Wed. 09/25 – Caroline Ellison Sentenced

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🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Caroline Ellison benefits from being cooperative. Has your company unknowingly hired remote workers from North Korea? What is going on with this WordPress back and forth? Why OpenAI has to let people look at their training data. And why is everyone upset at Marquess Brownlee? Sponsors: Hims.com/ride Links: Caroline Ellison sentenced to two years in prison for her role in FTX scandal (Axios) Dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers, according to report (The Record) The DOJ sues Visa for locking out rival payment platforms (The Verge) Automattic sends WP Engine its own cease-and-desist over WordPress trademark infringement (TechCrunch) OpenAI Training Data to Be Inspected in Authors’ Copyright Cases (The Hollywood Reporter) Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app (The Verge) 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 Wednesday, September 25th, 2024.
0:08.0	I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:10.0	Caroline Ellison benefits from being cooperative.
0:12.8	Has your company unknowingly hired remote workers
0:15.6	from North Korea?
0:17.0	What is going on with this WordPress back and forth?
0:20.3	Why Open AI has to let people look at their training data for the first time and why is everyone upset at Marquess Brownley?
0:26.5	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:36.7	Caroline Allison, the star witness in prosecuting FTX founder and ex-boyfriend at Sam Bankman-Freed has been sentenced to two years in
0:40.6	prison for her role in the scandal.
0:43.2	Quoting Axios, Ellison arguably was the most important witness in the prosecution of
0:47.8	FTX founder Sam Bankman-Freed and her relatively lenient sentence reflected her cooperation.
0:53.8	I've seen a lot of co-operators in 30 years.
0:56.2	I've never seen one quite like Ms. Ellison, Judge Lewis Kaplan said.
1:00.6	Ellison was SBF's one-time girlfriend and also CEO of the first company he founded,
1:05.0	Hedge Fund Alameda Research.
1:06.0	She talked to the government prior to Bankman Freed's arrest and one month after
1:10.0	FDX's collapse according to a court filing.
1:13.2	SBF was sentenced to 25 years in prison and has filed an appeal.
1:17.2	Not a day goes by that I don't think about all the people I hurt,
1:20.4	Ellison told the court.
1:21.7	I participated in a criminal conspiracy that ultimately stole billions of dollars from people
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