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Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced FTX founder serving a twenty-five year sentence for fraud, has formally asked President Trump for a pardon. It is a remarkable move from someone whose collapse wiped out billions in customer funds, and it puts the administration in the uncomfortable position of responding publicly to one of the most high-profile financial crime convictions in recent memory.
Shifting to a story about what artificial intelligence is doing to one of humanity's oldest disciplines, mathematicians and researchers are wrestling with a genuinely unsettling question: if AI can now generate proofs and solve problems that once took years of human effort, what does that mean for the practice of mathematics itself, and for the people who have devoted their careers to it?
And in physical security news, Google is raising alarms about a hacking group called Silent Ransom, whose members are walking directly into corporate offices posing as IT support staff. Once inside, they launch ransomware and extortion campaigns from within the building itself, a reminder that the most sophisticated threat sometimes wears a lanyard and carries a laptop bag.
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