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Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the now defunct cryptocurrency trading platform FTX, was found guilty yesterday of misappropriating billions in investor funds. The company's collapse last November shocked investors and marked a low point in the so-called "crypto winter."
Bankman-Fried, commonly referred to by the acronym SBF, was accused of defrauding customers by using billions of their deposits to cover losses at his investment firm, Alameda Research. The scheme led to the abrupt devaluation of the company's proprietary token (see timeline) and the evaporation of almost $32B in value on the exchange.
The 31-year-old MIT graduate will be sentenced March 28 and faces a maximum of 115 years in jail (though the sentence is likely to be far less). Bankman-Fried took the stand in his own defense—a strategy that experts say may have harmed him after he came off as defensive upon cross-examination. |
The final song from the iconic English rock band The Beatles was released yesterday, a track that relies on AI-enhanced vocals from former co-frontman John Lennon. Listen to the song, titled "Now and Then," here.
Regarded as one of the most influential bands of all time, The Beatles are the bestselling artists in music history, having shipped more than 180 million albums. Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and (for most of the time) Ringo Starr, were nominated for 21 Grammys in the span of six years beginning in 1965.
The group broke up in 1970, and Lennon was tragically killed by an angry fan in 1980. The new song was originally written by Lennon in 1977 and surfaced in 1994 by McCartney but was shelved due to Lennon's voice being muffled by a piano. New technology reportedly allowed Lennon's vocals to be isolated and enhanced to the point of being usable.
A short film about the song's production was released late Wednesday—watch it here. |
A powerful bomb cyclone named Ciarán pummeled parts of France and the UK this week, bringing heavy rains and hurricane-force winds to the area. Ciarán's intensity was likened to that of a Category 3 hurricane.
The second-highest level alert was issued in the UK for parts of southern England, Scotland, and Wales. Record-breaking winds, exceeding 102 miles per hour in the Channel Island of Jersey, battered the region alongside heavy rainfall and large waves, some up to 50 feet high. In France, the town of Brittany experienced wind gusts of up to 129 mph, resulting in at least six people dead and leaving 1.2 million homes without power.
The storm is the UK's third named storm in the winter storm season, which starts in early September. A mass of cold air from the eastern US met warm air in the Atlantic, resulting in an extratropical cyclone (see how here). The cyclone's pressure then dropped 24 millibars in 24 hours—or a bomb cyclone—as it moved over the country, reaching a record low of 953.3 millibars and setting a November record for the lowest atmospheric pressure measured in England.
See photos of the damage here. |
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> Scientists demonstrate nanoparticles that deliver drugs directly to tumors in the brain by injecting them into the body's cerebrospinal fluid (More) |
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> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +1.9%, Dow +1.7%, Nasdaq +1.8%) as Treasury yields fall, investors bet on paused interest rate hikes (More) | Average US 30-year fixed mortgage rate falls to 7.76%, the first drop in seven weeks (More) |
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> Israeli ground troops advance on Gaza City; the US pushes to allow pauses in conflict to deliver humanitarian aid (More) | Hundreds more evacuees, including 400 Americans, allowed to leave Gaza (More) | See updates on war here (More) |
> New House Speaker Mike Johnson (R, LA-4) holds first conference, lays out priorities; calls for splitting aid packages to Israel and Ukraine, plans to provide government funding ahead of a Nov. 17 deadline yet to be revealed (More) |
> Russian President Vladimir Putin signs law that would allow country to exit the 1996 treaty banning nuclear testing (More) | See updates on Russia-Ukraine war here (More) |
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> Why We're Drawn to Horror
Scientific American | Athena Aktipis, Coltan Scrivner. The surprising evolutionary reasons why we paradoxically seek out horror films and haunted houses. (Read)
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