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Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI secrets for Chinese firm
New York Times, Published on 07/03/2024
» WASHINGTON — A Chinese citizen who recently quit his job as a software engineer for Google in California has been charged with trying to transfer artificial intelligence (AI) technology to a Beijing-based company that paid him secretly, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday.
Man cashed his dead mum's social security cheques for 26 yrs in US
New York Times, Published on 03/12/2022
» A Missouri man pleaded guilty this week to stealing his dead mother’s Social Security payments for more than a quarter century, accumulating nearly US$200,000 in the process, federal prosecutors said.
Chinese hackers targeted Russian defence data, report says
New York Times, Published on 06/06/2022
» TEL AVIV: The emails landed March 23 in the inboxes of scientists and engineers at several of Russia’s military research and development institutes, purportedly sent by Russia’s Ministry of Health. They carried a subject line that offered seemingly tantalizing information about a “list of persons under U.S. sanctions for invading Ukraine".
US orders China to close Houston consulate
New York Times, Published on 23/07/2020
» WASHINGTON: The United States has abruptly ordered China to close its consulate in Houston, accusing diplomats of aiding economic espionage and the attempted theft of scientific research.
US lawmakers pass sweeping tax bill
New York Times, Published on 20/12/2017
» WASHINGTON: Republicans took a critical step toward notching their first significant legislative victory since assuming full political control, as the House and Senate voted along party lines Tuesday and into early Wednesday to pass the most sweeping rewrite of the tax code in decades.
Nice attacker 'wasn't living in real world'
News, New York Times, Published on 26/07/2016
» His own parents were so frightened by his violence that they kicked him out when he was 16. Desperate, by the time he was 19, they dragged him to a psychiatrist, who prescribed an anti-psychotic drug, a tranquilliser and an antidepressant.
Indonesia’s tsunami warning system offline when quake hit
New York Times, Published on 04/03/2016
» JAKARTA -- Indonesia was compelled to rely on tsunami warnings from other nations’ buoys in the Indian Ocean this week after a huge earthquake off the west coast of Sumatra because its detection system was disabled, a senior disaster agency official said.