Presque-pleine lune derrière Belledonne

The former girlfriend of a cryptocurrency fraudster who called himself “The Godfather” was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison for failing to report more than $2.6 million in ill-gotten gains she obtained via her then-boyfriend’s criminal activities.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/irvine-woman-sentenced-18-months-federal-prison-not-reporting-26-million-income-she

I wrote about Iris Rabaya Au, 37, of Irvine, Calif., in a Sept. 2024 story on Adam Iza, a cryptocurrency fraudster who had a number of officers from the Los Angeles Sheriff's office on his payroll and used them to shake down and intimidate his rivals. From that story:

"Iza is the founder of a cryptocurrency investment platform called Zort that advertised the ability to make smart trades based on artificial intelligence technology.

But the feds say investors in Zort soon lost their shorts, after Iza and his girlfriend began spending those investments on Lamborghinis, expensive jewelry, vacations, a $28 million home in Bel Air, even cosmetic surgery to extend the length of his legs."

After that piece, Ms. Au finally responded to my requests for comment by repeatedly claiming she was innocent and was just another victim, and that her name should be removed from the story immediately, etc.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/09/crooked-cops-stolen-laptops-the-ghost-of-ugnazi/

Scientists online are busy dunking of some reporting that AI has made a DNA breakthrough. It hasn’t.

This is a pattern which keeps repeating and repeating and repeating across fields, where AI orgs don’t understand what they’re talking about.

BBC News has 4 YouTube videos up in the past day about OpenAI hacking “governments”, with approaching a million views.

If you want to know the technical details of this elite frontier AI hacking - these are examples of the actual OpenAI agent requests.

It’s really dumb shit. The story here is OpenAI are utterly incompetent at cybersecurity, as are their victims.

⚠️ New Darknet Market: FlashPoint Marketplace

Note: As of 2 hours ago, the market was said to be leaking it's IP via comments.

Market: http://flash36ogpu62aqasd4cawdo6huhe6x4lmgnz24663zyzwpuip4mpcid[.]onion

Dread Announcement: https://dreadytofatroptsdj6io7l3xptbet6onoyno2yv7jicoxknyazubrad[.]onion/post/155d2db453342247f64c

@jonny One thing it is apparently quite good at is being a prompt injection victim: https://mouse.dev/blog/muse-runtime-export/