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Elizabeth Lopatto

Elizabeth Lopatto

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    They’re surveilling your money without a warrant in Arizona.

    The Transaction Record Analysis Center has been used by more than 600 law-enforcement entities to surveil money sent across US borders without a warrant. Among the data? Your name, how much you sent, and who you sent it to.

    “One slideshow prepared by a TRAC investigator showed how the program’s data could be used to scan for categories such as ‘Middle Eastern/Arabic names’ in bulk transaction records,” the WSJ reports.

    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Blind item time! Who’s Razzlekhan’s new employer?

    Heather Morgan, aka the cringe rapper Razzlekhan, wants to alter her 24-hour house arrest so she can go to her job in New York as a “growth marketing and business development specialist,” Bloomberg reports, citing a legal filing. Morgan’s house arrest stems from allegedly trying to launder a bunch of hacked crypto.

    Which one of you hired her?

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    Elizabeth Lopatto
    SpaceX is humming away in Elon Musk’s absence.

    We’ve talked before about how SpaceX is actually run by Gwynne Shotwell and as if to prove it, SpaceX is thriving now that Musk is ignoring it: “When Musk’s focus is elsewhere, there’s some semblance of calm,” writes Loren Grush at Bloomberg.

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    Elizabeth Lopatto
    The creator of Inspector Gadget also headed FTX’s partner banks.

    A step-back from Forbes on the deeply weird banking relationships at FTX notes that the exchange’s accounts at Moonstone Bank, supposedly worth almost $50 million, didn’t appear in the FTX bankruptcy proceedings.

    What if Inspector Gadget was the bad guy all along?

    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    If you want a friend in the cryptocurrency business, get a dog.

    At least, that’s what Sam Bankman-Fried seems to have done. The dog is a German shepherd named Sandor, and — unforgivably — Puck’s Teddy Schleifer has not taken a photo for his post.

    Yes, SBF is still giving interviews. There isn’t a lot of meat in this one, and not just because dude’s a vegan. But he tells Schleifer that’s he’s planning to battle this all the way out in court.

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    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Remember the Winklevoss twins?

    The twin sea gods famously shafted by Mark Zuckerberg? Inexplicably involved in the tech industry despite having dominion over the sea floor?

    Anyway they’re beefing with the Digital Currency Group now, Bloomberg says their reputation has been tarnished, and their rock band, The Mars Junction, is the lede of the story. Perhaps they have been cursed, and the only thing that will free them is breaking some magical conch shell, who can say!

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    Elizabeth Lopatto
    I’ll keep a dumb home, thanks.

    Amazon’s iRobot has been recording its customers, including on the toilet:

    iRobot—the world’s largest vendor of robotic vacuums, which Amazon recently acquired for $1.7 billion in a pending deal—confirmed that these images were captured by its Roombas in 2020. All of them came from “special development robots with hardware and software modifications that are not and never were present on iRobot consumer products for purchase,” the company said in a statement. They were given to “paid collectors and employees” who signed written agreements acknowledging that they were sending data streams, including video, back to the company for training purposes.

    Anyway, those videos were then posted to Facebook by gig workers in Venezuela. Congrats on your luxury surveillance apparatus!

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    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Joke cryptocurrency worth more than actual crypto exchange.

    Here’s one explanation as to why:

    “Coinbase is tied to the fortunes of the broader crypto markets.” said Michael Safai, partner at crypto trading firm Dexterity Capital. “Dogecoin has no real connection to the macro, but instead is driven almost primarily by headlines and hype, retail investors seem to be hungry for one last pop.”

    Cool industry!