A Colombian national was extradited from Chile to the United States yesterday to face charges related to kidnapping and assaulting two U.S. Army soldiers who were on temporary duty in Bogota, Colombia.
Pedro Jose Silva Ochoa, also known as...
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Justice Department to offer some executives and others immunity for revealing corporate illegalities in new whistleblower rewards program
The Department of Justice criminal division will give a grant of immunity to certain executives and other employees who render information about corporate illegality--even if they were involved in the wrongdoing. The program, which is effective as of April 15, has no set time frame for expiration.
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International arms dealers charged with conspiring to unlawfully export weapons from US to Sudan and Iraq
An indictment was unsealed yesterday charging Syria national Mohamad Deiry and Lebanese national Samer Rayya, both principals of an Iraq-based arms company, Black Shield Ltd., with conspiring to export munitions from the United States to Sudan and Iraq without the necessary licenses and approvals, in violation of the...
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Dutch chipmaker Nexperia hacked by cyber criminals
Dutch-headquartered chipmaker Nexperia was victim of a hacking attack by cyber criminals last month, the Chinese-owned company said on Friday, and was investigating the incident with the help of outside specialists. According to RTL, the stolen information include trade secrets, chip designs,...
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SEC charges five investment advisors for marketing violations
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against five registered investment advisers for Marketing Rule violations. All five firms have agreed to settle the SECās charges and to pay $200,000 in combined penalties.
The...
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US Cybersecurity Agency says Russian hackers used their access to Microsoft to steal sensitive emails
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Russian hackers have used Microsoft's email system to steal correspondence between officials. The agency said hackers were exploiting authentication details shared by email to try to break into Microsoft's customer systems, including those of an unspecified number of government agencies.
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Federal jury convicts man for insider trading on info about acquisition of Integrated Device Technology
A federal jury has convicted a California man this week for insider trading. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Shahriyar Bolandian, 35, of Brentwood, Los Angeles, participated in an insider trading scheme that netted more than $650,000 in illicit profits. Between 2012 and...
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False Claims Act Complaint filed against Regeneron Pharmaceuticals by US for fraudulent drug pricing report
The United States filed a complaint under the False Claims Act (FCA) against Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Regeneron), a New York-based pharmaceutical company. Regeneron manufactures and sells Eylea, an anti-vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitor approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat,...
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Intel unveils newest artificial chip Gaudi 3 one and a half times faster than Nvidia’s H100 GPU
Meta's open-source Llama and the Abu Dhabi-backed Falcon and Intel says Gaudi 3 can help train or deploy models, including Stable Diffusion or OpenAIās Whisper model for speech recognition. Intel also says its chips use less power than Nvidiaās.
The data center AI market is also expected to grow as...
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China’s major telecom manufacturer Huawei faces possible criminal trial in January 2026
China's top cell phone manufacturer Huawei, which has developed some of the most advanced cell phones in the world, may face a criminal trial in early 2026 for misleading banks about its business in Iran.Since 2019, the US has restricted Huawei from access to US technology saying is...
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