Tech Meme

Associated Press: The US DOJ is probing whether the use of a predictive child welfare algorithm in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County discriminates against parents with disabilities  —  For the two weeks that the Hackneys’ baby girl lay in a Pittsburgh hospital bed weak from dehydration, her parents rarely left her side … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Germany and US authorities seize up to €44M from ChipMixer and shut down its crypto mixer, alleging the service enabled the laundering of 152K BTC since 2017  —  National authorities took down the platform’s infrastructure, seizing four servers and 7 terabytes of data. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yimou Lee / Reuters: Sources: Foxconn will make AirPods for the first time and plans to invest $200M+ in a plant in Telangana, India; a source says Apple wanted production in India  —  Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn (2317.TW) has won an order to make AirPods for Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and plans to build … Lees verder op Tech Meme

FTX: An FTX filing in its Chapter 11 case describes $3.2B+ in payments and loans to founders, chiefly from Alameda Research, including ~$2.2B to Sam Bankman-Fried  —  Identify Over $3.2 Billion in Transfers to Founders and Key Employees  —  Forensic Work Continues on Intercompany and Other Transactions Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Germany and US authorities seize up to €44M from ChipMixer and shut down its crypto mixer, alleging the service enabled the laundering of 152K BTC since 2017  —  National authorities took down the platform’s infrastructure, seizing four servers and 7 terabytes of data. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Germany and US authorities seize up to €44M from ChipMixer and shut down its crypto mixer, alleging the service enabled the laundering of 152K BTC since 2017  —  National authorities took down the platform’s infrastructure, seizing four servers and 7 terabytes of data. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: OpenAI allowed the Alignment Research Center, a nonprofit founded by its ex-employee, to assess the potential risks of GPT-4 including power-seeking behavior  —  “ARC’s evaluation has much lower probability of leading to an AI takeover than the deployment itself.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Vincent / The Verge: Experts criticize OpenAI for not disclosing GPT-4’s training data or methods used; OpenAI co-founder says its past approach to openly sharing research was wrong  —  The system’s capabilities are still being assessed, but as researchers and experts pore over its accompanying materials … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Sources: Russia’s hacking unit Sandworm is led by Evgenii Serebriakov, who was convicted for a close-range cyberespionage operation in the Netherlands in 2018  —  Evgenii Serebriakov now runs the most aggressive hacking team of Russia’s GRU military spy agency.  To Western intelligence, he’s a familiar face. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Germany and US authorities seize up to €44M from ChipMixer and shut down its crypto mixer, alleging the service enabled the laundering of 152K BTC since 2017  —  National authorities took down the platform’s infrastructure, seizing four servers and 7 terabytes of data. Lees verder op Tech Meme