Prosecutors say Michael Smith flooded music-streaming platforms with bots that repeatedly streamed his A.I.-generated music, earning him as much as $8 million.
The case against Michael Smith, 54, was the Justice Department’s first involving fraud through A.I.-assisted music streaming. Mr. Smith used as many as 10,000 bot accounts to stream his music, the department said.
The founder of the blood-testing start-up Theranos was sentenced to 11 years in prison for fraud and had been serving time at a minimum-security federal prison in Texas.
The Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, who was convicted of fraud in 2022 and sentenced to 11 years behind bars, is expected to be transferred to a halfway house next August.
The blog Krebs on Security reported on an identity theft service trying to sell scans of licenses and other documents belonging to people in Canada and the United States.
The detentions of the workers, who have been released, are a sign of legal pressure that the world’s largest crypto exchange faces in the Emirates, which is home to its main regulator.
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