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Google engineer charged after allegedly using confidential data to pocket $1.2 million on Polymarket
A software engineer with more than a decade of experience at Google allegedly used internal information to pocket $1.2 million…
The defendants were found guilty in 2025, three years after the investigation began, of diverting funds by faking meal counts…
North Korean operatives stole $2 billion last year—and financial firms are the next target
North Korea’s army of cyber operatives stole a record $2 billion in digital assets last year, fueled by the largest…
Encrypted texts reveal how Nvidia chips and U.S. tech are being smuggled to China and Russia
In March 2024, Matthew Kelly, a 49-year-old marketing executive from New York, allegedly texted his business partner Stanley Yi Zheng…
Supermicro CEO: ‘No one’ beyond indicted employees were part of alleged $2.5 billion chip smuggling
Super Micro Computer CEO Charles Liang spoke out during the company’s fiscal third quarter earnings call to deliver a message.…
Supermicro—accused of smuggling $2.5 billion in Nvidia chips to China—has been here before, in Iran
Supermicro has spent the past three years riding the AI wave in Silicon Valley but before the recent allegations involving…
The most expensive frenemy fallout in tech history began Monday, in a federal courtroom in Oakland. After over a decade…
This month, a federal judge in Massachusetts sentenced Kejia “Tony” Wang, a 42-year-old husband and father from New Jersey, to…
A bizarre insurance scam was exposed as ‘clearly a human in a bear suit’ damaging luxury cars
Three people in California have been sentenced for insurance fraud in a bizarre scam that involved someone dressed in a…
Supermicro launches probe after co-founder’s arrest on charges of $2.5 billion in chip smuggling
Two Supermicro board members are spearheading an internal investigation following a federal indictment alleging one of the company’s cofounders orchestrated…












