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Polis Cuts Peters' 9-Year Election Data Sentence
Judge Barrett called Peters a 'charlatan' who'd do it again. Colorado's governor cut her 9-year sentence anyway, after just 18 months.
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Defies EO 14281: NYDFS Keeps NY Disparate Impact Rule
NYDFS is telling NY lenders that disparate impact still applies, directly contradicting Trump's EO 14281 and the CFPB's Regulation B rewrite.
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Ruled: Jules Seals Section 3 FAA Stay Jurisdiction
Jules v. Balazs locks federal courts onto post-arbitration jurisdiction for stayed FAA cases, closing the Badgerow gap businesses feared.
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Poisoned node-ipc Steals 690K Devs' Credentials
Three malicious node-ipc versions drain cloud keys, SSH creds, and CI/CD tokens via DNS; attacker hijacked an inactive npm maintainer's account.
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Reqrea Exposed 1M Hotel Passports Without Password
Japanese startup Reqrea left 1 million hotel passports in a public S3 bucket anyone could read. Its investigation has no published timeline.
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Cleared: CLARITY Act Advances, Coinbase Shares Surge
Senate committee cleared the CLARITY Act; banks are already lobbying to gut the stablecoin yield provisions before the floor vote.
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Fined $53K Per Deepfake: FTC Enforcement Starts May 19
The FTC's $53,088-per-violation deepfake rule starts May 19, and compliance attorneys already know which way platforms will lean on this.
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Clarity Act Cleared 15-9, Senate Floor Fight Next
Crypto's first federal rulebook passed committee 15-9, but needs 60 Senate floor votes and must clear a Trump family conflict-of-interest fight.
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Disputes DOJ: Block Reserves $240M for Settlement
Block reserved $240M for a DOJ settlement it actively disputes, having already paid $295M to state and federal regulators for Cash App.
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DOJ Indicts Dream Market's 'Speedstepper' on 12 Counts
The alleged 'Speedstepper' bought $1.7M in gold bars with Dream Market crypto proceeds. Now he faces 12 federal counts at up to 20 years each.
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Jho Low, Still Fugitive, Files 1MDB Pardon Bid
Jho Low, the 1MDB fugitive charged in the largest-ever FCPA case, petitioned DOJ for a pardon while his co-defendants serve prison time.
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Foxconn Confirms Nitrogen Stole 8TB, 11M Files
Nitrogen ransomware claims 8TB and 11M documents stolen from Foxconn, with Apple, Nvidia, and Intel design files allegedly in the haul.
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Filed: SECURE Data Act Sets $25M Privacy Threshold
The SECURE Data Act would replace the state privacy patchwork with one federal standard for businesses above $25M revenue and 200,000 consumers.
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ICO Fines South Staffordshire Water £963,900
ICO cut South Staffordshire's £963,900 fine by 40%, yet the breach ran undetected for 20 months while Cl0p ransomware exfiltrated 664k records.
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Instructure Cut Deal With ShinyHunters, 275M Records Gone
Instructure settled with ShinyHunters after a 275-million-record breach, but security researchers warn ransoms don't guarantee deleted data.
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DOJ Appeals Rovirosa Acquittal After Sixth Amendment Loss
Judge Hoyt granted acquittal after DOJ left translators off the witness stand. Now the government takes its Sixth Amendment loss to the Fifth Circuit.
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Kraken Filed for OCC National Trust Charter
Payward already holds a Fed master account; an OCC trust charter would complete the picture, but BPI may sue to shut the whole pipeline down.
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Arrested: Crimenetwork Reboot Admin After €3.6M
A German suspect rebuilt Crimenetwork within days of its 2024 shutdown, attracted 22,000 users and €3.6M, then got arrested in Mallorca.
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Sold L3Harris Hacking Tools to Russia, Owes $10M
Peter Williams, who ran L3Harris's hacking-tools unit, got a $10M restitution order Wednesday. Russian spies later used the stolen tools in Ukraine.
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France Opens Criminal Case Against Musk, X Corp
France has escalated its X content probe to a criminal case against Musk and Yaccarino, who could face indictment if they don't appear.
