#Sam#Bankman-#Fried, once the CEO of #FTX and a billionaire wunderkind of the #cryptocurrency world, will be sentenced to prison time on Thursday in New York City.
Should the judge in his case impose the harshest penalty allowed, the 32-year-old would face more than 100 years and die an incarcerated man, a possibility his lawyer has called “grotesque.”
In advance of the hearing, lawyers for the US Department of Justice and for Bankman-Fried have engaged in bitter back-and-forth over how long of a prison sentence would be appropriate.
His lawyers have argued for a minimal sentence of just six years.
Prosecutors are advocating for 40-50 years for his “unmatched greed and hubris” in perpetrating the🔸 $8bn (£6.3bn) fraud.🔸
In the early 80s, you could buy a text to speech hardware module (around $200-300) for your computer, or you could buy a software only solution. The S.A.M. cost $59.95 for the software. There was a version for Apple II that also included an 8 bit DAC card, for $124.95 total. This was sold by Don't Ask Computer Software and advertised here in Antic magazine, a special edition on sound and music from October 1982.
This appears to be a chinese ABM test, with two interceptors launched.
Very visible highly expansive exhaust, so in the very thin upper atmosphere, suggesting it has propulsion and steering in the interception phase.
Footage reprocessed.
The Polish Armament Agency has signed a contract with the European arms manufacturer MBDA for the purchase of short-range anti-aircraft missile systems
"It’s increasingly looking like this may be one of the most hilariously inappropriate applications of AI that we’ve seen yet." I am riveted by the extensive documentation of how ChatGPT-powered Bing is now completely unhinged. @simon has chronicled it beautifully here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/
"...much on #AI noting how 👉easy it is to trick and deceive.👈 It also creates highly unexpected strategies to achieve its goal.
He notes that 👉one simulated test saw 👈 an AI-enabled drone tasked with a #SEAD mission to identify and destroy SAM sites, with the final go/no go given by the human.
However, having been ‘reinforced’ in training that destruction of the #SAM was the preferred option, the AI then decided that ‘no-go’.."
OC There Is No Option of Parole For Sam Bankman-Fried - Defense Attorney (coinedition.com)
Carlo D’Angelo explained that Sam Bankman-Fried will not be eligible for parole and could spend up to 21 years in prison.
Odesa can be protected by additional SAMP/T or Patriot systems - Zelenskyy (www.pravda.com.ua)
To protect Odesa from the air, Ukraine needs additional SAMP/T or Patriot air defence systems.
A Hundred Ex-Taiwanese Missile Launchers Could Transform Ukraine’s Air-Defenses (www.forbes.com)
The American-made HAWK surface-to-air missile system is more than 60 years old. But if reports are true, it’s about to become Ukraine’s main SAM.