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Aujourd’hui — 19 avril 2024Actualités numériques

☕️ Google rassemble ses équipes Android et Appareils

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Par : Sébastien Gavois
19 avril 2024 à 05:34

C’est à travers un billet de blog que Sundar Pichai, CEO de Google, que l’entreprise annonce la nouvelle. Désormais, toutes personnes travaillant sur les produits Pixel, Android, Chrome, Photos et Google One travailleront ensemble, au sein d’une seule division baptisée sobrement Platforms ans Devices.

Rick Osterloh, jusqu’ici chargé des appareils et services, pilote cette nouvelle division. Hiroshi Lockheimer, qui dirigeait les équipes Android et Chrome, l’assistera durant la transition. Il sera ensuite appelé à développer de nouveaux projets chez Alphabet, sans précision.

Le changement n’est pas sans rappeler celui déjà vu fin mars chez Microsoft, avec un rapprochement similaire entre le matériel et le logiciel. Une réunion qui a du sens, une intégration poussée pouvant mener à une meilleure expérience utilisateur. C’est le modèle d’Apple depuis longtemps, même si Cupertino va beaucoup plus loin : le contrôle sur le système d’exploitation est total, là où Google et Microsoft fournissent Android et Windows au reste du marché.

Pichai annonce une autre fusion. Les équipes travaillant sur de nouveaux modèles d’IA au sein de Google Research seront intégrés à la division DeepMind.

« Cela simplifiera le développement en concentrant la construction de modèles à forte intensité de calcul en un seul endroit et en établissant des points d’accès uniques pour les AP qui cherchent à prendre ces modèles et à construire des applications d’IA générative », ajoute le patron.

☕️ « Projet Nimbus » : Google licencie 28 salariés qui ont manifesté contre un contrat cloud avec Israël

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Par : Sébastien Gavois
19 avril 2024 à 05:32
Logo de Google sur un ordinateur portable

Google a annoncé mercredi avoir licencié 28 employés qu’elle accuse d’avoir participé à une manifestation mardi contre un contrat passé entre l’entreprise, Amazon et le gouvernement d’Israël nommé « projet Nimbus », explique Reuters.

Ce contrat de 1,2 milliard de dollars inclus de l’informatique « en nuage » mais aussi des outils d’intelligence artificielle.

L’entreprise explique qu’un petit nombre d’employés ont manifesté dans ses locaux en perturbant le travail dans certains bureaux. Ceux-ci affirment que le contrat permet le développement d’outils militaires par le gouvernement israélien.

« Le fait d’entraver physiquement le travail d’autres employés et de les empêcher d’accéder à nos installations constitue une violation manifeste de nos politiques et un comportement totalement inacceptable », a déclaré l’entreprise.

Les manifestants ont publié sur Medium un texte qui déclarant que « les salariés de Google ont le droit de protester pacifiquement contre les conditions de travail. Ces licenciements sont clairement des représailles ». Ils affirment que certaines personnes licenciées n’ont pas directement participé à la manifestation.

Ce contrat est remis en cause par des salariés de Google depuis un certain temps déjà.

☕️ JOP : la préfecture de Paris autorise deux nouvelles expérimentations de vidéosurveillance algorithmique (VSA)

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Par : Sébastien Gavois
19 avril 2024 à 05:31
Cityvision, le système de vidéosurveillance algorithmique de Wintics

La préfecture de police de Paris a autorisé la SNCF et la RATP à procéder à deux nouvelles expérimentations de vidéosurveillance algorithmique (VSA) de vendredi 19 à lundi 22 avril à l’occasion d’un concert du groupe Black Eyed Peas à la Défense Arena et du match de football PSG-OL au parc des Princes, rapporte l’AFP.

La surveillance commencera dès le 19 avril sur « 118 caméras de la gare de Lyon et du pont du Garigliano » à Paris, souligne La Quadrature, suivie le 20 avril de « l’ensemble des caméras des stations de métro et de RER des gares de Nanterre Préfecture et de La Défense Grande Arche ».

Elle relève que des affiches ont commencé ces dernières semaines à avertir les usagers des transports en commun de l’arrivée de telles expérimentations.

Les expérimentations porteront de nouveau, à l’instar de celle effectuée lors du concert de Depeche Mode, sur le logiciel « Cityvision » de la société Wintics, et seront limités à seulement 4 des 8 types d’évènements prédéterminés qui seront utilisés lors des JOP (Jeux olympiques et paralympiques) :

  • présence d’objets abandonnés,
  • franchissement ou présence d’une personne en zone interdite ou sensible,
  • mouvement de foule,
  • densité trop importante de personnes.

La SNCF précise que les personnes disposeront « d’un droit d’accès, de rectification, d’effacement et à la limitation de [leurs] données pendant toute la durée de conservation des images collectées ». Ces images sont « conservées pour une durée maximale de 14 jours ».

Passé ce délai, il leur faudra dès lors fournir au responsable de traitement des données personnelles complémentaires « qui permettraient éventuellement de faire le lien – et encore sans certitude – entre vous et le signalement enregistré », par exemple : « j’étais présent à telle heure sur tel quai de gare, est-ce qu’un signalement a alors été enregistré ? ».

☕️ La DGSE lance la 3e édition de 404CTF, « la plus grande compétition de cybersécurité de France »

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Par : Sébastien Gavois
19 avril 2024 à 05:24
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La troisième édition du challenge « 404 CTF » de la Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) et du club de cybersécurité de Télécom SudParis, HackademINT, se tiendra du 20 avril au 12 mai 2024 et « sera placé sous le signe des sports ». Cette compétition est soutenue par OVHcloud et le salon VivaTechnology qui hébergeront respectivement la compétition et sa remise des prix,

Ce « capture the flag », rappelle la DGSE, consiste en sécurité informatique à s’introduire dans des ordinateurs grâce à des failles logicielles pour récupérer les drapeaux, preuves du succès de l’intrusion. La compétition, qui serait « la plus grande compétition de cybersécurité de France », est ouverte à tous, expert ou débutant, de manière individuelle et en ligne.

Le Monde informatique précise que « plus d’une trentaine d’épreuves seront proposées dans diverses catégories allant de la stéganographie à l’exploitation de binaires ». Parmi elles, une discipline a été rajoutée cette année : l’algorithmique quantique. Elle s’ajoute au défi « renseignement en sources ouvertes (OSINT) » annoncé en 2023 « pour attirer des profils débutants ».

☕️ Sous Windows 10 et 11, le Store reçoit d’importantes améliorations

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Par : Sébastien Gavois
19 avril 2024 à 05:21

Microsoft a déployé, il y a quelques jours, une nouvelle version de sa boutique pour Windows 10 et 11. Le composant étant le même sur les deux systèmes, les améliorations sont communes.

Le plus gros changement est une hausse des performances. Significative d’ailleurs, aussi bien au lancement de l’application que du chargement des contenus. L’affichage des informations sur les fiches produits se fait ainsi 40 % plus vite, l’apparition du bouton Acheter/Télécharger 50 % plus rapidement, etc.

Outre l’apparition d’une section « Nouveautés » (en bas à gauche) indiquant les dernières améliorations de la boutique, le Store affiche également moins les applications et jeux déjà installés lorsque l’on parcourt le contenu. Sur ce point, il aura fallu du temps à l’éditeur.

☕️ Changer de Cap demande aux administrations de garantir la sécurité des données des Français

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Par : Sébastien Gavois
19 avril 2024 à 05:19
France Travail piraté

43 millions de personnes « potentiellement » concernées par l’attaque de France Travail début 2024, 10 millions de personnes touchées par le vol de données de Majorel, le prestataire privé de pôle emploi en août 2023, 10 000 allocataires concernées par l’exposition des données de la CAF de Gironde en janvier 2023…

« Dire que cela commence à faire – vraiment – beaucoup est un euphémisme », s’indigne le collectif Changer de Cap, qui qualifie l’attitude des administrations en matière de cybersécurité de « désinvolte ».

Le collectif rappelle que la loi Informatique et Libertés comme le RGPD impose à ces acteurs de « prévenir toute violation des données personnelles », et s’étonne que des entités comme France Travail, opérateur de service essentiel, n’aient pas été plus diligentes dans la protection de ses systèmes et des informations que ceux-ci hébergent.

Il regrette, enfin, le manque d’information des victimes (c’est-à-dire des demandeurs d’emploi), ainsi que l’absence de mentions de la responsabilité de France Travail dans la récente fuite.

Dernier jour à Taipei, on file chez Acer !

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19 avril 2024 à 04:25

Toutes les bonnes choses ont une fin, et nous entamons notre dernière journée à Taipei. Programme de l'après-midi, Acer ! Une première pour nous, mais aussi pour la marque qui n'a pas pour habitude d'ouvrir ses bureaux aux rédactions. Retour en France demain dans la matinée après un vol assez long et un décollage juste avant minuit ce soir ! De quoi profiter encore un peu de l'ambiance locale, de sa chaleur et son humidité. […]

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Reddit Is Taking Over Google

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Par : BeauHD
19 avril 2024 à 03:30
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: If you think you've been seeing an awful lot more Reddit results lately when you search on Google, you're not imagining things. The internet is in upheaval, and for website owners the rules of "winning" Google Search have never been murkier. Google's generative AI search engine is coming from one direction. It's creeping closer to mainstream deployment and bringing an existential crisis for SEOs and website makers everywhere. Coming from the other direction is an influx of posts from Reddit, Quora, and other internet forums that have climbed up through the traditional set of Google links. Data analysis from Semrush, which predicts traffic based on search ranking, shows that traffic to Reddit has climbed at an impressive clip since August. Semrush estimated that Reddit had over 132 million visitors in August 2023. At the time of publishing, it was projected to have over 346 million visitors in April 2024. None of this is accidental. For years, Google has been watching users tack on "Reddit" to the end of search queries and finally decided to do something about it. Google started dropping hints in 2022 when it promised to do a better job of promoting sites that weren't just chasing the top of search but were more helpful and human. Last August, Google rolled out a big update to Search that seemed to kick this into action. Reddit, Quora, and other forum sites started getting more visibility in Google, both within the traditional links and within a new "discussions and forums" section, which you may have spotted if you're US-based. The timing of this Reddit bump has led to some conspiracy theories. In February, Google and Reddit announced a blockbuster deal that would let Google train its AI models on Reddit content. Google said the deal, reportedly worth $60 million, would "facilitate more content-forward displays of Reddit information," leading to some speculation that Google promised Reddit better visibility in exchange for the valuable training data. A few weeks later, Reddit also went public. Steve Paine, marketing manager at Sistrix, called the rise of Reddit "unprecedented." "There hasn't been a website that's grown so much search visibility so quickly in the US in at least the last five years," he told Business Insider. Right now, Reddit ranks high for product searches. Reddit's main competitors are Wikipedia, YouTube, and Fandom, Paine said, and it also competes in "high-value commercial searches," putting it up against Amazon. The "real competitors," he said, are the subreddits that compete with brands on the web. A Google spokesperson told Business Insider that the company is essentially just giving users what they want: "Our research has shown that people often want to learn from others' experiences with a topic, so we've continued to make it easier to find helpful perspectives on Search when it's relevant to a query. Our systems surface content from hundreds of forums and other communities across the web, and we conduct rigorous testing to ensure results are helpful and high quality."

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Ubuntu 24.04 Yields a 20% Performance Advantage Over Windows 11 On Ryzen 7 Framework Laptop

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Par : BeauHD
19 avril 2024 à 01:25
Michael Larabel reports via Phoronix: With the Framework 16 laptop one of the performance pieces I've been meaning to carry out has been seeing out Linux performs against Microsoft Windows 11 for this AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS powered modular/upgradeable laptop. Recently getting around to it in my benchmarking queue, I also compared the performance of Ubuntu 23.10 to the near final Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on this laptop up against a fully-updated Microsoft Windows 11 installation. The Framework 16 review unit as a reminder was configured with the 8-core / 16-thread AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS Zen 4 SoC with Radeon RX 7700S graphics, a 512GB SN810 NVMe SSD, MediaTek MT7922 WiFi, and a 2560 x 1600 display. In the few months of testing out the Framework 16 predominantly under Linux it's been working out very well. With also having a Windows 11 partition as shipped by Framework, after updating that install it made for an interesting comparison against the Ubuntu 23.10 and Ubuntu 24.04 performance. The same Framework 16 AMD laptop was used throughout all of the testing for looking at the out-of-the-box performance across Microsoft Windows 11, Ubuntu 23.10, and the near-final state of Ubuntu 24.04. [...] Out of 101 benchmarks carried out on all three operating systems with the Framework 16 laptop, Ubuntu 24.04 was the fastest in 67% of those tests, the prior Ubuntu 23.10 led in 22% (typically with slim margins to 24.04), and then Microsoft Windows 11 was the front-runner just 10% of the time... If taking the geomean of all 101 benchmark results, Ubuntu 23.10 was 16% faster than Microsoft Windows 11 while Ubuntu 24.04 enhanced the Ubuntu Linux performance by 3% to yield a 20% advantage over Windows 11 on this AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS laptop. Ubuntu 24.04 is looking very good in the performance department and will see its stable release next week.

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Netflix Blows Past Earnings Estimates As Subscribers Jump 16%

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Par : BeauHD
19 avril 2024 à 00:45
Netflix on Thursday reported a 16% rise in memberships in the first quarter, reaching 269.6 million, beating Wall Street expectations. Starting next year, the company will no longer provide quarterly membership numbers or average revenue per user starting next year. CNBC reports: "As we've noted in previous letters, we're focused on revenue and operating margin as our primary financial metrics -- and engagement (i.e. time spent) as our best proxy for customer satisfaction," the company said in its quarterly letter to shareholders. "In our early days, when we had little revenue or profit, membership growth was a strong indicator of our future potential." Netflix said now that it is generating substantial profit and free cash flow -- as well as developing new revenue streams like advertising and a password-sharing crackdown -- its membership numbers are not the only factor in the company's growth. It said the metric lost significance after it started to offer multiple price points for memberships. The company said it would still announce "major subscriber milestones as we cross them." Netflix also noted that it expects paid net additions to be lower in the second quarter compared to the first quarter "due to typical seasonality." Its second-quarter revenue forecast of $9.49 billion was just shy of Wall Street's estimate of $9.54 billion Shares of the company fell around 4% in extended trading. Netflix reported first-quarter net income of $2.33 billion, or $5.28 per share, versus $1.30 billion, or $2.88 per share, in the prior-year period. The company posted revenue of $9.37 billion for the quarter, up from $8.16 billion in the year-ago quarter.

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Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 annoncé, sera lancé en 2024 !

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (Thibaut G.)
18 avril 2024 à 23:23

Il y a quelques années, en 2014 déjà, un studio indépendant Warhorse voulait sortir un jeu en vue à la première personne dans un univers médiéval. Comme le projet était ambitieux, mais couteux, une campagne de participation Kickstarter fut lancée, avec succès. Le projet avait un tel potentiel qu'il...

Frontier Communications Shuts Down Systems After Cyberattack

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Par : BeauHD
19 avril 2024 à 00:02
U.S. telecom provider Frontier Communications shut down its systems after a cybercrime group breached some of its IT systems in a recent cyberattack. BleepingComputer reports: Frontier is a leading U.S. communications provider that provides gigabit Internet speeds over a fiber-optic network to millions of consumers and businesses across 25 states. After discovering the incident, the company was forced to partially shut down some systems to prevent the threat actors from laterally moving through the network, which also led to some operational disruptions. Despite this, Frontier says the attackers could access some PII data, although it didn't disclose if it belonged to customers, employees, or both. "On April 14, 2024, Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. [..] detected that a third party had gained unauthorized access to portions of its information technology environment," the company revealed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday. "Based on the Company's investigation, it has determined that the third party was likely a cybercrime group, which gained access to, among other information, personally identifiable information." Frontier now believes that it has contained the breach, has since restored its core IT systems affected during the incident, and is working on restoring normal business operations.

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Cops Can Force Suspect To Unlock Phone With Thumbprint, US Court Rules

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Par : BeauHD
18 avril 2024 à 23:20
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The US Constitution's Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination does not prohibit police officers from forcing a suspect to unlock a phone with a thumbprint scan, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. The ruling does not apply to all cases in which biometrics are used to unlock an electronic device but is a significant decision in an unsettled area of the law. The US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit had to grapple with the question of "whether the compelled use of Payne's thumb to unlock his phone was testimonial," the ruling (PDF) in United States v. Jeremy Travis Payne said. "To date, neither the Supreme Court nor any of our sister circuits have addressed whether the compelled use of a biometric to unlock an electronic device is testimonial." A three-judge panel at the 9th Circuit ruled unanimously against Payne, affirming a US District Court's denial of Payne's motion to suppress evidence. Payne was a California parolee who was arrested by California Highway Patrol (CHP) after a 2021 traffic stop and charged with possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, fluorofentanyl, and cocaine. There was a dispute in District Court over whether a CHP officer "forcibly used Payne's thumb to unlock the phone." But for the purposes of Payne's appeal, the government "accepted the defendant's version of the facts, i.e., 'that defendant's thumbprint was compelled.'" Payne's Fifth Amendment claim "rests entirely on whether the use of his thumb implicitly related certain facts to officers such that he can avail himself of the privilege against self-incrimination," the ruling said. Judges rejected his claim, holding "that the compelled use of Payne's thumb to unlock his phone (which he had already identified for the officers) required no cognitive exertion, placing it firmly in the same category as a blood draw or fingerprint taken at booking." "When Officer Coddington used Payne's thumb to unlock his phone -- which he could have accomplished even if Payne had been unconscious -- he did not intrude on the contents of Payne's mind," the court also said.

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Hier — 18 avril 2024Actualités numériques

Software Glitch Saw Aussie Casino Give Away Millions In Cash

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Par : BeauHD
18 avril 2024 à 22:40
A software glitch in the "ticket in, cash out" (TICO) machines at Star Casino in Sydney, Australia, saw it inadvertently give away $2.05 million over several weeks. This glitch allowed gamblers to reuse a receipt for slot machine winnings, leading to unwarranted cash payouts which went undetected due to systematic failures in oversight and audit processes. The Register reports: News of the giveaway emerged on Monday at an independent inquiry into the casino, which has had years of compliance troubles that led to a finding that its operators were unsuitable to hold a license. In testimony [PDF] given on Monday to the inquiry, casino manager Nicholas Weeks explained that it is possible to insert two receipts into TICO machines. That was a feature, not a bug, and allowed gamblers to redeem two receipts and be paid the aggregate amount. But a software glitch meant that the machines would return one of those tickets and allow it to be re-used -- the barcode it bore was not recognized as having been paid. "What occurred was small additional amounts of cash were being provided to customers in circumstances when they shouldn't have received it because of that defect," Weeks told the inquiry. Local media reported that news of the free cash got around and 43 people used the TICO machines to withdraw money to which they were not entitled -- at least one of them a recovering gambling addict who fell off the wagon as the "free" money allowed them to fund their activities. Known abusers of the TICO machines have been charged, and one of those set to face the courts is accused of association with a criminal group. (The first inquiry into The Star, two years ago, found it may have been targeted by organized crime groups.)

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Meta Is Adding Real-Time AI Image Generation To WhatsApp

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Par : BeauHD
18 avril 2024 à 22:00
WhatsApp users in the U.S. will soon see support for real-time AI image generation. The Verge reports: As soon as you start typing a text-to-image prompt in a chat with Meta AI, you'll see how the image changes as you add more detail about what you want to create. In the example shared by Meta, a user types in the prompt, "Imagine a soccer game on mars." The generated image quickly changes from a typical soccer player to showing an entire soccer field on a Martian landscape. If you have access to the beta, you can try out the feature for yourself by opening a chat with Meta AI and then start a prompt with the word "Imagine." Additionally, Meta says its Meta Llama 3 model can now produce "sharper and higher quality" images and is better at showing text. You can also ask Meta AI to animate any images you provide, allowing you to turn them into a GIF to share with friends. Along with availability on WhatsApp, real-time image generation is also available to US users through Meta AI for the web. Further reading: Meta Releases Llama 3 AI Models, Claiming Top Performance

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Colorado Bill Aims To Protect Consumer Brain Data

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Par : BeauHD
18 avril 2024 à 21:20
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Consumers have grown accustomed to the prospect that their personal data, such as email addresses, social contacts, browsing history and genetic ancestry, are being collected and often resold by the apps and the digital services they use. With the advent of consumer neurotechnologies, the data being collected is becoming ever more intimate. One headband serves as a personal meditation coach by monitoring the user's brain activity. Another purports to help treat anxiety and symptoms of depression. Another reads and interprets brain signals while the user scrolls through dating apps, presumably to provide better matches. ("'Listen to your heart' is not enough," the manufacturer says on its website.) The companies behind such technologies have access to the records of the users' brain activity -- the electrical signals underlying our thoughts, feelings and intentions. On Wednesday, Governor Jared Polis of Colorado signed a bill that, for the first time in the United States, tries to ensure that such data remains truly private. The new law, which passed by a 61-to-1 vote in the Colorado House and a 34-to-0 vote in the Senate, expands the definition of "sensitive data" in the state's current personal privacy law to include biological and "neural data" generated by the brain, the spinal cord and the network of nerves that relays messages throughout the body. "Everything that we are is within our mind," said Jared Genser, general counsel and co-founder of the Neurorights Foundation, a science group that advocated the bill's passage. "What we think and feel, and the ability to decode that from the human brain, couldn't be any more intrusive or personal to us." "We are really excited to have an actual bill signed into law that will protect people's biological and neurological data," said Representative Cathy Kipp, Democrat of Colorado, who introduced the bill.

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Feds Hit Coding Boot Camp With Big Fine For Allegedly Conning Students

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Par : msmash
18 avril 2024 à 20:42
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has slapped coding boot camp BloomTech -- formerly known as Lambda School -- with several punishments for alleged deceptive business practices. From a report: The business, which claims on its site it will help students land their "dream job" in tech at companies like Amazon, Cisco, and Google, accepted the consent order without admitting or denying any wrongdoing. In an announcement yesterday, the CFPB said it had taken action against BloomTech and its CEO Austen Allred for allegedly not disclosing the true cost of its loans to students and allegedly claiming overoptimistic hiring rates for BloomTech graduates. BloomTech, formerly Lambda School, has operated since 2017 and offers six- to nine-month vocational programs in science and engineering, with a focus on computer technology. "BloomTech and its CEO sought to drive students toward income share loans that were marketed as risk-free, but in fact carried significant finance charges and many of the same risks as other credit products," said Rohit Chopra, director of the CFPB. With income share loans or income share agreements, BloomTech allowed students to pay tuition later but in exchange had to pay a percentage of their future income, CFPB claimed. The agency alleged that BloomTech explicitly told students that its income share loans (which cost an average of $4k "finance charge" to use) weren't actually loans at all. The CFPB claimed in the settlement order a "significant majority" of students used these loans to finance their education, and alleged each student could end up paying up to $30k of their income to BloomTech to settle the loans. From the CFPB's press release: BloomTech advertised on its website that 71 to 86 percent of students were placed in jobs within six months of graduation, when its non-public reporting to investors consistently showed placement rates closer to 50 percent. Allred tweeted that the school achieved a 100 percent job-placement rate in one of its cohorts, and later acknowledged in a private message that the sample size was just one student.

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Crypto Trader Eisenberg Convicted of Fraud in $110 Million Mango Markets Scheme

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Par : msmash
18 avril 2024 à 20:01
A jury found Avraham "Avi" Eisenberg guilty on all three counts of fraud and manipulation in a $110 million crypto trade scheme using the Mango Markets platform. Axios: The case was the first known test for a jury to decide whether existing U.S. laws governing fraud and market manipulation apply to the world of decentralized finance (DeFi). The 28-year-old Eisenberg will be held to account for his actions on Oct. 11, 2022, when a series of trades he made intentionally boosted the price of Mango Markets' native token, MNGO, as well as the price of futures contracts. He used the inflated futures holdings as collateral to borrow other cryptocurrencies on the platform, then quickly withdrew those assets and walked away from his collateral. Eisenberg never disputed the facts of the strategy but contended that what he did was legal and permitted by the DeFi protocol, a principle in the industry known as "code is law." U.S. laws apply to DeFi: "Avraham Eisenberg ran a con," prosecutors said Wednesday, during closing arguments, continuing its momentum from last week. The word "con" was used at least six more times in those remarks.

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Boeing Aims To Bring Flying Cars To Asia By 2030

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Par : msmash
18 avril 2024 à 19:22
U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing plans to enter the flying car business in Asia by 2030, looking to tap demand for the fast travel the vehicles could provide in the region's traffic-choked cities. Nikkei: Boeing Chief Technology Officer Todd Citron revealed the plans in an interview with Nikkei. The company is developing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) craft at subsidiary Wisk Aero. The aircraft will adopt autonomous technology, rare among eVTOL craft. The plan is to first obtain certification in the U.S. before expanding into Asia. Details of the Asia business will be finalized in the future, including whether Boeing will sell the aircraft to companies aiming to provide eVTOL transportation services or operate the services itself. Boeing is currently considering which country in Asia to enter first, including Japan. In Japan, domestic startup SkyDrive and Germany's Volocopter are scheduled to operate air taxi services at the 2025 Osaka World Expo. Boeing opened a research and development base in Nagoya on Thursday. It first established R&D operations in Japan in 2022 but had been renting space from other companies until now.

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