Thu. 12/22 – Caroline Drops A Dime

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🗓️ 22 December 2022

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SBF is in the US just in time to see two of his lieutenants have flipped on him to the Feds. Twitter rolls out Cashtags that are actually useful. ChatGPT lead to a “code red” at Google. Justice is coming for those expiring car warranty robo callers. And, surprise, the weekend longreads suggestions. Links: Two Bankman-Fried colleagues plead guilty to fraud (Washington Post) Twitter adds BTC and ETH price indexes to search function (CoinTelegraph) A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business (NYTimes) YouTube Paying Roughly $2 Billion a Year for NFL Sunday Ticket (WSJ) FCC proposes record $300 million fine against auto warranty robocall campaign (CyberScoop) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: How TikTok Became a Diplomatic Crisis (NYTimes) How the algorithm tipped the balance in Ukraine (Washington Post) Bob Gottlieb Is the Last of the Publishing Giants The 91-year-old editor waits for his 87-year-old star writer, Robert Caro, to turn in his book. (Vulture) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, December 22, I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.6	SBF is in the US just in time to see two of his lieutenants flip on him to the feds.
0:15.0	Twitter rolls out cash tags that are actually useful.
0:18.0	ChatGPT led to a code red at Google.
0:21.0	Justice is coming for those expiring car warranty
0:24.0	robocollers and surprise the weekend long rate suggestions. Here's what you
0:28.3	miss today in the world of tech. Well it looks like Caroline dropped a dime on Sam Bankman-freed, so did Gary Wang.
0:39.7	The Southern District of New York says that ex-Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison and ex-FTX
0:46.6	CTO Gary Wang both pled guilty to federal charges and both are cooperating with
0:52.1	ongoing investigations.
0:54.0	Both have been released on a $250,000 bond, quoting the Washington Post.
0:59.0	Two former colleagues of disgraced cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman Freed pleaded guilty to federal criminal
1:04.5	charges that they helped him orchestrate a years-long scheme to defraud investors in
1:08.6	FTX, the crypto trading platform that collapsed last month.
1:12.1	The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York said
1:14.4	Wednesday. The news came as Bankman Freed was being transferred to New York from the Bahamas
1:19.4	where he had been held in prison for over a week. The guilty pleas by Ellison and Wang signaled swiftly mounting
1:25.3	legal peril for Bankman Freed as prosecutors assemble an arsenal of evidence against him.
1:30.5	Ellison, who in addition to running Bankman Freed's crypto trading firm was also his ex-girlfriend
1:34.8	pleaded guilty to seven counts that mirror a significant portion of Bankman Freed's
1:39.2	indictment her charges include conspiracies to commit wire fraud, securities fraud, and commodities fraud, and money laundering.
1:46.0	She faces up to 110 years in prison.
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