As Inner City Press notes, not only did the prosecution bring up Bankman-Fried’s “fuck regulators” DM sent to Vox reporter Kelsey Piper during the trial, the judge hasn’t forgotten either and mentioned it as evidence that SBF was only acting like he wanted regulation for the crypto industry.
Paraphrased courtroom updates from Inner City Press on X capture SBF’s reflections on working with Gary Wang, Nishad Singh, and Caroline Ellison.
These former friends are now felons who testified against Bankman-Fried during his trial.
Sam Bankman-Fried is being represented by new lawyers during today’s hearing, but their statements on his behalf sound familiar. The jury heard those and reached a guilty verdict in just a few hours; now, we’ll see how the judge responds.
Elon’s X Premium package pitches have included forcing them on celebrities, bundling access to an AI bot of uncertain value, and a chance at a slice of ad revenue generated by other paying customers, in addition to an edit button, blog posts, and fewer ads.
Now he’s offering Premium or Premium Plus (normally $8 or $16 per month) as a free sweetener for accounts with at least 2,500 “Verified subscriber” followers (5,000 for Plus) that presumably also pay for access.
In the MLB, it’s investigating Shohei Ohtani’s apparently gambling-addicted translator, who may have stolen millions to pay off an illegal bookmaker. While the details remain unclear, the star himself says, “I’ve never bet on baseball or any other sports or never have asked someone to do it on my behalf.”
Meanwhile, ESPN reports the NBA is looking into “unusual betting interest” on props for Raptors forward Jontay Porter tied to games he left early due to injury or illness.
The future is now.
I still don’t know what yesterday’s update added in terms of security for iPhones, iPads, and Vision Pros, but there is one explanation for an AirTag update that seemed to roll out a little faster than usual.
iSoftware Updates tweeted that the deployment date was set with the wrong format (24 instead of 2024 for the year), and Apple’s system started delivering it to 100 percent of devices right away instead of seeding it to just a few until Apple corrected it later.
While Threads continues to test the waters of federation, the team is working on other features too. Continuing a push that started with “NBA Threads” outreach events around summer league and All-Star Weekend, and snagging posts from newsbreakers like Woj and Shams, it’s now testing live scores of NBA games and plans to add other sports.
Of course, it’s March, so why not start with the Women’s and Men’s NCAA basketball tournaments and bring in the NBA during the playoffs?
Small point updates were released this afternoon for iPhones and iPads running three different operating systems (9.9, 16.7, and 17.4), as well as the Vision Pro headset (visionOS 1.1.1), but there’s very little information on what’s changed.
Apple hasn’t added the details of security fixes in the new software, and the only other note we’ve seen is this support page saying 17.4.1 fixes a QR code scanning bug on iPads.
