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Tech bosses threatened with jail as government cracks down on children’s access to social media | Politics News
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Social media companies must face tough sanctions if they fail to keep children safe from harmful content, the technology secretary has said. Speaking exclusively to Sky News, Peter Kyle said age verification for adult material would have to be “watertight”, and that apps that do not protect children will face heavy fines and even jail…
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Sam Bankman-Fried sentence: After years of ‘hubris, incompetence and greed’, crypto king’s jail term is end of an era | Business News
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Sam Bankman-Fried was breathlessly described as a wunderkind – a boy wonder transforming the world of finance. Renowned for his messy hair and unkempt appearance, he graced the covers of Forbes and Fortune, who pondered whether he could become the next Warren Buffett. The 32-year-old was the founder of FTX, which had quickly become the…
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Sam Bankman-Fried ‘subsisting on bread and water’ as jail denies him vegan meals | US News
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Lawyers for the controversial cryptocurrency trader Sam Bankman-Fried have said he is subsisting on bread, water and peanut butter ahead of his fraud trial because the jail he is being held in has not provided vegan meals. Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX cryptocurrency exchange, was extradited from the Bahamas in December after prosecutors said he…
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Elizabeth Holmes: Disgraced Theranos founder delays going to jail after winning appeal | Business News
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Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced tech billionaire convicted of fraud, has avoided starting her 11-year jail term on Thursday after a judge backed her appeal to delay it. Holmes, 39, who founded Theranos, was sentenced to 11 years and three months after being found guilty of three counts of investor fraud and one count of conspiracy…
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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes appeals against ‘unjust’ conviction for blood-testing scam as jail date approaches | US News
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Elizabeth Holmes has launched an appeal against what her lawyers say is an “unjust” conviction over the Theranos scandal. The 39-year-old was convicted of four counts of fraud in January 2022 and sentenced to an 11-year jail term last November. Earlier this month she lost a bid to stay out of prison while she appealed against…
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Codebreakers uncover secrets of lost letters Mary Queen of Scots wrote from jail | Science & Tech News
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Secret letters written by Mary Queen of Scots while she was imprisoned by Queen Elizabeth I have been cracked by a team of codebreakers. For centuries, the contents of the coded correspondence dating from 1578 to 1584 were believed to have been lost. Mary, who was beheaded on this day 436 years ago, used a…
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Elon Musk to ‘unlock doors to Twitter jail’ with amnesty for suspended accounts | Science & Tech News
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Elon Musk has announced he will grant “amnesty” for suspended Twitter accounts – prompting experts to predict a rise in harassment, hate speech and misinformation. The billionaire asked his followers in a poll to vote on reinstatements for accounts that have not “broken the law or engaged in egregious spam”. The yes vote was 72%.…