded back to Moscow today. We were slated to pub tomorrow, but for obvious reasons, we are going live right now: https://www.cnbc.com/...
CyberScoop
The US releases Russian cybercriminals Roman Seleznev and Vladislav Klyushin as part of a prisoner swap that freed 16 people from Russia
and how Mueller WOULD have proven the GRU hacked Podesta. https://www.emptywheel.net/... Eamon Javers / @eamonjavers : BREAKING: For months, I have been working w/ a great @CNBC te...
2024-03-23
Fellow antitrust reporters, here's a transcript of our interview with Kanter today, if it helps... First on CNBC: U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter Speaks with CNBC's “Squawk Box” Today https://www.cnbc.com/...
The Verge
Some experts say the DOJ's Apple lawsuit makes a strong case for harm to consumers and developers, but proving Apple's market power could be challenging
They now meet a second group of legally trained minds that took the time to read the document: … Dan Moren / @dmoren@zeppelin.flights : Despite my critiques of the DoJ suit, I thin...
Fellow antitrust reporters, here's a transcript of our interview with Kanter today, if it helps... First on CNBC: U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter Speaks with CNBC's “Squawk Box” Today https://www.cnbc.com/...
New York Times
A profile of DOJ's Jonathan Kanter, as he takes the biggest swing in his decades-long effort to fight the concentration of power in corporate America
2024-03-07
NEW: DOJ says a Chinese national has been arrested for alleged theft of AI related trade secrets from Google. AG Merrick Garland is set to announce that Linwei Ding, aka Leon Ding, 38, was a software engineer at Google who was allegedly secretly working for 2 Chinese companies.
Associated Press
The US DOJ charges former Google software engineer Linwei Ding with stealing AI trade secrets from Google while secretly working with two China-based companies
A former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence technology from the company …
2024-02-01
NEW: FBI says it has taken down a large botnet of malware installed by Chinese hackers on hundreds of routers inside the US in an effort to get access to infrastructure. FBI says it used search and seizure warrants to remotely delete the malware-without notifying device owners.
Wall Street Journal
The FBI and US DOJ disrupt Volt Typhoon, a uniquely dangerous Chinese hacking operation to hijack hundreds of Cisco and Netgear routers at end-of-life status
2023-02-25
This comes after DAG Lisa Monaco said “we are exploring how to monitor the flow of private capital in critical sectors and ensure that our own ‘outbound investment’ in dual-use technology doesn't provide our adversaries with a national security advantage."https://www.justice.gov/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Sources: Sequoia Capital China, which raised $8.5B in 2022, has started screening some investments for US national security concerns, a first for the company
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2023-02-24
In 2021 and '22, the indictment says, SBF + 2 FTX “executives who served as straw donors as part of his scheme-CC-I +CC-2-collectively made millions of dollars in contributions, including in ‘hard money’ contributions to federal candidates from both major political parties.”
New York Times
In its superseding indictment, the US charges that SBF and two unnamed FTX executives made 300+ “unlawful” political donations, including using customers' funds
The Bahamas won't like that. https://twitter.com/... Kenneth P. Vogel / @kenvogel : NEW: SBF “selected CC-1” to give a straw donation of “at least $1M to a super PAC” that was “aff...
2023-01-28
Also, RIP “Learn?” https://twitter.com/...
Semafor
Sources: OpenAI hired ~1,000 remote contractors in the past six months, 60% for data labeling and 40% programmers to teach its models software engineering tasks
many humans — are building AI tools. They are not magical or simply the product of Silicon Valley elites https://www.semafor.com/... https://twitter.com/... @martinsfp : Generative...
2022-10-28
FANG stocks getting gored this week. Look at that chart, man. https://twitter.com/...
CNBC
Amazon reports Q3 advertising services revenue grew 25% YoY to $9.55B, vs. $9.48B est., and subscription services revenue grew 9% YoY to $8.9B
- Amazon reported third-quarter results on Thursday that missed analysts' estimates. — It also gave a disappointing sales forecast for the fourth quarter.
2022-09-14
Mudge says he believes “with high confidence” that another Twitter employee was a foreign agent for India. But Twitter had an inability to track what that person was doing. “They simply lacked the fundamental abilities to hunt for foreign agents... and expel them.”
TechCrunch
Mudge details Twitter's lack of logging, ignoring hackers' ongoing efforts to access its systems, how the FTC let the company “grade its own homework”, and more
A ticking bomb of security vulnerabilities. Covering up security failures. Duping regulators and misleading lawmakers.
Mudge says a top Twitter sales exec told him Twitter knew it had a problem with Chinese access to Twitter advertising, saying “we're making too much money from these sales. we're not going to stop. we need something that will make the employees more comfortable.”
New York Times
In his Senate testimony, ex-head of Twitter security and whistleblower Peiter Zatko says the company was told of “at least one [Chinese] agent” on its payroll
Mudge says he believes “with high confidence” that another Twitter employee was a foreign agent for India. But Twitter had an inability to track what that person was doing. “They simply lacked the fundamental abilities to hunt for foreign agents... and expel them.”
New Yorker
A look at the efforts by at least six research groups to find dirt on Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko, including offers to pay his former colleagues for info
Mudge says a top Twitter sales exec told him Twitter knew it had a problem with Chinese access to Twitter advertising, saying “we're making too much money from these sales. we're not going to stop. we need something that will make the employees more comfortable.”
TechCrunch
Mudge details Twitter's lack of logging, ignoring hackers' ongoing efforts to access its systems, how the FTC let the company “grade its own homework”, and more
A ticking bomb of security vulnerabilities. Covering up security failures. Duping regulators and misleading lawmakers.
2022-08-24
The Twitter whistleblower's complaint mentions @elonmusk by name 10 times. Even just a quick skim of those mentions shows why this whistleblower is probably *very* good news for Elon. 🧵
Washington Post
A profile of Peiter Zatko, aka Mudge, who worked at DARPA, Google, and Stripe before Twitter, and was a member of hacker groups L0pht and Cult of the Dead Cow
From the L0pht and Cult of the Dead Cow to DARPA and Google, Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko took unorthodox approaches to ‘make a dent in the universe’
2022-08-09
Treasury is framing this as a crackdown on North Korean hackers, but when I asked a senior treasury official who exactly is behind Tornado Cash, the official said Treasury can't offer details on who runs the site or where they are.
The Block
The US Treasury sanctions crypto mixing service Tornado Cash and 44 related ETH and USDC wallets, citing their use in high-profile hacks, such as by North Korea
- The Treasury is sanctioning DeFi mixing service, Tornado Cash. — The move is the agency's second sanction of a mixing service. Source: U.S. Department … .
2022-03-31
When we called small businesses that had been listed as members of the Connected Commerce Council in Washington, more than 20 of them said they were not members or had not heard of the group.
CNBC
A look at 3C, a “grassroots” SMB group against Big Tech regulation, funded by Google and Amazon, which claims support from 20+ SMBs that haven't heard of it
- The Connected Commerce Council, which pitches itself as a grassroots movement representing small business owners …
The council says it took down Square's logo on Monday after we inquired about it because the company is “no longer an active partner.”
CNBC
A look at 3C, a “grassroots” SMB group against Big Tech regulation, funded by Google and Amazon, which claims support from 20+ SMBs that haven't heard of it
- The Connected Commerce Council, which pitches itself as a grassroots movement representing small business owners …
Until Monday, the council listed the payments company Square (now known as Block) as a “partner” of the council. When I called Square to ask about that, executives there had never heard of the council. They asked that the council remove Square's logo from their website.
CNBC
A look at 3C, a “grassroots” SMB group against Big Tech regulation, funded by Google and Amazon, which claims support from 20+ SMBs that haven't heard of it
- The Connected Commerce Council, which pitches itself as a grassroots movement representing small business owners …
2022-02-25
Facebook parent Meta says it has set up a Special Operations Center “to respond to activity across our platform in real time” in light of the invasion of Ukraine. The goal is to quickly remove content that violates its standards.
Politico
Russia-backed falsehoods and digital tricks related to its invasion of Ukraine are putting tech giants on the defensive over the spread of online disinformation
The world's biggest social media companies are scrambling to combat a global barrage of Kremlin-backed falsehoods …