4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (299+ words) Newser He Was an 8th-Grade Dropout, Stole $245M Worth of Bitcoin A 22-year-old man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to teaming up with friends to steal nearly a quarter-billion dollars in bitcoin from a Washington, DC, resident—one of the largest cryptocurrency…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (236+ words) An attempt to steal oil from a loading vessel in Nigeria's oil-producing Rivers state left at least 37 people dead, most of them from inhaling toxic fumes, an advocacy group... Would-Be Oil Thieves Killed by Toxic Fumes An attempt to steal…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (398+ words) Leon Black didn't just skip his House deposition on Jeffrey Epstein—he sued Congress instead. The billionaire Apollo Global Management founder refused to appear for... Billionaire Skips Epstein Deposition, Sues Congress Leon Black didn't just skip his House deposition on…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (365+ words) A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Google to retool the system powering its monopoly in digital advertising, sparing the company from a wrenching breakup sought by the US government.... Judge Refuses to Break Up Google's Ad Business A federal judge…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (345+ words) OpenAI's legal troubles over a deadly Canadian school shooting just multiplied. Thirty new federal lawsuits were filed Wednesday in California, where the company is based,... OpenAI Faces 30 New School Shooting Lawsuits OpenAI's legal troubles over a deadly Canadian school shooting…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (271+ words) Newser FTC, 22 States Accuse Amazon of Inflating Ad Prices Amazon is facing a new federal showdown, this time over how it charges companies to reach its shoppers. The Federal Trade Commission and a bipartisan group of 22 states sued the company…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (231+ words) Newser Cops: Romance Scammer Posed as NFL Player Prosecutors say a dating-app scammer backed up his lies with a bogus NFL resume. Federal authorities in Oregon allege 35-year-old Daejon Love posed as a San Francisco 49ers player to dupe women in…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (250+ words) Newser Chatbot Conversations Are Quietly Becoming Evidence One teenager's attempt to make sense of a possible legal settlement didn't just stay between him and ChatGPT—it ended up in a court file. The Washington Post's Miriam Waldvogel and Gerrit De…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (214+ words) Newser Teleprompter Operator Fined Over Bets on Trump Speeches A man whose job ensured he knew the president's next words has to hand over the money he made betting on them. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Friday said Gabriel…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (286+ words) Visitors to Google's New York offices got a shocking scene on Friday afternoon, when a man in his 60s reportedly lit himself on fire inside a Hudson Street building in Manhattan,... Cops: Man Set Himself on Fire Inside NYC Google Building…...